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388 in Chicago she took music in connection with her school duties, and by continual study has become very proficient in that line.

Her life as a writer began in Evanston, being inspired thereto by an article she read from the pen of a lady friend. So well received was her first production, she became a regular correspondent to The Baptist Herald, for which she wrote two years, or until its suspension. Since then she has written for The Baptist Headlight, and The African Mission Herald, and is, at the present, a regular contributor to Our Women and Children, an excellent magazine published at Louisville, Ky.

Miss De Baptiste is fully alive to the needs and necessities of the race, and will yet make a brighter life for herself in this field. She is regarded as one of the most gifted writers on the staff of Our Women and Children.

Concerning her bent and purpose in life, she writes to a friend as follows: "I am fond of literary work, and I hope to become a writer of real power of mind and character,—with true dignity of soul, and kindly bearing toward all among whom I may be thrown; not for mere social attainments, but that such may be the outward expression of inward grace and courtesy." We predict for Miss De Baptiste continued success in her literary efforts.

The future of no female writer is prospectively brighter than that of Miss Kate D. Chapman of Yankton, Dakota. First seeing the light February 19, 1870, at Mound City, Ill., she now, at the age of nineteen, enjoys the reputation of being above the average lady correspondents and writers of poetry. Born of poor parents, Charles and Laura Chapman, she had