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Miss DeBaptiste's native home is Chicago, Ill., where she received most of her education, completing her course of study in Evanston, Ill. She also took a musical course.

When very young she was much interested in literary work, and when she became an advanced student she



accepted the offer of being a regular correspondent of several papers and a magazine. She continued to write for some time after she completed her school course.

Her father, Rev. R. DeBaptiste, D. D., of Chicago, Ill., is her only living parent, her mother having died when she was five years old.