Music: Mrs. Atherton

She Works on a "Life of Burr"

Mrs. Gertrude Atherton has returned to Manhattan from San Francisco and is again becoming immersed in the lit-erary-social life of the metropolis. She is a very handsome woman, more striking than ever in a dark suit, a small dark hat, her pale yellow hair done close to her head, talking in staccato and determined tones—a remarkable woman in more ways than one!

She is thoroughly American and determined in her admiration of things Nordic. A great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, she is not far from the stream of American...

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