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MRS ELIA W. PEATTIE.

With many regrets, the World-Herald
announces that today Mrs. Elia W.
Peattie severs her connection with the
paper, that she has served so long and
efficiently. It is eight years since Mrs.
Peattie began to do newspaper work in
Omaha, and in that time she has won
the lasting admiration and respect of
all classes of Nebraska people. Her
departure from the state will be doubly
regretted for, while her writing will
be missed from the World-Herald, there
will be the additional feeling of a personal
loss with the reflection that the
gifted woman who has taken such a
conspicuous part in the life of Omaha
and Nebraska has transferred her interests
to another part of the country.

While doing the regular work demanded
of a member of a newspaper
staff. Mrs. Peattie has found time to
write stories about the west. These
studies of life, having for their background
the rolling prairie lands, have
won for her a broader field, and she
leaves journalism for the more congenial
employment of weaving pleasant
tales for the magazines.

Having accomplished much as a
writer and given abundant promise of
greater things, it might seem that Mrs.
Peattie's hold on the state that has so
long been her home is purely that of
a literary worker in sincere sympathy
with her environments, but it is the
woman, perhaps, more than the writer
who has gained the friendship of all.
Possessed of tireless energy and fearless
independence, Mrs. Peattie has always
championed the cause of the weak
and oppressed. The highest ambitions
and aspirations of all women have ever
received from her the best encouragement.
She has never been too busy to
help the poor or to give her strength in
a good cause.

As one of the leading spirits in the
Woman's club, Mrs. Peattie has done
much toward the successful development
of that organization upon broad
lines and democratic principles. As a
farewell to her, the president, elected
for this year, the club has arranged a
reception to take place Monday evening
at the Commerical club. To this all her
friends are invited and this invitation
includes everyone who felt her
kindly influences in days gone by.

From Omaha Mrs. Peattie goes to
Chicago, to join Mr. Peattie, who is the
Chicago representative of the New York
Times. She carries with her the good
wishes and best hopes of hundreds of
Nebraska friends. And when she shall
have attained the most coveted places
in the world of letters, the state will
still feel a proprietary interest in her
achievements, for it was in a Nebraska
home and among Nebraska people that
she received the inspiration for the
stories that have commanded the respectful
attention for the whole country.