Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — The Editor of St, Nicholas. [ARTICLE]

The Editor of St, Nicholas.

Before she became the editor of St Nicholas Mary Mapes Dodge was a perplexed widow with two heathy boys depending upon her This was twenty-five years ago. She had been reading Mot ey's._histories, and was carried into the land of dykes and windmills until she felt that she knew Holland nearly as w II as America. The outlines of a story came into her mind, but she was uetrii'iiiined that they should be of'fto faint tracings, fclie seized upon every book bearing upon the customs of the Dutch and the appearance of their country which she could find and devoured it. T.iis was productive of a flesh and blood tale—“ Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates”--which made her famous, it being not only translated into Dutch, but oth - er languages. This brought her to the attention of the Century people, and so she came to be put at the at the bead greet ’uveni'e periodical.