A Texas-born author and newspaper columnist, she compiled books of helpful household advice, including Heloise 's Housekeeping Hints and Heloise's Kitchen Hints. She first published her popular Hints from Heloise column in the Honolulu Advertiser in 1959. She was born Eloise Bowles, and she grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. Soon after it appeared, her housekeeping advice column was syndicated by close to six hundred newspapers.