The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-10
ABOVE THE WRANCL[R
More About Miss Philippe Fawcett, of
Newman, the Cambridge
Prize Winner
How She Looks and Appears to
Another Woman, and
Her Plans.
Mathematics Not Her Only Qualification
-"And What is to Become of
Her MANI"

LONDON, July 3O.-There is a plain four
story ream-colored house in quiet, un-
fashionable street close to the British mu-
scum. All it's neighbors are of the dark
smoky brick SO dear to the Londoner. II
ID further distinguished from them by its
pink and white awnings, the flowers in its
windows and its air of liveliness noticeable
even by passer. If you strike the knocker
the smiling little maid who opens the door
will lead you up the softly carpeted stair,
case into the study where the English
woman to whom SO many of the most intel
ligent of her sex look for guidance ana the
young girl who this summer stands proudly
in the in1nost shrine of the Athene Prom.
ackos of Cambridge pass much of theil
time.
The dim rays of a London sun fall across
an old-fashioned bureau strewn with pap.
ers and writing materials, and cunninyly
ensconced in corner by the fireplace where
in spite of the suns feeble efforts. if it be
toward night, a CHEEKY blaze is leaping. The
floor is warm with bright-colored rugs, and
soft green and crimson draperies hang in
the doorways and at the windows. Pictures
look down from the walls, prominent
among them being portrait in
oil of the late Postmaster General
Fawcett, or Prof. Henry Fawcett, as the
men of Trinity College. Cambridge, still
affectionately call him. Opal-tinted vases
are filled with the crimson and yellow Don.
pies that make the English fields glorious
IN summer. books are everywhere. and SC
are quaint art objects, yet there is nothing
in the way. nothing that one could knock
of or throw down. 1t gives you sense OF
comfort, of ability to walk about if Won
wish to see the china safely reposine in a
chitfonier. The room is one in which YOU
feel at home.
Presently, perhaps, the curtains part
and there appear two figures: one below
medium height, small but perfectly pro-
portioned, slight, erect. well knit and act.
I've looking, with large, expressive blue
gray eyes and plated coronet of hoh,
brown hair. The fresh, healthy complex
ion and the simple gray cloth walking dres
go admirably with the light step that sug
gests much outdoor exercise.
With an arm about the shoulders of thi
figure there may be another, somewha
taller, younger, with girlish curves and shy
grllsh ways. You note darker hair tina,
her mothers, drawn loosely back from
pretty forehead and coiled high. The eve
are quiet, straightforward, with question
ing look under their curved brcws. I'll
hands are well formed. not small. but SIM
pie and unadorned with rings. A ierse
waist, with a bunch of dewy roses at III
belt, completes for you the picture of q
fresh. fair and rosy girl as ever playe
tennis or applauded game of cricket. t
gay nothing Of wrestling in the grapple G
intellectual thew and sinew, in which she's
mental strength and staying powers are HI
only things that count to the wranglers.
These are Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fau
cett. in whose drawing room at Cambride
the first Of the meetings that resulted in Ii
founding of Newnham College was bel
twenty years ago, and her daughter, Mi
Philipa Garrett FaWcett, who was then
baby II her cradle. and who this summ