The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-03-02
pAkoTA,s SENATORS, WIVES.
Mrs. Kyle and Mrs. Hansborough, Two
Good Women Who Have Roughed 1t.
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There are seventeen new senators IN
Congress this session, but not all have
$ wives to halve their sorrows and double
their joys. A few are bachelors like
Messrs. Hill, White and Dubois, and
some are widowers. Among the bright
ladies' from the Northwest who have en-
tered the senatorial circle are Mrs. Sena-
tor KYLE and Mrs. Senator Hansborough.
Mrs. KYLE is the wife of the new senator
from South Dakota. She is very pretty
woman and looks like a girl among the
wives of the old senator's. She has dark
hair and eyes and most charming
manner. She is of French descent and
her maiden name was Anna Isabel Dugat
and her ancestors came from, Paris.t She
is. however. an American herself, and
she was born at Medina. near Cleveland,
and she was going to school at the pious
old college of Oberlin when she met
young Kyle, who was then studying the
theology of Congregationalism in a semi
nary there The two fell in love with
one another, and Kyle followed Miss Du-
gat to Cincinnati when she went there to
finish her musical education, and 1t was
in Cincinnati that they were married.
Young Kyle then started out topreach,
and Mrs. Kyle went with him. She fol-
lowed his fortunes among, the Mormons
of Utah, among the gold diggers OF Colo
RADIO, and the cowboys of the western
ranches. Wherever he thought it was
his duty to go as missionary preacher
she went with him, and she was with
him in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where
he was preaching at the time he was
elected to the United States Senate. Mr..
KYLE preached there for five years an
Mrs. Kyle says that Aberdeen is one OF
the pleasantest towns in the United
States. 1t has about 5000 people, the
most of whom are cultured and agreea-
BILE, and it will rank up in general abilif I
and culture with the oldest towns #
Massachusetts, or New York. Mrs. Kyle
is noted for her musical talent and she
has put this to practical use in the mu-
sicales and concerts of her husband S
church. She is thoroughly earnest in her
views of life, and though she does not
like the idea of giving up her whole time
to society she will probably give some
pleasant receptions at her pretty home
here on Capitol Hill.
One of the brightest of the new sena-
Dakota He looks like a boy, but his
anatomy Is packed with common sense,
diplomacy and good fellowship, and he
is one of the practical senators of the fu-
ture. He is fortunate in having a very
bright wife and one who has stuck to
him through thick and thin in all the
varied experiences of his adventurous
life and who is now at home here as So
ciety woman. You would never suppose
that Mrs. Hansbrough had roughed it on
a Dakota ranch, but she lived for quite a
while on farm near Devils Lake, while
her husband stayed in the town and edit
ed newspaper and only got out to see
her on Sundays. Her house at this time
was comfortable frame and was a little
better than the tarred paper shanties of
those who lived near her. After a time
she moved into Devils Lake, and she
speaks with enthusiasm of the culture
and pleasures which surround existence
nher old home town in Dakota She
says she likes the Northwest quite as
we'll as New York, in which State she
was born, and she is by no means ayerse
to Washington. She misses, however,
the keen bracing all Of Dakota and says
she feels better at home than here. She
is blonde with bright blue eyes, rosy
cheeks and a mass of curly golden hair.