Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-07-22

practical ways and methods. Just now the
fierce sunlight Of publicity is boating upon
her because she has ospoused the cause OK
woman suffrage, and has thrown the whole
weight of her personality into the work,
Her beautiful home on Fifth avenue Is
thrown open Tor inc discussion OF the sub
joct. and all she can DO by force Of argu-
mout and great wealth is being done 10
eliminate the hated word male from the
constitution OF the State OF Now York. This
being the sum fatal OF What the auira-
glsts are after.
Mrs Sage. unlike tho wives Of many
well-Snnya men. has not sunk all her own
Individuality 10 that OF her husband While
she Va a devoted wife she follows the bent
OK her own inclination In these things
which appeal 70 tho Intellectual Side Of her
character. Nor dgei her husband seek 10 Ia.
torfcrO with hdr He, too, Is devoted %
her and no rs went to say on the rare oc-
lualuns thar no speafs OK her ut oil that
she l. 'hr best business woman he ever saw
and thar Indeed sho rs q better haud Al
hu5lptss than mort men With whom he hn6
come IN contact, Az Mr.. sage has boon
coming w contact with shreUd business
men FOR more than halt century this corr
pllmeut to his Vile cannot be called an
ompF enc
Tho present Mrs. sage Is the second wife
vi the famous doaler 10 puts and calls. "
and IS much younger than her husband who
is now we'll along IN the seventies As "a
young woman she must have been hand
some for abe Is now. whom past middle
age, an sttractye-looling woman who al
ways dresses in exquisite taste. always re
uial and kindly in her manner toward
othcrs
Intellectually Mrs. Sage Is much her hus-
bands superior He Is almost unrival0d as
an accumulator OF wealth. and ell his life
has been devoted 70 this one pursuit. Ho
has no liking for any other. Art, liters-
,ure. tho stage, for these he has no liking.
business first, last and all the time Is the
rule by which he shapes his life
Mira. Sage has been IN no way strongly
Influenced by theae, her husbands strongest
characteristics, Indeed those things he
knows little OF and cares less for are the
things to which she gives time and at
tentlon and money. Mrs. Sage. unlike her
husband. is nnely educated and highly cul-
tiyatod. She comes from an old family
IN upper New York. and Il Is said. though
this may not be So that Mr.. Sage knew
her as a little girl, and later as a young
lady prior to the death OF his first wife
Mrs SAGE Is a graduate Of the ell-lnown
polytechnic school for young womcn near
Troy. from which many women now more
or less known In social circles graduated.
and II IS said that she was one Of the most
successful scholars of her time. Brilliant
Is tho adjective rhost often used by those
w. NV" va 4lA N'fNNA Ait '"Htsss sue was
xuh young woman when she married
Russell sage, and at that tlmo the aatute
hnanciOr was already on the high Fuad to
fortune
In all bis long life OF many bargains. Rus
sell sage never made better one than
that consummatud whom he secured bis
present wife, She ID, perhaps the only
living person whu can bend this COARSE
grained, neyloylng old ulan. either with
or AGAINST Ms viii, and she does It without
an effort. Indeed, Mr.. Sage does not know
she Is doing It, 80 olovoriy does she man
ass hlui Her woman's ;nc, is perfect.
There can DO no douh, OF ibis Mr.. sage
y VIVA that delightful old woman. Pegs
golty. ussi 70 say Of Barids Near very
near His s,nfc-made Clothes his noon
nfy meal OF crackers and an apple, his
close watch over the smallest cynoutlimre
IN his hlsluesa aQairs or upon himself. an
suggest II. Those who know say tAs; Mrs.