The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-09-27
wcMAN AND HER WAYS.


Neither Bikerdyke, famous among
western war nurses, now lives at Rus
sell. Kan. aged rs.
Joseph Manuel aged 9S. and his wife,
AGED 96. have just celebrated at Kenne-
bunkport. Ne, the scventy-hfth annlver-
sary OF their wedding.
one room of Mrs. John A. Logan's
house at Washington is full Of medals.
Glgs and hundreds OF o:her souvenirs
OF her dead husband.
Nine. Caslmer-Pcrier. wife of the ex-
President of France, Ia an enthusiastic
blcycler Her husband knows what the
turn Of fortunes wheel Is.
when Gov. Richards, of Wyoming,
leaves the Capitol his daughter, aged 10.
VINO Is his private secretary. becomes
Governor in everything but the name.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, of Mon
tasue, z. Il. L. gave birth to five daugh-
ters on a recent Sunday. Her husband
Is tailor and Is in his eighty-fourth
year.
The story that girl in Oakland, CAL,
Jumped through a plate glass window
20 avoid being kissed by young man at
a church festival lacks versimilltude for
reasons other than the thickness Of plate
glass.
Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse. born
In Elmira, and now a resident OF New
York city, although Of Caucasian ances-
dry. Is a chief and the custodian and ad-
wiser Of the SIX Nations OF New York In
dlans. For three generations her fam
lly has held like honors.
Ralph Iron (olve Schreiner) is de-
,..tk -.
nothing of the sadness OF her stories.
Two years ago Miss Schreiner married
Dir Cronwrght, a member of the Colo
NAL Parliament. 1t Is said that. instead
OF her taking his name. he gave up his
own for hers.
Mrs. Zoe Marcos, aged 70 years. Of
Fond du Lac, wis. has just brought suit
for breach OF promise OF marriage
against Francis Pell,nt, aged 81 years.
OF Martlnette. Mr.. Pellant AYERS he Is.
and always has been ready to marry
the LADY. but there seems to be soma
difficulty interposed by his children.
Mistra,, the Provencal poet, married to
pbl!gc his mother, who said to him reS,u-
larly: What will your lie be like with
out wife and child when I am gone?'
Remembering a little girl with pretty
eyes whom he had seen at Dijon ten
years before. the poet set out in quest
of her. found her, a girl Of 10, and mar
rled her.
Miss whitney, the accomplished
daughter OF the ex-Secretary, whose en-
gagement Is announced, has had prob
ably more pin money" than any other
girl in New York, for she Is her fathers
idol. She dresses with great simplicity
and richness, Is devoted to music, books
and art, and has won the love Of the
poor by her generosity. She deserves
all that love can bestow. and the indl-
Gallons are that she hasn't made a mis-
take.
II never argue with a woman" re-
marked a learned Judge; "she takes
everything personally" The indications
are that the women who are living the
''broad, full. free large life" have really
NOT yet wholly obllterated from their
emanclpated makeups this fatal feml-
nine tendency to take Everything per-
sonally." Poor Lord Tweedmouth, in a
recent speech made In England. lament
ed the electoral disabilities under which
he as a peer, suffered. and said he shar-
ed these with criminals. lunatios and
worse" Mrs. Fawcett, who took the
chair at the annual general meeting OF
the members Of the National Society for
Women's Suffrage, concluded that Lord
Tweedmouth's allusion to worse" re-
ferred TO women, which. Of course. Is
highly absurd.