The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-07
PERSONAL AND AiTERARv.

-Tennyson's mother was always re-
garded by him as a model for all other
mothers. He once said: 1.-The training
of u child is woman's wisdom"
Capt. William Penn Stedman, who
is employed iii the agricultural depart
ment at Washington asserts that he
was the real cartor of jefferson Davi.
at Irwinstille, Ga, May TO-! 1858.
George Eliot's portrait represents
her as having a. remarkably unprepos-
sessing face, with heavy nose and chin.
and thick, badly-shaped, lips. She
would be pronounced positively ugly.
John Chrysostom often spoke of
the tenderness of his mother. and quite
as often Of her beauty. He believed
that the eloquencc which, gave him 80
wide a reputa ton was inherited from
her. "l' s-
-Catharine of Braganza. queen Of
Charles H.. was singularly gifted, both
in person and intellect, but in spite of
her beauty and her good sense, she
was never able to win the love of her
dissolute husband.
byron Stnrtevant, a grocer of Port
Clyde, Me-, is said to be the most oblig-
ing man in Maine. Recently one Of
his neigh1,ors wanted his horse for the
day. Mr.. Sturtevnnt needed the horse
in his delivery wagon, SO he let him
have the horse, and wheeled his gro
ceries about town on a wheel barrow
going in some cases rs much as a mile.
--(;en. Sam Browne, as he IS famil-
tally known. is one of the few mc''
who took Il prominent part in the stir
ring events in the early history of Col
orado. He was born May IL, 1922. in
I'ennsylvania. near the battle field OF
Antietam. While a captain in tho reg.
ular army he signed and was appoint
ed assistant registrar OF the United
States treasury.
IN ri he p
wright, was the verge of starva-
ton, actual death staring him in the
face, when he made his first success.
His recovery was due to the lady who
| is now his wife. He lay in garnet.
slowly wasting away with tyFhoid
fever, when poor actress living i n the
same building took pity upon him,
nursed him back to life, and afterward
| introduced him to the theaterical
| world.
When Will Allen Dromeoolc, the
| southern novelist, applied for tho
| place of enSrossing clerk in the Ten
| nessee house Of represen atives sew
eral years ago she signed her applica-
| ton to a menlbe of the house: "Will
| Allen Dromgoole." The answer she
received ran as follows: Dear bill
got your letter all right and would
| like the best in the world to give you
a job, but IL be ID if / vote for any
ing and charming young women look
| ing for a position of the kind" The
woman took the hint, set the repre-
sentative right and received the APP
| poin 1ncnt.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston,
| by turns abolitionist, woman suffrag-
list, patriotic poet, prose writer and
philanthropist, is, perhaps most prom
inently regarded by the women of
America the sta nche>t sort of an adj
vocatc Of the formation Of womcns
clubs. 81 think these clubs have ac-
compliShed a vast amount of good,
she said recently. 'rhey have had a
wonderful educational value in broad
ening and quickening the opportuni-
ties of women to gain knowledge.
Persons unfamiliar with the inside
history Of clubs whose memb ership is
| exclusively feminine would be sur
prised to learn the number of good,
| serious ideas that one usually gains
by All afternoons attendance on them