The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-06

Tia, pOtteTy, seIIlS, DOldHlCul COliSCtioHs
and 1000 attendants and servants. She
has 1000 coats, 1900 pairs of "trouser-
ettes' and 500 fur robes Her feet are
so small that she is unable to walk
more than few steps. but twice day
she bathes in oil of orange and acacia
blooms and takes an airing in cooly
sedan. Finally, she dresses her hair
in fifty ways, her favorite coiffure be-
ing a Ia griffin.
"A LYRIC OF LENT.
Girl of the Lenten period,
With softly downcast eyes,
Have you prayed off the surplus force
That in your mature lies?
Have you evolved a litany
To which your steps will dance?
Girl of the Lenten period,
There's mischief in your glance!
You're thinking not of litanies
With penitent refrains,
But of your love- arithmetic
And counting up your gains
OF poems wrought in needework,
OF symphonies in gowns,
OF bonnets that at Easter-tide
Shall Danish Lenten frowns.
biTl Vi tHe I1eltSn lJiouB
In royal purple cltfSsS .
Fair penitent in violet,
Your coming makes me glad!
! love you, pretty devotee,
Whose sins are small and few,
And when l to devotions go
Ill ask to kneel by you.
Life.
The wife of the Junior senator from
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Matthew S. Quay,
is pre-eminently a home woman. Ask
Mrs. Quay to tell you the romance of
her life, writes Washington cores
pondent, and she will laugh and tell
you she has known Mr.. Quay since he
was 10 years old, as If that fact pre-
cludes all possibilities of sentiment.
She is essentially a domestic woman,
in.the most beautiful acceptation of the
world, whose heart is wholly given up
to her home, husband and children.
To her husband she has been helpmate
and inspiration. While politics in the
abstract have little attraction for her.
any measure that claims her husbands
attention is sure of her sympathy and
support. Her interest centers primar-
lily in him. OF the ten children that
lsave been born to them five are now
living, two sons and three daughters.
Mary, the eldest, made her first formal
bow to the social world in Washington
three winters ago. Coral finished her
studies in Europe two years ago and
was presented to Washington the fol-
lowing season. Susan, the youngest,
Is still at school Her husbands posi-
tion as a public man and the fact that
her children are now of an age to take
their place in the world make many de-
mands socially on Mrs. Quay's time.
She enters into this phase of her life
with the same unquestioning devotion
that has made her always the loved
companion of both husband and chill
dren. She Is a graceful hostess, pos
sessed Of that rare tact which springs
from an innately good heart, and of
that most requisite of all attributes in
social life, the faculty of bringing out
the best in each individual guest and
sending him on his way happy. In APP
pearance Mrs, Quay Is of medium
height, admirably proportional, with
dark hair and eyes, and aristocratic
nose and chin and a mouth that to the
physiognomist reveals the gentleness
other nature.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN BILLVILLE.
Had woman suffrage meetin' at Bill
ville-on-the-Bend,
With Sister wilkins in the chair, Miss
Jenkins on one end
An Sairy Jones ON t'other, and that air
y gal O. Browns
An' Molly Spinks, paradin' round In these
new tangled gowns
AN twuz: Now step lively ladies'!
Fer soon youll wear a coat
An you'll canvass all the country
When you vote, vote, vote!
They passed resolution to the feet that
women rules,
An orter run the |. ver'ment as well as
teach the schools,
That they ort to be a votin', and a raisin'
W of q row.;
They'd been raised to bakn' biscuits, but
the men could bake them now.
An 'twuz: "Step UP lively, ladies!
Fer soon you'll wear n coat;
An the men kin mind the babies
When you vote, vote, voteH
They. talked from sun to sundown, an
'ther sentiments wuz free;
IN every man In. Billville climbed oak
or hickry tree!
the thing is been decided that the
2onens own thertown, i'
he men'll take the kitchen Jest as
pm as they climb down.!
Step UP lively, gentlemen!
me ana jerk your coat!
you burn the biscuits,