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know her. and should her husband
called to the first position in the re
public, American womankind Nigh
feel more than ever before that thei
sex had a positive part in the govern
ment of the nation"
McClure's for August con
tains an article on Gladstone by tn
friend Of Chicago-Mr w. T. Stead
Speaking of wives, he says Mrs. Glad
stone was not his equal in intellec,
nor ever asp:red to be more than
sympathetic listener to his politica
discourses She was a capital hous
mother. faithful and attentive; an ad
mirable nurse, who studied her hus
band as a doctor studied his patient
for all his physical and social needs
she was all that could be desired. bu
IL ended there. The illustrations show
him in his fifty-fifth and in his eighty
sixth year. In the former he looks lik,
a man of forty. At eighty-six he look.
seventy. His taste for literature and
his love of religion in addition to hi.
placid adoring wife have kept hin
aboU; fifteen years younger than his
years in vigor physical and mental
No one has Yet been able to broach q
subject upon which Mr.. Gladstone
could not talk with mastery of the de.
tail Of it. Mr. Stead says: There /.
tradition to the effect that on one
occasion when Monsieur Chevalier, the
eminent French economist. was in.
vited to Downing street to breakfast
he came away sadly disappointed. fol
Nc. Gladstone and Mr.. Bright hap.
pened to raise the subject of corns
discussing chiropody in all its
branches. with wonderful array OF
personal experience and literary ref
erence which bewildered the French.
man, who. at first. was under the H.
fusion that the prime minister and the
great free trader were engaged in the
discussion of the corn laws.
This faculty of absorption in other
affairs besides those of state has KEEP
Mr.. Gladstone chipper and blythe
when other people thought it theil
duty to worry and grow aged over tn,
degeneracy of humanity and tn.
future of the nation. His power o
concentration was so absolute tina
even when he was making up a cabi
net he could put his mind on TO tn,
Iliad with such singleness that to ge
his attention was like waking a persor
from a sound sleep.
Anthony Hopes story of "Phroso'
springs along in this number, but tn,
end does not seem any nearer TIL,
action of his stories never lags-onl,
the end recedes. The hero is a yer,
brave man. but almost incredIbl,
stupid. In the last chapter of tn,
present number he lets Mouraki Pash:
An unspeakahie Turk. lead him int,
cottage surrounded by the Pasha'.
soldiery and both of them are in Low,
with the same girl and Mouraki /.
fifty years old and has never beer
conquered by a woman yet The Eng
lishman. Lord Wheatley. knows thai
Mouraki sentences men to hideous
deaths as butcher orders a steer
Knocked on the head. yet because hs
is an Englishman he does not suspect
him Of any designs upon himself II
may be that Lord Wheatley will have
to marry Phroso or see her carried of
by the Turk. Wheatley loves her and
Phroso loves him. but before he came
away from England. his relations and
hec relations engaged him to a girl.
1t was purely ''une affaire de con-
venance-" Since coming to the island
the bonds wherewith he is bound cut
deeply into his flesh. though he never
thinks Of swapping them. Consider
ing the strength of his sense of honor