The morning news., 1897-07-18

ner husband, whose fftieth birthday ar
riVes next week, she is a native of the
Old Dominion.
Another young woman is Mrs. Marion
ButIer, wife of the senator from North
carolina, who enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the youngest man in that august body
since Henry Clay's first election. She was
Miss Florence Faison, born in Sampson
county, North Carolina, and educated at
the school in Scranton, Va, which was
conducted by Mrs. j. E. B. Stuart, widow
of the noted confederate general Mr.
Butler was running a country paper when
she met him, and the wedding took place
about four years ago. They have one
child and pretty home on Q street, near
that of the Postmaster General Mrs
Butler is thorough southerner in her
ways and Ideas, and a most domestic little
body, though quite capable of holding her
own in society on occasion.
The Hon. julius Caesar Burrows of
Kalamazoo, Mich, is blessed with a beau
tiful wife, who takes as much interest in
public affairs as he does, and is able to
help him in many ways She was a Miss
Frances Peck of Kalamazoo, and met her
fate in the person of Julius Caesar. while
going to school to him in her native town.
Her father was banker, the wealthy man
OF the place, and naturally his only daugh-
ter enjoyed all educational and social ad-
Vantages. Her husband has been in poll
and she frequently accompanies him in
his campaigns throughout the state. She
has big blue eyes, a stylish figure and gra-
cious manner, and she dresses extremely
well, She is prominent member of the
Daughters of the Revolution, belonging to
all the women's clubs at home and has
decided literary ability. Senator Burrows
himself is mo slouch' of a man. His
knowledge of parliamentary law. gained
in the many terms he has served in con-
gress, is not exceled by that of the
speaker himself. He is an aristocratic-
looking man (for a Michigander) with a
genial and cordial way, calculated to win
and retain warm friends. Their Washing
ton home is on Massachusetts avenue, in
the ultra-fashionable quarter. 1t is big,
old-fashioned house, almost opposite the
German embassy, and in the same block
with the house recently purchased by Rev.
Dr. Talmage.
Mrs. Matthew S. Quay, wife of the dis
tjnguished senator from Pennsylvania, is
descended through her mother, Elizabeth
shannon, from one of the oldest families
of Philadelphia. Her father, Mr.. John
Barclay, was a merchant of Beaver Pa
which was also the early home of Senator
Quay, and where he first met Miss Alice
Barclay, at the village singing school, of
which they were both members. At the
time of their marriage Mr.. Quay was al
ready prominent in the politics of the
country; and in his subsequent enviabIe
career his wife has proved an invaluable
help-mate, adapting herself with admira-
BILE tact to the varying situations in which
his positions have placed her Their home
on X street, built and furnished by
themselves, is one of the handsomest ia
the city; and they entertain delightfully."-
Their eldest son has been a member OF
the Pennsylvania state legislature, and
the youngest is an officer in the United
States army. Senator and Mrs. Quay
have also three daughters, one of whom
Is married.
Mrs. Knute Nelson, nee jacobson, wife
of the senator from Minnesota, is, like
her husband, a native Of Norway, but
came to this county when hardly more
than a baby. The family settled in Dane
county, Minnesota, and there she has liv-
ed ever since. Senator Nelson came with
his parents from the northern part of
Norway, when but child, and his par
ents finally established home near that
of the Jacobsons; and so in the wilds
of the new world these children of the
frozen north met and married They have
only two children, both grown. The
daughter a bright young lady, is living
at the home in Alexandria, Mimi, and
the son is in business in another part Of
the state. Mrs. Nelson is a most estima-
Bile lady, but somewhat of a martyr in
keeping up with her husband in his politi-
cal career. Cities have few charms for
her, and what it called society none al
all. She prefers the domestic routine of
life in the country and finds her highest
happiness in the retirement of the home
farm. To her, the new woman" is
horror, and she would not vote if granted
the privilege. If there were more ladies
in high places as conservative as Mrs
Nelson the balance would be better pre-
served.
Mrs. Thomas Ryan Page, wife of the
first assistant secretary of the Interior
comes from Kansas, but was born in the
picturesque village of Towanda Pa, and
educated in its excellent school, the Tow
anda academy Soon after leaving school
she met and married her Tom, then a ris-
ing young lawyer, and the happy pair took
Horace Greeley's celebrated bit of advice
and went west to grow up with the coun-
try" They settled in the capital of Kan
sas which was then a small town of un-
paved streets and 5000 inhabitants. Be
lieving in a great future for the grasshop-
per state, Mr.. Page opened a law office
in Topeka and proceeded to help make that
future. To-day the city is a commercial
center of 10000 people, with splendid pub
lie buildings, handsome residences and
streets paved with asphaltum, and the
young lawyer has long been prominent in
the councils of the nation. Mr.. Page is
a warm-hearted generous man, whose pop
ularity is attested by the fact that he
never ran for any office to which he was
not elected. Mrs. Page has the happy fac
uity of turning any place where she stays
into home, and has presided with equal
grace the four-roomed cottage to which
she went as a bride. or the more
pretentious residence in which she dis
pensed the hospitality Of the legation at
Mexico for four years. The Pages have
a very handsome home on Fillmore street
in Topeka, and when In Washington they
reside at No. Iowa Circle.
Fannie Brigham.