The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-04
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A PROGRESSIVE ILLINOIS WOMAN.
Although 80 Years Old Mrs. Hewes IL a
Club Leader.

one OF the most interesting of the
many interesting women VINO entered
Chicago during the week TO enjoy the
double advantages arising from the sim
Infamous celebrations of the national
jubilee of peace and the meeting of the
State Federation of Women's clubs Is
an attractive. energetic woman of over
80 years, who responds To the title OF
Mrs. Elwood Hewes.
Mrs. Hewes is a typical daughter OF
Illinois soil, the soil That nurtured Alb
braham Lincoln n gave him the stur-
dy strength and manhood h a proved
the backbone of the union when IL sore
ly needed moral support. She lives in
the little city OF Dixon N Is the very
heart Of the mental activity that dis
tinguishes the accomplished women of
the Illinois town. She was the chief
instigator In the establishment of the
Dixon Woman's club, whose members
honored her and themselves by electing
her their first president.
Mrs. Hewes is a farmers wife and
the mother of a large family. She at
tended to the duties OF her situation in
life like the accomplished domestic wo-
man that she is. Nothing was sighted
tina added To the family comfort n
income. Her house was a model house
and her children were carefully govern
ed.
But the energetic woman found time
also to be something more than a pat
tern for housewives to initiate. She
knew the value of a theory that a will
makes "A way possible. She resolved
To train her active mind as she trained
her active body, and I'm between the
manifold duties of the wife and the
mother. she studied and worked, find
ing literature a Joy n the acquire
ment of knowledge a solace for bodily
fatigue.
The persistent mental activity of the
energetic woman who never neglected
husband or children in the requirement
OF the higher culture she craved quickly
began its work of influence among those
who surrounded her. She taught her
children what she knew herself and en-
couraged them to look for pleasure In
the noblest attainments. She attended
To the mental and moral necessities OF
the workers OF the farm and organized
a successful bible class among the de-
pendents. dropping the little seed of viz
tue which was destined To grow into
a large tree with widespread branches
Of goodness.
But the good works of such "A woman
as Mrs. Elwood Hewes Were destined to
blossom most luxuriantly in the accom-
plishments of her children. Her o
and daughters. beneiting by the inspir-
ing example of their mother. are men
and women OF culture and distinction.
one son was elected mayor of his ma
tive town OF Dixon: another served I'm
the same elevated official station in
Clinton. Iowa: a third was named post
master OF Philadelphia.
Mrs. Hewes includes horticulture
among her long list OF requirements.
she is an unusually well versed student
in the science and loves flowers with
ardent devotion. The gardens that
beauiify the farm home in Dixon are re-
garded by the inhabitants as one OF the
show features OF the little city.
W, lie Mrs. Hewes is no longer the
president OF the Dixon Woman's club.
she is still a regular member and Is re-
garded with respectful veneration 10y
the ladies' forming Its assemblies. IL
was her example that inspired It's or
g~anization and her magnetic influence
that drew others toward the study and
contemplation Of the pleasures of the in
tellect. Mrs. Hewes has reached the
age when most people regard inaction
as the only method left 20 satisfy exist
ence. But no such lazy doctrine would
suit the valiant woman OF 30 years
young. M works at all times and on
~ last year graduated from the h
tauoua circle OF home studies.