Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-04
oepEw's WASHINGTON HOME.
His Niece, Miss PauIding, will Be the Presid.
ing Genius.

Washington official society is not. a
little interested in the Depew house
hold New York's new senator is
known to possess rare social qualifica-
tons, and already there are brigh,
authorizations of his residence in the
Capital.
Miss Anne Depew Pauldfng, the niece
of Senator Depew will be the presiding
genius at the new home in West Fifty
fourth street, Washington. Miss
Paulding has. since the death of Mrs.
Depew in 1893, been the light of her
distinguished uncle's home She is the
daughter of Senator Depew's baby
sister," Anne Mitchell Depew. who
married William H. Paulding, and who
still lives at Peekskill. n Y.
Washington will find Miss Paulding
most interesting woman-tall, grace
full, we'll formed, brown haired. gray
eyed-and there lies the contamination
of all the rest in the eyes, from which
subjective beauty shines forth and
makes the objective seem wholly in
consequent; eyes that are kind in
stinctively and quick to give out the
thought behind them with a meaning
so full that words seem often to be a
pleasant redundancy.
Miss Paulding was educated at St
Mary's school in Peekskill, kept by the
Anglican sisters of the Episcopal
church-"the most cultivated ana we'll
born women | have ever known" she
says of them. But Miss Paulding is
not an Episcopalian-she belongs to the
Presbyterian church. There is no viz
tue. she says. lin being a bigot in any
thing. much less in matters of re-
ligion. In politics? Well. yes--there's
great temptation to bigotry there |
have very settled opinions on all political
questlOns-that | can understand.
| own that the tariff and these new terri
torial questions are beyond me. But
there's the currency question. now
Uncle Chauncey bought me gold stand
ard and free silver books galore, and
left me to work out my own salvation
/ came out of the ordeal sane-and
solid for goid-and have felt wiser in
my concet ever since.
by the way. l think the only thing
that makes William Jennings Bryan
at all tolerabe is the loving equality
in which he holds his wife. I think a
woman ought to keep up with her nus
ally. Not politically-no, Women ought
| not to have time to be politicians with
all the duties and pleasures that are
theirs by the destiny and fitness of
things. But women should know poll
ties. | have to know it, or feel like Il
stranger in a strange land where the
| men all speak in an unknown tongue.
| II am too fond of talking to have to
keep silence through ignorance if there
| is any possible way out of that ignor-
| ance. Besides. l love politician in
| herited taste. And-yes, love society
too, because love people. l love music
| passionately. but have no time for it,
| What work it takes to be musician or
| an artist. And few people work at
these things who can afford to hear
| better music or buy better pictures
than they themselves can make. There
are two things, however. that l always
| steal time to indulge in-my horseback
| riding and my reading. You will find
| Kipling's last book on my dressing
table now, waiting for a moments hun
CRY devouring."
| Miss Paulding's young cousin, Char
lofte Hegeman who is now at Miss
Spencers school in New York City
will share with her the duties and
| pleasures of the life in Washington
when Senator Depew enters upon his
| official work there. Miss Hegeman's
| father was a brother to Mrs. Depew
| Her mother lost her life in the great
| Hahnemann hospital tragedy, when
during a fair held there the roof fell in
and crushed to death number of peo-
pie. Miss Hegeman's father also died
soon after that. and she and her sister
| who married the Baron de Bresson and
now lives in France, became inmates
| of the Depew household.