The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-05-21
6NRS GOMEZ A
REMARKABLE WOMAN

employment In a school of music. From
the time OF her separation until she sailed
Tar Cuba she not the same woman.
Her cheeks became pale and her eyes ex-
p'essionlesS- For music she cared moth
ing. The songs OF birds possessed no har-
monious chords. the laughter of cnisdren
did not make her merry. II il said that
for hours she would sit near the nests OF
owls aud delight in listening to the sol
ernn and nionotonous songs Of these feath-
cred lychn0bttes.
She had wasted away from a bright. vi
vaeicus creature to mere melanchol:c
skeleton when twenty years ago she met
milllner from Santiago de Cuba. This
was In Mobile and the next ship sailing
for Cuba found the two aboard as paseen-
gers. In that city Mrs. Johnson became
TRIMMER OF hats. when the ten years
war was over she met Gen Gomez. She
was fair and he persuasive, and. ~ all
love stories should end. they were mar
ried.
The writer met them in the province OF
Puerto Principe when the war was nefs-
est between the cabans and Spsniards in
the summer Of 1895. Mrs Gomez attended
20 nearly all Of her soldier husbands cor
respondence. She answered all Of his let.
tiers that we're no, OF serious consequence,
patched has clothing directed the preIara-
tion OF his meals and read to him during
the DUH moments in the camp. To her
second husband she became the ideal wife.
In the sungies CT Cuba she sang the songs
she had learned 10 love IN sirinood to the
weary ard foo,sore soldiers who followed
Gomez and was loved and obeysd by them
was no other woman on the island. IL
was dge largely TO her influence that Gen.
Comes accepted the terms Of the Ameri~
cans after the war with Spain had ended
and met the commissioners at Havana
she IL much accomplished In The arts
O. diplomacy ia the grsces which be-
tong TO polite society. and during the re-
beilion she was by her husrs ud-s side al
rnost continuously with her advice ana
counsel Were she a man her o~n nafa-
raj force would havs landed Aer in the
front ranks of Cuban Statesmen and sob
disrs i1ug age.
IL within ise neat decade ftstfs receives
her Independence there IL Ntsle doubt that
Gcrnez viii be chosen sts first chief execaa-
tive. HE Ia really the only one Of tns Old
TIVE Cuban leaders alive IL would seem
TIA: some younger man woslf have gone
20 the front In leadership among the
Cssazns. Aaceo 6ia. syfs ne IL dead fse~
fore his ADVENT into IRE sesa tsaxnsx wa.
the les1cr. When Nacea died Conner nat
orally sncceesed him "a tsYec;or - the
Of the former insurr~sginrssts ani pos
s@sses fhe faith ef tas property owners
Ard ~ be shatsls become president hss wife
segsld kna~ now 70 stslsn the ssssf.z az
mistress ~ tYe executive mansion a. weil
the average woman. She - entertain
snr ard Ass READ sEcn- 9rs has sps-s,
swo seasons Ia Paris ara one Ia Florence
WIEN SIR lived In Jamasa her s0wss
came frorn Paris. IN m reS.I eanfzs near
N0%vitas she got mall regularly from the
T-asse9 States .A&ga eogss aired sorae Of this
best magazines aevos-:s "a sae sasies
Her n-s. husband. Pisa Johnson. sss-
tied In Taylor s0ansy. Texss. Ssser his d.
we're. at time when he ina nssansx con-
ssz.N1 cassssy Of prairie dogs ard hssiSzio
few months later ~ was sssssd pro-
bate tusxe ~ ne county. afssat the time
Ahsseys~ tAe county ssat was the ~fldesx
an4 '~ooas.sss village between SsxAIl4
Cal. sri New OYs~sns. II there was .
dAx SssaA6 Ha4e 1aonAo0 1sA 3adGA ~.