The age-herald., 1900-06-24
PATHETIC ROLE OF GOLF WIDOW.
She Must Get In the Game Whether or Not-The Week m the
 World oi Society.
BY ANNIE KENDRIcK WALKER.

The wives of the statesmen at the Re- publican convention have not been in the least overshadowed by the political excite ment and a great deal has been written of these women, who like Mrs. Dewey, are said to exert the most important in- fluence in a husbands play for political honors. Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Woodruff have been the most sought after women in Philadelphia the past week, and while the former has been the conspicuous figure at the series of dinners and luncheons, Mrs. Woodruff has been confined greater part of the time to her hotel apartments, where she has been suffering from a "blaek eye" although not a political one. She had to decline the invitations that Philadelphia women Showered upon her. as well as abandoning her own entertainments planned for the wives of the New York delegation.
 Mrs Roosevelt is said to have been fol lowed by telegrams giving every move of the convention during her round of social gaieties and she was kept fully posted on the Vice Presidential possibilities. But Governor RooSeYelt'S nomination has not been declared due to his wife's popularity, while it was claimed that in the event that MT. Woodruff was nominated for Vice President, it would be through the inf1u- ence of Mrs Woodruff, who is described as a tall and graceful woman, who wears her hair in a severe pompadour. She denies emphatically that she writes her husbands speeches, but she expressed her interest in politics, and her confidence in Mir Wood ruffs nomination. The extent of her en- tertaining at the National Capital as the wife of the Vice President has been a sub ject of speculation, and altogether "charm- ing Mrs. Tim" as she is called has been gossiped about a great deal in the papers, siD cna in phi1o1a1nbi1 with husband, and many trunks to storm the convention.
 Other women prominent in the public eye at the convention was the wife of Senator Thurston of Nebraska, who entertained frequently in honor of the western women. The present Mrs. Thurston was Miss Lola Purman of Washington and she was at one time a member of the late AuguStin Daly's company in London The former Mrs. Thurston died while visiting Cuba with her husband, and his dramatic speech in the Senate after her death gave a prom thence to the romance that followed in his marriage to Miss Purman. The wives of the western delegates, it is said, were revelations to the Philadelphia women who had the idea that the extreme west was inhabited by Indians and bears, and that Salt Lake City was full of hotels run by Mormons. These western women were as smarthy goWned as the eastern women, if not as well groomed, for Of course the New York woman quite eepsed all others by her modish gowns and her distinctive way of wearing them.
 The Baltimore women were among the beautiful visiting delegation, the most noted being Mrs. Goldsborough, who, by the way, is a southern woman. Interest throughout the country, however, centered around Mrs. Roosevelt. She was not new figure, either. as is frequently the case with the families of the men nomi- mated for Vice President, and the public eye would still be focused upon her had leader other than MT. Roosevelt been named on the national ticket.