The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-07-07
A GLIMPSE OF A WESTERN
WOMAN.
Mrs. Charles A. Towne, the Wife of
the Populist Nominee, is Typical
of the Progressive Country.

Western women" quoth a Gotham
lite, amaze me. At the age Of So they
have done more than we eastern wo-
men ever hope to accomplish Iii life
time. AT TO-" continued she, % west
ern girl has nearly completed ner edu-
cation and is ready for her finishing
touches. At Is shha has learned all she
needs to know and has graduated at
three schools. Probably she SPEAKS
one or two languages, besides ner own,
and ten to one she knows how TO cook.
She has something Of Il musical edu-
cation and understands art.
AT 20 she is more than versatile and
| can talk about anything from washing
a baby to the latest picture. She knows
| English literature to the last book out,
and is we'll up on The latest pronuncia-
! ton. IL she stays SingIa she goes On
| with her studies, and even if she mar :
ries she continues to prog So
! Mrs. Charles A. Towne, whose hus-
band was nominated the other day in
Dakota on the Populist ticket, - sup
| port William j. Bryan, is a western
woman, highly typical of her part of
| the country, and one of those who
could amaze the GOthamite with her
| progress.
When the convention met in Dakota
Mrs. Towne declared that she did not
| care whether her husband received the
| nomination for the vice-presidency or
not. 1t pleased her sufficiently to know
that he had earned a place in public
favor and delighted her to think that
he held so fast to his principles. Be
Yond that she did not care, but if the
| people wanted to nominated him, that
was a different thing. Everybody knows
now the way the name of TOWne
swept the hall, when the nomination
| for the Populist vice-president was
mentioned. And when the news was
| flashed back to Duluth no one was as
delighted as Mrs. Towne, who felt that,
| after all, it was the just desert of a
good man.
A PROGRESSIVE LIFE.
Fourteen years ago Maude Irene
Wiley was one of the bellies of Ian
sing. Mich. Charles A. Towne was thea
building lawyer of that city, and
people thought that he did very we'll
indeed when he secured the hand of
pretty Miss Wiley, who had more suit
ors than she could manage.
Miss Wiley was the graduate of an
| Indiana college and had taken a special
course in music at which she was pro-
ficient. She was also an artist of fin.
abilities, and, for a time, thought Ct
pursuing her art in the best schools
abroad. While studying these two
great professions she had not mes
lected the languages and was French
scholar capable of speaking the iar-
guage like a Partisan.
Such was the young woman whom
Charles A. ToWne captu-91 in Michigan
thirteen years ago.
After their removal to Duluth in 1897,
when Mr.. Towne came prominently be
fore the public Mrs. Towne devoted
herself more enthusiastically to work
of a semi-public character She began
an energetic club life, half profess onal
and half social, and soon made the
names of the clubs to which she de-
voted her efforts, known all over the
country. She founded literary and arr
clubs, she Joined oil clubs and brought
them into prominence; she used her
vast resources to the Development OF
the best of everything IT the artistic
world and soon her efforts were
crowned by mor2 than success. To-
day you will not find better clubs than
flourish in Duluth; and none have the
wealth of art and literature which Ger
tain clubs in Duluth boast.
Mrs ToWle IS also an active Wor ekr
in politics. She has opinions and the
courage to voice them. She acconpa-
MES her husband on bis political trips
and talks over his speeches with him.
1t is said that she has been known to
write them, but Ibis she denies.
Mrs. Towne. besides b-InG p"":ress-
i--e is rTpttv. two -'bu:e5 act
dom travel together. She dresses ele-
gantly, and her gowns. are models OF
correctness No woman, east or west,
is mora entertaining than she, none
more typical of the best type Of Amer
ican woman.