Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-03-22
ABOUT WOMEN.


which have appeared. She has copies
OF all she can get-Leander's and Ca
prielle's, for instance-and in one or
two cases owns the originals.
Jennie Lind's letters to a woman
friend living in Italy from 1S45 to
1874 will soon be published by an Ital-
ian firm. The letters, it is reported,
number over a hundred and give the
prima donna's outspoken and uncon.
ventional opinions about the music
and many of the musicians of her
time.
There is in Lincolnshire, England, .
woman in her ninety-first year who
acts as parish clerk, attends all we'd
dings, christening and funerals, keeps
the church in order, performs the du-
ties of the church warden when that
official is absent, and occasionally un-
dertakes the work of the organ-blower
ouu tHe Uell-TluSeI.
Miss Helen Gould carries the relig.
ion she processes into the smallest acts
OF her everyday life. If this unassum-
ing mistress OF millions is entertaining
party of intimates at luncheon or
heading the board at any formal BAN
quet OF forty, her custom never varies.
She rises in her place and solemnly
asks blessing upon the food and the
partakers. 1t is grace almost child.
like in its straightforward sincerity.
Miss Warner, a sister OF the author
of "The Wide, Wide World" has
Sunday school at West Point COM
posed exclusively OF cadets whose
membership is entirely voluntary.
They attend because they enjoy it, be
cause they are interested in the study
of the Bible, and so much so that they
are willing to devote an hour of the
time allowed them for recreation to
hear Miss Warmers sweet expositions
of the Scripture.
The talisman Of the sorrow-stricken
ex-Empress Eugene is an arristically
jeweled breastpin, fashioned in the
shape of a clover leaf. It has been
Der companion throughout her check
i
cred career, albeit it has not brought
her happiness. She is said to have
pinned it on her bosom before bidding
farewell to her son, the late Prince
Imperial, when he marched away to
meet his death at the hands of savages
in South Africa.
Miss Alta Rockefeller the other day
made the following reply when asked
if she were happy: Happy? Can
happiness be bought with money? Are
there not many things which can
make us profoundly unhappy, and
which money cannot avert? And, be-
sides, is it not we'll known that just
those pampered by fortune are more
sensitive to the needle pricks OF life
than other people? No; l am not
happy! Say so to all who perhaps
envy me-"
People who have heard Queen Will
helmina speak say that hers is a quite
unforgetable voice. 1t is soft and sill
very in tone and yet can, upon occa-
sion, be firm and resolute, and many
people do not hesitate to say that it is
the loveliest voice in Holland. Two
years ago every one was enthutiastic
about the way in which the girl Queen
delivered her coronation spec ch. Peo-
pie said then that if Wilhemina had
not been born to grace a throne she
would have been great actress.
Washington society people and poll
ticians have had the pleasure of meet
ing Miss Margaret Mckinley, rela-
tive of the President, who came from
far-away Oklahoma to stay few days
at the White House. Miss Mckinley
is we'll educated and refined, but she
prefers the free and open life of the
Oklahoma" boomer" to the constraints
and formalities of metropolitan lifs'
Mounted on an Indian pony she can
travel in her home country more
quickly and more pleasantly to herself
than behind the horses OF the Nations
head. In Oklahoma the Indians have
a great reverence for Miss Mckinley.
They are under the impression that
she is daughter of the "Great White
Father" and treat her with supersti-
tious awe.