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was given every advantage of education
and travel. She was graduated from
Wellesley College with the class of 80,
and is an active factor of the Wellesley
organization in this city.
Charming Nrs. Dubois.
While Mr. Dubois a member of the
Senate before he was one of its most popu-
lar bachelors but during his last winter in
that body ne met, at the home of his col
league. Senator Pettigrew, a young woman
who was attending the mothers congress
as it's representative from South Dakota,
and whose addresses on child culture from
a kiudergartener' point Of view had at
tracted much attention in the congress. To
her the invulnerable bachelor capitulated
at once and a wedding the following fall
was the result. Senator and Mrs Dubois
have taken housekeeping apartments in the
LoudOn, on Capitol Hill, and there is no
doubt but that the autOcrat of their house
hold is wee Miss Elizabeth, who, Mrs. Du-
bOs declares, is the embodiment of all that
well-bUrn mother congress -ideal-babe
should be Senator and Mrs. Bailey have
left their / street residence and have gone
to the Riggs Hotel for the winter, where
Mrs. Bailey will be delightful acquisition
to the congressional ladies living there, and
who have made the social events of this
popular hOstelTy notable. Senator Black
burn. for the present. is with his daughter
on Hiiiyer place. but after his marriage he
will take an uptown residence.
Under an appointment from the governor
of Mississippi, in 1894. Mr.. McLaurin served
for one term in the United States Senate.
The following year he was elected COVER
nor and remained in Office four years. Aside
from this brief session, Senator McLaurin
ranks as a new member of the upper cham
Der. He is a cOurty gentleman of the old
school type and has u large acquaintance
among the southern contingency of Con-
gress. He and Mrs. McIaurin have been
married since 1870. and have seven living
children, six daughters and one son The
latter is attending MlIsap College at jack
son. Three of the daughters are married
to prominent business men of the bayou
state: one, Miss Belle, is n debutante OF
last winter and two are still school girls.
Miss Belle. who Will take her place among
the society buds of the capital, was grad
uated from BellhaVen College year ago
last June with the degree of bachelor of
arts She is a bright and handsome bru
nettc. with all of the vivacity which charac-
tcriZes the southern girl. She is an expert
morse back rider aud golf PLAYER, and her
exquisite voice has given her quite repu-
tatiOn a singer throughout the state.
Mrs. Patterson in Politics.
Senator and Mrs Patterson of Colorado
not entirely unacquainted with Wash
ington official life, he represented that
state as its last territorial delegate in 1874.
OF late years he has devoted his attention
exclusively to the editorial work on his
paper The Rocky Mountain News. Mrs.
Patterson was born in Virginia and is the
granddaughter of Alexander Campbell,
who founded the religious denomination
bearing his name. Subsequently her fam
lily moved west and she attended the school
at Jacksonville, ILL.,. where she met Mr. Pat
terSoH, who was also a student there.
After their marriage they went to Denver,
where Mr.. Patterson has always been iden
titled with the democratic party of the state,
and III which Mrs. Patterson herself has not
been an inactive factor. 1t generally
conceded that the women of Colorado de-
featcd Mr.. WOlCOtt for the Senate, and a.
great mass meeting for women which
was held in Denver during that campaign
Mrs Patterson presided and introduced the
speaker, Mr.. William Jennings Bryan. In
doing so she said that Mr.. Bryan and she
had gone to the same school in Jacksonville,
only that she was Il scholar there while he
was learning his a, b. cs, a his mothers
kneei Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson have but
one daughter living, Mrs. R. c. Campbell,
whose husband is the business manager of
the News. Mrs. Campbell will probably
spend part of the winter with her parents
at the Shoreham.
Senator Dillingham;. who comes from so
distinguished a Vermont family, and who
has served himself as governor of his state,