The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

required to write an essay on the lecture
which Colonel Higgins. the chief secretary
of the army. delivers to them.
The subject IN which Mrs. Booth-Tucker
took the least interest was, perhaps, the
greatest feminist movem of her gen.
GRAFTON. For all practical purposes the
movement for equal suffrage, the woman's
club movement and the higher education of.
women did not SO much as exist for her.
She never voted, and no one can remem-
Der ever hearing her express a wish to
vote. Women's clubs did not interest her.
She was herself the president of a woman'S
club which included thousands of men,
berS in Europe, Asia, Africa and America.
She never talked woman's rights. She took
them. She was accustomed to the respect,
admiration and obedience. of the men she
met and she seems TO have been as little
given to theorizing about the political or
social relations of men and women as she
was over the training OF children. With a
temperament emphatically masterful and
militant, she did the things, says Ensign
Carr, that other women talk about"
Aside from the political aspect of the
case, she seems to have believed, however,
in the right of the woman with a message
to deliver il. At least, this held in religious
work. She believed that husband and wife
were partners, and that they should work
in public in harmony. Where the wife
public work in the army, she thought it
ought to be exercised, and she frequently
recommended married women to employ a
maid to do the housework, thus freeing
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Mrs. ~Booth-Tucker was not what is known
as a great reader. She seldom sat down with
a book or magazine in her hands, and 1t
was a wonder to all who worked with her
how she got her information. She never
even read the newspapers either, depending
upon her secretary to keep her informed and
clip important items for her perusal. She
was a remarkably strong woman physically,
and to this was due in part her tremendous
capacity for work.
THEIR PLEASANT HOME.
The house in which the consul of the Sal
walton Army lived is a three-story, corner,
gray frame house at Ninth avenue and
Third street, Mount Vernon. There are
lawns around 1t, and there is a small front
veranda. To the left. on entering, is a small
reception room, known as the c~onsuls study.
Here is a bookcase, considerable bric-a-brac
of an inexpensive kind, a telephone, pictures
of army groups and several portraits of the
lamented mistress of the house. In one of
the latter she holds in her arms, in a charm
ing posture of maternal love and pride, one
of the babies who died. Over it's little dress
is an embroidered sash, with the legend in
blue, "Given to God"
Opposite the consul's study is the parlor,
a large room, equipped with a piano and
organ in opposite corners, and having also
telephone connection.
Mammals room is on the first foor-a
good sized square chamber, furnished
OdluIlly, INOuSH HOl luAuTlOuSly, WIFI IL
white iron bedstead, with brass trimmings,
lace curtains, a white watered paper on the
walls and blue and white paint. Over the
bed are framed photographs of Baby Evan
geline and the other children. A portrait of
| Mrs. fuckers mother hangs over a combi-
nation writing desk, and over the bed, in a
gilt frame, is the motto, Il have called thee
by thy name; thou art mine"
The bedroom where Motto and Nina sleep
is across the hallway from their mothers.
On the wall across from the bed, where
their eyes must fall on it the last thing at
night and the first thing in the morning, is
the motto, What Would Jesus Do?" And
| over their heads are the last words of their
Love one another; meet me in the morn
ing"
At the rear of the house, on the same
floor, is "papa's study and upstairs the
nursery, as plain a room as could well be.
with linoleum on the floor and a few chairs
and toys.
Mrs. ~Booth-Tucker's last day with her
children was a characteristic one.
After breakfast, which the family ate to-
gether, the mother and children went up TO
her bedroom for prayer. Then she saw that
the four older ones. who go to school, were
properly dressed. and kissed them good
bye. She left on her tragic journey a little
later.
There Is no Grape on the door Of the
Booth-Tuoker house, and no one within is
in black. TIL army does not believe in put
ting on mourning when a soldier is PRO
noted to glory" The only sign OF mourn
ing that the bereaved father and children
will wear is a black cloth band on the left
arm, embroidered In red with a cross, sur
mounted by a crown.