The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
lUcl1leln and Society.
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 The influence of American girls upon the great men whom they marry is gall iantly referred to in the following from a Boston exchange:
 The new mistress of Nuneham Park. the magnificent estate of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, is an American. Louis Harcourt, the son of the dead statesman who succeeded to the estate, married Ethel Burns, of Boston, many years ago. Her father was Boston | banker when he formed a partnership with J. P. Morgan G O., and came here l to be connected with the London house. His daughter was brought up in Eng land and educated in France. When she came of age she was introduced to court society and because she had a quiet, sweet way with her and big. se- rious eyes, she won the heart of Louis Harcourt
 Mrs. Louis Harcourt is a lovely wo- man and the mother of three beautiful children, to whom she is devoted, and they will be brought up to know this lovely home as the most beautiful spot on earth.
 Although the sons of great men are not infrequently quite the reverse of the examples of their fathers, the late Sir William was always proud of his son, and he promises to follow closely in the footsteps of his father.
 The Harcourts have been rather "Americanized,' for Sir Williams wife was the daughter of Motley, the Amer ican historian, and Louis Harcourt was devoted to her, although she was his stepmother, and it was a compliment to her when he sought one of her coun- trywomen as his wife.
 It Is said that some day MT. Harcourt will be Prime Minister. and then the little quiet American girl will have come into most hitting honors. And she will be only one of many, for all the honors seem to be falling upon our American-born girls of late, for they win the Englishmen of thought and then spur them on to all manner of Tambitions. and no great man has mar ried an American but he has yet be- come greater through the splendid in- fuence of his wife.
 A woman explorer completes explo- ration undertaken by her husband in the depths of unexplored regions of Brazil.
 The following interesting account is from a recent paper:
 4 woman completed in South Amer lea last year a series of geographical explorations undertaken at the cost of the State of Para. Brazil, says Tha New York Sun. Between November %. 1900. and January IF. 1908. she made three journeys and for nineteen months was in the depths of the unex- plored sections of that State. Her ~F I,An been handsomely printed in Paris, a volume of about 150 folio pages being given to each of the three Journeys.
 The explorer is the widow of Henri A. Coudreau, who was known for twenty years before his death as g. man peculiarly adapted for going into any unknown region and bringing back just the information required by governments and pioneer settlers as to the lay of the land, Its resources, eii- mate and people. He made his fame French Guiana. All geographers know his books.
 In 1895 the State of Para invited Coudreau to study for the government the economic aspects of some of the large Amazon tributaries. The city of Para being the collecting and distrib- uting point for most of the rubber of South America. the State wished to know every place where rubber could be found and how to get t. Before his death Coudreau wrote three vol- tunes on the branches of the Amazon he had explored.
 In the last years of his work Mrs. Coudreau usually accompanied her husband and came to be his most val uable assistant on his expeditions. She even learned how to make surveys and plot route maps. She was skilled in photography and leaImed just how and what to observe to get the information desired by the Para government. A short time after her husbands death she went to the Para authorities with this proposal:
 Let me carry on for you the explo- rations in which my huspanu was en- gagged. Perhaps I can not equal him. but know his methods. I have plen- ty of energy and I know you will ap- prove the results"
 The government fitted her out for her first independent expedition. The field is vast and there will be plenty of work in 1t for Mime. Coudreau, if she should continue her present career. The Amazon and it's big afiuents have hundreds of smaller tributaries which attract little attention on the maps. Some of them are not found on the best maps made. But if you see a photograph of one of them 1t looks like a broad, big river, as 1t really is. and it leads to rich resources and the camps of wild tribes.
 The government of Para desired the thorough exploration of some of these rivers and this was the task assigned to Mme. Coudreau. She was told to ascend the Rio Curua first and see what she could find.
 In her books she plunges right into the story of her work. with few or no details concerning her companions or equipment But we know that when a steamer left her and her little party at the mouth of the Curua River, the lady was dressed in the garments of man. All the people she meets when | on her expeditions think she Is man unless some of her followers talk more than they are expected to do. She would not dream of going on these ex- petitions in any other clothing than that worn by man. for skirts would he
 utterly absurd for the purposes of pioneer travelling in such country
 A marked characteristic of the woman
 Is that life amid the giant vegetation of these mighty forests is her predi- lection She says that only in these great solitudes does she feel perfectly I Che ts affdad in the city, She