The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-11-24

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open house" for the friends of the
wounded soldiers who had come TO visit
them and had nowhere else TO stay. In
many other ways she did all she could
70 mitigate the miseries Of the miserable
in those dark days For this she was
awarded a pension and a bronze star in
scribed The Congress Of the United
States TO DIT Mary + Walker" which
she wears consplcuouslX on the lapel OF
her coat
She made claim of $1,000. and the
committee reported favorably upon fl. but
it was refused. as she says. because she
would not dress as other women dress.
Then she asked Congress TO appoint a
Chief Costumer for the Women Of the
United States. including squaws;'' 70 pre-
scribe Woman's dress IN this country, but
she never got the $1,000
Can Use Her Fists.
She has done lot OF lecturing on
women's rights. temperance and other
topics; she has been ridiculed beyond
measure. and rotten-egged more than
once. only to smile and bear II; she once
knocked down a negro attendant AT the
Washington Court Of Claims because he
tried her hat on and jeered her when she
protested, and che has spent much Of her
time in late years on her farm near Os-
wego.
DR. Walker likes notoriety as well as
Mare Coreli esteems the same. once
when DR.. Mary had not been much in the
newspapers for some time. she went to
Washington and told photographer 10
make picture of her in a coffin II NE
had one handy" She wanted 10 see
how she would look after she was dead
The photographer hadn't OF course. but
he put her in a bathtub case that
CHANGED 40 be IN the back room and pho
tographed her that way, at her request.
irst getting "A stuffed humming bird from
neighboring taXidermist and posing Il
as if DecNug her lips
Best Advertised Woman.
For long time Marie Coreln, the
plump, blond author Of The Sorrows OF
Satan" was surrounded with mystery. by
her own desire. apparently since she os-
tentatiously refused 10 be interviewed or
photographed and gave much attention
printed
things about her. More lately the mys-
ferrous veil has been removed. partially.
as the result of various suits for libel.
IN the prosecution Of which she has had
20 appear publicly in court as a witness.
Still no one knows much OF her ante
cedents- She says she was born in
Venice, and that Venetian women mostly
are rs fair as she IS.
Andrew Lang, the amusing and indus
triOus London essayist. poet. and his
torian. used to say he believed she was
like Mrs. Camps Mrs. Harris. and that
there wasn't no such person as Marie
Corelh." but that the books signed by
that name We're produced by a syndicate
OF writer's She was the adopted daughter
OF DR.. Charles Mackay. song writer and
musician. and foster sister to his son.
Eric Mackay. DR.. Mackay wrote Cheer,
Boys. Cheer" and There's a Good Time
Coming Miss Corellrs first book. THE
Romance Of Two Worlds written when
she Was very young. sold many editions.
Everything she has put forth since then
has sold well. too.
King Edward Her Friend.
Her partisans are very partisan indeed.
and they include King Edward, as they
did his royal mother. Some who consider
themselves Of the literary elect disagree
with the King. but she isn't writing 10
please them, and they wouldn't buy her
books by the hundred thousand If she did.
Her life and her house at Stratford-on-
Avon have been exceedingly we'll ex-
plotted. Her attacks on Carnegie and all
American milliOnaires have helped adver-
tise her. Some of the neighbors do not
like her a schoolmistress whose pupils
practiced on the piano during the hours
Corelli devotes 10 writing, to her intense
disgust once told the authoress that If
continuous piano practicing could prevent
the writing of another book like The
Sorrows Of Satan" she would engage a
lot Of girls to play forever on pianos dur
Ing Corellis writing hours.
Her libel suits generally have been far
cical. farthing's damage being the usual
verdict. she is apparently a little over
forty, short and rather stout.
She Ran for President.
Belva A. Lockwood. who ran for Presi-
dent in 1854 and again in 1855 on the
Woman's Rights ticket, 20 the distress of
Mrs. Stanton and others of suffrage
renown. who supported Blaine in 1884. and
Harrison in ISIS. was a farmers daugh-
ter. born Bennett and named Mary Ann,
at Royalton, near Buffalo. Her first
husband. Uriah A. AcNali. was farmer;
after his death she went to the Genesee
College and got a diploma, then taught
school in Loekport, then studied law al
the National University Law School, hay
ing first been refused admittance to the
Columbia Law School Then she had 70
fight to be allowed 10 practice.
Her first victory was won by the pass
ing of bill. framed by herself, through
Congress admitting her to the Court OF
Claims. Then she bearded the United
States Supreme Court and won. and then
some thirteen years ago, forced her way
into the Virginia courts, to the dismay OF
most OF the Virginia lawyers and some 0,
the Virginia judges
Copyright, 1907. b Dexter Marshall.)