Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-20
BRYAN'S DAUGHTER
TO MAKE ADDRESS
MRS. RUTH LEAvITT WILL
EXPOUND DEMOCRACY
Young Woman Recently Divorced Is
to Tell Jane Jefferson Club at
Denver How to Up
build Party

DENVER, May 19.-Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Leavitt, eldest daughter of William j.
Bryan and president of the Jane Jeffer-
son club of Denver, will deliver an adj
dress at the state meeting of Jane JET
ferson clubs next July on the upbuild-
ing of the Democratic party from the
feminine point of view.
Many prominent men have been in
vited to the July meeting, among them
being Governor Johnson of Minnesota,
George Fred Williams of Massachu-
setts, Charles A. Towne of New York
and the governors of Idaho, Wyoming
and Utah.
Mrs. Leavitt has been remarkably
successful in establishing Jane Jetfer-
son clubs over Colorado.
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Mayfower, but an instance is cited OF
"frightfully rich person who has only
lately been admitted into this inner cir
Gle because her daughters have both
married foreign princes, said to me-
she loved the English, and was indeed
English herself and some distant con-
nection of our king being descended
from Queen Elizabeth 1t was rather
unfortunate her having pitched upoT
our virgin queen, wasn't it, mamma?
But perhaps as she had rather an
Italian look it was the affair of the
venetian dlIdCHe, anu WuCii ShSSC
ed that to her she gazed at me blankly
and said. why no; there never has
been any sidetracking in our family;
we've always been virtuous and always
| shall be-
American women are better dressed
than English women. Pullman sleep
ing cars are very amusing! "Salesla-
dies" chewing gum while serving Gus
toners; even a Socialist leader thinks
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aristocratic to be lawyer, or doe
tor, or any profession you can name,
so long as it makes you rich.
Philadelphia is not unfavorably COM
mented upon, although it is said to be
"quieter and less up to date" than New
York. The great park is beautiful, but
you have to get to it through "slums'
and is dominated by a cemetery on n
high cliff kitty" was visited at
"Ringwood"-and this gives opportu-
nifty for a few words about a Philadel-
pha home.
"Kitty's house is the sweetest place
rather in the country and just made
Of wood, with a single roof; but so
quaint, and people look at it with the
same sort of reverence we look at At
kin's farm, which was built in 1400
you remember? This one was put up
before the Revolution, in Colonial
days and it has a veranda in front
running up with Ionic pillars all inI
wood like a portico Inside it is just
an English home-do you hear mann
ma? I said home! Because it is the
first we have SEEM And it came as
some new thing. and to be appreciated
to find the furniture a little shabby
from having been in the same place so
long; and the pictures, most of them
rather bad, but really ancestors; and
the drawing room and our bedrooms
lovely and bright with flowerY
chintzes, fresh and shiny, no tapestry
and wonderful brocade: and the table
cloths plain. and no lace on the sheets
nor embroideres to scratch the ear
1t shows what foolish creatures of
habit we are. because i'm the other
houses there has been every possible
thing that one could want, and mas
terpieces of art and riches and often
beauty; but just because Kitty's house
is like home, and has the indescriha
bic atmosphere of gentle owners for
genera lions, we like it the best!"
A book such as this can do no harm
Americans are accustomed to being
"seen" and breezy Elizabeth is too
good-natured to be offensive. The
author of "Three Weeks" is not al
literary genius. She is an observant
woman, with a keen commercial scent
who is not bothered much by art or its
requirements.