The Green Forest tribune., 1911-03-17

former high officials of the nation, including the widows of our military and naval heroes. Conspicuous among the number are the two surviving widows of presidents, Mrs Mary Lord Harrison and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland spends most of her time in the family home at Princeton or at her farm in New Hampshire, though she has of late de voted no little time to residence in SW1tzer- land, where her children are being educated. Mrs. Harrison likewise spends much time abroad though she maintains a home in lndi- annapolis and indulges in occasional lengthy vacations in log house in the Adirondacks
 Of the widows of the nations warriors probably the public hears most frequently Of Mrs. Phil Sheridan, widow of the famous cav airy leader although Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Pickett the latter the widow of the Confeder- ate chieftain who led the desperate charge at Gettysburg, have been more or less in. the public eye owing to their literary work and their careers the lecture platform Mrs. Sheridan alike to both these other widows, resides at the national capital and an anecdote is told of Mrs. Sheridan to the effect that she silenced some gossip which speculated as to her remarriage by the remark, q would rather be the widow of Phil Sheridan than the wife of any man alive.'
 And speaking of the remarriage of widows, 1t may be added that one of the circumstances that renders these widowed women of wealth interesting to many people is the possibility of remarGage-an ever-present incentive to speculation, even though the object of such public curiosity may have not the slightest intention of again entering the bonds of mat rimony And that this solicitude is by no means restricted to disinterested observers or confined to the United States is eloquently at tested by the attentions which eligible mem bers of the nobility of Europe have showered upon Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. Jack Gardi- ner Mrs. Marshall Field and-most courted of all-Ars. Nonnie Worthington Stewart Leeds, the dazzlingly wealthy well as dazzlingly beautiful young widow of multimillionaire who garnered the golden harvest of the tin plate industry and sundry railroads.
 Almost all the wealthy American widows seem to have penchant for spending more or less of their time in Europe and there are oth- CTS who live there continuously, returning but seldom to their native land and then only for visits. In this class the widows of for eign diplomats who receive pensions from the governments served by their late husbands. A conspicuous example is afforded by Baroness Sternburg-the former Miss Langham, a Ken lucky beauty, who as the result of genuine romance that began as case of love at first sight on a transatlantic liner married Baron Speck Sternburg, a very capable German diplomat, who lost his life the result of dis ease contracted while serving his government in India.
 In the field of art many American widows, such as Mrs. St. Gaudens, are factors, if not by virtue of their talents at least as cus- todians of the masterpieces left by their de- ceased husbands, and the same is true in the spheres of literature and public life, where the collection of the papers of an eminent or the publication of his memoirs has frequently devolved upon the widow. In the financial world wealthy widows, by sheer force of their monetary possessions, wield an influence rec ognized by all men of affairs. The most no- table example, of course, is that afforded by Mrs. Hetty Green, who controls one of the wealthiest and most powerful of the New York banks.