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tatious, she has not been unduiy promi-
nent, nor does she expect TO take a very
active part in the social life OF the WIN
ter. Like all the newcomers she has dis
covered that her obligations will be heavy
and calling and receiving callers will
consume a ] the spare time for the first
two or three months. Then Washington
has been so kindly disposed toward the
new senatorial people that they rarely
get an op pc tunty TO do more than ac-
cept part Of what is offered. Few have
been active hosts their own account
Senator and Mrs. Chiffon will take a
furnished house and have their small
daughters here for the winter. The elder
son, William f. Chiffon, is at college in
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beth Leigh Is ten. Miss Eleanor bears
the name of illustrous ancestress,
Eleanor Darnall Carroll, who was the
mother Of John Carroll first Archbishop
of Baltimore. and founder of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy in the United States.
This distingu shed lady was the daughter
Of Henry Darnall. esquire of Glynont, on
the lower Potomac. and was the first
cousin OF Mary Darnall, who WAS the wife
of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. She
lived to a venerable age, being close to
the century mark when she died in the
Carroll home near Forest Glen. She is
buried in the old Catholic cemetery at
tached to ST. Johns Church in Forest
Glen. and her grave is a pilgrimage mecca
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Mrs hos. P. CORE.
0sAesu ew..e LAWYER

BILE respects has been closely paralleled
by that of Mrs. William Jennings Bryan,
wife of the other celebrated leader
of the middle west. The latter also was
a college mate of her future husband.
and. too. after her marriage studied law
to help him win the struggle for daily
bread. and is a doctor of laws as well as
of letters. She is also a skilled stenOGra-
pher. having learned that art in the early
days. when. to save salary. she served
as her young husbands secretary. In
deed. she has invented an original system
of shorthand-the only one, she claims
which can fully keep pace with her hus-
bands rapid-fire oratory when he has full
power turned on.
Two other public men whose wives
have studied law are Senator Gore of
oklahoma, and former Vice President
Fairbanks. Senator Gore became totally
blind as a result of two tragic accidents
occurring in his boyhood. When he was
eight Years Of age one of his eyes was
accidentally put out by a playmate. and
when he was eleven he blinded the other
while playing with bowgun. Having
now TO give up his pageship in the
Mississippi legislature, he went through the
state normal school and then the law de-
partment of Cumberland University
thanks to the devotion of his mother
and sisters, who read his lessons to him,
over and over. until he had learned them.
1t was in 1900. while he was a struggling
attorney in Texas, that he married Miss
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West Virginia and will be here only for
brief periods at Thanksgiving and Eas-
ter. The family expects 10 eat the Christ
mas turkey under their own roof tree
and with goodly company from the cir
Gle of acquaintances. Joseph r. Chiffon,
the second son. is in preparatory school
near Charleston, and will remain there to
finish his studies before entering the Uni
ycrsty of Virginia
The small daughters of Senator and
Mrs. Chiffon will be warmly welcomed
by the younger set. and will no doubt lie
prominent at the birthday parties and
other juvenile gayeties for which Wash
lngton IS famous. The elder Eleanor
Carroll, is twelve, and her sister. Eliza
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NJ r lUeTc WAS a Illus band and
Father who used to Buffalo
and Ballyrack and Browbeat
the opposite Gender
When he opened up on the Missus and
the only Daughter at Breakfast, they
would cover and try to hide behind
the Graham Gems.
The subject of his Discourse was The
Kind of Woman that a Man Likes"
He spoke confidently for the whole
Male Population when he shot it into
them that Men didn't like TO see Women
all diked out in Fussy Clothes with
Oriental Skirts and Face Powder and
great swobs Of Boughten Hair and
Circus Hats.
No indeedy.
Men liked 10 see the quiet and IN
ohtrusive Stuff-marking the True Lady
who could clothe herself on $4,000 a
wear
If Women but knew how Men hate to
Women put on Dog beyond their
Means. they would be more Sensible
and not try to float SO many Streamers
one Morning after he had moved down
Ma and Essie with his verbal Grape and
Canister and left them stretched out
on the Field Of Argument he started
to walk down town.
Presently he became dimly conscious
that there was Something ahead of him
and going in the same direction. 1t had
"A Skirt about as far around as a Pill
low-CaSe. The shiny Shoes had Red
Heels below. while above was some new
kind of Silk. about one-fourth as heavy
and Opaque as Cheese-Cloth. Just where
the Hipless Effect began to assert itself
there was every Indication that the
Wearer had got into them by the As
sistance of Hydraulic Pressure. The
Tool Bag or Reticule or whatever 1T
was had a Monogram In Diamonds. The
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for the numerous women OF her line who
bear her name
Mrs. Chiffon as Miss Mary Louise Tarr,
is we'll known to a large circle of friends
in Baltimore. where her marriage Oc-
CURED December 10, 1892. Since that time
she has visited her old home frequently,
but only for short periods. With family
of small children Baltimore seemed far
remote from the southwest of West Nir-
ginia, and Washington is pleasantly adj
jacent.
With the entire old guard OF republi
canism wiped out Of West Nirgfnian rep
resentation in Congress. with the sole eN-
ception OF James A. Hughes of Hunting
ton, Mrs. Chiffon says that she and the
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The Perfect OptimiSt.

EX-GON. GRlGGS OF New Jersey was
IL talking on the ST. Paul about Amer
lea
There's nothing like trim to Europe
to make an American an optimist,' he
said. Il am returning from my summer
trip as optimistic as old Cheeryble
''Of Cheeryble, you know, il was once
said
He is such an optimist that. without
a cent, he'll enter cafe and order n
dozen saddle rocks and pint of stout.
confident of paying his bill with
pearl"
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MRS. WILLIAM EDWIN WIFE OF

CHE Was Before Her Mar
- rage Miss Mary Louise
Tarr of Baltimore. and She
Belongs to an Illustrious
Family of That City-Spent
Nearly All the Spring Season
Here, But Has Tarried in
Her West Virginia Home
Until the Late Autumn, and
Is Not Expected in Washing
ton for a Couple of Weeks.
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Mrs VIII. bRYAN
ATTORNEY

adjoining American institutions and pub
lie buildings. The f'arragut statue n
sight of her present home in Washington
was among these. and IL was while she
was working on the model OF this II
the Washington navy yard. that she was
wooed and won by her future husband
then young Lieutenant OF engineer
During travels abroad she has been sat
to by Sturgeon. in his tabernacle ksnl-
bach. in Munich: Cardinal Antonel'i. in
Rome and LisZt. in his studio. Among
her priced mementoes il a set of cam
eos set In pearls. given 10 her by Car
dinal Antonelli. and Painting of
Dore's. inscribed: Offered to Miss Vim
ME Ream on the part OF nor affectionata
colleague, Gustave Dore
At her wedding she was given away by
Gen. sherman She was lately commits
stoned by the state Of Iowa 10 make
heroic statue of former Gov. Samuel /
kirkwood, which is to he pla ed IN h.
national Capitol. and her present worl.
upon this is largely labor of love- as il
was Gov Kirkwood who ohtainei her
husbands appointment TO West Point
One of our admrals whose con -ot
has had a professional career Is Adolph
Mark, who was Judge advocate Of the ia
nous Maine court of inquiry As Grace
t1lkins. Mrs. Mark made Il reputation on
the stage before her marriage. ia 1895
A distinguished member of the diplo-
profession is the Right Honorable James
Bryce. the British ambassador. Mrs.
Bryce. when Miss Elizabeth Marion ASH
ton OF Manchester, graduated as a ira ned
nurse, as has been the fad among many
young Engll shwomen of the past genera
ton. Indeed several Of The crowned
heads of Europn have elected to become
professional women, nota BILE instances ha-
ing the former queen mother, An ellie ~
Portugal. who is a ski led oculist and
who, since the dethronement of her son,
the young * ne Manuel. has been prac-
ticing her profession in London. giving
her services free 10 the poor. hut having
an income guaranteed by certain optlent
and titled patients
Then there IS the present Queen OF
Belgium. Who while a Bayaran pr ncess.
won the diploma of doctor of medicine
at the University of Bonn. and who NOW
attends 20 the medical needs Of her own
family. Nor must fail to mention
the present Queen Of Italy. who = an
archeologist, or Carmen sylvia who
under this nom de plume Won fame as an
author before II was revealed that she
was Que n of Roumana. whose throne
she still graces.
Copyright. 1911. by John Elfreth watkinsJ
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after The election of her husband TO sue
ceed Senator Scott, and she passed the
bate winter and the spring months i'll an
apartment house. on the western hills
Apart from the qualification Of having
hei husband 50 highly placed rs his fell
Iow-citizens Mrs. Chiffon has delighted
in residing in Washington because Of its
proximity 10 her native city. Baltimore
and she spends many pleasant days visit
ing her parents and renewing old ac-
'uaintances there.
Nr. Chiffon" remarked this senatorial
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,Copyr5gh, ~ Clin,-iinsi,

lazy. comes from a part of the state
which IS a sort Of pivot OF history. ka
naWha. When the state became a posi-
bility as division OF old Virginia il was
proposed to cut adrift entirely even from
the name and to call the new common
wealth Kanawha an Indian name much
reNered in What row West Virginia.
mike Virginia. the western portion of the
old colony has never vii hin historic times
been occupied by the red men. Its his
tory i thrilling enough. and certainly
picturesque. beSinning with that episode
OF Gov. Spottswood. who crossed the
mountains from ohio in 1I16. and. TO com
memorate that great achievement. drank
with his comrades eleven different kinds
OF wine. Even al that distant date West
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2 y 4 II q X WILL
LIAM L. u w 7 y
Chiffon is SILL
in the forties. and
his wife, $ Of e
Y 9 a rs younger.
looks very youth
ful indeed 10 fill
the solemn role of
a senatorial host
eSs. Mrs. Chiffon
came to W aShing-
ton immediately
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OF would suppose
that the consorts
OF our public men
could spare little
time for aught else
than affairs domes-
tic and social. es-
pecially the latter;
but such is far
from the truth In
a number OF in
stances worthy of
note
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writing.
When he first came to Congress in the
early seventies. she acted as Washing
ton correspondent for several Ohio papers,
and during the later years that he was
holding office in Ohio, prior to his return
to Congress. she was for six years in
charge Of the Toledo Journal and for over
a decade edited the woman's department
of the Union veterans organ. the Ma
tiona Tribune. She was a founder of the
.Womans Relief Corps an auxiliary Of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and has
served its national president. She
also organized the National Home for
Army Nurses
She is a gifted lingutst, being conversant
with both French and German and her
translations of Heine. Goethe and Fred
erich Bodenstedd have been widely cir
culated. Moreover, she has published six
books, including two volumes Of poems
and songs, and as a singer she had a wide
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Newspaper and Trailed for Two Blocks
until he saw her go into an Institute
of Dermatology.
After waiting about an hour for her
to reappear, he slowly wendell his Way
to his Place of Business.
Moral: 1t is a Foolish Man who can
not amend his own By-Lawa
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WIVES of Senators La
w Toilette and Gore Are
Lawyers, as Are Mrs. Bryan
and Mrs. Fairbanks-Consort
of Senator Hepburn a Skilled
Portrait Painter - Wife of
Senator Bourne an Artistic
observation-disclosures Bailey's
Spouse an Elocutionist-Rep-
resentatives' Wives Who Are
Working Journalists and Col
lege Professors-An Actress
and Sculptor Among Army
and Navy Chatelaines-Brit-
ish Ambassadors a Trained
Nurse.
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reputation in her cartier days.
The wife of Senator Bailey of Texas is
an accomplished elocut onist and dra
matte reader having been educated for
the stage at the New York College Of
Oratory, where her course was inter
rupted by the romance which eliminated
in her marrying the rising young states
man from Texas. She was Miss Ellen
Adair. daughter of college professor at
oxford Miss. and granddaughter Of one
of the governors Of Kentucky.
Few know. perhaps, that Mrs. Taft
taught school before she married the man
fated to become President of the Inited
States. Mrs. Taft has also made her
name as an accomplished pianist, and
while living III Cincinnati organized the
symphony orchestra of that city
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The most talented chatelaine OF the
army circle is the wife Of Brig. Gen Rich
ard l.. HoXie. She was Miss Winnie Ream
of Madison. Wis. and when only "A child
Of fifteen displayed such native talent as
a sculptor that Thaddeus Stevens insisted
upon her studying art. With II six months
after beginning her studies She had mod
eled such striking iikenesses of Gen
Grant, John Sherman and several other
members of Congress that she was taken
TO the White House and introduced as a
prodigy TO Lincoln. who sat to her for
his statue. which is now I'm the marble
room OF the Capitol. and for which she
received $1,000 from Congress. After
studying three years in Rome she re-
turned, to make many other statues now
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Mrs os.WbA1Ln
ELocUT1oMsT

She contcmplates returning to her pro-
fession. The wife of Representative III.
DIN Young of the twelfth Michigan dis
trict was a superintendent OF schools in
New York state before her marriage.
while Mrs Herbert Parsons, consort Of
the former representative and republican
county chairman of New York city. con-
tinued for some time after her marriage
to hold the chair of sociology in Barnard
College. where she lectured during her
husbands service in the House of Rep
resentatives. During the administration
of Mayor Mcclellan she was delegated to
inspect the sums of New York when
in the relief of hundreds of ill-nourished
children whom she found going regularly
to school without their breakfasts.
AS a portrait printer, Mrs. Gheretein \.
Hepburn wife of the senior senator from
Idaho has been making her mark while
her husband has been busy with le2isla-
tive affairs. And that she has welded
her brush to some purpose may be Judged
from the fact that she had the contract
for painting the portraits in the new
state capitol of Delaware. She and her
husband are both Quakers. which ac-
counts for the fact that she shuns pub
LEFTY \ similar case was that OF
former Senator Hansbrough of North
Dakota. whose young wife. formerly
Berri Chapman. worked "a an architect
while he served in the upper house OF
Congress.
Another senator whose wife devotes
her energies to pursuits outside the
realms domestic and social is Jonathan
Bourne of Oregon, president of the Ma
tional Progressive Republican League.
Mrs. Bourne, who was Miss Elizabeth
Wyatt. an Englshwoman. has learned
the art of artistic bookbinding in the
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There is. for example. Mrs. la roi-
lette. wife az the progressive senator
from Wisconsin She is working jour
naliSt and attorney. Daily she mas =
signed article in the papers. and upon
the wall Of her sanctum she proudly dis
PLAYS a diploma issued to her by the Wis
consin Law School in 1855. Before that
she and the little insurgent leader had
been classmates from the state uni
versity from which they together re-
ceived their sheepskins in 1879, although
ne was four wears her senior. She made
"a remarkable record as a student never
having missed a single recitation during
all of the eight years preceding her grad
uation. at which time she received the
coveted prize fer the best commencement
grafton
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Mrs. Deliver, widow OF I'll" sena-
tor from Iowa. has been q college pro-
fessor. having held the chair of mathe-
MATES in the Northwestern University
for two years after her marriage It is
rumored that now, In her w.dowhood
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pSright. 1871. hy George Ade.l
nee there was a Husband and
Father who used to Buffalo
and Ballyrack and Browbeat
the opposite Gender.
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Her husband was district attorney Of
Dare county when she married him. and
il was with the idea Of aiding him In his
work that. in the second year after their
marriage. she entered the law school,
from which she was the first woman
graduate. The same summer her hus
band was making his successful campaign
for Congress. Then came into the world
her daughter, Miss Fola La Toilette,
who was 70 follow her parents through
their common alma mater. the State Uni
versity. and later take up her fathers
first chosen profession. that of a player.
Miss Fola has spent her vacation this
past summer in making Il study Of for
eisn theaterS. and, following her APP
preaching marriage 10 the young drama
tist, George Middleton, will return TO the
stage. She and her mother work shoulder
TO shoulder for woman suffrage and both
are platform speakers.
Mrs. la Follette's career In some nota-
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BY MARGARET h. DOWNING.
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BY JOHN FLFRETH WATKINS.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-23
ALL SHOT
|. TO PIECES
Nerves We're at the Bottom Of
What Mrs. Martha Hown Had
to Endure for Years, Till
Shelf ound Out How
to Help Them.

sevterville, Tenn-"I never did he.
lieve in patent medicines, writes Mrs
Martha Hown, of this place. ..until I
hegan to take Cardui. and 1t cured M.
"Cardui saved my life. after he doc.
tor had failed TO help NE. Since takinr
y. am stouter and weigh more than
j ever did, and look and feel like =
now woman. "
For six months before ( began
taking Cardui, I could not do anv.
thing, nor hardly sit up. Now / can do
oil my homework. go where ! Meas.
and It don't tire me.
II used to get frightened al anvtbin I.
and would just fall down in . tain,
ana was SO ervous. but nov am h.t
ter than I have been in twelve months
and the doctor. who is my own bro,he,
Gays he never thought to see me LOOK
Ing SO we'll"
The benefit TO be obtained bv n
cardui is not confined to any one no =,
Of the body. The whole female svst.
Is benehted-the whole constitution
butt up a pure. vegetable extract. rs.
pecially adapted for woman.s ailmcnts
CaIdui is the one remedy that all VA.
men should have in the house. and NJ,
when needed. - 10y
Your druggist knows.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-23

House. M M .a.a H
President Taft wrote National Com
mlttccman AIvah H. Martin on Friday,
saying he could not appoint his man.,
S. b. Carney. He told Mr.. Martin
he would name any irst-class citizen,
satisfactory to him and the admins
%tration. To-day Mr.. h..,in sent to
Washington the name of Major Clin-
ton l. Wright. assistant postmaster.
No sooner had the Progrcssives. or
anti-Martinites. got wind of the Mar
tin move than a formal protest against
the appointment of Major Wright,
signed by eight of the city commit
teemon. was wired to the White
House.
The fight this time by the Pro-
gressives will be upon National Com
mittecman Martin. The last time 1t
was made on Carney. Martins right
bower" in Norfolk county politics.
Carney lost. but the fruits Of the
victory appeared TO he with Alvah
IL. Martin, because the President said
he would be glad to appoint any hrst-
class citizen recommended by Mr..
Martin. If a Martin partisan goes in
office 1t means the Martin domination
of Second District politics Will be
maintained. which will render doubt
full the fight made by Royal Cabell
n Joseph L. Crupper to wrest con
troll of the State Organization from
Congressman slemp and Martin.
a. Gordon Stephenson IS mentioned
as a dark horse in the post-oftce race
tonight. It Is not believed that
Branch Johnson and Captain Fl. b
Nichols VII get the appointment.
These two led the fight on Carney.
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ger. was robbed some time Saturday
night after midnight of between $3.50
and $500, The money was taken from
the safe, which is an old one, and does
not fasten. The police are of opinion
that the robbery was an inside job
There was evidence of breaking out,
but none of breaking in. The thief left
n box containing S23 in silver coin and
several gold and silver watches In the
cellar. 1t is supposed the thief must
nave been concealed in the house when
1t was closed Saturday night.
Judge West to Hold Court.
Judge Mullen being detained in Roa-
noke all the week by the trial of Mayor
Cutchins. Jude ]. T.. West, of the
ings Court this week, beginning on
Thursday, when the criminal docket
Will be taken up.
State Council, d. Of Il. Il.
The fourteenth annual session or the
State Council of Virginia, Daughters
of Liberty. will convene in this city to-
morrow morning. and Will continue
through the day. The body will be
Welcomed by Mayor Cameron on be-
haif of the city and by ". A. William
son on behalf of the local Councils
Responses Will be made by the State
Councillor. Miss Willie Russell, of Dan
VINE, ana state Secretary Braoley, OF
Richmond. Se~venty-fve delegates are
expected. William II. WILCOX. of this
oity. will be the next State councillor.
Dinwtddie Repatriation
1T has been reported here for sew
eral days that the qualified vote OF
~Dinwiddie, by reason of the interest
In politics, has been increased this
year to l.l0s. n the report has caused
a stir In politics in Petersburg. where
Nero are two candidates for the State
senate, against John i. Harris, the
Dinwiddie candidate.
General News.
The Confederate veterans who went
from Petersburg TO tho Little Rock
reunion have returned home. They
were greatly pleased with their re-
ception.
There will be ten graduates from
me petersburg High School this year
SIX girls and four boys.