The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-14

reared upon tho farm of her father,
Joel d. Bennett, OF Galloway county,
No.. and received her carly educa-
ton from nor sister. who was tsacehr
at tho neighboring sohoolhouse. She
confesses to having grown up as n
this wae In the days before her mar.
riagc. when she shared her sisters
calling and, like Nire. Taft, taught
school for time.
In neighooring town a young man
then known as James Beauchamp
Clark (but who has since amputated
his front name and mutilated MS Sec
ond name) was also engaged in teach
Ing school, praoticinS law and run
ming a newspaper.
They were married thirty-one years
ago. at which time tho future Speaker
began to run for Congress-, which ne
, reached dozen years later.
Mrs CLARK. like Mrs. Wilson, mas
been writer. Until her husband bs-
came conspicuous in public affairs she
contributed TO tho newspapers and
magazines. and at the same time aced
for her babies and became an au-
thority on fne cookery--one so hign,
indeed, that her recipes for deli
cacies are now In wide demand. At
her rambling country home, Honey
penses hospitality throughout the sum
mer months to her husbands political
friends from far and near, and this
sort OF entertaining is q test of any
wife's tact and social endurance
Possible Whits House pehutaate.
Within a few days Of Champ Clark's
first election to Congress there ar
rived in the household n little daught-
er, who was given her mothers name.
Genevieve Bennett. This bright child
has since been her mothers inesparablo
! companion md is now seventeen.
Should her father be elected to tie
highest Office, she would be Just of
debutante ago upon taking up her
abode In the White House. She in
| hcrits love OF books from both parents.
and. like her mother, she can cook like
veteran. She and her older brother.
Bennett. who Is now u student of the
University OF Missouri. have been
reared according to their mother q
original theories as TO development OF
responsibility and solf-control. They
select their own clothes, plan their own
holidays and study their Lessons in
their own time, parental intervention
being employed only In cases Of very
apparent bad Judgment AS a result
they have developed self-reliancc and
studious habits
AZ tHc tTleiluS SSNOOl III Washing
ton Miss Genevieve has taken prizes
for scholarship and shown an aptitude
for oratory and debate. She teachss q
sunday school class in the Southern
Presbyterian Church. attended by her
| mother, but sometimes accompanies
| her Carnpbellite father to the Christian
! Church. Like her husband, Mrs. Clark
is of Scotch ancestry. and year ago
last summer she took her daughter to
NJ " Tell
| OF Iona. Although Mrs. Clark has not
announced herself as an equal suf-
fraSist. she was n conspicuous figure
! upon the stage of Washington thea
| tire during recent meeting addressed
by Sylvia Pankhurst, the London mill
tant suffragist.
She Aspircd for the Stage.
Another Southern matron. who, ac-
| cording to some of the political pro-
phets, has chance of becoming the
! first lady of the land, Is Mrs. Oscar w.
, Underwood, wife of the powerful chair
| man of the House Committee. on Ways
| and Means She was Miss Bertha
! Woodward, daughter OF Simpson Henr,
| Woodward, the Carnegie of the great
Southern Iron country centring about
Birmingham Ala. Her parents home,
in the fashionable Highlands" section
| OF that city, is at tho foot of the Red
Mountain. which. tits estimated, would
supply the world with all OF It's needle
| iron for $50 years
Mrs. Underwood's early ambition was
TO so upon the operate stage While
In 4 seminary at Cincinnati she com.
| menced her musical education in the
conservatory OF that city, and soon de-
F., veloped coloratura soprano voice OF
high range. After continuing her vocal
studies In New York and Boston. she
went to Paris and took a course under
Peixotti. and while in the French capt.
! tai received an offer for the stage
which her father emphatically forbade
hr accepting. Instead he summoned
her nome forthwith and It was some
time before she could reconcile herself
! TO the social career which her parents
had planned for her.
| While visiting Ashcvillc, NJ c., in
/ tho summer OF 1904 she received A
visit from Representative Underwoo
wins had been counting her for some
| time. He had just been summoned
North to take the stump for the Demo-
/ Gratis in the Parker campaign. and as
! there were no prospects of seems her
again in several months. he proposed
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