Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-08-07

education for girls but says that if she were PLAN
ming the education of girl she would assafeHis
advise technical course in Audubon 70 sh0s
academic if the girl had sufficient mental endow-
roent n take It. thus supplying the knowledge to
meet any emergency which life might UNFOLD
The more varied the knowledge and training the
better fitted the girl is for domestic Ire as wen
as for the social and business world.
Mrs Harry Lane, wife of the new senator from
Oregon has the distinction Of being one OF the
few women of Washington who are reglstereo
voters She is an enthusiastic suffragist, though
in an unobtrusve way, and is particularly JUDI
liant over the fact that her home state mas joined
the band which allows women the privilege OF tue
ballot
Mrs Lane came to Washington as an absolute
stranger and is becoming more and more delight
Cd with the city and it's people as she gets better
acnuanted with them. She is typical American
home-maker but, while the details or housekeep
ing and the care of her family have apsorDeu 1he
greater part of her life, she has always Deen
deeply interested in the uplift and social welfare
NJ girls and women Indeed 1t was the great
advantages which woman suffrage hopes 10 con-
fer upon the working classes that hrst are" ner
attention to that movement.
While never an active club member, Mrs Lane
has been much absorbed in club work as wen 90
charitable work, and will in all probability taAe
I'D some of it in the capital She Is Woman
whose life has been devoted to worthwhile pro
iects In her home city every movement tnat
has had the betterment of women and cnlldreh
for its primal object has enjoyed her lnoorseMene
and support And no little of the success winch
attended Dr. Lanes occupancy of his various pun
lie Offices is due to his wife's interest ana co
oneration AS proof of her success as wife ana
mother her family are her stanchest admirers
Mrs Lane was Miss Lola Bailey, and was born
in Milwaukee, Ore, about six miles from Fort-
land She and DR.. Lane were childhood sweet
hearts, and were married in Portland about tnirty
years ago.
Mrs. Macbride. resides in New Orleans, while
Misc Harriet is with her parents. She bids fair
Tn become very popular, particularly among the
coIlepe girls of society Being 'Tri Delta she
Is already finding hosts of congenial fraternai
spirits in Washington and Baltimore
DR. Lane is classed as one OF the oaDy SEN
atorsn In addition to belonging to the same
family as the secretary of the interior, he Is
grandson of Gen. Joseph Lane who ran on the
presidential ticket with Breckenridge and VINO
also wore a senatorial toga, besides being TERRI
toral governor of Oregon and the delegate 10
congress,
DR. Lane has filled the office OF mayor OF PORT
land and also that of superintendent of the state
insane asylum He succeeds Jonathan Bourne
and shares the honors of the medical profession
with Senator Gallinger, who for years has been
the only doctor with a seat In the upper house
The girlish wife of the successor to Joseph W.
Bailey of Texas has the distinction OF being the
Youngest OF all of the wives in the senatorial
circle. Though the very digniied and sedate
mother of lively little daughter of two years.
Mrs. Morris Sheppard is but twenty-five years
old.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs n = san
derson OF Texarkana, the home town of her hus-
hand where she was born. Texarkana, as every
one knows. is a dual township, as is expressed In
its name. Mrs Sheppard was born on the Arkan-
sas side While she had always known her bus
band since he was friend Of her father, their
romance had It's beginning In Washington while