Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-08-08

education for girls, but says that if she were plan
ming the education of a girl she would assuredly
advise a technical course in addition to the
academic, if the girl had sufficient mental endoW-
ment to 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 life. as well
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 registered
voters. She is an enthusiastic suffragist, though
in an unobtrusive way, and is particularly jubi-
liant over the fact that her home state has joined
the band which allows women the privilege of the
ballot.
Mrs. Lane came to Washington as an absolute
stranger, and is becoming more and more delight
ed with the city and its people as she gets better
acquainted with them. She is a typical American
h~ome-maker; but, while the details of housekeep-
ing and the care of her family have absorbed the
greater part Of her life, she has always been
deeply interested in the uplift and social welfare
of girls and women. Indeed, it was the great
advantages which woman suffrage hopes to con-
fer upon the working classes that first drew her
attention to that movement.
While never an active club member, Mrs. Lane
has been much absorbed in club work as well as
charitable work, and will in all probability take
up some of it in the capital. She is a woman
whose life has been devoted to worthwhile pro
jects. In her home city every movement that
has had the ~5etterment Of women and children
for it's primal object has enjoyed her Endorsement
and support. And no little or the success Wncn
attended DR.. Lanes. occupancy of his various pub
lie offices is due to his wife's interest and CO.
operation. AS proof of her success as wife and
mother, her family are her stanchest admirers.
Mrs. Lane was Miss Lola Bailey, and was born
in Milwaukee, Ore, about six miles from Port
land. She and DR.. Lane were childhood sweet
hearts, and were married in Portland about thirty
years ago.
They have two grown daughters, one of whom,
Mrs. N. Macbride, resides in New Orleans, while
Miss Harriet is with her parents. She bids fair
to become very popular, particularly among the
college girls of society. Being a "Tri Delta she
is already finding hosts of %congenial ~fraternal
spirits in Washington and Baltimore.
DR.. Lane is classed as one of the baby SEN
ators.' In addition to belonging to the same
family as the secretary of the interior, he is a
grandson of Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran on the
presidential ticket with Breckenridge and who
also wore a senatorial toga, besides being terri
torial governor of Oregon and the delegate to
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 gfrlish 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 dignifed and sedate
mother of a lively little daughter of two years,
Mrs. Morris Sheppard is but twenty-five years
old.
Shells the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. n. P 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 hus-
band, since he was a friend Of her father, their
romance had its beginning in Washington while