Mulhall Enterprise (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 17, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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• EALTHY American widows
have come in recent years to
to t>lay a most important part
in several irr.port.unt divisions
of the world's affairs. It is
not, either, merely here in the
United States that these mon-
eyed women are making their
influence felt. On the con-
circles abroad—so much so,
indeed, that the good people
of Europe have been compelled to sit up and
take notice of the American widows as a class
well worthy to rank with any subdivision of
society abroad (not even excepting the nobil-
ity), if the comparison be made on the basis
of gowns or millinery or jewelry or any of the
other standards by which the feminine world
sets such store.
Here in the United States it would be diffi-
cult to name a sphere in which the wealthy
widows have not been exerting tremendous
Influence of late years. Even in politics they
have not waited upon the victory of the suf-
frage cause to enable them to take a hand.
For the present, to be sure, their influence is
Indirect, but it is none the less tangible, as
witness the power of the salon maintained by
Ibat brilliant woman, Mrs. Hitt, widow of the
late chairman of the foreign relations commit-
tee of the house of representatives and the
backing which Senator Beveridge of Indiana
has had through the fact that his wife is the
kinswoman of Mrs. Marshall Field, widow of
the Chicago merchant.
Socially there is no question as to the tre-
mendous power of the American widow. To
realize it one has only to stop to reflect how
the polite world is dominated by the hospitali-
ties of such well-to-do widows as Mrs. L. Z.
LeSter, widow of the Chicago
multi-millionaire and mother
of the late Lady Curzon,
late vicereine of India; Mrs.
George M. Pullman., widow of
the car builder; Mrs. Thom-
as F. Walsh, widow of 1 lie
"Mining King;" Mrs. Mary
Bcott Townsend, widow of
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former high officials of the nation, including
the widows of our mllitnry and naval heroes.
Conspicuous among the number are the two
surviving widows of presidents. Mrs. Mary
Lord Harrison and Mrs. Orover Cleveland.
Mrs. Cleveland spends most of her lime in (he
family home at Princeton or at her farm In
New Hampshire, though she has of late de-
voted no little time to residence In Switzer-
land. where her children are being educated.
Mrs. Harrison, likewise, spends much lima
abroad, though she maintains a home In Indi-
anapolis and Indulges in occasional lengthy
vacations in a log house in the Adlrondacks.
Of liio widows of the nation's warrlon
probably the public licars most frequently of
Mrs. Phil Shf rldan, widow of the famous cav-
alry leader, although Mrs Logan and Mrs.
Pickett, the latter the widow of the Confeder-
ale chieftain who led the desperate charge at
Gettysburg, have been more or less in the
How a married man doesn't enjoy
lisunlng to one side of a spoony tele-
phone conversation.
(iOOI) IIOl SGKEEPEIIS.
lT*e tlie be*t. That's why they buy Red
Cross Hull ltiue. At leading grocers 5 cents.
And the man who Is driven to drink
t>y adversity probably would have it
brought to him by prosperity.
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A woman can straighten up a man's
desk In five minutes so effectually that
he won't be able to Had anything ha
wants in five hours.
the Pennsylvania coal and oil
Mrs. M. A. Hanna, widow of the late United
States senator from Ohio.
Mrs. Hanna's life since the death of her
tinsband, we may here digress to explain, has
Illustrated how great is the latitude of life
open to the modern wealthy widow In con-
trast to the circumscribed existence of the av-
erage widow of a prominent official of a cen-
tury ago, wno, upon the death of her husband,
was wont to retire to his plantation or country
eeat and live in the utmost quietude if not in
actual seclusion. After the death of her hus-
band Mrs. Hanna lived for a time in a fash-
ionable hotel in Washington. Then she built
n large house and occupied it for a time, later
disposing of It to a prominent army offlcer.
Next she had a special apartment arranged to
lier order in one of the largest of the new ho-
tels In New York, even providing a special
kitchen for "Maggie," her "jewel" of a cook.
Then desiring n change, she hit upon the Idea
of ber present program of life, which calls for
en extended sojourn in Europe each spring
«nd summer and a winter residence in Wash-
ington, where she has two apartments of 14
rooms each in a fashionable apartment house.
Mrs. Hanna's 28-room apartment might
eeem a pretty pretentious residential establish-
ment for a lone woman to maintain, but it is
Bcarcely a circumstance to the enormous four-
Btory mansion erected at the national capital
by Mrs. Slater, another wealthy widow, who Is
the sole occupant of this palace save for the
18 servants who minister to her needs.
Wealthy widows, it may be added, have not
shirked the responsibilities of house building
Indeed, on the contrary, it seems to be one of
their fads. Mrs. Leiter, in addition to her
town houses, has lately been building a sum-
mer "cottage" costing hundreds of thousands
of dollars on the North Shore of Massachu-
setts near the summer home of President Taft.
Mrs. Hay, widow of the late secretary of
state, has built a magnificent mansion In Cleve-
land; Mrs. Pullman and Mrs. Marshall Field
have ordered new homes from plans which
they had a hand in making; Mrs. Hitt has
built a splendid home since the death of her
husband and the wealthy Mrs. Wyeth of Phila-
delphia had her nephew-architect carry out
her ideas of a distinctive home.
In point of achievement, however, unques-
tionably the greatest of all the house build-
ers In the coterie of wealthy widows is Mrs.
Albert Clifford Rarney, who Inherited one
fortune from her father, a Cincinnati pio-
neer. and married another. Mrs. Rarney is of
a most artistic temperament and Is indeed an
artist of no mean ability in both oils and
water colors. She Bpends much time in Paris,
where she and two of her daughters, who de-
vote themselves respectively to painting and
sculpture, are much In their element. When
she is in this country Mrs. Barney divides her
time and her boundless energy between the
staging of Greek plays and other amateur the-
atricals of a most ambitious character and the
designing and building of houses for love of
it. These unique habitations that she creates
Mrs. Rarney sells or rents, and be it said to
her credit that she is a clever enough business
woman to make her art profitable In dollars
and cents as well as in personal satisfaction.
In the field of philanthropy American wid-
ows have of late years accomplished so much
good as to make these bereaved ones as a
class the most respected and most adtnired
contingent of American multimllllonalredom.
The generosity of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst In good
works has insured her a place for all time In
our real hall of fame and Mrs. Harriman's gift
of a splendid park to the state of New York
bids fair to be but the first of a series of no-
table benefactions. Mrs. Russell Sage Is an-
other woman who in a comparatively brief
widowhood has helped the needy in many
ways, and the late Mrs. Gardner Hubbard,
widow of the man who reaped tho greatest
financial rewards from the invention of the
telephone, was lavish during her lifetime In
good works.
There is one group of widows In the Unit-
ed States In the members of which—for all
that they are most of them living very qui-
etly the public is bound to take a keen inter-
est. This group Is made up of the widows of
A Way to Keep Love In.
Mrs Honeyblrd—Hut, Uickey, dear,
public eye owlrg lo their literary work and | the fiat is so tiny. Why, the windows
their careers on 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. "I would rather
bo the widow of Phil Sheridan than the wife
of any man alive."
small a mouse couldn't crawl
through.
Mrs. Honeyblrd—That is all the bet.
ter, dear. When poverty conies in
love can't fly through the window.
A Matter of Size.
Wife—I want a cap, please, for iu>
And speaking of the remarriage of widows, j husliand.
it may be added that one of the circumstances I
that renders these widowed women of wealth
Interesting to many people Is the possibility j
of remartjage—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—Mrs. Nonnie Wortblngton Stewart Leeds,
the dazzlingly wealthy as well as dazzlingly
beautiful young widow of a multimillionaire
who garnered the golden harvest of the tin-
plate Industry and sundry railroads.
Almost all the wealthy American widows
seem to have a penchant for spending more or
less of their time In Europe and there are oth-
ers who live there continuously, returning but
seldom to their native land, and then only
for visits. In this class are the widows of for-
etgn diplomats who receive pensions from the
governments served by their late husbands. A
conspicuous example is afforded by llaronesi
Sternburg—the former MIsb Langham, a Ken-
tucky beauty, who aB the result of a genuine
romance that began as a case of love at firot
sight on a transatlantic liner, married Raron
Speck von Sternburg, a very capable German
diplomat, who loBt his life as the result of dis-
ease contracted while serving his government
In India.
lu the field of art many American widows,
such as Mrs. St. (laudens, are factors, if not
by virtue of their own talents at least as cus-
todians of the masterpieces left by their de-
ceased husband^, and the same is true in the
spheres of literature and public life, w here tha
collection of the papers of an eminent man or
the publication of his memoirs has frequently
devolved upon the widow. In the financial
world wealthy widows, by sheer force of theii
monetary possessions, wield an influence reo-
ognlzed by all men of affairs. The most no-
table example, of course, 1b that afforded by
Mrs. Hetty Green, who controls one of th«
wealthiest and most powerful of tho New York
banks.
Shopkeeper—-Yes, madam. What
size does he wear?
Wife—Well, I really forget. His col-
lars are size sixteen, though I expect
he'd want about size eighteen or
twenty for a cap, wouldn't he?
Kind but Careless.
John P. Irish, the San Francisco
orator and officeholder, was entertain-
lag Joaquin Miller, the poet, one
night. Upon hearing a particularly
funny story by the host the poet fell
off hl3 chair in a paroxysm of mirth.
Irish thought the poet had a seizure
of some kind and he rushed to the
sideboard, took a bottle of whisky and
stuck the top of It into Miller's mouth,
hoping to revive him.
Presently Miller waved his handa
feebly and Irish removed the bottle.
"What Is it?" asked Irish solid*
tously.
"Remove the cork!" whispered the
poet, hoarsely. "Remove the cork!"—
Saturday Evening Post.
CURRENT WRECKS A BRIDGE
Twenty-Seven Big Timbers Are Cut
Through In One Day by Aid of
Electricity.
One of the most Ingenious uses to
which electricity was ever put was In
the wrecking of a bridge over the Wa-
bash in Indiana.
This bridge had been purchased by
the county authorities, who intended
to replace It by a steel structure erect-
ed on the old piers and abutments.
Tho owner agreed to remove the
bridge in 30 days.
The chief difficulty lay In the short
time agreed upon for the removal of
•he bridge. Several w reckers to whom
the matter was submitted declared
•hat It would be impossible within 30
days to pull down the old brldgu with
out Injury to tho piers.
Tho structure might bo blown up
with dynamite, but the explosion
would also destroy the piers. Were it
fired, the heat would crack and Injure
• he musonry of the bridge. The 30
days expired, and an extension of ono
week w as granted.
The owner was at his wits' end,
when he chanced upon an electrician
who proposed, not to blow up tha
bridge, but to burn it apart. His pro-
posal was gladly accepted.
Each span of the bridge was com-
posed of nine chords of three timbers
each. The 27 sills were to be rut
simultaneously, so that the span would
drop between the piers into the river
The cutting was to be accomplished
by burning through the wood with
loops of Iron resistance made red-hot
by the passage of the electric current
Fifty-four resistance loops were
hented to wreck each span, and the
spans were wrecked one at a time.
Sufficient current was used to heat the
iron wires cherry red. The result was
exactly the same with every span. Be-
tween the turning on of the current
and the fall of the span an hour and
40 minutes elapsed. Then the mass
of timbers fell into the water well in-
side the piers, so that they were unin-
jured.
The cut made by the hot wire was
sharp and clean, and the wood was
not charred more than an Inch from
the place of fracture.
The current was first turned on at
about five o'clock In the morning 11 m'
at two In the afternoon the last span
crashed down to the river bed.—
Scientific American.
RENEWS ANTIQUE WASHSTAND Islander and his *ife visited the fur
• 'lure store, and when the wife saw
A BALL FOR BABY
If ever love Is stitched into a gift
It goes Into the one that celebrates
baby's first birthday. One of the pret
tlest presents, which will give the
little one great joy, is a large edition
through the perforation In the oard-
board and then proceed to fill up the
hole by drawing the wool through and
through over the cardboard until no
more will pass. Cut It and tie it be-
of those balls which the happy ! tween the two circles and
mothers of today delighted to fashion
as children with two circles of card-
board perforated In the center.
Instead of making the circles nn
in»h or two In diameter, make them
full six Inches In size, and use pink
and w hite or pale blue and white wool
of a very floecy type. Tie tho wool
these by tearing them away,
The ball should be sewn on to nar-
row'satin ribbon, blue or pink, ns the
caBe may be, and to this ribbon
should be attached a quantity of little
gold or silver bells, which will Jingle
merrily when the ball Is swung to and
fro by the ribbon*.
Long Islander Sells Piece of Furniture
for Fifty Cents and Buys It
Back for $20.
An elderly Long Islander once at-
tended an auction of old furniture.
Among tho articles for which bids
were asked was a heavy marble-
topped washstand. The Long Island-
er bid ten cents for It, and as he was
the only ono who spoke tho wash-
stand was knocked down to b'm—
ralher to his dismay, as he had to
have It conveyed to his distant home.
For several years this ten-cent antique
was an occupant of the barn, Its mar-
ble top being removed and tho interior
of the stand serving as a receptacle
for cans of paint.
One day a clerk from a furniture
store In the neighborhood called at
the I/ong Islander'B and accidentally
caught sight of the unappreciated
Rlmiieland. He made some Inquiries
concerning It, and eventually pur-
chased it for 50 cents. The clerk took
his purchase to the store, gave It a
thorough renovating and It became a
handsome piece of hardwood furni-
ture, the marble top adding the fin-
ishing touch. Not long after this
transformation the elderly Long
that beautifully pollsaed antlqus
washstand she fell In love with It. for
It just filled her ideal. Her husband
seemed to have a suspicion of the
truth, and endeavtjrcd to distract her
attention. Hut the affair ended by the
woman purchasing the stand for $20,
and it Is now one of her most highly
prized possessions.
Bell Must Be Tuned.
The general impression Is that tho
tone of a bell is largely a matter ol
accident, but this is not so. A bell
must be tuned the same as a piano
or any other musical Instrument. Ev-
ery bell has five sounds, which must
blend together In perfect harmony,
and this is accommpllshed by shav-
ing down certain parts until tho de-
sired harmony Is secured. In th«
event of shaving too deep tho boll It
not Injured, but the tuning operation
Is prolonged, as other part.; must be
operated on and cut away to a corr»
■ponding degree.
Just the Thing.
Flgg—What are you having carved
on tho photographer's tombstone?
Fogg -Taken from life. — Rostoa
Transcrlnt
EDITOR BROWNE
Of The Rockford Morning Star.
"About seven years ago I ceased
drinking coffee to give your Postum a
trial.
"I had suffered acutely Irom various
forms of Indigestion and my stomach
had become so disordered as to repel
almost every sort of substantial food.
My general health was bad. At c'.osa
Intervals I would suffer bevere attacks
which confined mo In bed lor a week
or more. Soon^fter changing frera
coffee to Postnm the indigestion
abated, and lu a short time ceased
en'irely. 1 have continued tho dally
use of your excellent Food Drink and
assure you most cordially that I am
Indebted to you for the relief It has
brought rre.
"Wishing you & continued succcss, I
am Yours very truly.
j. Stanley Rrowne,
Managing Editor."
Of course, when a man's health
shows he can stand coffee without
trouble, let him drink It, but most
highly organized braln-worker3 sim-
ply cannot.
The drugs natural to the coffee ber*
ry affect the stomach and other organs
and thence to the complex nervous
system, throwing It out of balsnce nnd
producing disorders In various parts
of the body. Keep up this dally pois-
oning and serious disease generally
supervenes. So when man or woman
finds that coffee Is a smooth but dead-
ly enemy and health Is of any valu«
at all, there Is but ono road—quit.
It is easy to find out If coffee be tha
cause of the troubles, for If left off 10
days nnd Postum be used In Its place
and the sick and diseased conditions
begin to disappear, tho proof Is uo.
answerable.
Postum Is not good If made by short
holing. It must be boiled full 15 min-
utes nfter boiling begins, when th»
crisp flavor and the food elements are
brought out of the grains and tho bev-
erage Is readv to fulfill Its tnl«rlon of
pa'ntable comfort and renewing ths
cells nnd nerve centers broken dowo
by coffee.
"There's a Reason."
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