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Show 0 BRIDE OF A SENATOR MISS EDDY OP CHICAGO TO WED ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE. Girl Comes from Prominent Family and Has Been Presented at Sev-eral Sev-eral European Courts Bridegroom Bride-groom a National Figure. Chicago. Ml!w Kntlicilne Kddy, daughter or Mr. and Mrs. Augustus N. Kddy of thlH city has been wooed and won by I'nlted Suites Senator Hev-erldge Hev-erldge of Indiana. Senator Ileverldgo recently sailed fur Kurope. Miss lCddy Is In Gerinuny visiting her brother Spencer Kddy, who is secretary secre-tary of the I'nlted Stales legation In Herllu. The date of the wedding, according to friends here, has not been dellnlte-ly dellnlte-ly fixed, but will occur before congress con-gress reassembles Hi December. The unnoiiiieement of the engagement engage-ment of Miss Kddy to Senator Hever-Idge Hever-Idge created no surprise In Washington. Washing-ton. Miss Kddy spent the last two seasons In that city, and her parents lived in a fashionable apartment house nt Sixteenth nnd M streets northwest. The family closed the apnrtment early In the spring, nnd Miss Kddy went to Kuropo to urrango her trousseau. MIkh Kddy Is a niece of Mrs. Mar-chall Mar-chall Field. Huth her father" and mother belong to the families long prominent In Chicago. Her mother was Miss Abblo I.. Spencer, daughter of tho founder of the firm of Hlhbard, Spencer & Co. She was graduated some years ago from an eastern college nnd after her graduation spent some time abroad. Sho was presented to Chicago society four or live years ago, and since then lins spent n part of ' each year In Kuropo, traveling sometimes with her mother nnd lit other times with Mrs. Marshall Held. Sho Is a linguist lin-guist of ruro ability and has been presented pre-sented at several of the courts of Kurope. .1Ihf Kddy has gi"iit pcsonal c! u.-hi. J'.. Is ui'.;, iv.a'.o. and graceful, grace-ful, and has a wealth of golden hair which sho wears In heavy braids twined about thu crown of her head, alluded to by her friends as "Kath-erlno "Kath-erlno Kddy's natural coronet." .MIkh Kddy Is fond of walking, nnd while In Washington she and Senator Ileverldgo frequently took long walks Into the country und not Infrequently Miss Kddy accumpanlcd him on his morning walk to tho enpltol. Sho took the keenest Interest In his struggle strug-gle for legislation to prevent the employment em-ployment of child labor and was interested in-terested In his speeches. Senator Huverldgo was tho young- est man In the I'nlted States senate when he enteied eight years ago at the nge of 110'. Ills gift of oratory had gained him a national reputation oven before he became a senator. He startled the tituld old sennto with his methods of procedure and Ills slrenuoHlty has caused him to be referred to as "the young innn's sort of a man." The senntor was a plowboy In Ohio when ho was 12 years old. Tho nn tlves of Highland County, Ohio, 'are 1 1 kX. MISS KATHERINE EDDY. (Chicago Girl Who Will Wed Senator Beverldge.) said to easily recall him bernuse of ; hln ambitious nature, which early showed itself. , At 1 1 ho was a laborer, and two years later was working In a logging camp in Illinois. It was In the logging log-ging camp that lie began to study national na-tional affairs. In 1SS1 lie borrowed $50 from n friend nnd entered Dc Pauw university at Grecncastle, Ind. Hero ho won all the debates and got prlzoH enough to puy his college expenses ex-penses for two years. In 1885, nfter two years of work on a ranch, he returned re-turned to. Indianapolis and begnn tho study of Inw. Mr. Ileverldgo married Kutherlne Langsdalo at Grceucnstle, Ind., In 1SS7. Sho, died In 1900. |