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Show SECRETARY 8TRAU8' WIFE. H Only Jewess Among Cabinet Ladles Is a Beautiful and Cultured Woman. i'H iH Washington. Tho wife of the new H secretary ot commerce and labor If : H many years younger than bcr hua H band. Mrs. Straus was one ot tho H beauties ot Now York Jewish circles, H and her 20 years of married life have , H left her still a queenly and beautiful U woman. Sho possesses rare culture iH and shares with her husband the genius ot diplomacy. Ab Miss Sarah jjH Lavcnburg sho was known for hei il grncos and charities. iH For many years after hor marriage, i il Mrs. Straus devoted hor entire ntten H tlon to the earn and education of her 'l daughters, nnd It wns not until Vresl- fHJ dent Cleveland sent her husband ut 'II minister to Turkey that sho found o IH Ucld for hor broader sense of dlplo iH macy, Oscar Straus aud his brother M Nathan, fought hurd for tho election JH I MRS. OSCAR STRAUS. $ (Wife of New Secretary of Commerce ' and Labor.) , j ? l at Cleveland, and It Is a strungo coin ejl iT' cldonco that Obcui- Straus should have a accepted a cabinet position under s $Sii? Repubtlcun president, though a Horn .Sw; ocrat,. whllo' IiIb brother declined ouf bCT under tho president they both holpec to elect. 'nr Washington Ib tho most cosmopolt- 051 ton city 1 America and Mrs. Strain jiaV will not find thorns In tho path ot sKt Koclal buccohs. Her own frank und jM open manner will win hor friends, and ri H her fine Intelligence will lead her itn- ''iH orrlngly through the maze ot dlplo- Hj matlc amenities, obligations and In- ,H trlcncles lr 'vliie v' J.- tlrn:!y u ' HJ tiklllful and exceptional sailor, H HI |