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Show IrVorld s Best Known Living Worn HEBLE ARE FIVE: Two Dowager Empreaaes, Alex-! UHQ ARK THF SITX MOST F A MOT TS1 ? WHO IS THE SIXTH ? ChooTTJ andra, Queen and Empress, the Chicago Girl Who QlV iVlW3 1 FAinWUP f AmonfJ 0 Are Best Known fn J Became Vicereine and the Yankee Farmer s Daughter j S Philanthropy, Social Reform, Literature J J Who Established a Religion. j By DEXTER MARSHALL I and the Stage. nr' ,l10 r,10f!r famous living women? 11 if the most famous are those who, throui WW strength i personal charaoter, have become be f f known to most penpln, then the three most fi mous women now alive nn the Queen of Englan the Dowager Csarlna, and tho terrible old Dowager Kn f hlna. Each of thes three Is known to all ;h mankind of whatever color, or habitat, save only tho st savage races because of her own Individual character. 1- The unthinking mlEht Complete the half dozen by the A, addition of th names say, of the Empress of Germany, 1- the young Queen of Holland, and, perhaps, the Dowager IAN OBSCURE DUKES TWO FAMOUS FA-MOUS DAUGHTERS. Iw j N 0 W N to more people of more, races then any other 1 living woman, except, perhaps, the monstrous old Im dowager of China, are Alexandra and Dagmar, as thoy were christened daughters of old King Christian Chris-tian of Denmark who was not a king at all when they weT born, but simply an obscure nobleman with tho formldnblo title of the Duke of SchleswIpr-HolstHn-goden-burg-Gluc.ksburg. Life has run along strangely different lines for these two gentle Danish girls. Their father, as you may remember, was so poor that he even hacT to give drawing lessons to eko out the family Income, and the daughters f to help make their own bonnets and gowns; you may also remember the gypsy woman who told thir fortunes and declared that Alexandra Alex-andra would some day wear the double crown of queen and empress, that Dagmar would rule a vast empire, and that a third sister, Thyree, would bear a title approaching the queenly, though she would never rule. The three girls laughed at the prophecy, but It all came true, Thyree marrying the English Duke of Cumberland and her older sisters. b a fate most Ironical, marrying men who were to reign over peoples bound to he eternally at odds one to be tho head of the most advanced constitutional consti-tutional monarchy In tho world, and the other tho last autocracy remaining In Europe. Though Alexandra Is known to the world chiefly because be-cause of her sweet and womanly qualities her personality Is as strong as her sister S, The English Queen has been no better wife, no better mother than some other royal and Imperial consorts. Hut Alexandra has always shown perfect tasie. complete balance under the most difficult conditions, and perfect breeding, while tho lack In those qualities has been almost painful on the part of sorno Crowned women, indeed, most of the royal ladles sometimes some-times lose their noise, hut Alex in. Ira never has. Besides, she is counted the best dress'-d gentlewoman In all' Europe. Eu-rope. The character of Dagmar, rechrlstened Maria Feodo-tovna Feodo-tovna when site married Alexander of Russia and was taken into the Russian church, has developed sterner qualities. Trouble began for her soon after her betrothal. AVoood, first, by Nicholas, eldest son of the then reigning Czar, she wedded his younger brother Alexander, because of a pronilso made to her first lOVOT, When, stricken by Illness, he knew death was near. Iter husband canie t., tiv throne by reason of his father's assassination. Just as ho was preparing to grant a constitutional government to his people. Therefore Alexander lived constantly In terror of a llko fate. From nlq act ession to his death, and especially alter tlx Imperial pair had themselves narrowly escaped a bomb, his Danish consort was chief, almost sole, confident confi-dent and adviser of this fear-stricken, though never cowardly, cow-ardly, nevr Irresolute Autocrat of All the Russtas. She sat by his side In councils of state, sho read his ukases before he signed them, he went nowhere without her; she shared his terrible burden In every sense, is it any wonder, won-der, then, that she Is now a stern. Implacable, relentless Russian reactionary? To her tho people's causo soon 1 ime to mean nothing save the destruction of the established estab-lished ord-r, carrying with u the almost certain murdef of her husband, whom .she loved, chaos, disgrace, humll-l.ah humll-l.ah n utter and Irretrievable Alexander escaped a violent death, but, probably, only because disease claimed him. and so. is it surprising that sho was filled with apprehensions when Nicholas, whom sho knew for tho weak. Irresolute, vacillating man tha world now also knows him to be, cmie to th throne? That she, who had known Intlmateh and admired the stronger tlhred father, should seek to control the son? That she should try to blo k all his schemes for bringing about a more liberal form of government? There Is a storv that the grand dukes, uncles and brothers of Nicholas, and their adherents plotted without the Dowagi r s knowledge to make her Czarina Regent and prove rit him from ever ascending tho throne. Another tale has It that tho Dowager Czarina herself, supported by the grand ducal coterie, had such a coup all planned. A certain count was In charge, it Tas schemed to get Nicholas OUt of the country "Tor his health" and never let him return. Rut the Czar discovered the plot, surrounded sur-rounded himself with his bodyguard, sent for the count, his mother and the others Implicated, ordered the count to retire from public life and heaped a mass of complaints upon the Dowager Czarina. A stronger man Would have banished or executed the count and sent Ids mother awny permanently, hut, though she did make a long visit to Copenhagen, she was soon back In Russia and her influ- nee over her son has been strongly apparent ever since. Ker recent frequent exhortations to him to bb firm and brave as Ids father would have been, to show himself to the people :ire Just removed from the current news. Maria Feodorovna has never been friendly with the young Czarina. The Dowager Is IS, her gentler sister. Alexandra, Is 61. 16 her parents married her to a notarv whom she deserted after h had Indulged In numerous pleasantries at her 1 I pi nse, trying to sell her, body and soul, to a Turkish Pacha, for money, being the most Interesting! In Paris after that, sho became a close friend of George Sand and was married the second time to Edmond Adam. 11 Senn-tor Senn-tor of France and a good man. who living, left her his money and a memory so prized that, though she was THIS WOMAN HAS FOUNDED A RELIGION. I SCIENCE, the only religious colt ever founded by a woman, has spread with more nmaz-I nmaz-I j lng rapidity than any other Faith has spread In all the religious history of tho race. When Its fpunder, a poor New Hampshire farmer far-mer s dniiRhter. born Baker, christened Mary and through marriage, bearing successively the surnames of Glover, Patterson and Eddy, was 74. and the ediflco used by the mother church In Boston was dedicated, the Church of Christ (Scientist) was scarcely known outside of New England Yet t.d:t there are almost a thousand churches and societies using the Christian Bclence form of worship, and their im-mbi 1 ship Is s;iUl to In- rwarlv a million, scatter.! through seventy-five of the worlds countries, though naturally the great majority live In Amcrii a Mrs Eddy was by no mans a pioneer in mental healing. heal-ing. Indeed, her opponents declare, she herself was treated treat-ed In the middle sixties at Portland, down In Maine, bv cjic Dr. Qulmby, a professor of "Spiritual Science," In much the same way she and her followers have since, treat, d others. However thai may be, II was Mrs Eddy and no ono else who gave the system body and perma-1 perma-1 nence. "The llsht of science," she says, came to her In 1S6'", just on' vi ar 1 ss th in four de. adt-s jim. Ten years laUT, In 170 she organized the fir.t "Christian Scem.-. Association 1 In Lynn, Mass. She founded the first regular regu-lar Church of Christ (Scientist) In 1S79 Meanwhile, ever since tin death of Dr Qulmby, sho had been "healing," first In an obscure way, later In j.ynn. where she called her system the "Science of Divine. Di-vine. Metaphysical Healing," and sllll later In Boston where in lM. at '. she established tho Massachusetts Metaphysical College, from which, in Us eight years of life, about 4000 healers wer graduated As her nominal fee was $300. some newspapers have figured that her gross receipts must have been 11,000,000, to say nothing of tho Bale of her books. Just how much sho has profited, flnan- lally front the Institution and the various 'Science" publications no one knows, but she Is surely a very rich woman. In Concord, N. H where she has lived In retirement re-tirement since 1889, the newspapers rate her wealth at more than V. ,000,000. During all her career as a personal lifakr Mrs. Eddy's church grew slowly, but after she had given the costly plot of ground for the mother church and her followers had spent their monej freely in putting up the edifice, the growth of Christian Science seemed as miraculous as her followei considered her healings; Its spread, Indeed, .suggests nothing so much as the Hashing of lire through a mass of tow sprinkled with gunpowder, to which a spark has been touched Concerning the future of Christian Science, who can Bp il with certainty? Will 11 continue to Increase, or Will it dwindle under the guidance of the man. as yet unidentified, who, she is reported to have said, will bo the leader after her-' The pulpit has uttered Its thunders against hfr. the law has been invoked to stop her dls- Clples from "healing," tho medical profession has fought her. the newspapers have assumed to expose her private life and show her to bo Unworthy of confidence, many writers. Including Mark Twain, have ridiculed her. but nothing has availed to check the steady progress of her "Science." Perhaps her death and she Is now R4, according to an apparently authorised statementmay bring a space of peril to the cult Th" transmission of supreme power within the church will surelj be a delicate operation, for she has maintained her Iron rule with a gentle touch, and hi r successor may clutch the reins with a rude hand, but probably Its existing momentum will carry the organization or-ganization along. There have been many rumors of her death, but she sllll lives. Queen of Italy, perhaps "irmen Bylva," the writing Queen of Roumanla. But these estimable royal ladies win hardly do for entrance in the list, since the. are known to the world only by reason of tiro accidents of birth and marriage. Tho names of two American women should he written in tho list. After tho consort of King Edward and the THE CHICAGO GIRL WHO IS NOW A VICEREINE. THE late Levi Z Letter was a multl-mllllonalre when the then "young, but very Important Mr Curzon," attached to the British Embassy In Washington, met ond wooed his daughter Mary, but tho foundation founda-tion of tho Loiter fortunes was begun not many years before at Chicago In retail trade of the pettiest and humblest When LeUef had got enough money together to suit him he sold OUt and the family remover! to Washington There he ond his wife sot about the task of marrying their three daughters. Marv Daisy and Nannie, to young foreigners of title, with all the directness that had characterized charac-terized the loiter quest for wealth The first Letter home In Washington was the old Blaine mansion. Later a new one was built, In which social functions such as Washington had not seen before for display, were held. At these gatherings, despite certain evidences that elaborate functions were also new to the Letters themselves, tho best Old World blood, as represented repre-sented at the New World capital, was glad to worship before be-fore the shrine of beauty and dollars. This Is nor written captiously, for, when the Curzon-Lelter Curzon-Lelter engagement was annoiiin d It was spoken of as a real lovo match, and so, doubtless. It was. At all eents, the marriage has been highly satisfactory, both from tho domestic viewpoint and as an International match. Lord Ouraon'S talents he wasn't a lord when she married mar-ried him have enabled him to raise his wife to a plane nearer that of royalty than any occupied by any other American-bom woman, whllo the Letter wealth has enabled en-abled him to support the Male of Indian Vlcerov as he could not have done without It Put Dial tells only a part Of the Story on behalf of her who was Miss Letter. More than once when the Imperial airs assumed by the Viceroy toward the Indian princes during I he famous Delhi durbar especially have se.med likely to bring about a serious break of relations, his clever wife has stemmed the storm by paying those same princes and their families fami-lies .lust the attentions that she alone could pay, and In a way that completely quenched their resentment. And. though certain of the English ladles In India have occasionally occa-sionally chafed a bit at the Vicereine's almost Imperial attitude at-titude toward themselves, the wise governmental heads In London have smoothed the threatened resulting difficulties difficul-ties over and all has been well. This tactful, adaptable, resourceful daughter of a man who began life selling small goods on Chicago's streets has certainly corned her own fame, and sho deserves It all. widely sought as a wife for her wealth, If for nothing else she remained a widow. With this wealth sho established her periodical as a rival of Ie Revue des Deux Mondes and the most famous salon In Europe. Most of the fatuous men of France have been figures In her salon, many f the famous political essayists, poets and novelists wrote flrst for her Revue. She was the friend of flambetta. she suggested the Franco-Russian alliance, she got Pierre Lot! into the Academv WORLD'S FAMOUS SUFFRAGE CHAMPION. CHAM-PION. WELL known at the ripe age of 85, wherever there are women with political aspirations. Is Susan B Anthony, one of tho few famous women who have never married and a surviving pioneer of tho fight for woman's rights to vote. It is only fair to say for this brave soul bravo, you must admit, whatever you think about equal suffrage that sho has never fought for fame, but always for her cause And though the right to vote has been extended to women In only a few States, she has won many legal rights for her sex. such as the married woman's Joint legal proprietorship !n her husband's real property. In some States, though in no State has he any rights In hers To understand tho nature of some rather rights which Miss Anthony has won for women, let the reader be reminded re-minded that when. In l0'i. only fifty-two years ago. sho made her llrst public address before a teachers' convention, conven-tion, after a long and heat d debate of protest by tho men present, a minister of the gospel told her that while 1 tho matter and the manner" of her address were entirely en-tirely unobjectionable, he would rath'T his wife and daughter were dead than that either had just spoken In public as sho had. Today none Is scandalized by a woman wo-man speaking In almost any publlCkOlace; this Is true in Europe as well as In America, turn "Aunt Susan" and her friends are proud that she helped bring It all about. Miss Anthonv has registered and voted, too In ln-r time, swearing in her vote, and afterward being arrested the same as any other Illegal voter must be. Cut her battle for the suffrage is not now so strenvous as once it was, and she does not cn 1 t to s.-e complete victors She has never won wealth along with her tame and the boons sho has secured for her sisters Today her modest little home in Rochester, N. If is about all BllO has to show In a material way for her life work. mother of the fzar, no white woman 16 a tlUie so well known to the races of terming Asia because of what she stands for, personally, as tho Vicereine of India, Marv loiter Curzon, as cleer as she lovely, and famous, of course, throughout all civilised lands. The other American name In this glittering half dozn should be that ol the only woman, living or dead, who has THIS CONCUBINE ENTHRONED HERSELF THE grim, slant-eyed old Dowager Empress of China owes her fame Wholly to her d-wn force of character, charac-ter, le r Indomitable Will and her overmastering Intellectuality. In-tellectuality. For this Empress, unllko th empresses and o.ueens of tlie v, stern world, was not born of imperial or even royal parents Wives of Chinese Emperors are rnreiy or never chosen for their rank, but according to their comeliness from tho Celestial viewpoint. When an heir to the throne of China is of marriageable i ; inn; pr.it'. Tartar girls thousands sometimes are summoned to Peking, win re the older women of tho lm-perlal lm-perlal household study th.m, sending the less attractive ones away, gradually, till only a few remain. From these tbe primary Wife or empress and a few secondary wives or concubines are selected. It was In this va that the Dowager Empress selected tho wives and concubines of tho present spineless. Jellylike Jelly-like Emperor, and no doubt she was selected h the samo method when the late Emperor, Ilion Fung, was ready to marry He died more than forty years ago. She who now rules oor China's toO.MO.OOO souls was only a secondary wife yet In benighted rhlna, where the woman of ordinary character, no matter what her rank Is only the depraved toy of man's passion, she so managed affairs as to rise to the head of the state and to keep the place through all the vicissitudes that havo beset be-set China since then She was first In the empire throughout the Tal Ping rebellion, re-bellion, when Chinese Gordon was In tho Chinese service; she managed cvcr thing when the French and Chinese Wi re at war she was supreme during the war with Japnn and throughout the Boxer troubles; and, though Japan whipped her (leetK and armies and sho had to Men from the Celestial capital when the allied armies of tho Occident Occi-dent marched to the defense of the legations, she Is still the power above all in f'hlna. The pitiful Emperor, himself, him-self, as all the world knows, dares hardly even to breatho without her assent This grim, cruel, bloody and really terrlblo woman, noiv 71. a erltahlc female incarnation of the old Chinese antipathy to the Foreign Devil exerte more ril power over more of her fellows than any other woman who ever lived Her subjects are almost as numerous as all the people who dwell In the countries of Europe. Possibly she is known to more human beings, living In her own day. than any other woman has been since the beginning of time, though the western world knew little about her beforo the Boxer troubles. anil she kept Zola out. She has been at the front In many Of the most momentous movements of Franco, and while not entlthd, perhaps, to be named among the six most famous women, she certainly stands high in the list among the world's thinking men and women. Mrs. Humphry Ward is younger and destined, appar-ently appar-ently to reach greater fame than any other woman writer now alive, Mrs Ward's path to fame has hern without the difficulties some Who seek it have to overcome. Born In Australia, her father, a clergyman, Dr Thomas Arnold RED CROSS WOMEN CELEBRITIES. rHKRE wa a day when tho name of Florence Night-I Night-I ingale named Florence because of her birthplace, I though her parents were English would surely havo br longed to the most famous half dozen. It was Of her that Longfellow wrote The speechless sufferers turn to kiss Her shadow as It falls Upon the darkening walls because of her Inestimable service to the soldiers as nurso In the Crimean war. Her work furnished the Impulse that led to the formation of the Red Cross, now performing perform-ing blessed services on the Far Eastern battlefields. When a grateful England subscribed 250.000 for her. she built with the money the Nightingale Homo for Trained Nurss, In London, and so established a new and beautiful profession. pro-fession. She Is still llvlnc atS5. Time was, too, when Clara Barton now 7.-tho Florence Flor-ence 'Nightingale of tho Civil war In this country would have been named among tho world's best known six, but oilier times bring new names to tho front Mme Oyamo wife Of Japans great field marshal Jap. anese by birth, like her husband, but educated at Vassar College, on the Hudson's banks, is the most eminent woman wo-man In (hi I led i 'mss work today. Though brought Into world-wide notice through the war In the Far East, her fame Is also due to her because of her own personality, and the race has granted It freely Tin- fornv r Empress of France, Eugenie, living at tho nge of 7!'. survivor of almost sver vestige of the order of things Ol which she was a part, Is almost forgotten hut her fmi" survives, and sin deserves at least a lino Of two In this rapid survey. rv.r ft.TbllHhe,l n faith, M i r nr.lcr Frirfjl of "Christian Science." Who b- she whose name might completjl won', I tie hud to bud or,, whose imr arinrSj versa lit y that of thy .. tw, but ttvr are ss! whose celebrity In art, philanthropy liters! and reform is almost world-wide, to'r'hooseT BERNHARDT IS MOI MOUS ACTRESS, pJ MOST FAMOUS SINGER. , TODAY no American actress possesses 1 really -world-wide. Perhaps Mrs. lamfB ler has played In more countries thaaf countrywomen, though her abilities SB compared with Mrs. Flske's or Mrs. a But none of these are today to he wrlttenm same page with Sarah I tern hard t , hill of W nora Duse. daughter of Italy or Ellen Tm woman. The world was kinder to Terry than to either of tho others. Duse, childM Italian strollers travel' d in-m place ir; tft and sometimes barefooted at thai if( n iMS under the skies, the pnerry ;" her ft them with whom she tramped being uei) tbat t! most nevi r able to engage a theater, no niafl and were lucky when ihc. could aflbrd ever As a girl. Bernhardt was "long, -caa, thiol p.en as late as ten or flit ten ar, n-o ',ufS pi ii", nice was .fr-n rldlculr-d ii,-r hrst audE nt her. She lost one of her early engaH slapping the leading lady, she triel r.inginZ Tavag.inza c no failed, Kiie boxed 'he carsT t"f al tl i id eon and was dlsch?rgei3 agjL beglnnlng her Course was stormy anil errntSj b( fore reaching middle life, and now. at til, her the world's leading actress. Her afratif man , her husband, M Damala, Is not fa, deeds of his own. Ellen Terry married young, but was ssl her husband for the sake of her art. She'S the youngest of the three, being only 44. m, nobleman, but 'hey separated, and her imt tachment for D'Annunzlo. the decadent novi. has embittered her later years. Bernhaifl rlerr- a daughter, Duso Is childless. Though she will sing no more. Adellna S by birth but winning her first renown m probably know n to nmr. ;e ,p, at than jL c i, Calve, Eaines, Ternlna, Sembrlch. or anyj er, more robust song birds who now hold fs exchange their golden n des for the gold wl humanity. Though Pattl, like some othcrjH mous women, has been much married hM band. Baron Cerlarstrom. being the third Jg fourth") and each a man whose only distinct his union with tho wondrous diva she hs2 dren. v ! MRS. HUMPHREY WARD AND MADAME ADAM. Ism ERTAfNLY no other living woman ran reach the I Standard set In fiction by Mrs. Humphry Ward or I, in editing !v Mme. Juliet Adam, editor of the French Nouvelle Revue. The latter is surely tho most famous woman editor In the wofld, though her periodical is not read by the masses, even In France, It Is familiar to every chancellerle in the whole world Mme. Adam Is 75 and her life has had its thrills. At her uncle Matthew Arnold she was takafi when a young girl and there met and marrli ry Ward, himself a man of letters and nonfc the staid old London Times Pos ibly Marie ("orelll s honk have bcefli read than Mrs Humphry Ward's and thoip 'The Sorrows of Satan to ' Tin- MirrlajJJI Ashe" might vote Miss ev.relll the moravB two. tor la would havsfl Corelll In preference to Mr. Ward; WouhB SCIENCE, SALvJ AND PHILAI THROPY. TE scientist would surely present the m Curie, codlsi o . rer with her husbasV that mysterious elem--nt which ia W many long-established scientific notion the scientific viewpoint, who shall &sH Mme. Curie has won fame young she is am Is pretty besides. Her path to fame. thoufc deavor, was not racking; in her Polish hotisJ rounded by incentives to sclentillc researCE band, who loves her more even, perhaps, loved Joint discovery, !s constantly working In their laboratory The Curies never reV fame, only to do their work, nor for monejj. have won. but money has not, and probablyw to them Miss Helen Gould, known r.ot for her wf' the way she i it awa , ),a f mv of al rles with It a feeling of universal regSB since she Is devoting her life to the best usa vise for the millions that came to her by ink Nor should the women of the Booth famllj' head of the Sal-, itlon Vrrn I i America, andr. ton Booth, co-head of tho American Volifsr out of the list of candidates Even if thej1 place among the llrst half dozen, th ir fauifM by endeavor of th,- yit that la lp, those i most, and it will last, p rhap. long aftH othi rs now will known to the world shall, W (Copyright. 1903. bv I. D MarahJM |