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Show M1' RS CHARLEMAGNE I TOWER wife of wide ly known American diplomat who with her daughters is at the Hotel Utah PICTURE POST CARDS HER PET AVERSION Mrs Charlemagne Tower, Who Started Campaign Against Postals, Is Here Mrs Charlemagne Tower of Philadel phia wife of the former Vmerican em bassador to German ustria Hungary Knd Euss a was in the city yesterday She and the Misses Tower are mak ng a western tr p and are stopping at tne Hotel Utah Mrs Tower was fat gued from travel yesterday and d d not care to discuss for publication her experiences in the foreign capitals which are now deep m the intrigue of war Mrs Tower s pet a ersion is picture postcards Several vears ago when liv ing al the American cnbassy in Berlin she started a crusade against the post' card craze She denounced the post cards as shallow and ulgar saving that if 6he d d not ha e t me to write letters to her fr ends she wo Id not wr te at all Many of her friends and other women took p the movement of shunning the picture postals. Her husband Charlemagne Tower is one of the best known, of Amer can d piomats. He was envoy extraordinary and minister plen potentiary to Austria Hungary from 189 to 1S99 He was embassador extraord narv and pleni potentiary to Russia from 1899 to 1902 and embassador to Germany from 1902 to 1908 |