Show influence whether women have the franchise or not they are still great factors in politics gossip has it that a aromi politician is barred from being ambassador to germany because his wife has quarreled with the wife of a senator from his state and in commenting on this little piece of gossip whether true or not atiq anew york world brings out a number of historical instances of comans womans influence in our national life the gossip before mentioned is a reminder our contemporary says of the good old times when pretty peggy eaton wrecked jacksons cabinet and changed the course of history his tosy and continuing it says in the current number of one of the magazines mrs lincoln is represented as a motherly unsophisticated little western housewife shrinking on her way to washington from the criticisms of city folks As a matter of fact she was a woman of the kind who make men great before marrying mr lincoln eha said that she intended to make him president and she did his biographer and best friend intimates that she did it by making him BO restless at home that he was obliged to give up his taste for domestic happiness and seek greatness instead but as everyone know mrs Lincol ns temper was a result of disease and li not to be blamed forit she is being the only woman of her timo who did more to make history than most men the wife of andrew johnson who taught him to arito was another prisident makar it was a woman who samuel houston into exile when lit was governor of tennessee and by BO doing won tho battle ofsan ja cinto and freed texas everybody reni embers what mrs logan did for fsr joh there area senators in washington who are there because their wives were ambitious for official life at the capital and back of every event in our history that is worth remembering mem bering there is nearly always at least one woman and sometimes dozens and hundreds of them furnishing the real motive for the springs of action paris is often wrong but it is not so when it tells us that to explain the case we must find the woman in it |