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Show Descendant of Kings a Gotham Cook 1 A DAUGHTER or tho Montozumas Is in this city mastering the nrt ot domestic science. She will carry It back to Mexico and nt tho bidding or hor government introduco It into that country of romance and tradition. Mme. Guadalupo do Haro Is the namo of this beauty, who has coal black hair, deop brown eyes nnd a complexion ot creamy whlto, and who proudly says she is thoroughly Mexican Mexi-can and a descendant or tho Montozumas. Monto-zumas. Shq has been In Now York n year and a half studying housohold arts night and day as taught in public and private schools and colleges. Sho s now Btudylng In tho summer school of the Unlvorslty of New York. Mme. Guadalupe do Haro is the daughtor ot a great financier, born to wealth and luxury. Through adversity adver-sity her husband lost his fortune and died and tho widow had to wprk for a living. Mexican women or degreo tako llttlo Interest In the economy of their- households. house-holds. Such things nro left to tho servants. So when Mmo. do Haro faced tho necessity of. earning a living liv-ing she awoke to her helplessness. Through study and Inquiry sho found that thoro was a woman's world of activity ac-tivity that she had never droamcd ox-Isted. ox-Isted. Then camo the oiler of her government gov-ernment to Bend her to New York to study domestic science nnd sho accepted accept-ed It gladly. "I am, eutlmslastlo ,ovor American women," she said, "they nro -beautiful souled. Intelligent, a'ctlvo and they have tuught tnv that it Is not a lharae to work. Work with tho head or the hand, nnd always with the full heart a glorious. Tho position that women hold horo Is wonderful nnd Inspiring. I was here In a convent school as n little girl, nnd again as a rich woman H of leisure, when my husband was alive H but now I find a now side to Amorlcan U women. HJ "Wo havo our own domestic science H handed down through gonoratlons of peoplo from the tlmo of Cortez nnd Montezuma, nnd I know soniothlng of H European domostle sclonco, but I H think that nothing can be ahead ol H American's system tho system you H are teaching and practicing In your H schools nnd homes." HI |