Show arms ot old friends and have merely to take up the social threads where they dropped them before at the expiration of their official residence in the capital no senatorial election it seems could give a greater measure of satisfaction to such a large circle of people in washington as that which re turned to congress the former governor of colo rado john franklin who has held every office within the gift of the people of his state daring his congressional service some years ago mr and mrs Sh atroth made a host of warm personal friends who will hall their return with delight mrs Is described by her friends is a model mother and to bear out this asser alon they point to the three sturdy groan up ions all of whom idolize their parents mrs Sh atroth Is a genuine home lover and a domestic genius delighting in her home and all its details especially in cookery cook erv tor she loves to try her hand at all sorts of now recipes and experiments peri ments she la an artist in the culinary line but she Is also a woman of varied accomplish ments and wide interests she belongs to a number of clubs in denver of which the hound table has perhaps held her membership the longest since she has been en rolled as an active member for more than nine teen ears this club meets every friday morn ing and its members actually study history literature th classics philosophy and all of the current topics of the day are embraced in their research no drones or inactive members are encouraged to remain airs was born and reared in rayette howard county mo and after completing her high school course became a student of and aft erward a graduate of the howard payne college of fayette mo for several years prior to her marriage she taught in the high school of her home town mr Is also a native of fayette mo and their marriage occurred there she Is eligible lo 10 D A R membership through virginia and tennessee ancestry like mrs Shafi oth mrs james Is no tt ranger to washington society for she has spent several eara at the capital during her husbands congressional service mrs james was miss huth thomas of marion ky the home town of senator james and was born at franklin ky she the daughter of a methodist minister her earlier education was obtained in private schools after which she attended the kentucky college a educational coeducational co institution now out of existence her marriage to senator james occurred about ten years ago in december at her home in mar i ion ky mrs tames la in every sense of the feord a thorough home lover she belongs to no clubs nor societies of any description and delotes practically all of her time to domestic life mrs tames la greatly interested in charitable projects particularly those which deal with the sick and afflicted and she hopes to engage in philanthropic work among the institutions of the capital she is a woman whose life is well round ed out for she does many things well and knows whereof she speaks with regard to a diversity ot accomplishments of a practical as well as an or iture she has made a study of eclen tine could make her own dresses lt she chose and in fact has the science of house keeping reduced to an art when asked about club work she exclaimed not a one why I 1 dont even play bridge I 1 I 1 am the only woman in washington who has not learned to do so but you really would not expect a ministers daughter to be expert in that line would you mra jamee la also devoted to children and a cooee student of various movements in progress or welfare she la an advocate of higher education for girls but that she were planning the education ot a girl she would assuredly advise a technical course in addition to the academic it the girl bad sufficient mental endowment to take it thus supplying the knowledge to meet any emergency which life might untold the more varied the knowledge and training the better fitted the girl Is for domestic life as well as for the social and business world mrs harry lane wife of the new senator from oregon has the distinction 0 being one of the few women of washington who are registered voters she la an enthusiastic suffragist though in an unobtrusive way and Is particularly bubl lant over the tact that her home state has joined the band which allows women the privilege of the ballot mrs lane came to washington as an absolute stranger and Is becoming more and more delight ed with the city and its people as she gets better acquainted with them she Is a typical american homemaker home maker but while the details of housekeeping and the care of her family have absorbed the greater part of her life she has always been deeply interested in the uplift and social welfare of girls and women indeed it was the great advantages which woman suffrage hopes to confer upon the working classes that first drew her attention to that movement while never an active club member mrs lane has been much absorbed in club work as well as charitable work and will in all probability take up some of it in the capital she la a woman whose life has been devoted to worthwhile projects in her home city every movement that has had tho betterment of women and children for its primal object has enjoyed her endorsement indorsement Indor and support and no little of the success which attended dr lane s occupancy of hia carolus public offices Is due to his interest and cooperation As proof of her success as wife and mother her family are her admirers mrs lane was miss lola bailey and was born in milwaukee ore about six miles from port land she and dr lane were childhood sweet hearts and were married in portland about thirty years ago they have two grown daughters one of whom mrs N macbryde resides in new orleans while miss harriet is with her parents she bids fair to become very popular particularly among the college girls of society being a tri delta she Is already finding hosts of congenial fraternal spirits in washington and dr lane is classed as one of the baby sen in addition to belonging to the same family as the secretary of the interior he 1 grandson of gen joseph lane who ran on the presidential ticket with breckenridge and who also wore a senatorial toga besides being tarri tordal governor of oregon and the delegate to congress dr lane has filled the office of mayor of port land and also that of superintendent of the state insane asylum he succeeds jonathan bourne and shares the honors of the medical profession with senator callenger who for years has been the only doctor with a seat in the upper house the girlish wife of the successor to joseph W bailey of texas has the distinction of being the youngest of all of the wives in the senatorial circle though the very dignified and cedato mother of a lively little daughter of two years mrs morris sheppard Is but twenty to years old she Is the daughter of mr and mrs N P sanderson of texarkana Tex arkana the home town of her hus band where she was born texarkana Tex arkana as every one knows Is a dual township as expressed in its name mrs sheppard was born on tife arkan aas side while seq had always known her bus band since he was a friend of her father their romance bad its beginning in washington while j f t r N 1 l of bho was completing her studies in a seminary here her earlier education was obtained in the local schools at home for the higher branches she en the randolph macon comans womans college ot lynchburg va where she two years after which sha came to the washington seminary despite her extreme youth mrs sheppard possesses a lengthy list of accomplishments she la expert in fine needlework and hand embroidery as her baby little garments bear positive mony she is a pianist of no small ability and also a vocalist planning to continue the study of voice culture in the future she Is also a con stant reader and a profound student of politics which she declares she finds most fascinating her interest in political matters was naturally much enlarged in the senator s recent campaign during a goodly part of which she accompanied him besides being sufficiently interested to invests gate the new methods advocated for improvement in pure food and home damge ment mrs sheppard has recently become a member of the D A R sho Is a member of the congressional club and also of the democratic league another senatorial hostess who Is no stranger to washington Is mrs joseph E ransdell of louisiana whose husband has been in congress for the past fourteen years mrs ransdell comes of a distinguished southern family and was miss olive irene powell before her marriage which occurred vember 15 1886 at her birthplace lake providence la she Is a member of the D A R through the records of her great great grandfather gen evan shelby and his son capt moses shelby her grandfather o 0 de lafayette shelby fought in the battle of new orleans in 1814 and five of his sons served through the civil war M de latay etto shelby was named for the famous french general by his intimate friend and companion capt moses shelby one of the heroes of kings mountain she Is an ardent advocate of universal peace and a member of the D A R international peace arbitration committee of her native state mrs william howard thompson of kansas brings to washington a personality which radiates the wholesome energy and animation of the west she la virtually a stranger though she has visited the capital before in her travels though protesting that she has never been much of a joiner mrs thompson has a rather generous collection of club organization memberships mrs thompson was miss hertha felt daughter of the lieutenant governor of kansas she was born in lashawa Wa iowa and was married almost out of high school for sho was graduated in june and married in august since then mr and mrs thompson have resided in topeka and garden city kan they have three children thel ma bertha aged eighteen wilbert felt aged fourteen both of whom are at school in topeka and a baby boy of two yeara william howard jr who with his parents and who with the little daughter of senator shapard Is the ecung beet pt the senatorial children |