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Show Veople and She Assails American XOomen She is an extravagant person, this American woman-;. for she spends twice' if not three times as much on her dress as her English Eng-lish sister, and she certainly knows how to make money fly in every direction, writes Mrs. Alexander Twedie in London Mail. Is this not a little hard on the poor husbands? They have developed into mere money-making maenmes, and yet it is their own fault; they aro utterly unselfish as far as their women folk are concerned. They want their wives to be smarter than any one else, their houses to be in the most fashionable fashion-able quarter, and, above all, their dinners din-ners to be described in the papers! For this they are willing to pay. Up early, a hurried breakfast and off to the office they go, rushing for steamboats steam-boats to cross from New Jersey, tearing tear-ing for tramcars to get over Brooklyn Bridge, or flying for the overhead to convey them from Harlem in their wild rush for Wall street. They work hard all day in a pandemonium, luncheon lunch-eon is a scrappy entertainment, afternoon after-noon tea is unknown, and they arrive home for their 7 o'clock dinner dead beat and thoroughly played out. My heart often ached .for those poor husbands; hus-bands; they seemed to have so little relaxation in their strife for wealth. Tis a hard life, that of the well-to-do American citizen, but he never complains, com-plains, and goes on week after week with punctilious regularity raking in dollars for his wife to spend. Famous Authoress Passes Eliza Allen Starr, the Chicago authoress au-thoress and art critic, whose works h: Mi ELIZA ALLEN STARR, are widely known, died last week at the hniTiB nf her hrnther in Rockford. 111. Her demise followed nine months of sickness. Last January she was seized with an attack of pneumonia and since that time has never recovered her lost health. At times she appeared to be on the point of recovery, but her advanced ad-vanced age of 76 years was against her. Some time ago she left her Chicago Chi-cago residence at 299 Huron street to visit her brother. Since that time she has gradually succumbed to the disease dis-ease which seized her and for some days her death had been hourly expected. ex-pected. Eliza Allen Starr was born In Deer-field, Deer-field, Mass., on Aug. 20, 1824. She located lo-cated in Chicago in 1860 and lived in that city until shortly before her demise. de-mise. It was in Chicago that Miss Allen wrote all her. works. The majority of these were upon religious subjects. Art was also a favorite topic for her. In her home at 299 Huron street she was surrounded by artistic and religious relig-ious objects. Friend to the "Red Men. Professor Starr, the noted authority on anthropology, went among the Iroquois Iro-quois Indians a year ago for the purpose pur-pose of studying the tribe. The red men adopted him as one of themselves and gave him the name of Hai-ye-sat-ha, a free translation of which is "the wisest speaker in the council." Professor Pro-fessor Starr formed a strong attachment attach-ment for the intelligent descendants of a tribe famed for their strength, bravery and prowess. Dr. Rostuell TarK. i?9 . of 9 famous surgeons who aided In tie operations on President McKinley. |