Show MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN SIRS walteri FARWELL or OF CHICAGO AXI AVD is holdish nonon yole la a daughter of tile the wife of stephen A douglass DoU Klasa Ifer herself self a famous belle Hus flus barnla bands father began life a poor boy who me Is tho the most moist beautiful woman in america this was tho the question recently propounded in connection with the preparation of a beauty book which was designed to sell at something like twenty five dollard tot lars per copy it was intended to ix pi resent in tile the expensive volume por portraits of tho the hand women in each of the principal american but one member of the tha fair sex was to bo be selected as p preeminently rel the most beautiful creaturo in miss columbian Colum bias domain naturally there was great rivalry for the honor rind the persons persona who sat tn in judgment upon the photographs of beautiful women which were submitted in the contest had bad a rather difficult time to reach a dision decision finally the choice fell upon mrs walter farwell fad well ot of washington I 1 D C and Chicago Clil cago who was a brido bride of but a few mouths when the mooted question was decided in her favor in arriving at a decision the judges studied the features ot of each subject critically just ju st as a per miss mildred aildred williams was a belle from tho very day that she made her first formal bow to tho the world to bo be suro sure she had no but her own marvelous marve loua beauty but she made what the gossips pronounced great catch when she married walter farwell of chicago one ona ot of tho the most prominent young millionaires of 0 windy city started with 10 capital young farwell Is the son of 0 ex S sen on ator farwell who started in life as a poor boy at painted post past new york later removing to illinois and eventually going to chicago on a load wheat with but 10 in his pocket ile he secured employment in tho county clerks office later became teller or of a bank and finally established with his brother tho great dry goods business which to this day causes the name of farwell to bo be well known in mercantile circles in 1887 the farwell br brothers ath built tho the texas state capitol receiving in payment more than acres acre s of land much aluch 0 of f this 3 land they sold but considerable holdings of it went to form a gigantic ranch which was stoc stocked iced with cattle and helped materially to swoll swell tho the farwell fortune both of ex senator farwells farrells Far wells daughters married men well known to the tha public so that the beautiful mrs walter farwell has two very prominent sisters ln in law ono one Is fg mrs reginald do koven wife of tho the well known haoen corn com all 4 N 9 0 MR MRS S WALTER FARWELL AWARDED FIRST PRIZE AS THE MOST WOMAN 1 IN 14 AMERICA son bon might judge the good qualities ot of a picture and the award was made mada to mrs no as tho the possessor of tho the greatest degree of perfection in every attribute of womanly beauty for the benefit of any person who might bo be disposed to find fault with tho the decision of tho the committee it may bo be said in simple truth that none of mrs farrells farwells Far wells likenesses do her justice sho la Is a tall surpassingly graceful woman of the type so BO often referred to as aa the gibson girl with slender but perfect figure a marvelously hair that Is tinged with gold and a very animated manner sho she has been famous over ever since she first entered society for being ono one ot of the best or rather ono one of tho the most artistically gowned women in tile tho eyo eye mother was a carnous beauty lma farwell comes by her beauty as a rightful heritage from her mother who was wag tile tho most famous beauty of tier her day before her marriage mrs farwell was miss mildred williams perhaps this namo name does not suggest aught unusual to the older rene generation ration of our readers but tho the hidden significance will bo be disclosed when it is explained that mrs williams tho mother of this stately beauty of the pre present sen day was in earlier years mrs stephen A douglass wife difo of one of tho the aorl foremost men of his day and herself faro fam ous na as tho the greatest beauty of tho the period some time after tile tho death of stephen A douglass his widow married gen williams of tho the united states army for a time tho the couple lived in washington but gen williams who was wag a man of some note became so incensed at hearing himself referred tc t only caly as aa the husband of tho the former mrs its stephen A douglass that ho he secured a transfer to a western army post ina remained in tho wilds of western america for many years not returning 0 0 the capital city until his cifes beauty was leaa conspicuous than formerly and lie ho was himself less sensitive on tho the score of 0 vanity poser of robin and other operas and the other Is mrs hobart chatfield tayler who has gained tame fame and fortune as a writer wilier of novels mrs far wells home Is in tho beautiful family mansion lu in chicago but she spends much of her time at the capital of 0 the nation where she formerly resided and I 1 chero her blaar ln law I 1 airs irs do koen has hag a handlo nui home ionic |