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Show WILL HEAD THEOSOPHISTS Miss Annls Desant Nominated to Succeed Suc-ceed Lata Cot. Olcott, Wgra fis MISS ANNIE DESANT. (Woman Who Will Oecoms Leader of tho Theotophltlt.) Kansas City, Mo Official announcement announce-ment has been mado of tha nomination nt Mrs Annie llesant as world presl- tsnasnl dont ot I ho Theosophlcal society to H succeed tho lalo Col, Henry Rtctt0. H rott, president-founder ot the organlt- ' H atlon. Col. Olcotlj an old New Yirk -stH newspaper man, died recently In In ,H dls. M On hla deathbed he named Mrs. He- H sant, who had for years been his cc H worker, tn succeed him, a prcrogstlve vH which ho held' kk Mrs llesant Is a resident ot Hen. H ant, Imlls, where she conducts a H scIkhiI for tho education of natlvo H children H - Mrs llesant was lirn In Knglnnd H about SO jenra ago. Her huahand, n H clergyman ot thn Church of Kngland, jH was u brother of the famous novelist, H Sir Wulter llesant Itev. Mr. llesant M and his talented wlfo have been sop- urand for years Khe Introduced the. H osophy to llngllsli society, lived down H ridicule nnd rstahllslied herself strong- H ly by her winning ways. She says H Americans make good Ihosophltts bo- H cause they are u sychlc eoplo. Mrs. H llesant lives nine months a year In H India snd usually spends tho other H three months building up her cult In M Cngland Khe visits America ruroly. M |