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iHATKVKR theories hi may hold about scientific
V i T I selection In evolution, tin' gnat scientist, vt n
I 1,1 ""' ':t'''H, IT'H' lit tirn'1. Is hope.
Jf I l Ksly committed to the !' t rim- of proximity
whin it tonus to matters of lovr.
It would n" in that the Ii titlst of all profile
In the world would want to take exhaustive
Inventories of many maidens before In- chose
c on" who. according .f his loir on the ptrpetuatlon of the
cries, li"' would derm suitable for a wife, lit- might log
1 11 y lie expected to s. li rt a life partner with a view to
ling to and strengthi ng those qualities In his children
lirh lead to tin same kind "f research, for which In- In walls
1 own years as inadequate.
Ho far from this, tin annals of tin' love affairs of gn at
Jrovcrers nnd Inventors show a disposition to go it hit or
iss In a way which shows a wotn! rftil susrc pt iliilil y to the
arcst feminine object and astonishing naivete and sud
nru ss In falling In love.
Th' rr arc two or thru- of ti e lu st known scientists w ho
tually did man y women of s. icntifio pun nfagr. I.ut In
nost every oast It was when, as im xporlt need vniinn men,
ey were suddenly thrown Into the society of that fas
latlng personage, " the professor's daughter."
Lord Lister's Wife Not Scientific.
) At the slurt of his srh ntiflr career I. ol d Lister met Ills
e r i hi in 1 1 1 . He went to Edinburgh with a letter of Intro-
ctlon to I he famous 1'rof. Syme nnd fell straightway In
, e with the professor's pretty daughter. Agnes, whom he
trrl' d. In spite of her parentage Lady Lister shared none
' her husbands scientific Aspirations, although tin y wa re
votedly happy during thirty-sevt n years of marritd life.
,' In the marriage of VI n how there have bu n remarkalile
Milts in the way of children with scientific bent, although
at'ti the yi unit man married Fraulrln Mayer fifty years ago
'was a case of mail infatuation ratio r than scientific sclcc-
n.
! When about "J ami while finishing his college course In
rlln he met this pretty daughter of a Berlin medical spe
list and soon afterward, when he went to Wurzburg as
uessoi oi pa unit ig i cji i auaiuiny, ne iook ner nun nun an
i wife. Me has two sons who are eminent scientists In Her
i and two daughters n, allied to men who hold sclent itlu
ilrs In the universities.
Marconi's Versatility in Love.
. The happy faculty of falling in love with the nearest
tty girl regardless of any Ideas of selecting a wife srlrn
i ally does not stem to have lessened any with the younger
cntiflc nu n. Marconi has shown a versatility In this way
ilt h is remarkable. csjtccially on the part of one as signally
voted to his work as he Is known to be. It began with
ss Josephine Itowin llolman. who afterwards jilted the
ung man. Tiny went across together on the steamship
Paul and met each other then for the first time. She
.8 interested 111 his experiments, they became fast friends,
1 met afterward In Paris, only to become engaged.
Soon after the news rnnie that the engagement had been
ken by the young lady. Marconi Went to Nova Scotia
I It was Mashed abroad that he was to marry the beautiful
ss MarfJIIivrny, whom lie met there. Miss Macflllivray
m denied the report, saying that It was Just u harmless
le flirtation and thnt " Marconi was the most flirtatious
'rntor she ever saw," but it was another just us certain
proof of the young man's susceptibility and readiness to
1 Into whatever matrimonial alliance fate might get ready
him.
, Now he Is safely married to the Honorable Miss lleatrlre
Irlen. anil It can only be laid to happy accident that he
i Rotten the altogether lovely anil charming wife which
1 has. As It Is, she Is a gay society butterfly and not in the
st such a wife as would be supposed to enter Into the
cs und projects of a scientist.
Edison Fortunate in his Wives.
! Edison, with equally sudden capitulations to Cupid, has in
h of his marriages been wonderfully fortunate In finding
! cs who have helped him In his work. His first wife was
J Miss Mary Stlllwell, who was employed In his works at
' Swark. to which was due the fact, probably, that he hap
led to discover a wife at that time at all.
' On the dav that he was married he was called away to the
oratory on an Important experiment ami plungtd Into his
rk. It got to be midnight when u friend came In and in
rupled him.
" I guess I'd better go home." he wild, as he put on his
.t nnd hurriedly jammed his hat down over his head,
oil know I was married today."
Mr. Edison's second wife Is the daughter of an inventor
'I has helped him In his work nnd done Independent work
- herself. His meeting; with her was accidental, however,
ng at the house of his private secretary near Hoston when
- was a young girl In the neighborhood at boarding school,
isnn fell In love with her with promptness and proposed
h equal suddenness.
Neither of these was his first love, In which he showed
ly his facility for falling In love with the pretty girl
trest to him. He boarded with a woman who had a pretty
kghter. who sat next to him nt the table. Noticing the
but admiring glances which he cast In her direction, the
led him on until one day, meeting her on the stairs, he
ted out a proposal.
" Why, Mr. Edison, 1 like you very much," suid the girl,
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" but I cannot marry you because I am going to be married
to Mr. tonight." With these facts at hand the most
enthusiastic would hardly attribute Mr. Kdison's .si lection of
a woman who inherited mechanical and scientific bent asnny
thlng but accidental, although the children of this second
marriage have already developed strong signs of having suc
ceeded to the double heritage
Some Men Choose Motherly Wives.
To go into a different realm of science it is found that
some of the world's most famous men have married good
motherly souls who have devoted themst Ives to helping tluni
Indirectly without having shared their work actively. Tin
wife of Pasti ur was a motherly creature devoted to her
family and husband. During the terrible strain which he
suffered at the time of his first inoculation for hydrophobia
she passt'tl the time In great anxiety, but solely on account of
his lieallh and for the way he should keep up under the
t xpe rimciH.
" My dear children," she wrote to
father has hatl another bad night. Hi
lnnocul.it inn on the child and yet there
back now."
l)r. Koch married a woman who was a line pianist, de
voted to music and a lover and critic of art. They have
sumptuous apartments in Herlin. in which there Is a mag
HltlcVnt grand piano and well selected paintings and master
pieces which bear evidence of Mrs. Koch's habits and tastes.
He married her while very young and they have a daughter
who is already married and whose husband, a pupil and co
worker with Dr. Koch, has shown in his own matrimonial
selection the scientific habit of choosing the fair one who is
In happy proximity without wasting precious time to stray
Into side paths.
Prof. Newcomb's Wife Meets Interviewers.
There is not much nek n'ilic bent to the minds of either the
daughter ur wife of 1'rof. Simon Newcomb, who works with
his family about and makes some of his most difficult cal
culations with his wife and daughter chatting in the room.
They are both inclined to fashionable surroundings, livim;
in one of the " good " streets of Washington. Mrs. Nev.c nl,
is devoted to him and sufllciently understands some of his
work to be able to talk Intelligently of It to Interviewers, from
whom his modesty withholds a great deal that Is of Interest.
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She stayed with him und helped him In some of his records
during his stay in Paris, which was for the purpose of
altering tin- accepted standard of mathematical calculations
then in use.
" When he was computing the changes of the moon," sho
said. " he would often keep on until he was tired out and
would lie down with imperative directions to be awakened
in fifteen minutes, or whatever time the state of Ids observa
tions would allow him."
It was due to Mrs. Newcomb that he never missed re
turning to his work at the right minute during all that long;
time.
Sir Hiram Maxim married a woman whom he knew when
she was a little, towheaded girl at the time when he first came
lo Hoston. She is an exceedingly clever woman und Sir
Hiram hitusi If believes that she Is ahead of any other woman
he has ever known fur mentality and common sense. She
has no direct scientific bent, but he talks over 'with her all
of his experiments and inventions in their various stages.
Lord Hayleigh married the pretty sister of Sir Arthur
Italfour: the brnian-American scientist. Prof. Jacques I.neb,
married Miss Ann. I.. Leonard, a New England girl, who had
no more Idea of following his scientific discoveries than did
Lady Rayldgh those of her husband.
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bare feet.
imhAKIS Is full of fine walkers," said a man who
1 knows, " but in all London there are not more
I than three women who walk well. New York
JL I has none ut all.
" The reason American women don't walk
well as u rule is that they are too dressed up
to walk. Their heels are too high, their shoes
too uncomfortable, their waist too tight, and
their necks too pinched, (if ten the hat is too heavy for
comfortable walking. The woman who has walked a dozen
siiiaiTD wants to sit down and rest. A French woman,
dressed to kill, can walk all day.
"The American girl is graceful enough In other things,
but when It comes to walking, even In so small a matter
as entering a room, she show her lai k of perfection. She
either drajt her fiet or else she tllngs them. She either
ligs or strides.
French Women Ideal Walkers.
"The French woman knows how to glide into a room.
Put the women of other tuitions would not tuink it worth
whlltt to practice the glide. It Isn t t as to glide around
unless you're accustomed to it.
"If 1 were a woman and hud just two or three wislm
to make, I would wish to be grace! ill. to walk well, to sit
Well, to stand well, and to be easy gen, rally. There Is no
bitter irlft for a woman. She becomes a pleasure to the
eye." That Is the result of the observation of a viteian.
"It is Impossible for a woman to be awkward In hi r
walk If se turns her toes out." said a gymnasium teacher to
her class. " The act of swinging the feet out gives one a
graceful tfalt.'
A Few Rules for Walking.
A few W alking rules as laid dow n to a t lass of women
are these:
" Have your shoes a little too narrow and a little too
lonr. Don't wear tight short shoe. If your foot is wide and
f it It will gradually become, long and narrow by this course
of treatment. Have your shoes narrow and long and either
1 united or square III the to as nature has shape. 1 your feet.
Wear thin stockings and have them of the texture which
best suits your feet. There are those who can wear silk
and those who cannot. Once in a while have a fresh white
kid lining fiasttd in your old shots. It will make them
smooth inside and prevent blisters.
Good Shoes a Great Help.
Have a dozen pairs of shoes. It costs little more und the
shot s will wear bettt r and your feet will be more comfort
able. Sit your tut down at nyht aiiKhs.
Walk slowly. Skirts wind around jour calves when )uii
walk rapidly and you lose all semblance of grace. Walk In
a leisurely manner, as though you wire a princess, not a
hurried, worrit d. overworked wuniun.
Don't swing your shoulders.
Don't sw ing your anus.
Diin't twist yours, If in sinuous motions. Don't contort.
Don't try to wriggle win n oii walk.
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Should Hold the Chin High.
II. Id your . Inn op. This is the most important tiling of
ill ('lice upon a lime there may have lived a woman who
could duc k n. r chin and still look pu tty. She isn't alive
now. Vuu may Hunk that you look lovely with your eyes
cast appealiiigly up and your chin lowered, but you don't.
Don't walk nor look nor act like an old person. There
are no oil people these days. Toss your head, throw up
your chin, take a lonn brt ith. and be young again.
Sup font aid In spi.gl t!y Manner, as if J"'J meant It und
Were sun of your f"oting. PI int y.air fo I .is If you were
walking in your bare ft it. touching the ground lirst with the
ball of the foot, with the heel striking an instant later. This
adds springiness und life to the walk. It helps, even If you
are wearing high heels, which In themselves are ruinous to
grace in walking.
As to Walking Indoors.
The way to walk into a parlor is to move across the
loom slowly. Hold your head up and glide. Don't take
long slips and don't make short cuts. See your path char
bt fore you start. In these days the fashionable draw im,
loom 'has little furniture. This is fortunate lor the woman
who walks through the room.
Hold your shoulders back. Don't try to draw them down.
Merely hold them away back. That will give you an erect
carriage. As soon as you can stand really t ri ft you will
begin to walk elegantly. That la the only way you w ill do it -by
actual practice.
Learn how to be seated. Don t sit with your clothing
wound around you. Don't sit with your knees crossed unless
you are of the slender type with tiny feft. Don't sit on the
.ragged ede of things. l!e seated squarely.
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Don't Mind the Criticism.
There are women who are called haughty. They hold
the head so high. Hut you admire them just the same.
Tin re are women who are tailed stuck up. proud, exclusive,
und names still more tlistigi eethle. They git it by their
erect, biautiful carriage. Hut all atln.il that It Is elegant.
Never inlnd a Utile criticism. H' gin lo hold youi.-tlf i re t
and to walk well. It will will repay you for the trouble winch
you had at first, trying to get used to it.
When you walk, consider your style of -dress. If you are
dragging a train, walk slowly. The long, r ami heavier the
gow n the more slow ly you should walk If your dn ss is
light and short, you may take mai'-r- more rapidly. Slu!..
your gown tteft.ru you set your pace.
Thin study your figure. The little, Lri.-k woman, the ani
mated little person, may lie cute, but she isn't graceful. Hn
dignified In your gait, no matter how thort ou may be.
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