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THE COURIER. SVNRT VlMSTS &. m 003 We do the genuine French dry cleaning of shirt waists and tine garments of every description Cleaning and pressing of gent's clothing a specialty WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS MIS' STEAM DYE IRKS oorrix)rff)9viti & V 5tct'Ccocst4 One of the most Interesting features of English politics at the present time is the part that women take in the canvass before nn election. The calmness of Mrs. Randolph Church hill or of Mrs. Gladstone In the midst of a howling egg-throwing mob re verses the accepted opinions about the hysterical timidity of the sex. The wife's presence on the platform Is as much a matter of course as that of the candidate's and her sangfroid when the howls of a mob of politicians drown her husband's voice, is com plete. The English voter is visited on his farm and in his shop, or counting room by the candidate's sister or wife. She talks with him about the candi date's views, and explains his liking for that particular section of country. Woman's Importance in practical poli tics in England Is undisputed. Wheth er the influence she exercises Is legit imate and beneficial is another ques tion. The basis of the influence she exerts Is her femininity and because it can have nothing to do with the. questions to be settled by the election of this or that candidate it is of doubt ful expediency. When women enter politics in this country let it be through the front door as an indlvidaul and not Indirectly as,?, sister or a wife of a candidate. Wives of American politicians are following the English in appearing on the platform with their husbands at all political meetings, though they have not yet formed the habit of mak ing a personal appeal to those who possess the suffrage. In our own state Mrs. Thurston set the fashion. In the nominating con ventions and mass meetings of the last decade of Nebraska politics. In which Mr. Thurston has been a prominent feature. Mrs. Thurston has been by his side. So far Mrs. Bryan has accompanied her husband in his campaigns. She has gone with him to New York and when he goes out to speak In the many states of the union, she will go with him. After the announcement celebra tion is over they will go to Bath, Me., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Sewell. Mrs. Bryan stimulates those who come In contact with her. It is well known that she helps her husband with his speeches. The Review of Reviews says: "Mrs. Bryan has been almost as deep a student of public questions as her husband. "While his chief inter est lay in the practice of the law she studied law and aided him In his office. When, following the natural inclination of his mind, he turned to politics and state craft, she, too, took up the questions of the day and in vestigated them Intelligently and ex haustively. Mr. Bryan frankly con fesses the aid she has given him in preparing his addresses for like most good speakers, he seldom goes before an audience on an occasion of import ance without careful preparation. Dur ing his term in ths house of represen tatives she never failed to be In the gallery when he was to speak, and her presence stimulated as her aid before had prepared him. At the Chicago convention she sat prominently on the platform throughout the sessions, noting with a mind trained to grasp public affairs, the varying moods of the great gathering. She saw the wonderful outburst of enthusiasm that followed his speech and sat through the four ballots which ended in his 'nomination. Since the convention she has been constantly at his side, trav elling with him and sitting on the plat forms from which he makes his speeches. In the event of his election she may be expected to be more than merely mistress of the White House. Her Impress already upon his public utterances fa apparent to those who know her, and should her husband be called to the first position in the re public, American womankind might feel more than ever befece that their sex had a positive part In the govern ment of the nation." McClure's for August con tains an article on Gladstone by the friend of Chicago Mr. W. T. Stead. Speaking of wives, he says Mrs. Glad stone was not his equal In Intellect, nor ever aspired to be more than a sympathetic listener to his political discourses. She was a capital house mother, faithful and attentive; an ad mirable nurse, who studied her hus band as a doctor studied his patient; for all his physical and social needs, she was all that could be desired, but it ended there. The illustrations show him In his fifty-fifth and In his eighty sixth year. In the former he looks like a man of forty. At eighty-six he looks seventy. His taste for literature and his love of religion in addition to his placid adoring wife have kept him about fifteen years younger than his years in vigor physical and mental. No one has yet been able to broach a subject upon which Mr. Gladstone could not talk with mastery of the de tail of it. Mr. Stead says: "There Is a tradition to the effect that on one occasion when Monsieur Chevalier, the eminent French economist, was In vited to Downing street to breakfast, he came away sadly disappointed, for Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright hap pened to raise the subject of corns, discussing chiropody in all its branches, with a wonderful array of personal experience and literary ref erence which bewildered the French man, who, at first, was under the Il lusion that the prime minister and the great free trader were engaged In the discussion of the corn laws. This faculty of absorption in other affairs besides those of state has kept Mr. Gladstone chipper and blythe when other people thought it their duty to worry and grow aged over the degeneracy of humanity and the future of the nation. His power of concentration was so absolute that even when he was making up a cabi net he could put his mind on to the Iliad with such singleness that to get his attention was like waking a person from a sound sleep. Anthony Hope's story of "Phroso" springs along in this number, but the end does not seem any nearer. The action of his stories never lags only the end recedes. The hero is a very brave man. but almost Incredibly stupid. In the last chapter of the present number he lets Mouraki Pasha n unspeakable Turk, lead him into a cottage surrounded by the Pasha's soldiery and both of them are in love with the fame girl and Mouraki is fifty years old and has never been conquered by a woman yet. 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