New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 14

WHO IP YOU were one of the world's most beautiful women, possessing talents Of a rare order, splendidly cducated &nd highly cultured If you were descended in two lines from Edward 111, King of England, through John of Gaunt, Duke of Lan- ecaster, and Robert Plantagenet, Duke of G If you pelonged to the Daughters ot the American Revolution. the Colonial Dames and had for an ancestor John Howland, who came over in the May- flower— It you were on music and art- It you were familiar with jes of international oucester— a recognized authority he in diplomacy, u knew almost all there was to about Chinese art and Chinese Turkish rugs and had prac- and emphatic literary attain- What would you do? Most women would embark upon a eocial career such as brought fame to Mme. de Stael and the Marquise de Rambouillet. But there is one woman—an Ameri- can—who possesses all these inherited prerogatives and acquired qualities and who has turned her talents and energies into channels of more serious She studied for grand opera under the clder Damrosch import; who has won triumphs on the operatic stage, and who, by her su- perior intelligence and progressive and advanced ideas, has assumed a fore- most position among contemporary celebrities. This woman is Lillian Russell, who has been proclaimed uni- versally as one of the world’s loveliest women and whose vocal success has made musical history in Europe and America. As a rule the public knows little of the origin of its stag- favorites. The real names of the greatest stars are often sources of discussion and their birthplaces matters of conjecture. But Lillian Russell's career has been so exceptionally brilliant that there are few people that have mnot heard that she was born Helen Louise Leonard, 1= Clinton, Towa, where her father was preprietor of a successful newspaper. But not many are familiar with the fact that when Helen was little more than a tot the Leonard family moved to Chicago, where the future prima the ambitious young girl Wi CTIy Where she studied for & under the tutelage of tht rosch, Subsequently course of instruction but fate ordained other beautiful songstress, who W 1, und who had b ud epera elder a Kuropear was wise, and the 5 then not il Dam planned: seventeen years ol rechristened Lillian g heatre tracting throngs to the Biiot A scintil by loveliness and lating vocalism. Her fame spread Wuropo and there followed a triui phant tour of England, Belgium and in which latter country she is still heralded as “La Belle Blanc Subsequently she rveturned to New York and, under the management of Rudolph Aronson, who recently died, the Casino her blonde France, was the refulgent star at Theatre, where she carned la vish plau- dits in “The CGrand Duchess,” “Girofie Girofla,” “La Perichole,” “The Brig ands,” “Poor Jonathan,” “Nadjy” and other masterpieces. The pubfic Russell are well atic treo is that more columns of new cles have been printed Russell than any other musical star, and that she has been photographed more times than any other Woman that ever lived. But only her intimate friends know of her descent from King Edward. Genealogical experts, howeve cognizant of the fact of her pedigree, and in the building of Historical Society of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, is a book ecntitled “An- drew Warde and His Descendants In this volume may be found many of the statements contained in thi cle bearing upon her genealogy Warde family is of English origin and of noble birth. For centuries it had furnished Albion with many noted itizens, but not more than it bas sup plied to the United States s been transplanted to freedo achievements of known, but the aris 1 origin of her family fact toc! and 1o amiliar o few. 1t is a paper arti- about Miss queer the artl- The Among the celebrated person whom Andrew Warde, who wis the founders of the State of Cc ticut in early Colonial times, is the ancestor are Harriet Beecher Stowe Julia Ward Howe, Jay Gould, Henry Ward Beecher, Winthrop Howland, the noted artist; George F. Peabody Frederick Courtland Penfield, the fo She collected money in Wall street for the Red Cros: Copyright I /% 7 1) WOMA 1019, by Public Ledger Co. V. IN learn of the yo bers of that Wkat woman of bitions woujq bidden? 1y tions ran cuit inclina 1is 1t worr d social s P les, triumphs would not use t 1t an entree into exclusive so0 called? But Miss Russell has littre time for the trivial and formal affairs of 1ic She Inherited from mother, the well-known Cynthia Leanard, wlio was a pioneer in the fight for suffrag 4n and mind. Mrs. Leonard, from the old Knickerbocker family of Van Name, was one of the founde of the 0sis Club, of New York and at one time was a candidate the mayoralty of that city. S friend of wood, an ardent advocate of pri y form and the abolition of chila She contributed many strong u: C on these questions to varjous cations and was a power Mi. mothe; of tho most cir her woman active prog who sprang i intimat ubii cturer of striki Russell possesses many of e s ideas and, being a Daught American natural that Revolution, it she should, this country became a participant the great war, devote her capabili to patriotic wor This brought for| from the Jate Colonel Roosevelt o several Russell brilliant ment. She Cross = occasion: to e s declared one of America’s most women, emphatic indorse became an enthusiastjc worker S raised of dollars by Loan speeches Red several her Liberty Through ope address and 1 millions made from th ury in Wall stre 00,000. eps of the she raised lore than § She made a tour of the different tenments in the United State tight can and er tertained the boys W ,, storic and 3000 usylvania recruited corps by this her en splend ett its Bai of Lillian u 11 ties have endeared can public, but in the pr where as Mis home, Alexander P, Moore she dispenses hospitali friends, her tact, radiant persona 1l spont find generosity Photographed more times than any other woman What a Kansas Newspaperwoman Saw in Her State Legisiature nE:r;rsx,m‘r\x: Doings as Seen Througt : ough a Newspaperwoman's Criscobe” is the heading given to a column of comment and news which is published in o Newton Kansas new the The oubt- paper Kansun Miss Republican writer, Anna Carls u ediy thinks comes neurer sa 0 than any othes scribing the Kansas Legi the public. What newspaper reporter, for stance, would darc write the follow- ing: “It s is working said that the uplift s on a measure to prohil smoking. Somc from us tired. men women malke Following imme upen the epidemic of hy sjome of them boys with which orked pply the soldier with igurettes y now demand that thc imme- iately give habit they helped some of them to form Or what society reporter scribe the inaugural reception in this fashion: up would de- ago did the ‘dehorniy deep out re- enough. TI ¢ ag grown in. There of the g ling incoming ar Gover s of ives s and their wives, the An and the Supreme Court and the State officer s, but instead of the secon r line cd of a few compc 1s of the administration Affairs 1em ued This 1000 stand that the werd rominent her ment mar proletar barred had behir sion passed compare tl donna was educated by a private gov- erness and in the Convent of the Sa- cred Heart. Her predominant talents were musi- cal, and she speedily became an adept upon the violin and the piano. Then\ her soprano voice developed unusual possibilities, and her mother brought “Two vears attempted to d inaugurar US ed that Kansas had humanized and ‘dehorncd’ inaugural rec until average man could one without feeling that he to his own funeral. This vea f price compelled to that th tithe ual description of mer United States ambassador to the L Austrian-Hungarian court, whose wif: LILLIAN RUSSELL is the former Mrs. Ann Weightman Walker, of this city, and General Wil liam T. Sherman, of Civil War fame. Likewise there are also recorded in B gurals ! tions attend “And the morc speaking go clite, there the wa the buok the names of several of Helen Louise Leonard will be found n e delphia families of the most exclusiv @ chort history of the career of Leonard social position. Also under the name Lillian Russell at the the recuru of the obtuinable one may gene family, Historical Society uniy AVING demonstrated their fitness as lawyers, medical practitioners, voters, legislators, lecturers, finan- clers, munition makers and even sol- diers, woman now rises to a point of order and asks: “Why shall we not also be jurors?” There are several equal suffrage States in which women already pos- sess the right to perform jury duties, but New York is not one of these. And it is there that an effort is now being made to get the Legislature to remove this one obstacle to woman's complete emancipation. The Brooklyn Woman’s Bar Associa- tion has appointed a committee to draft the bill which is designed to achieve this result. The committee is composed of Mrs. Jeannette G. Brill, Mrs. Tda Schleider, Miss Amy Wren and Miss Helen P. McCormick. A similar bill failed to pass muster in the New York Legislature in 1917, but the new measure will be modified to the extent of leaving it optional with a woman called for jury duty to mccept or decline—in other words, the Jaw will put her in the same category, in eo far as jury duty is concerned, newspaper lawyers, physicians, and reporters and others who, s editors although having a right to serve, may ciaim exemption. The Lill of 1917 was of a mandatory nature and would not allowed a woman to plead her ground for exemption from The up-State farmers were have = opposed to the mandatory feature of 1, but with this withdrawn it is believed by the advocates of the meas- ure that the Legislature will enact it vithout delay. The suffrage into a law States tn which the law expressiy provides that women gerve as jurors are Kansas, California, Utah, Nevada, Washington end, since a week or o ago, Michigan. The State York, which do not provide for women Idaho, sufirage , besides New Juries are Montana, Colorado, Arizona and Alaska Territory. At one time women were called to “Why Shall We Not Also Oregon, but of the right. were Wyoming and afterwurd deprived In Wyoming even bef suffrage; e that S but, strange to Be Jurors?’’ Ask the Women ot M ate adopted equal whe say, arors came the Jurors Howe, suffrage right was however, equal women (o lenged. Justice sit as Committee of Brooklyn Woman's Bai Association to dralt jucy bill any Stafes of chal- de- clared that to e implied all other many cases before rights. a in tried him the jurors were women “In State,” he the outlaw ec iities of our “the women are the said, caly solid and reliable citizens capable of just decisions.” On one occasion a lawyer challenged the right of the judge to empanel a woman jury; and when Judge How overruled the objection the lawy who had made it said: *Then, Your Honor, I will appeal to 2 higher court.” replied Judge Howe, “that I am a member of that You fors higher court and that all my colleagues sitting there favor my view of the i tter. “Well, in t ¢ Your ctorted the lawyer, “as judges do Honor resign, there's a possibility, at least of their dying, and all one can do is to wait.” Justice Howe did not, i d. die. but he became extremely ill With right of ad with drew from the bench a champion of the women to jury duty out of the way the oppo- nents of this right soon succeeded in carrying time now to serve as juror in The first woman ant to the new law in vindicated the cnactmen it into being. minutes to case two male come to an trials It is interesting to note that o the committee of Brool woman lawyers draftir bill for the New York Legislatu s Helen P. McCorr was appointed A ant District Altorney for B 1917 s often called a the of which allows a their point, aud for a g woman has been called Wyomir jury called Mici which no alled It took this jury convict a man i had been wenty wh unab after uries agreement long e of ho ar She ention to anomaly and incongruity voman to does not allow her to the lib- woman. pros but sit as erty or e juror in a case affectin en life of another It was lders which two deli- we got. ssons in s t would of us in additional duties ed as secre only z to the Kanavel say daily for iperintende: spittoon « employes in stenog then shortage aphers. rves, and committee a spittoon being vo spit- toons i o room ¢ women g done eing there's gets $3 With gentle e chaplain, 2 day for all due resp: v 1 man, v nan who undo willing to pray and old a better prayer free of charge of the cause if the an we know wumber of who cal would do woman legislator this and has voman vell iouse parliamen and ers of atten has the floor some regular scored habit of sitting study whic in deep slation is a whole lot b ne Snisd ubt, than sitting on uble, as mast lawmakers