Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1901, Page 16

Old-Time Pictures of Prominent Women S A GIRL, Mrs dreamer Mary Moody Pugh A Virginian by birth, the daughter of an old family her childhood in sight of the Potomae, but her was in the west practical Ohio one ambition was literary was A was spent carly womanhood where she cducation passed received a her It At " was to be famous MIS. MARY MOODY PUGH -THE DAY SHE VISITED THE "LIKENESS CAR. laine of which she dreamed for years, [rom her favorite resort, a guiet retr WHoLE the goarled boughs of an old apple tree in her father's orchard. And her ideal was not entirely unpractical, for it was a hand omely bound, substantial looking volume, without which no Sunday school lbrary in tne whole land should be complete. It hould be the story of no commonplace heroine that dutitully mended or patched quilts and tinally died and went to heaven, but rather w BIre that loved to go to parties and wear bracelets and pretty gowns and sull grew up and lived to some purpose And the woman of the girl's dream proved ouly the reflection of the girl’s tendency, 1o though frequently reproved for her day dreaming and vanity in her love of “finery and the frivolous pastimes, instead of the more stald occupations expected of girls ol those days, she outgrew her failing, iu spite of predictions to the contrary, and developed domesticity as her chief taste. Today, as vice president of the National Houschold Economics association, Mrs Moody Pugh's name is a household word ana Omaha women are proud to claim this dis tingulshed otficer in the association of home ke townswoman., Mrs. Pugh re members as the red letter occasion of her gitlhood the day when she and her sister were tiaken o a neighboring town visit therr grandmothe That something besides a day with grandmother was o store for them knew from the unusual prepara tion the visit, and when, after dinner Wi she was bidden to don her Sun day wus scarcely able to do so trom excitement, The presence of a “like- car’” in the town proved to be the real occasion for the visit, and to it she and her were taken that afteruoon. lvery detail of the car and the operation taking the “likeness' were indelibly stumped upon her mewmory, and the accom- panying picture, the product of that occa- sion, was the greatest gratification that her girlish vanity ‘ever received, ol 5 us a Lo she for over, dress, she ness sister e ey Mis, Harriet 8. MacMurphy became a Ne- braskan, by adoption, at the age of 13, when her father decided to leave their former home in Waukesha, Wis,, and with his family drove overland to take up a farm in Nebraska, locating at Decatur. Though the family made the trip in an easy riding carriage, the hardships of the journey wer many, and the last 200 miles of the dis tance It became necessary for her to drive one of the horses, which was hitched to a buggy, and followed close behind the family carriage. After the family had be come settled in their new home, which wa not unlike the majority of frontier home Harriet was sent on another long sixty mile drive across the country to Brownell Hall, then located three miles above Omaha and it was there that she the greater part of her education year she was 14 she left school to the Omaha Indian reservation Rgoveruess the children of ex-Governor Furnas, who was at that time Indian agent and the recelved The went to act a to next year returned to Brownell Hall, where she remained until she com pleted her course It was while in that institution that she wrote her first story for the press, the effort being inspired by a serenade sung beneath the windows of the dormitory by a party of young men Recognizing the news value, as well as the romantic features that were connected with the incident, she carefuly wrote and re wrote the story and sent it to An Omahn daily paper Encouraged by its publieation she began contributing other things, and eventually drifted into journalism, being among the first women of the state to enter that profession, which she shortly MRS. HARRIET MACMURPHY WHEN SH ¥ WAS GOVERNESS IN EX-GOVERNOR FURNAS' FAMILY after permanently adopted by marrying o newspaper man o The same characteristics that mark Mrs W. W. Keysor today were prominent in her as a girl, The oldest of six children, she was raised on a farm near Austin, Minn and, while sharing all of the hardships of farm iife, excepting milking and early rising, she entered the district hool at the age of 8 and enjoyed good educational advantages until she graduated from the Austin High school at 18 Meddlesome to a certain cRred i a el wgirl, she necessitated careful watching, but as she Brew ler this investigative bent assumed an inclination toward reading and she read everything that came within her reach Though she was afforded an opportunity of studying music, she found practicing tedl- ous, and, having little taste for it, gave it up entirely, sharing the responsibilities of the household and care of her younger brothers and sisters Her companionship with other girls was not extensive, but a MRS, W, W KEYSOR ING GOWN AT IN HER GRADUAT 18 YEARS OF AGE companionable and sympathetic mother sup plied this and the home interests and development and improvement of the home place her chief concern. But proficiency tie affairs her only accomplishment ex pert hor in for feat her given want became in dome was not an spent recreation. It wa that won hand thing which year: I'he before term dis horse she b literature, which ind in which prominently school for she was ewoman long hour favorite bareback riding Idesaddle 0 by her father pecial pride she taught wnd it was this school English L specialty wnd were riding as her in she first her her « ome for wraduating chool to and nthe he adopted branch sh lentified in two while in a riding that trict back from tudy of Later the became so Omaha High . part of Mrs. Georg spent in Omaba. Her Mrs. Isaac moved she wa into which situated at Twenty streets, the site The girthood was Mr. and city when ureater Tilden parent to thi old I'he family moved was fourth and Dodg: oceupied by the 1esi- Clegg but 13 years home the now MRS, GEORGE TILDEN BROW + HALL AS A JUNIOR A1 of Mr. time , there The dence at that town it. Howard Kennedy, the very outskirts of being but one house location was somewhat and wa the of obscure west and the Indians from the woods around were daily visitors It was at about this time that the day school branch of Brownell Hall was opened in Omaha, between Fourteenth and Fif teenth streets, on Dodge, and it was there that she received the greater part of her education, going to and from school in company with the other girl, by way of the ‘Path” which traversed the hill at about the present location of Dodge street. With a keen appreciation of fun and unusual executive ability, she was at the head of the majority of the school entertainments but allowed nothing interfere with her study Her father, Scotch Presby terian, regular at all church ervices was required of her, especially the Wednesday evening prayer meeting, wher without accompaniment, she to lcad the singing. This never cea an unpleasant duty, for great fright that she sang only with difti- culty. About this time she became teacher of a class of boys in the First Presbyterian Sunday school, among whom were Mr. How ard Kennedy, jr., and Dr. Augustus Det wiler, now Omaha professional men, and in the work of that church she has been prominently identified ever since. In the charitable organizations of the city she and, the most When to being a strict attendance was required ed to b her was great began her work when barely 17, of work young effi about though she was, cient directors was one in the g a*fi ; \ MRS. C. H. HUNTER. TOW N> ND—THE FAIRY IS she went on a visit to a girl friend in Wisconsin, expecting to remain some time but in a few days had changed her mind evening, at twilight, was found suspiciously easing and oling brought forth the confession that she and the doctor were to be married be- tore long and she wanted to go home O The “Little Steam Tug" was the name One with she red eyes g applied to Mrs. C. H. Townsend when a girl because of the striking contrast of her small stature and her great energy Mother to an immense family of dolls, she was a firm believer in fairies and gobl until an age when her size alone saved her from the ridicule of her companions., It was in quest of these favorites, or the golden treasures at the end of the rainbow, that she frequently made impromptu ex- cursions to remote parts of her home town, greatly to the alarm of her family and fricnds when her absence was discovered The daughter of a doctor, she possessed the faculty of athering people about her, and her father's home was headquarters for the boys and girls of her town home Hampton, N. Y It was also a honn every stray cat, dog or child that <l pened to see, and numerous and wond were the doll houges and other () devices about the premises, until «h to Milwaukee Female colleg plete her education. At school it wa the same as at home, her room was quarters for all of the girls sent MRS, GEOR SINTEEN 3 W. HOOBLER AT “SWEE1 its cozy and attractive furnishing alone hung as it was with trophies of all sorts o that attracted her smate expresses it always such a little mother,” ating at Milwaukee her very much all girls until she was married, occasions, companion but as a cle She wa After time was spend their gradu spent as time To Mrs. George W. Hoobler's girlhood were accorded but few of the and pursuits that constitute the spots in the memory of the majority of women. A southerner by birth, and after having been surrounded by luxury from in pastime bright fancy, she was at the age of 11 throw: largely upon her own resources by th sudden death of her father, In addition to this responsibility and an indefatigabl struggle for an education, the management of her father's affairs fell largely upon her her mother being entircly unfamiliar with business methods. It was her chief ambi tion to be a physician and toward this end she shaped her course of study from th first Going to Illinois she worked her way through school, and at the age of 14 passed the necessary examinations, secur ing a first grade teachers' certificate that state, By teaching and hard study she completed a college course, graduating frora. Morgan Park university, Chicago Then followed one year in the study of medicine, at the end of which her health failed, necessitating a complete rest from study F'rom childhood she had felt an unfortunate repulsion for poverty and the poor and in this enforced vacation she determined to overcome her failing A cordingly she entercd the city mission field of Chicago, where she worked among the slums, a work which she wontinued ecven after she resumed her study again As her health would not admit of her becom- ing a physician, she took up the study of pharmacy, completing the course, at the end of which she married a druggist and ‘ame to Omaha. When three vy her husband, Mr. Crissey, died, s later she not only continued his busines . but became a prominent member of the Western Phar utical association, filling the office of secretary for one term Science Secking New Paths of Discovery (Copyright, 1wl, by A, Heilprin,) The late Sir Balfour Stewart, when pre- siding over the British Association for the Advancement of Science a few years ago, remarked that we were on the eve of one of the greatest discoveries that had ever been made, but that he had not the faintest idea what it might be. The distinguished physiclst, recognizing the possibilities of sclence as they were rapidly recorded in such discoveries as the telephone, the phonograph and wireless electric transmis sion, felt the new thing ““to be in the air,’ but, like Prof. Huxley, he believed that a sclentist need not be a detective, and, fail ing in this office, he could not detect the atmospheric germ of the new discovery The determination and application of the Roentgen rays, the manufacture and ap- plication of liquid air, are happenings of the later days, and, if they are not to be classed with the very greatest of discov eries, they are yet sufficiently striking and important to have justified Prof. Stewart's prophecy. The close of the century finds the scien 118t again eager for the startlingly new, but, as it was a few years ago, he can hazard little as regards a definite outcome of the present researches, Nor is he in a position to state from which branch of science the most i to be expected. One department of knowledge at least clearly shows its de- ficiencies and indicates the quarter wherein discoveries of importance may yet be made —exploration. Millions of square miles of the earth's surface, incredible though it may appear, are as yet a blank on our maps Decade following decade has seen the “roaming grounds of fancy" in the geogra phy of unknown Africa, Asia and Australia steadily filled in, with little space left for discoveries of any great magnitude to be made there. Nansen's brilllant traverse of the Polar sea in 1895-1896, whereby the forefoot of Arctic exploration wus suddenly advanced 200 miles nearer to the pole—as much as had been accomplished in 200 years of previous effort—has drawn the rein of knowledge closely about the ‘‘forbidden north,” although not yet to the extent of precluding the possibility of discoveries ot real magnitude being made in the reglon For 200 miles completely surrounding the pole our knowledge is still a blank, and it coutinues such for nearly double this dis- tance on at least oune sfde. The present work of Lieutenant Peary may largely solve what is still to be found in this tract, It is, however, in the antipodal regions of the earth’'s surface, in the Antarctie, that discovery still has its chance, for an area of unknown or of only passively koown territory exists there which measures more than double of all Europe, and, perhaps, more nearly trebles it To it, after an interval of fifty during which the fame of Sir James Clark Ross, of Dumont D'Urville, and Captain (Commodore) Wilkes, early investigators after truth, has not become dimmed-—the eye of the explorer is again directed Belgium, England, Ger many, Sweden and Australin have during the last decade sent their votaries of sclence to this terra incognito, not alone to seek out new geographical knowledge re- garding the icebound unknown, but to scertain facts from other departments of science tending to throw light upon many vexed problems which continue to agitate the minds of the zoologist and geologist years P'roblems of the South, What are some of these problems? One is that which pertains to the origin and derivation of the fauna of the southern con- tinents; another to a probable land con- nection formerly existing by way of the Antarctic tract, between South America, Africa and Australia, and a third, that which relates to the actual form of the globe, The impetus to the first two inquiries was given by the discovery, hardly seven years ago, of the fossilized remains of forest trees on Graham land, or island, far south of Patagonia, of a type similar to that of the South American pines, or araucanians of today. Before this discovery by Captain Larsen no trace of vegetation of higher type than the lowest lichens, whether fossilized or living, 8 known in any part of the Antarctic tract, and the supposition had become well grounded that for vast ages, if not throughout nearly all time, the lec desert of the south was a region apart by itself, independent in its makeup from the rest of the world, The new discovery has developed a conception of far-reaching significance—the former extension south- ward of the South American continent and its comparatively recent rupture from Terra Antarctica. With this conception brought clearly before us it no violence to con ditions of probability to assume the further extension southward of the other continents and a union is or coalescence of the parts in some region which {8 now occupied by the sea or the ocean ice Many striking peculiarities of the southern fauna would receive an easy explanation on any theory of community of origin on a “common’ land of the south, whose fragments now seem ingly lie buried beneath the sea. The re- markable discoveries that have latterly been made among the extinet vertebrata of Patagonia throw a most interesting light upon this same question of faunal origina tion and clearly demonstrate the extra continental relationship which the facts of physical Beography have foreshadowe No fact connected with the physics of our planet has been thought to be more sec urely established than that of its form. To the doctrine taught to every school child that the earth is simply “round and flattened at the poles,” or is in the form of an oblate spheroid, it would seem impossible at this day to take exception. The equatorial flat- tening, which was determined by Major Clarke many years ago, does not materially disturb what has come to be a universally accepled conception, and is, in fact, hardly known as yet to makers and teachers of geography, so firmly had faith in an astro- nomical determination been established, Within recent years, however, a suspicion has become current that the earth need not have the simple spherical form that bas been so generally claimed for it by astronomers and physicists, This suspicion, which appears first to have presented itself in convincing form to Mr. Lowthian Green, is based largely upon the form of the south- ern continents, their projection southward in apical prolongation, and the general massing of the land in the north he tetrahedral form of the globe with a gentle top-shaped prolongation in the direction ot the Antarctic pole is, if not yet accepted in its full value, at least a subject of open consideration to many of the foremost physicists and geologists, and the problem has recently been attacked with vigor by Prof. B. K. Emerson of this country, by Prof. J. W, Gregory of London and by Profs, Lapparent and Marcel Bertrand of Paris and Prof. Suess of Vienna. It expected that this most interesting question will rt'('oluf & part of the attention of the new exploring expeditions to the south. Riddies ty a The department or side of biological science which holds out the promise of a most imposing discovery, but which up to the present time has perhaps yielded least, Is that which is concerned with the de termination or differentiation of sex and the somewhat mor approachable problem of the making of species by cross-fertiliz tion. To what extent the latter is possib, or impossible is still an unknown conditic in biology, more partic ularly where higher forms of life are concerned, some definite knowledge on this interes and most important branch of evolutiy inquiry may be expected before long result of practical experiments th being conducted by a committ sclentists specially appointed for t search by the Royal Society of Londd these experiments man and the highe figure as subjects of « Xperimentation whatever may be the outcome th expe ments will be part « perhap the most important chapter of resecarch in the domain of Darwinism or evolution, d Sex, To this day the question of sex re main an inscrutable one and it is doubtful if we are nearer the solution of the mystery why one ovum cell, indistinguishable in minutest detail from another, should in one instance develop into a male org m and in an other into a female. The labors of Geddes Ryder and Schenk may ultimate Iy be found i to be directed toward a solution, but the folution has not yet been given It is however, a possibility for any time of the future