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Rh institution. During that year Mr. La Follette was elected to Congress, which prevented Mrs. La Follette from taking up the active duties of the profession which she had chosen. Mr. La Follette's career has been most successful. Having been elected to the United States Senate, he to-day occupies one of the most conspicuous positions as a member of that body. He has forged rapidly to the front by his independent thoughts and ideas, and to-day is the leader of what is known as the progressive element in politics. Their home is in Madison, Wisconsin. Mrs. La Follette has proved herself a most worthy and capable companion for her distinguished husband in his political and professional career. She is generally known in Washington social circles as one of the brainy women of the day. Their daughter, Fola, has entered the theatrical life as a profession.

Bertha Honore Palmer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she passed her childhood, receiving a common school education. She afterward took a course in the Georgetown, D. C. Convent, where she graduated in 1871. Shortly afterward she became the wife of Potter Palmer, the Chicago millionaire, who was many years her senior. Since her marriage she has been a recognized social leader of that city. She is an accomplished linguist, musician and woman of marked executive ability. She was chosen president of the Board of Lady Managers of the Exposition of 1893, and in 1891 went to Europe in the interest of this section and succeeded in interesting many of the prominent women of Europe in the women's department of the World's Fair, and much of the success of this department is due to her work. Since the death of her husband she has spent much of her time abroad, and during the reign of King Edward, of England, occupied a house in London, where she entertained extensively gaining for herself a high position among the social leaders of the most exclusive and royal circles. She keeps her residence in Chicago, Illinois, where her large interests are located.

Is better known as the "Grace Darling of America." She was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1841. Her father was Captain Hosea Lewis, and was keeper of the Lime Rock lighthouse in Newport harbor. She early became her father's assistant in his duties at this station. She made her first rescue when but seventeen years of age, saving the crew of a boat lost in a storm near the lighthouse, and landed them in safety at Fort Adams, when even men did not venture to launch a boat to aid the helpless men. She received from the United