tiful Castle of Eastnor is over a hundred miles from the Babel of the metropolis, and her charming seat at Reigate Priory is more than twenty miles from the modern Babylon. She often says that two of the cardinal principles of her life until within a few years were these: First, I will live in the country; second, I will not travel.

While bringing up her son, Henry Somers Somerset, now twenty-one years of age, Lady Henry adhered strictly to these rules; but she has now become so much involved in temperance work and the philanthropies closely associated with that great reform that she has been obliged to restate her principles. This she has not done in so many words, but in action. The change is to the following effect: First, I have no home; second, I am obliged to be on the wing, and the round earth is my parish. For Lady Henry is Vice-President at large of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and letters come to her from every nook and corner of the earth urging her presence and help in the foundation of national and local unions. From seventy-five to one hundred letters a day and from a dozen to twenty telegrams must be taken care of as a mere incident of her greatly preoccupied life. Engagements with leaders with whom conference is desirable occupy much time; her conferences with women whom she desires to enlist take her out through the towns and cities of Great Britain; and her attendance at great mass-meetings in the strategic centres makes the final draft upon her strength.

All these first, exclusive of an immense business of which she insists upon knowing the true inwardness." Her estates at Eastnor are fifteen miles in length, and the number of her tenants there, at Reigate, and in Somers' Town, London, is very large. Besides this she has the circle of her relationships in society, and her comrades in the middle class, which is so well defined in England. But the health, education, and interests of her son are paramount to all other considerations. He is a fine young fellow, over six feet tall, and resembles his mother in general appearance, having the same dark eyes, dark hair and fresh complexion; he is devotedly attached to her, and is an exemplary young man in the purposes and habits of his life.

Lady Henry has each of her three homes well supplied

with servants and kept open the year round, as she can never tell to which she may wish to go on account of her own engagements or in order to entertain friends. She does a great deal in the way of giving holidays, vacations and outings to those who otherwise would not know what a pleasant thing these variations are in the lives of those who have not the money to provide themselves with such pleasures.

Like all other English women of her antecedents and training, Lady Henry sits up late at night, and hence rises late in the morning, taking a light French breakfast in bed between eight and nine, and having breakfast about ten, lunch between one and two, tea at five, and dinner anywhere between six and eight o'clock. She reads her innumerable letters as rapidly as they come, unless they are purely routine letters, when they go to her secretary. Lady Henry sits with stenographers all day long, unless she is obliged, which is often the case, to attend committees or fulfill engagements. Her greatest deprivation is the lack of time to read, for she has always been devoted to books; it is pathetic to see her put a copy of Tennyson, Wordsworth, Drummond, or Matthew Arnold into her traveling bag, hoping to get a few minutes to read on the train or in the intervals of meetings. She works as busily on the cars as in her office, and has immense power of concentration, so that she throws off letters, articles, paragraphs, speeches with remarkable facility. Perhaps nothing in the study of her life strikes one as more characteristic than that she should have become such an expert in writing, speaking, organizing, and conducting the forces of a reform movement on a great scale, when all her life until the last few years was spent in a manner so totally different; for she was wont to live at Eastnor Castle or Reigate Priory, spending a great deal of time in the open air, following the hounds, visiting the cottagers, entertaining large parties of friends, and reading with a persistence worthy of a scholar. Her life was then wholly one of self-direction; now she is impelled by the exigencies of a movement which involves hundreds of thousands of coworkers.

For a long time I have been associated with Lady Henry in all her work, having been a guest in her home,

and, therefore, speak "by the book" in these statements relative to her home life. She is greatly beloved by all with whom she is associated, is most liberal and indulgent to those dependent on her, and has a remarkable power of calling out the affection of comrades, friends and helpers in all grades of the social scale. The elasticity, buoyancy, wit and humor of Lady Somerset have not been adequately set forth. She is a delightful companion, a remarkable conversationalist, and never brightens her talk with so many quaint allusions, quips, and turns of apt expression as when she is with those in whose presence she feels perfectly at home. To the public generally she presents the appearance of a woman of the highest culture, having a certain gentle dignity mingled with great consideration in word and deed.

Lady Henry Somerset's method of conducting the temperance work is on progressive modern lines. Wherever the liquor traffic is intrenched there she would (figuratively) plant a gatling gun. She believes the movement to be much wider than has been supposed in the past; she thinks that it includes the effort to teach the children in all schools what science has to say concerning the effect of stimulants and narcotics upon the body, the mind, the purse, and the perceptions of every boy and girl. She believes that the circulation of scientific temperance literature is of vital importance. She thinks that the ballot in the hand of woman means the outlawing of the dramshop, and for that reason she is working most ably to change the public sentiment so that this weapon shall be placed in the hands of the women of the world; in all her writings and speaking, and in her interviews with journalists, she insists upon this measure. She also believes that until this great question goes into politics it will never come into power, and she does not hesitate to say so. In the great political struggle of the spring of 1892 Lady Henry Somerset spoke for the Liberal party thirty-six times in fifteen days and she did this because the Liberals had made the "direct veto " a plank in their platform. There is not another woman in England who has such sympathetic power over an audiHer gentle presence, tender tones, and wide hospitality of thought win every heart. Lady Henry has the mind of a statesman; its scope and grasp are altogether be

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yond those of most women; and she unites in her thinking and character the best powers of a capable man and a thoughtful and highly educated woman. Her career has but begun. If she goes on at the present rate for a quarter of a century or even half that time, she will have cut her name deep and high on the scroll of her country's benefactors.

Here is Lady Somerset's simple eloquent tribute, entitled,

THE VISIT OF MRS. WOODBRIDGE TO GREAT BRITAIN.

LADY HENRY SOMERSET.

In the spring of 1891, Mrs. Woodbridge came to the annual meeting of our British Women's Temperance Association as a fraternal delegate from the National W. C. T. U. She was also the secretary of these two societies which form the largest circles of all into which the Crusade movement has extended. In this threefold capacity Mrs. Woodbridge was thrice welcomed and thrice honored by us all; but more than all she was loved for her charming manners and high character.

The impression that she made on our convention when introduced was one of the finest that I have ever witnessed. Her tall, well proportioned figure, her great dignity of bearing, her beaming countenance, her deep, pleasant tones of voice, all combined to make us glad and grateful that a representative so equal to every emergency that might arise had been sent to us by our white ribbon sisters in America.

I saw her repeatedly in private and was specially impressed by the combination of dignity, suavity and humor that formed an amalgam of rare attraction and magnetic power. Her smile was contagious and her rippling laughter musical. She seemed a happy woman; happy in the equipoise of her character, in the enrichment of her home life, in the good will of her comrades, in the "peace that passeth understanding."

From England Mrs. Woodbridge went to the Continent and made the usual summer round. She also visited several places of interest in our Island and endeared herself to every one of our members who had the privilege of meet