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AN UNK'N'OWN WOMAN
The woman who, as some assert,
"made" George Bernard Shaw, ,was
with hint when he arrived in : New
York on the ;final lap of 'itis round -the -
world cruise. That woman is C. B.
S:s wife and constant companion for
ailkithe 'last thirty years—Charlotee (F'ran-
the' world knows ;next to nothing
about her. It is her wish that it should
know -as little as :possible. For, by an
appropriately Shavian paradox, the
least limelight -shunning of 'celebrities
has the ,most limelight -shunning, of
wives. Mrs. Shaw is the one woman
in Britain somebody has said, who
has put all her brains into retraining
unknown. What is she like, then
this woman who looks after a "natu-
ral institution"? She is an elderly
woman' now, for she and Shaw have
been gran and wife since 11590,, and at
the time of their register -office wed-
ding 'they 'were, according to IG.B.S., a
laie "middle-aged couple." ;Actually 'Shaw
' was then 42 and 'sh'e' not so many
years younger, so that she is now pre-
sumably in the late ,sixties, he be-
ing 6.
in her youth she was not unlike the written during the 'day. 'Together they
masterful (Anti iW'hitefield in Shaw's ;discuss 'it'and quite often the sugge's-
^1l an"an d -Superman," but the years
'have mellowed her as they ,have her
husband. ' Today she is plump, with a
rather ',small face, soft, gray hair
brushed .straight 'back, kindly green
gray .eyes ,that heath through nose
glasses, and a general air of' repose
and calm: She dresses in Modified Ed -
has published a couple of volumes of
ficial interpreter: G. B. S. has never
translations of French p'lat's,; endowed succeeded in mastering foreign .lan-
institutions and scholarships, and 'be- u•a es. It has been one of his few fat
come .familiar with music and 'the arts ures:
,generally, her great enthusiasm is her
Of all Mrs, ;Shaw's characteristics,
brilliant 'husband and 'his world-wide-
however, the outstanding one is.sclf
Faure, in which she frankly glories. effacement. Iii striking contrast with
"The 'genius," s'he is forts of call -
her husband she seems' to have a .gen
ing him. "I estimate 'I .spend a third of
nine horror ,of publicity in any form.
my time looking after hint,"" she told fbaviug, :published several authorized
an acquaintance, land then added int -
interviews
with 'G.,B,S.-and : in this
pulsively, "'Ah, bat 'he's such a grand
gran,,, way having colic into contact with
lirs.'?Slhaw-,has an intimate 'and 'af-
fectiotia''te knowledge of IG..B. S.'s
writings and thas;p.teblis'hed a vo'lume
df 'selected passages from themt. They
are, ono might almost say, her ,Bible,
'Her main 'hobby is .collecting newspa-
per references to ,Shaw from all over
the world. When GIBS. 'was in Russia
last year, he grade Special arrange-
ments for clippings to be. sent to her.
and she showed her friends excerpts
from papers of Azerbaijan and Turk-
estan with all 'the pride of collector
exhibitintg rare stamps.
'Shaw has always valued her criti-
,cisnt,.Often as they sit together at
nighthe reads r,ver to her what he 'has
tions tirade by Mrs. Shaw are trans-
ntuted into dramatic literature. aVtlier-,
ever he goes, site goes. Together they
have visited :South 'Africa and North,
'Africa, sailed the 'Mediterranean, tra-
welded in Eitrope and sojourned in 'Ja-
maiea'and ..Madeir'. And she accom-
panied him on the recent round the
wardia,s style which, to her surprise, world cruise.
is again 'iashianalb'le. She is a strong For all her devotion. however, Mrs.
advocate Of sdn'ort skirts. !Shaw is not merely her husband's
Ilrish 1ike'Slh'aw, but, unlike Trim, echo: She is not .a vegetarian, for iii -
without even a trace of a brogue, stance, though she provides a .strict-
Mrs, Shaw, as the saying is, he any- ly fleshless diet forIG.IB:'S: Nor does
'body. 'The ,fact is,' however, that she she share 'Shaw's".curious fondnessrfor
is "able, shrewd, intellectu'aul.'.and: cult- Wagner,. much preferring . Bach.
used, with definite artistic gifts. "A'
clever'woman," (Shaw pronounced !ler
satin after, their 'first meeting, 'when
writing to ,Ellen Terry.
'.With her qualities' -not to' mention
; le fortune she Che consideir.tble fo tune s
;from 'her 'fa'ther-lilt's. ,Straw mishit
have made an outstanding career for
derself. !Instead s'lie subor'diti'ated ev-
erythitare to assisting the man she lov-
ed, and whose ;genius She recognized,
to realize all of his great ,possibilities.
.And to this expect undouiitcdly she
"grade" shim.
Shc' was rich, :Sihan' .was ;then rela-
tively., poor. But not even as an easy.
way en den cc had he
of securing iitdeP
the slightest idea '01 being false to his
a'imost fanatically 'anti -marital views.
"Marriage," declared the herb of
ratan " tiadoubtedl
"\Lan and Supei Y
spelaking 'for 'his creator, "is to me
spostasy,profanatioin of the sanctuary
of my birthright, shameful surrender,
ignomutiious capiitu1ation, aiccept'ance
Neventiheless, .0911arlotte Payne-
Towus'lven l as Mrs. ISlroalvv : then was,
lured G. IB. S. intomlatriniony as ef-
i'
,fectivelj� as his own AnnAnn\Vhttlfield diel
sti !i Tanner .
the 'fitrrousl=„gti'olte>tmg J7ain
She dicl,s'o lar,ge'ly, no doubt, because
she Inaelicited to,;li fond of bim. 'but
mainly, it seems certain, because she
recognized that, provided with a coin-
Ifortadi;le home an,d.'an'assured income,
there .were no limits to what rte ,tight
do,
:\nci today, al'th'ough,, s •Ik
ie has made elate 'to' give" ;opinions ;011 points,!', of
(herself .sonicOhng Of a linguist, and translation. She is in ;fact; 1Shaws at:
!Like deer, husband, Alis.: Shave- is a
Socialist, in theory at' all events. As
and their awn writings.
".I"ant going to refresh my heart by
falling in love with tier," (Shaw wrowroteto Ellen Terry. "I love falling in love
-but, mind, only with her; not with
her_ntillion; so somebody else must
marry her if she can stand him after
FAGS T
REE`
'I"HE PEACE RIVER
'Che ':Peace River country has been
described as a great "Inland Ent -
pine," ft has beenpictured : as a
'stockman's ;paradise. !Oa the. - other
bane! e.7e reads that certain features
00 conditions makes stock raising pre-
carious and unprofitable,
Con"rry to that again, the 'Peace
'Ricer has shipped to 'Edmonton the
finest hogs and some of the best cat-
tle < that conte on that market, Top-
ping it all has been the capture of the
world's championship on wheat conte.
from that'district on several different.
occasions. 'What sort of place is this
Peace River ;Country?
The trava;'ler to the north can ta-
day" do his "pioneering" with all the
comforts, ofthe modern sleeping and
dining car nt, his rlisposal. The rail
way runs 'almost due : north from Ed-
monton
d-nonrton for some' 1136 miles to the
town of Smith, most of this journey
being through a fairly good agricul-
tural country, Westloek is about '57
miles front Edmonton and toasts 01
a modern creamery to which is ship-
ped numb of themill; and cream of
the country immediately north. Rut-
ter 'from'Westlock has been among
the prize winners at the big exhibi-
tion. North of 'Westlock to Smith,
the country 'becomes more rolling
with 'considerable scrub and trees;
more of a mixed farming or semi -
A few months later when G. B. S.
baying finished `You Never Can
Tell," had returned to London, he be-
gan , spending" his evenings at hiss
Mrs: 'Sihaw'—)I 'believed ;,1 might per- 'Payne-Towns'hend's residential flat :at
sttade her to talk Ifor publication ,if I 10 Adelphio Terrace—afterward their
assured: 'her that no word of 'her home together -and, as the . Terry
should be printed without her sant ,corr,espondence shows, she was' tak-
tion:•'But I was turned down, like ev- log part in his work as a volunteer
er340ddy else, secretary.
"On "t to account whatever!" she "She doesn't love me," Shaw wrote
wrote, in her neat, precise hand. "I am to Miss Terry. "The truth is she is a
never interviewed, never 'photograph- clever •vvontan. The idea of tying tier-
ed, and one of my special desires is .self up again by a marriage -before
that no newspalper should ever mien- she knows anything—before She has
tion me," exploited her freedom and money
'All Fitt vain do even the Ifashion'able ;power to the utmost seems to her in -
photographers beseech Mrs, Shaw to tellect to be unbearably foolish,
give them complimentary sittings. "She got fond of tie and did not
The only posed, -for pho'tographs of coquet or pretend 'dist she wasn't. I
her that are known to exist are the got fond of her, because she \vac a
one in a silver 'frame on, 'her husband's comfort to me down there. You kept
desk and the duplicate of this that my heart so warns that ,I got font; .of
stands on the drawing froom table at everybody;. and she 'was the dearest 1Hityes (Creek. :A l •this •distance is tri- "p1y'ing .most of the taws On the ntn-
At 'Smith: the railway swings due
west for about .'228 miles to :: High
Prairie, running 'through a rather
rough wooded country with some
muskeg in evidence for, about 100
miles just smith of the (Lesser Slave
Lake. 'Through this sectioh, there is
very little of agriculture in evidence.
At !High ;Prairie the traveller comes
into a very nice, but small area of
more open country with good soil and
most •of the land cropped. 'This ex-
tends only for about a radius of six
utiles each way from High Prairie.
From (High 1Prairie'the railway then
swings northwest again tip, to vIc
Lennat:, another '1130 miles, for the
most part through rough country.
with little settlement.
^1IcLennan is the junction point' for
the railway lines which go north to
the town of !Peace River, on the banks
of the river by that pante, and we,1 that this country has been called a
top
Spirit River, some '100 miles, re -1 stock man's paradise. Certain sections
spectively. '?Following the north line' of it possibly are all of that as there is
to Peace River very little good agri- usually plenty of feed for the winter-
cultural laird is found along the rail-
way unti the village of Reno i$ reach-
ed, about 25 utiles north of McLennan
ani; from there to Peace (River there
is a narrow strip of agricultural land
about 'es miles long and about 6 anile;
wide, running in a northwesterly di-
rection.
Once the (Peace :River is crossed ,on ly operation and one that many sett -
the big steel railway bridge an the lers cannot at first finance. In certain
o'hng chub up the 'high banks on the of the districts, water is still supplied
no'tlt sidtle acco.mpishe, thee is seen the towns by the railway, which pulls
the best of the .agricultural lands in it in by tank cars to .the station, from
the north part of the district, The Which it is distributed to the town -
railway here runs west and a little people by the barrel. Some of the
south for about .65 miles, through the towns, such as Grande Prairie, are
towns of'Roma,IGrimshaw, Berwyn.' weal taken care of in this rc-tect,
1I3rownva'le, `whitelaw. 'Bluesky. ,Fair- Pumping water from deep wells te.
.view 'Gage and to the end of steel at fully modern waterworks system sup -
for farmers frt./in ' ¢;5 utiles east and
Cq true
10 to 15 Haile, vv
e1,1,
Grand ,Prairie, a busy,, clean, grow
-
mg little town of some 1,500 inhabit"
ants is the southern point of the 'gil-
t/.a aud from there 0. skings west
and northwest tor another 90 miles,
through the towns of Wembley,
Beaverlodge, (Myths, 'Police Coupe,
B.C.r, and 'Part son 'Creels, 'fi,C. From
25utiles east of Grand Prairie, which
brings one to the ankbs of the Smoky
,River, to emme ten miles west of
'Hythe the run i$ through as nice a
stretch of farming:cotnrtry as lies ,out
of doors. For the most part clear,.
with trilling hills and valleys, occa-
sional treed areas which lend variety
to the scene, and may small lakes, it
is, indeed'a picture to the eye of the
farm lover; About eight miles south
of Grande Prairie runs the Wapiti
!River,, flowing northeast to loin the
Smoky, acid this merits pretty well
the southern boundary of the 'belt of
geed £salting land. Roughly, the
Grande lPrai ie, Beaver Lodge, Lythe
District embrace an area about 60
mile; east and west by 2'S miles north
and south, most of it being first class
agricultural land.
Past Hythe it is .only ten miles or
less before one runs into the Burn!
Hills again, and the railway and
highway, travel realy 40 utiles through
these scrubby, hills before' reaching
Pouce Cou,pe,termed the "Gateway
of the (British Columbia ;Block:"'From
Pouce coupe, radiating : south-west,
west and .northwest are lovely littre
foothill valleys, .mustly clear or easy.
of clearing, but of comparatively lim-
ited areas, The realway ends at Dawes
son Creek, but reports have it that
miles further north and west, acro'
the Peace Raver again, one find 102.10
of these fertile 'farming valleys, 'but
at present these are far from any
cotninimication other than by road.
Roughly then, the farming districts
embraced under the general term of
"The !Peace River Country," are snaaIl
areas centering 'on Father and Spirit
'River; the tract north of, the Peace
comprising probably '1,000 to 1,200
square mile, olid the southern or
Grande Prairie District with its area
of perhaps 1,500 square utiles.
Mention has been made of the fact
ing of such stock as he mayown. But
in other cases the limiting factor is
the production of livestock is without
doubt 'Water, spelt with a capital W.
The whole .Peace 'River country is au
area of deep wells, and while water
can usually be secured in most place,
by drilling deep' enough this is a cost-
• I'essfield Corner, the lho'me of her and best. That's the situation. So"versed through splendid agricultural er hand, water is not'always obtained
friend Lady Passfield, Sideld, who prefers to this curious `romance' went on .for! land, somewhat :rolling and in parts at the first attempt. One well-estab-
i C' l f l � l d d hole.
`patties' 1•elinduislf their distaste; part cultivated and ;on which tremen• before getting a good supply of water
for the Peters orf matrimony. But does crops have been grown. The at 430' feet on his tenth attempt. ;lost
then Destiny stepped in. 'Destiny in l 'width of this fertile belt varies, in fanners have constructed "dugouts"
be carless Mrs, Sichtey\�Teby. -oust- more than a year, neittcr o' tie, slightly wooded, but for the most lisle. farmer put down nine dry toes
quenitly the wife of one of the most
photographed` men in 'Europe is
known only by the snapshots sur-
reptitiously taken,when she goes
somenhere with 'him.
When vtsitiirg ,G. 13. S. I have al-
ways found 'her oharmitig, but I have
noticed like others, that whenever you
reel: to drew ,her into conversation
she refuses to take her cue. She never
sits on a comtnittee, or opens' .a ba-
zaar, or says a few words" She av-
oids big ifundtions as mach as poss-
ible.
poss-
ible.:Her 'favorite setting is a ",hen.
party" of energetic, middle-aged pro-
tleyessionml women, 1. hen her ordinarily phrase goes. domesticated. G..1,3,IS.
she has a coits'iderable knowledge`o! soft n'tisicai voice rings out ill` tin- 'liirneelf, immersed in his literary
local governtien,t, and economics -iS tleseiapt country crossing the ,Smoky
photic discussion. work, eared little how he was lodged de
script
111 which `s'he is' well a' Asinvalid, G B,S, River at \'\'atino. Little agricultural,
(.Knit novo for the story of ltoryv .he or catered for, an
"us," For. 'two nears s'he ='endowed a i ;' country is' seen until the village. of
5 carne to he Alis. George Betnar presented a new problem to mi
scholars!hi in the of,:hcouont- :, Waltham is reached. From there
p Shavv. Charlotte Doyne-Towashentl Payne-Towttshend. She toot. prompt
ice an;d.','Pdtysicall''Science In .Oxford, - , ,,• 'west ;to the Saddle +River a narrnw•j
i was a daughter of Horace Payne- titeas.ures in the shape of a 'house at 'belt of good land is seed but arca
'Incidentally, when tile Cork Library Townshend a richt magnate of DerrY, YRirtdliead, in ,Surrey, to which site I
(turned n 11920, aixt a splendid collec- y the river is crossed we get into the
t County Cork. Aa 'Irish'nullionair- proposed to carry ofi'Sh;aw, Mis rnu-
tion ,of books 'wlas d �st4'oyed, it Vvasr'thcrit River country. This a5 an-
9 ess"—Shaw described his future wife titer raised no objection whatever, but
!2815.:!Shlaw w1ios`ver :lar ely'reilaced other roughly circular area of good
y g 1 when first 'mention ;lig he In one of al.iss ray ne-'Townshend lad rcciconed
it. his now famous "love" letters to `Et- ..without : the conventional side of the agricultural laird, perhaps I115 to Ifl
+ m s • part Mrs. Shaw was males in diameter, with the town of
For the t t slen Terry—"Who Inas cleverness and theoretically templet y un;eatieentiot- at C
contenrt to sit in -'the la'a;chgro total brit. , Spirit River as its centre. Again eve
character enough to decline the sta- aL'Slraw._He decllneil to be her fittest
about, twenty` years ago she made. a Bayne- find considerable pat(o-like land with
tion m, bte Meat catch for soma at Hindhead. ,But charlotte Ba
translation of 1Brieux's play "Mater- , T this some trees and brush, but for the'
b
ody—;to which it has pleased Gorl to lctvgnshend would have nowt of
girt' :and added two other fransla till her nonsense Colne to Hindhead S'ha'w most part the lana is fenced and cuL-
taons.of`pdays by tdte,French d,amait- tivated and clean of weeds.
A.soong'feritinist tti revolt against must, and be properly nursed and fed
this case taoltahe shape of an abscess paces running back from the banks to conserve surface water and usually
Which Star got on- 'bone. intep; haiw' 01 the .Peace from 115 to 125 miles, In these serve for most of the year.
clueing necrosis of the 5'haw:; length it is about 60 miles, For theThe cattle of the •Peace River coun-
was invalided on retches' most part this lana! is of clay loam, try are somewhat mixed in quality.
At that time Shaw's mother had almost
' heavy, very tenacious when wet Many of the farmers started with fair
house in Fitzroy 'lmoete, London.; y e 3 beef stock, added several head of
t l but very fertile if cultivated properly.
Theirs was.ai borne almost copiple e Y Taking the west line Eroi 2.tc'Len- dairy females, and now run the live
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herself, ,and, arklike. with
nicesectionof country; p j
it;
had for long supported him ,by gtv-
lacking to creature comforts. Mrs,
nazi for about 25 miles there is a very straits together.
(Shaw, who supported
while her son was find ng his metier, 1
most part arable and well. settled,,
ing luu•si;c lessons, 005 not, as the
good soil, some timber, but for the
After this, however, the railway runs,
through about fifty miles of very non-
From Spirit River the railway
swings 'due somhto ,Grande Prairie,
a distance of about 115 miles. A=bout
half way between these two point,
there runs a high ''ridge or succession
of ridges called 'locally the "T3ornt
Idills,” WEich is just so match waste
territory. Only scrub timber is found
on them, _ and they constitute a weal
'Advance information from the man-
agement of the Royal Winter 'Fair is
to the effect that prospects are bright-
er for the coming fair than any lin its
1rJ-year history: 'It as expected that
there will be a. particularly heavy
entry of classes of live stock and farms
products. For eight days. November
22 to 30. there will -be display some
of the best products of the land, The
;.111111.1 breeder or small land -owner
will be in competition with the
products from large holdings, The
boys' -il1'have an opportunity ti, show
their beef calves in a wide open cont-
petitiotn. Formerly it was necessary to
be q member of •a calf chub in order:tr,
show, 'but this year sty boy between
14 and 20 years of age writs has a calf
sired by a purebred bull horn on or
after Septeniher °1', awe, which he has
ist to make ,a toot'0w rc1-hat c0,itsc domestic ideals and at this time corn -
fed, cared for and fitted two month's
enable success. Moreover, `she induced
plete'iy indis'p'osed to change her name prior to fair dates, may enter .int 'eosin-.
the Stage Society to present a per- Blass Pa30 e-12o'wnsend was ihciden'tai petition.
iormailce• of "Maternity.' ly on her gu'ar'd against fortune -bunt -
Li ' he translated Bicux's "La' S
Later s ers or whorls shelvad successfully run td Winter Fair, Toronto
'Femme'Scule" as \\;ontan o1 , Het the gauntlet,' first in Dublin and later Nov, 22 to 30.
Own," and repeated her.`'prev'iouslfeat ill Loudon. Ontario Provincial Winter Fair,
by, obtaining' its performance by the
make
inl:eracoua socialism !ed her to ,Guelpilt—'December• .5' to 7.
Votresses' Frai100ise (League mill its nick b 'a, t i ' '
c k e, c l tamtance'o�f \[t and
and taken care of. The irresistible
force had met an. invnovable obstacle
and as the immovable obstacle vvas a
woman and the irresistible force only
a Alan, he had find a solution.
publicationin' another three -play sol . Webb, Oleg. Sidrlev \\b ' iilho wrote ems -
"Look here, Sans have you Bath-'
eted your corn2""asketlSenator \ran-
saran of Atrseassiopi, who ;rented a
barrier' of about !10 miles between the
untc..Of 0 she -r a!vely .c.ays: "My hos ., Spirit 'r r
„ ters'rvely an ccotomcs and l.indrod (ittic farinrto:`aii elderly \earl°, eio fertile Spirit River district' mid the
band, consented to write a pre'.farce. large agricultural area from Grtn.der
subietts and it 'was' throug'h the was to pay hint a rental of one- G
As if wild 'horse's could 'have kept bin^ Webbs that 1,1 1890 She betaine c'Prairie west. ;Once through these
a fourth o.t the corn and Bottom G
from it1 "'guaintcd with Shaw. oyes; sat, Ion ngo, bass,,, 1 hills the •, road conies In the argent
'81rs. Shave is almost es conversant g g
(Shaw+ nail :V[iss 'Payue,Toyvitshatd °'\Vasn'f 8: to' get one-fnurtl (.t- and orahabiv the 'best .expanse of
with German as with IFrenc'h, is fairy
weie_fe1lovv-.;nests of' the 1'\'ebbs sur- S�en.t.?„farming land in,the north country, the.
at'hohe with Ltallia,1, and recently has, >
rug an t\ut,uitiht holiday at Stratford "Yes, salt, but dere wti'n't i10 lo'th Grande -Prairie : Ti_4trieu: Se�sjnitf•.
tioghit herself :_enough Russian to be 5•t.'Andretvs, in sue -tato '11121 were Dere aind Clairmon are two taems north
ett .was 'es' three loads an ' r\h:,
'thrown together, a.,gia'ocl , deaf,, their s'posed des vvas grille," sail! Sam tri-' `o` 'Grande .Prairie on the railway and
Ito's,ts:lbeitag sibs°rb.ed in each ' other irmpillantly: each thriving 'as''the shopping centres
One dose of Miller's 'Worth Pow-
ders will clear the stomach and.bowels
of worms, so that the child will no
more be troubled by their ravages.
The ;powders are sweet to the taste'
and no child w=ill objcet to takiti
them. ,Theo are "non -injurious 'in itheir
composition, (1 n'h.ile iii s'orncases
they°.,may t:a0011tise vomifingathat e us't
not betakenas a sign :that they, are
nauseating, but" as an andlea tion of