Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1889 — Helen Densmore. [ARTICLE]

Helen Densmore.

New York lias many interesting women, and not the least among them is Dr. Helen Densmore. Helen Densmore used to be Helen Barnard, and under that name there are many newspaper men who remember her as a tall, handsome woman, with a shapely head and a profusion of yellow hair, who sat for years the only woman in the reporters’ gallery of the House of Bepresentatives, aud taking notes and writing letters as if a man—and a clever man—were knocking off the sentences. Helen Barnard was a figure in the political and journalistic circles of XX 7 ashington. Lamar, Garfield, Butler and J ere Black held many an animated discussion with her. When a mission was organized to look into the treatment of emigrants in the steerage crossing the Atlantic Butler went to President Grant and had Mrs. Barnard appointed on it at the same salary received by the men. The gentlemen on that commission had a fine time at the X 7 ienna Exposition, but saw few emigrants. Helen Bari...rd put on an old dress and sailed from Liverpool to New York in the steerage of the Inman Line. Unless she found the privations and abuse of that passage considerably less than I did when I investigated the charges made in twelve or fifteen years, it is easy to believe that a deal of earnestness went into her report, which was pronounced one of the ablest state papers, on file at Washington. From journalism Helen Barnard went into medicine, and the same graceful woman, with firm-set chin and decisive mouth, is the physician best known as a successor to Banting in the cure of obesity. Dr. Densmore eats only one meal and is a personally strict vegetarian.— Mail and Express. The world always judges a man (and rightly enough, too,) by his little faults, which he shows a hundred times a dav, rather than by his great virtues, which he discloses perhaps but once in a lifetime, and to a single person—nay, in proportion as they are rarer, and he is nobler, is shyer of letting their existence be known at all. ’Tis hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and eardurance. Concert tires people to a contain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.