Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1902 — FIRST LADY OF CUBA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIRST LADY OF CUBA.

Simple Life of the Wife of Cuba's First President. A quaint little woman, with raven hair and dark eyes, is Mrs. Tomas Estrada Palma, wife of the first President of the

Cuban republic. Mrs. Palma is n woman of simple tastes. She is still the loving wife of the country schoolmaster, and she does not seem to think that the political honors thrust upon her husband entitle her to hold her head any higher. Mrs. Palma shrinks from pub-

lic attention. Her desire to escape. it is honest, and she resorts to many subterfuges to avoid it. For nineteen years she has been living in the little village of Central Valley, about fifty miles from New York, whei* her husband taught school. Mr. and Mrs. Palma have six children, and they are indeed a happy family. Mrs. Palma would not have exchanged her simple New York home for the palace at Havana were it not for the devotion of her husband to the island for whose freedom he struggled as an unselfish patriot, being finally driven out by Spain.

MBS. PALMA.