Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont is, so far as American women go, a great lady, a very great lady indeed. She divorced the late William K. Vanderbilt for his pleasures; she remarried; she gave money to help the poor. For many years her clear-hewn, masculine face, wearing, under a shock of cropped hair, few traces of the beauty that made her famous as a girl, has stared down charity committees; her voice, one of those feminine baritones that the years bring to great ladies who express themselves emphatically, has harangued women in clubs and...
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