The troops of friends of Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen admire her for her delightful charm, her tolerance of frailty, her laughing understanding of worldliness. She lives heartily, enjoys the world’s feasts.
Otherwise unlike her father, William Jennings Bryan, she does resemble him, however, in her taste for political carnage. Recently she entered the battle for a Florida Congressional -representativeship, and the struggle was mighty, for at its end the count showed that her opponent, Congressman Sears, was ahead by 426 votes out of 40,500 cast. Mrs. Owen asked a recount.
Ruth Bryan eloped shortly before the War with Major Reginald Owen, a British army officer, and accompanied him in service in Palestine. Her political opponents declare her ineligible for office through her loss of citizenship on marrying Major Owen. However, this is not true. The Cable Act of 1922 provides that an American woman citizen does not lose her citizenship upon marriage to an alien.
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