New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-30
The Speakers wife.

Mary Clemmer Ames writes 10 the
NJ York Independent from Washington.
letter describing the occupants of the
v matte Gallery at the opening of the
session, she writes:
1Gl The front seat sit the new Vice.Presi-
70 As bride and sister. The bride wears a
Iyevet hat and plume, with gray suit,
Nv gloves, and blue throat ribbon.
ofHe Is pretty costume for you, Daisy y
Isomewhat numerous damsels who
their little transparent hymeneal
Ior "Schuyler's" wary feet, I'm sure,
AID to know how the woman looks who at
cuIsecured so desirable a prize. Plain
Nv Wade" might have blushed unseen
Easted her sweetness on the Ohio air
@,er dying day, without any "sketchers"
cabling themselves to tell the color of her
1nV or the expression of her face. But
Colfax must pay the penalty Of place
JO become common prey to the dreadful
!, paper people, who are paid to satisfy
n Curiosity of all the Susies, Sallies and
p Be- in the land. Fortunately for her feel.
IN she bears no antagonisms in her pres
III TO provoke criticism. She stirs no
ar lion with meretricious airs and the
~ a and condescending self.consciousness
III b so many people bring from obscurity
IOl Suddenly exalted position. One sees at
,r, ince that she is a womanly woman, full
acA slder affections and gentle, household
lda She has loyable tace-which is so
,gs more than one merely pretty-a
dhlnt little chin; mobile mouth, full of
scto ion; an unaggressive nose; brown,
a3n e eyes, perceptive forehead, and
viii bic brown hair" All these you see
p she speaks; but in repose deeper
10 70 kson, thoughtful and earnest, comes
wv row and eyes from within. 1t is the
Gun Va woman holding in her soul the
e5s be has hitherto lived; whose heart
ate rain are younger than her years,
0,, HI lack of the perfect atmosphere in
III they are yet to grow and ripen into a
a fdlbl ment.
X h glad that all the matchmaking fun
N les and popinjays have been disappoint-
N That instead Of faded young lady OF
WY on, with powdered face, perverted
III and a very bad digestion, Mr.. ColfaX
Brought straight from her farm house
N, sweet, true, intelligent, self
esn ed7 woman to fill the second social
lsh IN in the gift of the nation. While
>. Poplnjay was dancing round dances
sqH small hours of morning, wasting in
IN tion the first sweetness and purity oil
IN Ellen Wade, in an obscure home,
one Milling her daily round of loving
j ST old cares, nursing by her own
a, the aged and infrm; learning pa
! % self-forgetfulness, and devotion;
Psa X a quiet wisdom, self-control
III deepened force of affection
q she has only to be true to that early
line in the larger opportunity which
~ las given her, to let her influence, like
,pra| ssed benediction, widen out over al
and. How we need such women tt
vel the sanctities of the household il
w places; to open wide the hospitablt
Of happy homes to the people, thai
II no enter them may realize, more ant
( that the homes of the land are the
gholds of the nation For you. a
H. believe, my Independent, that it is no
is rger intellectual life, nor in the swift
VII Ag struggle for the natural rights o
d pship, that the fairest type of woman
on Is fading out. But it is being los
an day in the inanity, idleness and selfish
IL. born of the unoccupied and aimlesi
I0S of thousands of women, to whom homt
5 only an establishment" and thus
an unfortunate biped, born to pa.
milliners' bills.