Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-02
WHOLE NUN Der 902.
Mrs. COlfax nee Miss Nell. """O'


A woman Washington correspond, "
of the New York Independent sees the
bride Of the Speaker in the Diplomatic
gallery, and thus discourses concerning
her:
"Thc bride wears a gray velvet hat
and plume, with gray suit, dainty gloves,
and blue throat ribbon. There isa
very pretty costume for you Daisy!I The
somewhat numerous daLnsels who spread
their little transparent h, ,meneal nets for
"Schuyler's" wary feet, I'm sure, want to
know how the woman lOot s. who at last
secured SO desirable prize. Plain Mel
lie Wade might have blushed unseen and
wasted her sweetness on the Oiio air till
her dying day. without any "sk etchers"
troubling themselves TO tell the color Of
her eyes or the expression of her face.
But Mrs. Colfax must pay the penalty OF
place and beceme common prey to the
dreadful newspaper people, who are san
to satisfy the curiosities of all the "Su-
sizes, ""Salies,' aud 'Lucies" in the land.
Fortunately for her feelings, she bears no
aniagonisms i'll her presence to provoke
criticism. She stirs no repulsion with
mere tricious airs and the eated and con
descending sclf-consciousness which SO
many people bring from obscurity to
suddenly exalted position. One sees at
n glance that she is womanly woman,
full of tender affections and gentle house
hold ways. She has lovable face
which is so much more than one merely
pretty; a piquant little chm a mobile
mouth, full Of affection an unaggressive
nose brown, smiling eyes; a perceptive
forehead, and "bonuy brown hair" All
these you see while she speaks; but in re-
pose deeper expression, thoughtful and
earnest, comes into brow and eyes from
within. 1t is the face of q woman hold
ing in her soul the latent capacity for a
life deeper and fuller than she has hither-
to lived; whose heart and brain are young
er than her years, though lack of the per-
feet atmosphere in which they are yet 10
grow and ripen into higher fulfillment.
am glad that all the matchmaking
Flummeries and Popinjays have been dis
appointed. That in stead of a jaded
young lady of fashion, with very bad d.
gestion, Mr. Colfax has brought straight
from her farmhouse home sweet, true,
intelligent, 'selfadjusted" womln to fill
the second social position in the gift of
the nation. While Dollie Popinjay was
dancing round dances in the small hours
of the morning, wasting in dissipation the
first sweetness and purity of youth, Ell
en- Wade, in an obscure home, was fulfill
ing her daily round OF loving household
cares nursing by her own hearth the in
firm and aged learning patience, selffor-
gettulness, and devotion, gaining quiet
wisdom, selt-coutrol, and deepened force
of affection. Now she has only to be
true to that early discipline in the larger
opportunity which God has given her to
let her influence, like blessed bensdic-
ton, widen out over the land. How we
need such women to guard the sanetities
of the household in high places; to open
wide the hospitable doors of happy
homes 20 the people, that all who enter
them may realize more and more, that the
homes of the land are the strongholds Of
the nation.