Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-05-11
JOHN TYLER.

srids and saleratuS; but Ex-Governor
Wise, of Virginia i'll his recently pub
liShed and very clever volume, Seven
decades of the Union well deserves
reading. gives an account of President
, Tylers second marriage that is very lh-
tereSting. Mr. Tyler became widower
while he was President, losing wife
who was a very noble woman, mem
Der of the well known family of Chris
I tian. in the Old Dominion He was i
domestic man. and a pure man, and 4
second marriage is the most natural
thing in the world when man has been
happy in the first marriage; but then IL
is thought that a widower should marry
a lady of experience not unlike his own.
/ Mr.. Wise saws that he was in Mr.. Ty-
/ ler's coach. taking 4 drive with him, in
March. 1914, when he soon discovered
that his friend would talk only Of love
and ladies'. We had always heard,
! said Mr. Wise. that an old fool is the
worst of fools in love sickness, and he
showed the usual signs, of its conior-
llDIlS llllO mucous NilsAI VI HNNl'AA''t
He got it out at last that he thought of
marriage, and wanted to know our opin-
ION on the subject We'll of course
! YOU have sought and found ont some
highly honored dame of dignity, who
can bring grace to the White House
and add to your domestic comfort!
oh, no dame, but sweet damSeI.
Who, pray, Of damsel degree could or
. should IN old President win! He told
us. and we uttered our establishment 10y
asking, 'IIaye YOU really won her! He
replied. Yes; and why should | not!
We answered that he was too far al
vanced in life TO be imprudent in a love
scrape How imprudent! he asked.
Easily; YOU are not only past the mid
die age, Qe was then 5i,) but You are
President of the United States, and that
is a dazzling dignity, which may charm
a damsel more than the man shcmaricS.
Pooh! he cried chuckling. ~ hy, my
dear sir, am just full in my prime!
| All, but has John y. Mason told you
/ about an old friend of his on the south
side of the James, rich and full of acres,
calling his African waiter, Toncy, into
council upon the tendor topic OF marry
inc a miss in her teens? Toncy shook
his head and said, 'MasSa, YOU think YOU
can stand dat! Yes Tony; why not!
! She is so sweet, so beautiful, that she
would make me rise from a bed ofiIlnesS
and weakness to WOO her for a bride;
but am yet strong, and can now, rs
well as ever | could, make her happy,
Yes; but, AIassa, says Toncy, you is
now in your prime, dat true; but, when
she is in her prime, where den Massa,
will your prime he!
He laughed heartily at Toncy's philo
sophical observation, but attcrward, i'll
seriousness, said that he longcd for the
renewal of his domestic life, and had
been fairly caught by the flame of Miss
Gardiner. We demonstrated that his
life was renewed in his children in that
he had daughters, full OF grace, fit to do
the honors of the White House, and
some of them were the elders Of his in
tended. What if family dissent should
make domestic jars, and his latter days
be troubled? He had, he said, always
been too tender to the pledges of hls
past love for them ever towlthhold from
him their tilal confidence, or deny to
him his parental authority to Judge and
act for his own happiness, Wcsa the
game was up, and then said: we see
YOU are beyond counsel, and YOU have
ever been too lucky torus now to doubt
or distrust your fate. You are going
10 marry the damsel, and we are not
foolish enough to make two enemies by
opposing the passion Of the woocr and
the won. The marriage took place on
the 2Gth Of June, 1914. President Ty
Ter being then in his 55th year, and the
bride, Miss Julia Gardiner, about 20
and whom we remember being much
spoken of as a beautiful girl, anda Wash
ington Belle Of those long gone days
She was New York lady, of good fam
ilv, as the phrase is, and descended We
have heard, from old Lyon Gardiner
who tourishcd in the colonial age, and
who gave his name to Gardeners Bay
and GARDENERS Island, on and in Long
Island Sound The marriage proved Z
very h2ppy one, and Mrs. Tyler, who
has survived her husband more than tel
years, is not vet old. Mr. Tyler some
years after the marriage, sad to Mr
Wise, when the latter noted that hi'
friend kept "a double seated, four wheel
ed, wicker carriage for small children.
Yes, YOU see how right it was; it was nc
vain boast when told YOU was in my
prime. | have 4 household Of goodly
babies budding around me, and if YOU
will 90 up with me to Sherwood, / vii
show YOU how bountifully and rapidly
have been blessed. They are all 50
near in age that they are like stair steps
and the two youngest are so much ba
bies alike that each requires the nurse :
coach, and We have to have one will
two-seatsr SO that marriage turned out
well, despite the fact that the gentleman
was old enough to be the Iadys grand
father, and We are glad Of it, for Mr.
Tyler had so murh injustice done him
as n public man that he was entitled to
compensation in his private life.
4 portion of the palisade at the West
Virginia penitentiary blew down Oh