Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-30
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HOW Nh. AND MRS. GLADSTONE APPEARED 10 THE
CHANCE SPECTATORS IN A CHURCH.
Correspondence Of the Boston He aid
We are always curious TO know something OF the
domestic life OF great men, and wish to know If
the wife has had any part in the husbands sue
cess 1t is always said that Mrs. Gladstone has
been helpmeet indeed, and one would be LED TO
this opinion from the sweet, wifely. mOtherly eX-
preston OF her countenance. Mrs. Gladstone does
not look older than an American lady commonly
does at nfty. Her hair is almost black and her
face is almost free from lines aud wrinkles Eng
lSh women OF the last generation dressed hid
eously, as the majority OF the present generation
do. And Mrs. Gladstone, IN respect or dress, be-
longs to both past aud present. She always looks
dowdy. one cannot get over the feeling when See
ing her that She is OF bourgeois origin II did
lOnged TO what is called here the ''shop
keeping class" When she came into the chapel on
commonly sweet and spiritual Her smile tells the
story OF a true and gentle heart But. Why
should any lady dress so barharously? The pulled
out hair the big, il-shaped bonnet, with the Old
fashioned spotted ve q long, rather rusty velvet
cloak, with wide fur trimmings and ungloved
hands. did not seem suitable to the face: During
the service, when Mrs. Gladstone removed her
cloak she put On light coarsey-kntted worsted
shawl and then, to me the picture OF odds and ends
But to Mr.. Gladstone: was panied to see him.
He shufIled into the chapel and into his pew with
strength OF will trying TO overcome weakness OF
limb. He looked two inches shorter than he did
four years ago His face is fun OF crows feet.
Lines and wrinkles run In every direction upon Il
and II he were one hundred years old his face could
not be more wien and worn. The withered,
pnched face with Its tpenetratng restless eyes,
was almost weird / sat immediately facing the
prime minister, and within ten feet OF him, and
must say-I am bound TO say-that his presence
panied me all the while was Ia the chapel. He is
q man with great trouble on his mind. or else no
face In this world ever told the story or trouble.
When he closed his eyes in prayer-and peeped
several time to See-there was almost an agony on
his countenance. He was so uneasy and restless
when standing up, SO fdgety With the books and
his fan, that It was deeply painful to see him
avid WOMAN IN IowA-A dispatch from d.
buNue, Iowa, says mysterious wild woman was
seen by hunters in the woods near Gordon Ferry,
twelve miles north OF that city, Sunday. She is
described as about twenty years OF age, with 1.-THE
sipewy form, 9 recedlng forehead ani eyes OF IN,
natural luster Her hair was black and about three
feet long. She was almost nude, and wore neither
shoes nor stockings No one Ia the neighborhood
can give any Information regarding the strange
creature, but IL Is stated by OF the older resi-
dents that four years ago the daughter or farmer
In a small Illinois town, who had been engaged TO
be married to awell-to-do farmer. had mysteriously
disappeared because OF the refusal CT her parents
to give their consent and has not since been SEEN
II Is supposed that she subsists and herbs
and lives In some cave among the rocks. An effort
viii soon be made 20 capture her.
jar GOULD AND OTHERS RETIRE-At meeting
OF the directors OF the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road yesterday, the designations OF Messrs c. c.
Baldwin, Jay Gould, Russell Sage Thomas f. Ryan
and John E. Greene were accepted. and Messrs r.
w. FoOte, j. ID. ProbSt. j. H. Lindeyherger, presi-