The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-22

his heart had been left toward the girl behind
him, and went back there and continued for a
while to teach, But, no doubt, the love between
this pair could not be wholly concealed from sus-
pectng eyes. That has probably been at the
bottom of the suspicious In Kentucky that even
there he was dangerously enamored.
Blaine went to his native State and there mar
ried, and had the marriage recorded and had it
witnessed. Exactly the same conditions at
tached to Andrew Jaeksons marriage. He mar
ried honestly, as he thought, once, but, finding,
after some years, that his wife had not been d.
vorced he went and married her again. During
his presidential campaign this marriage was
brought up IN every possible form, and them as
in Blaines case jackson, for the first time, took
pains to have it clearly explained, and the ex-
PLANTATION even now is ambiguous.
After being married at Pittsburg, Mr. Blaine
and his wife found employment where they
could both teach, as they were both very poor.
They were engaged in the Blind Asylum at Phil
adelphia. During that time he made an effort
to get living on the newspapers, and wrote be-
tween the hours of teaching for the Philadelphia
Inquirer; but IN those days outside contributions
were hardly ever paid for, and the young man,
who had shown capacity in composition, found,
through his wife's family. an opening on a
newspaper in the State of Maine.
1t is these little things undertaken in the
warmth of youth which are the most exagger
ated when a career ripens upon the enormous
scale of MIR. Blaine's. People obscurely or Sc
cretly married hear nothing about it until they
memory, whispers suspicion and it goes
around with amplifcations and inventions
until there comes a time in life when a man
must turn for the honor of his children and
throw his confidence upon the world. That he
was truly in love, content with his choice, de-
sirous of more love there, are amply shown in
his nntroubled married life, attended with many
children, and. more than any public man | know
of Dir. Blaine has travelled about in his wifes
company. have seen them come in from Har
pers Ferry and the mountain regions of Vir-
ginia and Maryland to the Washington depot full
of dirt and happy as picnic party Gail Ham
ilton, Mrs. Blaine's cousin, generally accom-
panied them. She is now middle aged woman,
/ understand.
From Kentucky, as Blaine developed in Maine
this story was sent along, and about eighteen
years ago it was published in Maine news
paper which Blaine brought suit against, and the
paper withdrew the charge. The New York
evening Post in its INSCRIPTIONS course toward
Mf. Blaine, threatened before his nomination
that it had great secret to put out The editor
of that paper is prepared to believe anything
against any person on the first whisper of scan
DIAL ] asked a gentleman who has
known Mrs. Blaine merely as his friends wife,
not affectionately even in that relation, but who
has since the presidential campaign opened had
better opportunity to study her, what his es-
innate of Mrs Blaine was Said he: That is
the most overlooked great woman In America.
She is a Puritan with the old Puritan virtues,
like Lady Hutchinson and Cromwell's wife. She
will not bend to this Washington society because
its frivolous, and ambitious, and hollow nature
does not command either her admiration or in
terest She has seen it all for years, and has
remained at home with her family, which has
been constantly growing, while Blaine
has been in public life. She is not
austere, not prude, but she has decided
principles, understands her own mind, and es-
pecially understands her husband She watches
him, said my friend, with an eye that never
leaves him. She is his superior in good many
things. Blaine is not orderly, not methodical,
does not leave everything behind in ship shape.
He loses paper every now and then and gets
fdgety, and his wife says: Now father. don't
fret perhaps | can find it. And she generally
does find it. because she has watched him SO
closely that she perceives the method which lies
IN his disorder. An unmethodcal man. if you
watch him, does certain things and forgets them,
like sleep walker She does not allow herself
to become disturbed because he does show dis
turbanee She is the center of the family, and
he calls her his prop When he prepared the
late letter for publication Mr.. Blaine said of his
wife She has been my sheet anchor, my prop.
don't suppose should ever have amounted to
anything but for her. The older we get the
more necessary she is to me. My father and his
father before him were rather shiftless, and
made an effort to improve, but don't know that
lever should have done so but for Mrs. Blaine"
My acquaintance. continuing said She is a
remarkable fine critic. She is very prudent be-
fore strangers and you would not think she
paid much attention. But when the evening
has come and strangers are gone, she sits before
the fire, and yon will hear the quaintest and
funniest remarks on the incidents of the day.
She has seen every body, and picked out the
peculiarities of all As school teacher she
must have been very thorough, for even now
she can write as good a letter as Gail Hamilton,
who is a professional writer. Mrs Blaine has
not the least idea OF literary life is nothing of
blue stocking, but the spelling the punctuation
the syntax Of her letters, show that she trained
herself completely, and all that she knows she
knows thoroughly. She is not an uninterest-
ing woman to.look at now, and in youth was
probably beautiful