Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-06-10
Mrs. Cleveland.

The bride of the President comes
near to the hearts of the people because
she is thoroughly American in her he
redity, and representative of a grea
type OF American womanhood. Her
life, too, has been passed amid sur
roundings and under influences which
are peculiar to our republican society
and can be comprehended and appre.
cIated in all their bearings only by bel
own countrymen, who do not find il
difficult to picture To themselves the
woman whose character and DISPOSE
ton have been so moulded.
Like so great part of those who
have risen TO honor and wealth in this
republic, Mrs. Cleveland is descended
from the tillers of the soil-from what
is known in Eng land as the yeoman
class. The Folsom family were among
the earliest settlers in Massachusetts,
and in time, after the American habit,
it's different branches were distri buted
over different States, so that at the be.
ginning of this century her great
grandfather came from Vermont To
Wyoming county, in New York, to
take advantage of the fertility of that
rich agricultural region. Her grand.
father started life with hard stuggle,
but he mastered the difficulties and
earned handsome competence for his
old age. Her father passed his youth
on the paternal farm, which he left to
enter Rochester University, where he
was graduated in 1859, and prepared
for the study of the law, whose practice
he pursued in Buffalo with more than
average success.
On the maternal side also Mrs. Cleve-
a IL c far
from pious, industrious, prudent. and
thrifty people, who helped to make the
Genesee Valley the garden it is. Her
mother is the daughter of family
whose name is well known i'm western
New York for continuous and success
ful pursuit of agriculture aud for its
deep religious convictions. Mrs. Cleve-
land herself was born in Buffalo in
1864, while her father was yet strug-
Cling for the position he won at the
bar. Her youth was passed in home
of modest pretentions, but of every
comfort, and the greatest care was Civ
en- to her education. She was trained
to religious sense of duty, and life
was put before her as altogether seri-
Gus and demanding earnest application
to work and conscientious regard for
obligation. After the death of her
father, when she was eleven years old,
she was sent to a high school at the
village home of her maternal grand
mother, such as thousands of country
girls are to-day attending. Later she
was in a public school at Buffalo, and
from it she went to Wells College, OF
female seminary, from which she was
graduated one year ago thia month.
Mrs. Cleveland therefore has passed
through an average American eXpe.
rience, and has come from domestic
atmosphere which is familiar to most
girls who have been bred in comforta.
BILE circumstances, especially in the
country. She has been carefully IN
structed, and has been taught by ex-
ample and by precept that her depend.
ence must be on herself, and that moth
ing worth having in life is obtainable
duty, seIf-sacriiice, self-denial, and
humble obedience to the commands OF
God.
She is thus a simple and representa-
tive American woman, to whom the
ways of snohbish society are unknown,
and who has no sympathy with the
false standards and nprepubiican dis
tinctions that are tco often set up.
They are far apart from her, and be-
long to land of which she has no un.
derstanding and in which she would
have no citizenship.
All hail, then, to the bride of the
White House, the simple and true
hearted American girl! May peace
and happiness ever attend her! May
her gentle faith in God and man be re-
warded with the richest gifts and
choicest blessings life can bestow,
That is the prayer of every man and
every woman in the republic to-day
aud the nvoca ton Games straight: from
their hearts,-W. Y. Sun.