Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-05-13

The pretty stone house, No. 41S Franklin
street, in which Miss Folsom was born, is
shown in the illustration. While our artist
was making this sketch he says that an old
maid with corkscrew ringlets sided up to
him to volunteer this: $50 you're sketching
Frankie's birthplace, are youf Well, my
opinion is Grover 'dorto marry the mother,
not the girl"
The matter OF pictures of Miss Folsom Is
with her lady friends particularly gossipy
hobby They all claim to have one, but the
funny thing about it is that they can never
be prevailed upon to show it. There Is
story now that Miss Folsom, during her stay
in Washington few months since, had SIX
taken: that the president has one, Miss Gregg,
of Buffalo, another, and Buffalo lawyer the
third. Where the rest are is not known, but
they are said to be all carefully catalogued,
and not one of them, if any exist, can be seen
for love or money. Everybody claims that
the one she had taken when she graduated
from the Buffalo Central school is the only
one that looks like her, and it is from this
photograph that our engraving is made.
There is craze for newspaper portraiting
at present and photographs of prominent
people will be got by the able journals at
any cost. They do it merely to supply the
demand among their readers for such Illus
trations and not with fiendish desire to dis
tress nice people. If the persons whose pho
tos are wanted refuse to give them, then the
next best thing is done by the newspapers,
which is to get them some other way. The
honorable ones often have a skillful artist
steal upon the person unawares, and with
few lightning strokes, produce an outline
sketch which is recognized at once. News
papers have many other ways of getting por-
traits. In fact there is no such thing as their
not being able to obtain one. Therefore,
if a respectable journal wants your portrait
give it quietly and graciously.
The fair and gracious young lady, who it
Is said, will shortly be Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
Is now in Genoa, Italy, with her widowed
mother but is expected home about May 20.
She is the daughter Of the presidents former
law partner, in Buffalo. She was born in
Buffalo, in 1864 consequentlyis r % years old;
two and half years less than half as old as
her presi iential lover. But if she and Grover
want to marry each other, their respective
ages are none of my business, certainly. Miss
Frances is said to be rather a serious minded
girl, given to intellectual pleasures IAther
than to the frivoities of the dance. the racket
and the kettle-drum.
She first attended, history says, the Buffalo
high school, then graduated at Wells college,
so she is fairly educated, as womens So
called colleges go, which is not very
far. She was the star student of
her class at Wells. She is a gentle, lovely
girl, those who know her here say, quite
good enough to be the wife of the best presi-
dent that ever occupied the White House.
She had little romance in her life a few
years ago. She was betrothed to q Mr.
Charles Townsend, who concluded to be a
preacher. After studying theology a while
Charles decided he could not love her as he
ought and told her so. She released him.
When she becomes Mrs. President, Rev.
Charles will have chance to chew the cud
of bitter fancies
When she was Is, Miss ''Frankie" presided
over booth at fair in Buffalo, and in a
vote of 5000 won the first prize for her
beauty and amiability. The Folsom family
is one of the oldest in America, dating back
to 163S.