The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-12

She Is Good Wife, q Good Mother, Good
Neighbor.

She Is Good Wife, Good Mother, Good
Neighbor.
New York World.
A charming woman just home from abroad,
stopping for few days at the Gedney House,
was the most attractive creature In the world
yesterday to the group Of Washington women
who surrounded her. In the first place, she
knows Washington she does her alphabet,
and in the second place she knows Mrs. Harri-
son she does its first letter. A cluster OF
callers had resolved itself into symposium, and
as its leader this woman Of information was
telling what they might expect to see and hear
next March.
IL have known Mrs. Harrison as neighbor
ever since / was first married, and she was still
young married woman, and she is just the
same sort of q woman to-day that she ives then.
When knew them fret they lived still in the
little cottage, with the two rooms on the lower
floor. the room on the one side of the hall being
the paror. and the other the family sitting.
room. They were very economical and careful
in those days and there rarely FIRE
in the little psrlor, but instead all
guests were taken into the sitting room,
where Mrs. Harrison sat and sewed, and tended
her babies, as she is even now attending her
daughters. She loved her children, and she was
a good mother in every way to both Mamie and
Russell They have certainly done WELL Mamie
is married TO an ambitious and rsiable young
merchant, and the boy, Russell Harrison, is
already a rich man. He was superintendent CT
the assay Office. at Helena, for a number Of
years, on a salary of s., 500, and was just about
to resign from that when one of his men, whom
he had discharged for drunkenness and iucom-
potency, accused him Of crookedness in his ac-
counts or course both Russell and his father
demanded thorough examination OF bis affairs.
and he was fully exonorated. After that he did
resign, and is now president OF the National
Cattle Company. which he organized and put
into operation, and has besides, O large interest
in cattle ranch in Montana, and, think, q
horse ranch, too He is said to be worth now
between $4,000 and 100000, and is only
little over thirty years DID,"
His wife is probably one OF those who will
be with Mrs. Harrison in Washington. besides
her daughter and her sister. Mamie has never
been really pretty, bsing always so pale as to
look extremely delicate. but she is q bright,
musical, splendidly educated and well bred GIRL
Mrs Russell Harrison. on the other hand, Is not
only clever and attractive, but very beautiful
and spiendid-mannered woman.
81 have noticed that Mrs Beniemin Harrison
is called pretty woman Pretty she never
was, but good and Kind always. She is short
and quite stout she dresses very we'll, and keeps
herself up to the times and above all things she
is good housekeeper and good church
woman
at this point listening woman broke in, say
ing with alarmed look upon her face:
will she NEEDLE, do you think, with the state
dinners and with the Administrations
Don't you be alarmed, my DEAR" was the
answer. "If you knew General Harrison you
| dies with what is his affair without his per-
| mission; and more than that, Mrs, Harrison Is
| SO completely woman OF sense that am sure
| she would consider it was none OF her business.
She is tell you, woman Of great sense and
O kind hearted, we'll bred woman besides Her
married life has been happy one, and she re-
| spects her husbands ideas and he respects hers.
| She will carry the Same ideas into the White
| House, / am convinced. She will be her own
| first lady, and ne one will be able either to
make her uncomfortable or betray her into a
| false position"
How about her entertairingp pursued the
| one who had evidently most masculine taste
| for things that arc good
I'm Indianapolis Mrs Harrison has enter
| tanned we'll Never extensively and for the
| sake of fashion, but always we'll. When they
| were in Washington they escaped always from
| entertaining deliberately, for Mr.. Harrison is an
honest politician and not q rich man. and il was
| a matter Of economy. But when IL comes to
being portion of her duty am sure Mrs. Har-
rison will fulfil all social and official require
| meRts, and do it handsomely"
| "And the famous punchl"
| 81 do not believe Mrs. Harrison ever had a
| punch in her house that was worse than Presi-
| dent Harrison's egg-nog You know, that was
made with cider Before went abroad no.
| ticed that Mrs Harrison had imbibed some Of
| the ideas of the advanced women of the day.
| but have notion that she will ever carry
| them to any great extent. She is not Puri-
tancal, narrow minded woman; she is simply q
| good woman. She has always been devoted to
church work, and for years and years taught
| the infant class in the Sundsy-school So is tho
| General q good churchman, for that matter
voted for him myself to be elder in our church
when he was only thirty-two years old And
his record in the church has been just like that
| IN his home and in his political career-without
| smirch. / am az good Democrat as ever
| lived, but do know a good husband, and good
father, and good man when see him.