Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-21

ueu 70 tno tnestimabie value to him OF
his wife's counsel and companionship.
One OF the foremost women Of tho day
wears among her other trophies the max.
Ing Of one Of the foremost men OF his
time. It Is no reflection on Gen. Logan
10 say that but for his noble and intellec-
tual wife he could never have attained
the great fame which was his. She not
only gave him love and comfort, but
added her brains 10 his, was In all things
his equal and in many his superior. Gen.
Logan himself used to say: "Mary, I
know why you are so easily satisfied
with all that do. You made me-" Tho
late Samuel 8. Cox owed nearly as much
to his wife as Washington did to the
widow Custis. She brought him much
OF tho property which added to his COM
fort and usefulness, and her care un-
doubtcdly prolonged his life for mum.
Der Of years.
A plain, old fashioned woman Il Mrs.
Thurman. Of Columbus, o. No woman
more unobtrusive, more gentle. Yet I
once heard tho old Roman pay this trib.
ute to his Roman wife: "Without her I
would have been pretty small potatoes
and few TO the hill" Ex-senator Nc
Donald, Of Indiana, Is another public
man who has wife that Is to him
tower Of strength, and cx-Speaker Car.
Isle Is still another. Mrs. Carlisle is a
tall, intellectual Kentucky woman, to
whom all tho arts and graces Of society
como easily and with such perfect mas.
terry that one thinks: " 'Tis q pity her
energies have to be expended in pretty
frivolities." As man she would take
high place in law, politics or war.
Like Mrs. Logan, she Is woman who
would lead had the nation adopted the
suffrage system Of which gifted Abigail
Adams was the first champion. Mrs.
Adams wanted women to vote and hold
Office, and one can almost wish she had
had her way about 1t. From Abigail
herself down to Mrs. Logan and Mrs.
Carlisle, every decade has produced
scores of women whose inability to servo
their country was the country's loss.
Herself dcbarred from tho field Of poll.
tics, Mrs. Carlisle's ambition Is Of course
centered In her husband. It was bit.
ter disappointment TO her when the
chief justiceship went to another, but
she still entertains hopes that Mr.. Car
Isle will be president somo day.
Secretary Noble has wife TO be proud
Of. Her share In the elevation of her
husband TO his high place cannot, of
course, be accurately measured, but of
her good sense and modesty no doubt
exists. On being asked recently for her
opinion as to wives helping husbands IN
their career, she replied: 81 have always
felt that n genuine man who had tho
stuff in him to achieve great things
would do 1t, wife or no wife, though, Of
course, wives do help their husbands i'm.
mcnscly. l have never pretended to
make my husband. have simply de-
sired to keep up with him. | have
deemed it my duty to relieve him Of all
domestic cares. am just as much
chief in the house as Mr.. Noble il in
his office. He leaves everything to my
taste and judgment, and no has not a
single care beyond furnishing the where.
withal to do 1t. He has nothing to do
but enjoy his home when no comes into
it,"
Mrs. Morton, wife Of tho vico presi-
dent, who is very likely to be the social
leader Of tho administration, AZ Mrs.
Whitney was Of tho Cleveland regime,
is woman who has exerted marked in.
iluence upon her husbands career. As
for Mrs. Whitney. she il q genuine
American woman, full OF ambition for
her husband and indefatigable in her
efforts to advance him and make him
popular. She has brains, too, and knows
good deal Of the game Of politics. Mrs.
Whitney has much to mako her happy,
and Is q happy woman, but she will
never bo thoroughly happy till her hus.
band Is In tho White Honse.
Mrs. Whitney's mother was just such
a woman. Her dover. a tract Of land in
the city Of Cleveland, o., was the foun-
dation OF her husbands now great for
tune, and that which gave him oppor-
tunity to find rest from professional cares
In the political chase.
But 1t is idle to attempt further illus
trations Of the principle. Wherever one
turns in this city Of successful public
men, one finds wives who are more than
vines clinging to tall oaks, wives who
have in one way or another, through fate
or purpose, intellectual force or moral
stamina. served to bring out the best that
is in their husbands and mako them the
famous personages they are.
WALTER WELiMAN.