St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-31

to be the moSt-talked-about member of
President Harrison's cabinet. He has
score of qualities and attributes that
will make him splendid material for
newspaper mems sketches and for Cos
sips chat. Besides, he is SO new to the
public that everything about him will
not only be interesting in itself, but will
have the additional attraction OF fresh
ness.
Apropos, how picturesque was it that
the new cabinet minister should pass
his first Sunday in Office teaching the
five hundred and odd boys and girls
who form his own special class in
Bethany Church Sunday-School of
which he is superintendent.
He will not travel by rail on Sunday
if he can avoid it. and so he came up
from Washington on Saturday night so
as to be on hand bright and early Sun
day afternoon at the mission"
He has a good deal of hard
sense, however, and though a
strict Presbyterian, he doesn't hest
tate about riding in the railway cars on
the Lords Day if he finds it reasonably
necessary. He doesn't, for example, re-
main at his country place all day Sun
days, because IL would be impractical
BILE to come into town in any other way
than over the iron rails.
Amid all the work of the late cam
paign he never missed Sunday after
noon at Bethany mission. He finds his
work there not only, as he thinks, a
good thing in itself, but also an abso-
Lutte recreation for his heavily burdened
mind. He is practically the founder of
the church, which exists in part
OF the town that has become the
more respectable in accordance as MI.
Wanamaker's religious enterprise grew
and propcred. There is a lyceum and
q school connected with the church, and
the Supday-schOoi is one of the largest
III the city. Mr.. Wanamaker has given
more than 100000 to put up the
necessary buildings and carry Oh
the work. OF course, he is the
patriarch of the church. and
his flock rejoiced with him in filial en-
thusiasm upon his appointment to the
postoffice department. He is engaged
anthropic enterprises, all of them, |
fancy. affording him good deal Of
pleasure, but none so dear to his
heart as Bethany" Though SO
religious, he doesn't object to further
diluting the business matter with which
his brain is filled by reading a good
novel. He is fond, too, of children IS
story books OF the kind that are most to
be found in Sunday school libraries.
He sometimes finds a passage in them
with which to adorn or point his adj
dresses to the Sunday school pupils.
You might call the novel his only
compromise with Puritan rigor. He
doesn't use tobacco in any form; he has
never been at theater or circus; he
doesn't dance, and he not only does not
drink, but he never places wine before
other people. He will not change
his position, either, during his
residence at Washington. AT a din
ner which he gave at his country place
to Vice President Morton, shortly after
the election, some of his guests were
delighted to see the table provided with
handsome wine glasses. At the proper
time the glasses were filled, too, with
a fixing liquid. A taste was enough
ale-but ginger ale. He doesn't,
however, interfere with the drink
ing propenSities of other people.
Other people may go to the theater,
also, il they please, without meeting
any rebuke from him. One of his sons
is quite fond of the theater. and is
pretty sure to be seen in a good place
in the parquet on all the most interest
ing nights. His wife always accompa-
MES him.
Mrs. John Wanamaker, however,
holds the opinion of her husband OH all
these debatable questions. She takes
great interest, too, in his charitable
and religious work, and shares some of
it. She gave her own check for $3.50
recently to pay for a new wing to the
Presbyterian hospital that is de-
signed entirely for the reception
of children, and is in all respects a
complete hospital III itself. She is now
abroad, but is expected home very
shortly. She will be seen a good deal
III certain set in Washington, but
that will not be the fashionable set.
She has no experience whatever in the
fashionable Whirl. and apparently she
has no desire to acquire any even now.
She is the sister of Nathan Brown, now
dead, with whom Mr.. Wanamaker
first went into business, tWenty-Seven
years ago, with capital of $500 be-
tween them. She is about the medium
height and well made. quiet in her
dress. and with that indefinable express
sion Of countenance acquired by women
who are devoted to their households,
their churches and their charities.
She is the happy mother of two
sons and two daughters. The sons are
married. One of them - Thomas b.
w lttl Il SEdiluuduSDlpr
Of the late John Welsh, at one time
Welsh family were regarded as great
SwellS, and society worked itself into a
ferment over what it regarded as de-
meaning alliance with the son of a
''retall shOpkeeper." Fancy man, i'm
porter, iobber, distributor and all the
rest, and doing a business of twelve
millions year. being put down as
t'mere retail shopileeper"' But fash
lonable society was in milf, only it
forgot that the Welsh family itself, not
so long ago, were retail shopkeepers,"
too. The talk about the matter simply
had the effect of piquing curiosity, and
when the ceremony came off the church
was so packed that the bridal party had
all they could do to reach the chancel.
She Will do most of the entertaining
of the fashionable people at the post
master generals house. She is well
qualified for the work, too, both by
temperament and training. She is quite
pretty and is bright and engaging. Her
sister-in-law was decidedly handsome as
a girl and is attractive as Il matron. She
comes of fashionable Philadelphia
family and is also likely to he seen a
good deal IL the social swim ut the cap
ltal.
Her husband. by the way, is the ar
tistic member Of his fathers family. He
is a musician Of much more than the
average talent and skill. There is a
big church organ built into the
wall of his fathers country place,
just above the hall. In the pleas
ant summer evenings he sits there
and plays, sometimes the works of the
greatest masters, sometimes easy, famil-
ial Sunday-schOol airs, while his father
with his newspaper, his mother with
her knitting or embroidery, and the
rest of the family gather in group be-
low and listen.