The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-13
aMRS.EDISON AT HOME
Her Fairy Palace and Her Charm
ing Family.
THE WIZARDS wIFEIs BEAUTIFUL
( She Entertains delightfully."- Pretty Boudoir
-Edisons Hobbies-A Son Who In
herits the Inventors Talent

New YORK, July 9, 1S90.-[Special cor
dependence of THE HERALD. = Count
Thomas A Edison, commander of the
Legion of Honor, lives in beautiful house
which is almost castle in appearance
'sGlenmont,' as il is called, is delight
fully situated in the midst of the aristo-
cratic suburb, Llewellyn park, New Jer-
sey. This place Mr.. Edison bought after
his second marriage, about four years ago.
The family consists Of Mrs Edison, two
boys and little girl, the latter the child OF
his second marriage. Mr.. Edison's eldest
daughter, young girl about eighteen years
OF age. is studying music in Germany,
where she has been for nearly q year under
the care of a relative.
The two boys, Thomas and William, aged
fifteen and thirteen years, are goodman
nered lively little fellows who are being
educated at home by a governess. Their
schoolroon, Ill the third story, is pleas
ant, airy place. where the boys and their
teacher spend four hours or so each day.
Thomas, his fathers namesakGr is some
thing of musician, playing rtmarkably
well for a lad of his years both on the piano
and the organ. William, | believe, has III
herited some of his fathers talent and likes
to spend day occasionally in the labora-
tory. That he one day failed to perform
quite q marvellous experiment was due, he
said, TO the workman who did not provide
the correct apparatus for claiming the cleo
trio current to do his bidding.
Little two year-old Madeline, bright,
wiusome child, is naturally the pet of the
household. One very pretty picture of her,
which Mrs. Edison keeps in her boudoir,
WAS taken in a quaint fashion. A crescent
strapped moon is outlined upon the card,
and with trees for d background, the child
was photographed. Underneath are the
lines:
twinkle, twinkle. little star,
How ] wonder what you are.
Photographic dolls doubtless little baby
Edison has by the dozens, or can have ii
she happens TO like them.
Mrs Edison is a beautiful woman, with
charming manners as become a countess.
Her beauty and fine manners won high
praise last summer, while in London and
Paris, which she visited with her husband
Mrs. Edison is twenty-four years old, a
trifie above the average height, with a very
graceful figure. She has brown hair which
she usually wears high at the back, with q
fluffy bang over her forehead. Her eyes
are hazel, and her complexion that clear
olive which artists love Mr.. Edison's pet
name for her is ''Mena.n Mrs. Edison al
ways dresses in perfect taste, and on ordi-
nary occasions very quietly. Many
Frenchy tea gowns and handsome dinner
dresses were added to her wardrobe last
summer when she was in Paris.
She takes a long drive every morning
accompanied by her little daughter and 1t.
nurse. Her carriage costume at this sea
sou is very apt to be an army blue cashmere
with passementere trimmings, and a straw
hat with becoming cluster of pink rose:
for ornament.
Mrs. Edison has a young woman'S fond
ness for society and entertains good deal
luncheon and dinner parties being her ia
vorite ways of dispensing hospitality Il
her friends. Her sister, Mrs. Mary Miller
whose home Is Akron, Ohio, spends mucl
time with Mrs. Edison, and is expected in
few weeks to return to finish visit whicl
she commenced in April.
The luncheon hour at the Edison man
sion is two O'Clock, and lest her absent
minded husband forget that he needs som
refreshment, Mrs. Edison often has tn
carriage sent for him to his laboratory, al
though it is only a five minute walk to tn
house.
The reader would hardly guess, perhaps
one of Mr.. Edison's favorite viands-it
nothing more or less than that very Yanke
tlish-pie; for breakfast he always want
fruit.
The house where the wizard and tn
wonder Of this age lives is handsom
structure of brick and wood, somewha
Queen Anne' as to architecture. but O
this the reader can judge for himself.