St. Paul daily globe., 1891-03-22
WIVES OF GREAT men
Part Played by the Better
Halves in Attaining
Success.
Women Who Have Influenced
Political, Financial
And
Artistic Circles to Aid Their
Husbands in LIES
Battle.
Mesdames Cleveland, Harri-
son, Logan, Gould and
Stanley.

A good wife in this pushing, crowd
ing nineteenth century is the greatest
treasure man can possess, and dis
counts that traditional saint who was
''worth her weight in gold'' many times
over.
Nor is this par excellence wife such a
rarity as one might suppose How many
women in the last two decades have
been the inspiration that lifted their
weary and disheartened husbrnds over
the difficulties and dangers that beset
public life? The question is scarcely
asked ere dozen names rise to ones
lips.
Some have helped in one way, some
i'll another, but whether by their social
relationships, their native diplomacy,
their ambition, or by their very dOmes-
ticity, they have given that which al
most every pnblic man will own was a
large share of his success in life.
Mrs. John A. Logan.
Take Mrs. John A. Logan as an in
stance. Every man in Illinois politics
knows that Gen. Logan'S wife was the
power behind the thrOne.''
She is woman of wonderful strength
OF character, TO begin with, and that
strength and firmness OF will was un-
consciously communicated 10 her huS-
band. She was his inspiration, and
when great issues were at hand, she
fired him with her zeal and couragd un-
til those who knew him best were aston
iShed.
Mrs. Logan was restless and impul-
slve in disposition, ready to attack any
difficulty, and she never despaired of
ultimate success. She was ambitious to
degree, and as long as her husband
lived she never relinquished her hope
of achieving the highest honOrs for him.
Her love for him was so great that she
sympathiZed with his every undertake
ing, and when he failed of election to
the second highest Office in the gift of
the people, she felt the disappointment
even more acutely and bitterly than did
he.
Mrs. Levi II. Morton.
Mrs. Levi P. Morton is another woman
who has been help to her husband
in his public life. Perhaps no other
woman i'll Washington has been able to
aid her husband in quite the same way
Her position in society has been un-
questioned, and the brilliant receptions
which she held in New York few win
ters ago will always be remembered.
Mrs. Morton has happy faculty of
making her guests feel at home, and
while her manner never lacks in dig
nifty, she is so pleasant, so WinSome and
SO free from formality that you are
ready to swear friendship OH the SPOT.
Her love for her husband is apparent
to the close observer in her every act
toward him. and her very good-fellow-
ship and sympathy for him enlists your
cOmpanionShip at once, till men go
away from her house and forget their
party lines to vote that ticket upon
which her husbands name is placed.
Mrs. Morton is pretty woman, with
a fine figure and easy, graceful carriage.
She dresses richly and in exquisite
taste, and her ability to give fashionable
and attractive entertainments has per-
haps done as much to help her husband
obtain political preferment as intrigue
and diplomacy have for other men.
Mrs. George ,. Gould.
George j. Gould is as proud as a pea
cock of his wife. He would not ac-
knowledge that there was better one
OH the whole continent from ocean TO
ocean or from pole to pole
And, indeed, pretty, versatile Edith
Kingdom has made a good wife, Born
| and reared in cultured surroundings,
she never lost her charm of delicacy
and refinement, even when the per-
versitieS of fortune forced her to hon.
| orably earn her daily bread as an
actress. While her bewitching grace
and clever acting were winning her the
! plaudits of the public, her beauty, pur-
| ity and goodness were winning her the
heart of the money king.
In her home life Mrs. Gould is most
exemplary Her children are the idols
of her heart, and while she is i'll every
way fitted to shine socially, yet her chief
| pleasure is her home, and her children
are trained and educated under her own
eyes.
Mrs. Gould's very domestieity has
been a help to her husband, for even
men on Change find it difficult to get
| his ear or attention after the hour for
! going home has arrived, at which time
| great railroad or stock manipulations
fail TO divert him from Edith and the
| babies.
IrS. CIeveIand,s Fact.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has won in a
| few months. with her beauty and tact,
what men have failed to win for them
selves by lifetime of faithful public
| service.