The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-20
MRS. ]. s. FASSETT
She Tells What She Will Do if
Her Husband is Elected.
HER INTEREST IN THE CAMPAIGN
She Reads ALI the Papers, and Learns Things
About Herself She Never Knew-NO
Artifice About Her.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19-F7or more than g
decade the executive mansion at Albany
has been without mistress. During
Governor Hills two terms in the state
capitol no gracious hostess has assisted him
TO make the big house homelike. Governor
Cleveland led lonely life in Albany de-
pendent on cook and valet for creature
comforts, and bachelor friends for the
amenities, while the gentle old sage OF
Grammercy Park did not hear the music
of womsn's voice from one months end to
another. This year the outlook is hopeful
and happy, for whether Roswell z.
Flower or j. Slost FasSett is elected, the
Albany mansion will nave for its mistress
sensible, earnest gentlewoman. Both
! ladies', mindful of the wonderful progress
OF their sex pledge themselves to receive
every committee and delegation represent
ing the women aud children OF New Y ork,
TO listen to the cause and to respect the
eernestness of the advocates, even though
reluctant to espouse il.
Mrs. j. Sloat Fassett, the wife Of the
Republican gubernatorial candidate, is OF
Californian birth. She is the mother OF
seven children, five Of whom are
living, and she has the graceful figure
and delicate beauty Of college
| girl There isn't one particle OF
article about her. She has nice head of
/ dark brown hair, which is worn brushed
straight back from her forehead and tenn
pies and coiled at the neck in the simplest
manner possible. There isn't woman IN
| hundred pretty enough to stand this Golf
fure, which is saying great deal for the
! facial beauty of Mr.. F'assetps wife. Mrs.
Faswtt is gentle and very womanly; she
has q nice voice; she knows how to keep
( no ia n
is in love with her husband, little I'm
usual in these days Of woman's individual
ity, aud she has ideas which, however, are
not reached without q vast deal or digging,
for she discrimiuates between friends and
mere acquatntances.
! ''Since the nomination of my husband, +"
! she said in an interview with reporter at
Elmira, to-day, 81 have learned some very
startling things about myself. Papers
come TO me from al sections of the coun-
try, and in nearly every one learn some
thing new about myself. One OF the
Chicago papers said l wrote poetry, painted
in oils, and On my wedding day distributed
landscapes and figure pieces among the
guests. [ never had brush in my hand and
couldn' sketch q tree to save my life. When
| was at school | wrote few rhymes but
they were so very bad that my teaher
sighed as she dropped them into she waste
basket"
Then she talked about her domestic life.
''I have plenty of capable servants" said
she, but I do not consider the best or most
efficient fit substitute for mother. l
want to have the confidence of these four
boys when they are men, and l have begun
already to deserve ii, and | mean, If is pos
si5le, to be the very best friend my
daughter has in the world. And you see
that devotion to them is something of q
hiuderance to outside interests
J = y .,y,I,,
as one who is content with the idoiatry oil
mans love and the security of his protec-
Jion. She thinks that the girl Of today is not
, quite as lovable as the maiden OF twenty
| years ago. In her girlhOod girls were more
; dependent than they are today, and tina
very dependence seemed TO develop the
chiyalry in mans nature. "Still, [ thinI
the modern woman most remarkable, }
she said. when reverses come she seem,
better able to meet them than hel
brother ] believe in early marriages. How
we reason from our own experience, dom
wes was married at eighteen, ana | have
been so very happy that | advocate it g.
the best time for girls TO wed. My friend:
tell me missed great deal OF fun, but
know that there is much foolish romauc
and dissipation in what is called societ,
that q woman can forego with profit Afte
marriage | saw great deal of society, AM
being in love with my husband, the co
quetry and filtration that are now so com
] mon had no charms for me-"
D Mrs. Fassett refused to discuss any 20
=, Iitical subject on the ground that she had
g competent representative in her husband
a She admitted intense interest in the pres
emit campaign, snd that she read every lint
;. ! of political news, shared her distinguishes
husbands concern, was familiar with ever,
one of his speeches, and went to hear hin
whenever he was within ten hours tra7e
. of Elmira. Unlike Mrs. Flower, she sal
her hopes ran very high, although she triet
. | 20 temper them with reason, knowing thc
: uncertainty OF things, but she would be YER
much disappointed if her husband was no
:, successful. II know his defeat can't b.
. largen she said "but one vote against hin
q viii make me ILL.,"
= Mrs Fassett was very outspoken on tn
= subject Of the Women'S Christian Temper
- ance union. She admires the earnestnes
8 Of the women intensely, but thinks tim
. and money are wasted in the endeavCr t
. fight saloons and reform old topers. In he
= judgment nothing can De done for an oil
- siuner She has studied the subject, an
~ offers in evidence the records OF prison
!, and homes and the authority of men an
q women whose lives have been devoted
~ the criminal classes. Personally, she
- not a member of the union, and never WI
% be for the reason that she does not oeliev
in prohibition. There is no time in ID
- year when her medicine chest ia not pro
- yided with good brandy, pure whisky an
alcohol. There is no perfect dinner serve
in her dining-room without wine.
IS Mrs Fassett, when asked what she woul
j. DO if her husband was electsd governor {
in New York, said: 81 shall do ell l can
~ help the women OF New York. happen
- know how very difficult it is at times for
10 delegation of women to get aud
ence in public places. If I am mi
W tress of the executive mansion [ wi
y personally receive every woman who call
va and | shall listen to all she has TO say, pre-
10 yided she is in earnest. even though +,
"a luctant TO espouse the cause she represent
- My first duty is to my home; my secor
interest will have Tor its object the welfa
IA of the women Of New York"
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