Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-11-05

gagged board at the Roll house. The young
lawyers practice increased, and in Is u
he was elected reporter of the supreme
court of Indiana.
Twice during the war the loving wife
took her two children and went TO the
south TO see her husband, and ones nursed
him through n spell of sickness. While
the husband was at the front Mrs. Harri-
son devoted her time 10 the care and edu-
cation of her children.
Through General Harrison's varied ca
reer his wife was his trusted adviser, but
politics was never permitted 10 interfere
with the ideal domestic life. Mira. Hnrri-
son bore b avely the trials and annoy
ances incident to her husbands candidacy
of lSSS, and near tho close of that cam.
paign with her furniture and carpets Goat
not her patieuce) worn out. Mrs. Harrison
remarked 10 an intimate friend: well,
il will he either the white house or the
poor house for us now"
As the wife of the president she did not
go 10 Washington untri d IN It's COM
pick and peculiar duties, AS the
wife of Senator Harrison she was we'll
known among the old families there, aud
also ia the state md diplomatic circles.
Mrs. harrison was always a model house
keeper. Her artistic needle wo k was well
known, and she delighted to keep her
land in practice at ali times, even while
at the white house. Her paintings wcro OF
uuusunl merit for an amateur, and for many
years she has exhibited her work at the
indiana art exhib held in this city nn-
nually. Since childhood Mrs. Harrison
was IA member and active worker in the
PRESBYTERIAN church, and for many years
she had charge Of the infant department
of the First Presbyterian Sunday school
in this city.
She was interested In various phases of
mission wotk. local and foreign, and con-
fined her lahors 30 no creed, and even
while In Washington has kept up her in
teycst in her work at home.
Mrs Harrison said n lady who knew
her well and was numbered among her in-
innate friends, "was a modest, retiring
woman and much dislikcd the glare Of
public life. II was as wife, mother and
friend that her life was beautiful There
was ne happier home, no IN re perfect
pictur5of domestic content and beauty
thas.1hnt afforded in the Harrison house.
mold first became acquainted with her
! upon the board of managers of the Indian
apolis orphan asylum OF which she was n
member FOE thirty-two years, her services
beginning in 1897. She took active part
Ia that wo k from the beginning and was
a model in what she consIdered her duty
10 j. little waits that are cared for at the
asylum II fell 10 her, as it did TO the
other members, TO visit tho asylum ore
month In each year. During this month
Mrs. Harrison visited the asylum never
less than three times n week, and some
months would call every day.
when her husband was elected presi-
dent and 1t became necessary for the
family 10 remove to Washington, she asked
leave to resign from the board, but this
the board would not pc nit her to do. IL
remembered that 10 her more than TO any
Other person it was indebted for the Won
derful success of the asylum"
After General Harrison was elected
United States senator end she was called
upon To spend her winters in Washington,
she still had the welfare of the asylum at
heart. She then declared that her sum
mers would be spent In Indianapolis and
she would still be allowed TO visit tho asy-
lum during the month. i his program sle
always carried cut Mrs. Harrison EN-
joyed having her chosen friends with her,
but disliked a throug, and was in no sense
n society woman