The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-10
4 POLITICIANS WIFE.
New York Woman is Her Hus-
"" I1eud's Mascot.
From The Net0 York Sun.

bands Mascot.
From. The Ne10 York Sun.
gs-v is the wife Of Phil Delaney. Mary
" laughter of a local BOSS, for whom the
D'.,.,,ar politician was wide-awake lieu
80. Politics were Mary's native air.
=, tnew all the material OF the district,
- mans claim for recognition, who were
%. e. f-lO $500 and 81 200 men, and what
~ their political sobriquets.
ss pills wife she is q walking political
,.-7neter. and could scent In the air q
.pIa--,,1rary depression and its area. Against
80 sbe is prepared. She always manages
y now whether there are any likely va
pso,ciss in the street cleaning or scrub force,
I rs made. first for Phil, next for the
limitation and third for the party, many
"ssIrnfnl adherent by finding place for
s,r1a moor creature thrown out OF work,
s ~ and cold. II there Is no place
ss1dv Mary has always supply of coats,
.-orssrs. shoes and hats to clinch things
Iii she can look around a bit.
When there is a quiet little gathering Of
pbTs political friends at PhiPs house Just
- teep things in hand, nobody minds
Tsry's presence, nor the word she drops in
row and them as she sits mending the chill
S,sn's clothes DIV the fire.
I
sid one night during a conclave with the
Torlsritvs and Ryans and O'Sullivans.
@Tbere's Alexander McPhail; he's a good
enough man 20 knock down."
Mary's advice was needed. Alexander
NcPhairs name was called, and a rising
rIoud In the ward dispelled. Alexander, to
insure. was not elected, but he had sooth-
Inc honors during the campaign.
But Mary's great work is with Phil. Phil
has warm heart, but light head. After
q little fraternizing with the chief, or some
Of the swell young men who have gone into
notifies be shows a disposition to rise TO
greater nights Of language and demeanor.
These would not go down in the ward.
Mary knows this. So does Phil. Once
after district rally Mary heard him say
"eyther" and she clapped her hands on lit
lie PILLS ears and sent Eustacia out Of the
room.
Mother Of Moses, Phil, it's mercy no.
body heard you. Would We be having the
children carrying the word to school, and
the neghborhood passing it round as
coming from you! There's nothing but
plain talk wanted now until after election,
mind you that"
But this was nothing to the danger from
which she rescued him when the campaign
was hottest. Looking out Of the window to
zee if Phil was coming to supper, she did
zee him. But what were those white things
below his trousers, and over his bootsl
Mary's heart stood still. They're them
dust covers, she muttered. and the boys are
oil out before Dennis Rafferty's saloon"
With presence Of mind Mary ran down
TO the pavement where little Phil and
Eustacia were playing with little Grille
Shannon.
Run, children. There comes papa. Don't
stop for your lives until you meet him.
Hang around his knees" The children
we're of.
"Eustacia." she cried, take the inside,
you and Grille. You're both got on petit
cats. Don't you leave 60, dearies, until
papa is home or PHI" But Eustacia
was knowing child; in fact, Mary's own
laughter. Phil was fiattered by the
clildren's eagerness. He liked the air of a
family man in public, SO different from
many men, he thought.
Mary watched them with beating heart.
Safely they conveyed him past Dennis Raf-
terty's saloon and to his own door, where
Mary swept him in. She composed her.
sef
Take an easy chair, papa; stretch out
your feet on this footstool."
Phil obeyed, but not with an air of
stricken self-consciousness, IS he saw the
white Spats which he hadn't believed could
be so confoundingly obtrusive.
Fall to, Philly, and you, Eustacia, un-
button the slip covers of your papa's
Shoes"
The children were on their knees and ran
srace to uncover their fathers shoes. Each
Ad up white canvass overgater.
Now, lovies, take them down in the
CELLAR and bury them SO deep the ward will
never see them again. Come up as soon as
you are through. children; papa and 1 are
going to supper"
That was all but 1t lasted through the
4 campaign.