Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-25

psternal roof at North Bend, below Gin
einnati. The estate impinged on the
boundary of Indiana. In the following
March the young couple went to Indian
spolis. In addition to the care bestowed
on her education the young wife had been
trained in household duties. The cash
capital at the command of Benjamin Hsr-
rison when he began married life and the
practice of his profession was $500, an ad-
vance on q lot in Cincinnati inherited
through his aunt who married James
Fnlay, soldier of the war of
1919. Mr.. aud Mrs. Harrison began
their domestic responsibilities in
rooms in an Indianapolis boarding house.
In the summer of 1854 Mrs. Harrison paid
a visit to her parents at Oxford, and there.
est child, was born. The young mother,
having returned in the autumn to Indian
apolis, the husband rented q small house
and began life in earnest, his wife doing
her own homework in q cottage of three
rooms. The steady gains in fame, prsc
tice and pecuniary rewards in two years
found Mrs. Harrison presiding over
larger and more pretentious
house. Here their second and last
child, Mary Scott Harrison, was born.
The couple steadily grew in the estima-
ton of their neighbors and Mr.: Harrison
achieved fame in politics. In 1881 Cen
ersl Harrison entered the senate of the
United States and Mrs. Harrison became
q member of that distinguished circle, the
wives of senators. In her Washington
residence of Elk years Mrs. Harrison ex-
tended her sphere of usefulness. Her
name was associated with noble charities
and church work. The Garfield hospital
owes its present success in a large degree
to her active interest as one of Its
first directors.
When the family came to the White
house Dr.. Scott, who had resided here
with his widowed daughter, Mrs. Rus
sell Lord, went to live with them, and
resigning his position in the pension
Office gave up all active duties to enjoy the
first leisure of a busy life. The first
break WAS the death of Mrs. Lord, which
occurred in 1889. Mrs. Lords serious ILL
ness began at Nantucket, where she WAS
staying with her daughter and where Mrs.
Harrison visited also for a time. Mrs. Har-
rison was long time recovering from this
blow. The sisters were greatly attached
and were always together as much as
possible. At the beginning of the grippe
epidemic Mrs. Harrison shared the fate of
her entire household, save the president.
Before she was taken down, however, she
nursed all the rest, even her little grand
children, who were extremely i'll. Several
times afterward she suffered again from all
the painful symptoms of the first attack,
and especially go last spring year ago
upon her return from California, when she
brought back with her troublesome cough.
Although she had another bad spell while
at Cape May last summer, she returned in
the autumn with her general health 30
much improved that she no longer
allowed the family to look upon her as a
semi-invalid. Through the winter she
went about her usual duties with her old
time vigor, and it was but seldom that she
did not appear at the social functions of
the mansion. Coming on the spring her
extreme pallor showed that she was not
feeling as we'll as usual, but she did not
give up until the day came when she was
not able to rise from her bed. During the
Lenten day s last spring there was such
pressure of callers upon her that she set
aside certain parts in each week to see visi-
tors. She was generally present. At the
very last date, however, of this series, Wed
nesday, April 6, she was in the blue parlor
and held a brilliant reception from to 6.
Tho afternoon was excessively warm and
all the doors and windows were opened.
She coughed nearly every time she spoke
and seemed to be suffering considerably.
That evening she was very hoarse and her
physician was summoned. Her last Illness
began that night and but few of her
friends have seen her since. For weeks
the invalid was not conscious of anything
going on outside her own room, and she
knew nothing at all of the events of the
Minneapolis convention nor of Mr.. Blsines
resignation, until the denomination of Nj.
Harrison was an assured fact. After that,
4. h.r info and n
mind from dwelling too much on her own
condition, the doctors advised that the
daily papers be read to her and in fact all
the ordinary news of the day be dis cussed
in her presence. Toward the last of her
stay in this city there were many days
when che was able to go out riding. She
was always carried down stairs by Sergeant
Kenney of Arctic fame, one of the door
keepers, for whom she had special liking.
to her carriage that waited near the south
portico.
When she returned from these short
drives she was carried upstairs again. The
| day she left town for Loon Lake there were
few who saw her who ever supposed that
she would return alive. In appearance
Mrs. Harrison was a typo of matronly
| beauty. In figure she showed the gener.
| osity of nature, and in mind natures equal
benefcence expanded by training in the
requirements of liberal education, drawn
from the broadcast opportunities. A lavish
growth of hair, silvered and flowing II
curly waves over well shaped head ant
ending in a graceful wave, her regular
features and dark, expressive eyes, formed
picture of ripened womanhood. She hae
a voice softened by the instincts of I
gentle nature and a gift of conversation
| which, while animated, was thoughtful.
The tastes of Mrs. Harrison were in tn
direction of art. Her works in water color
are the evidences of her application to he
favorite recreation Mr.. Harrison was b.
nature strongly domestic and shranl
from notoriety. These traits wer
little if at all modified by her residenc
in the White house and her prou
position as the first lady in the land. Flo
her friends she had always generous wei
come but she did not relish the scrutin
of the critical and coldly curious. althoug
much of this she was obliged to endure
She was always eqarl to every social de
mand and by her winning manner an
sympathetic utterances succeeded in mak
ing and retaining an unusually large mum
Der of warm friendships. But the calls G
, society were with her second in importanc
, to the duties of wife, mother and dsugf
ter, and it was in the domestic sphere thu
she shone with the brightest light.
: She wished everybody around her to
3 happy and to that end she gave her be-
3 efforts. She desired to earn and keep II
Z love of her family and her personal friend
40 her goodness, sympathy and stror
Q home instincts were dominant characts
T istic. -
SWEATERS FINED.
Twenty Clothing Manufacturers Co,
victed of Violating Factory Laws,
r NEW YORK, Oct. "a Twenty clothil
manufacturers commonly known as swes
!. ers, who were charged with violating t
= factory laws in relation to the employing
of children under fourteen years of af
|, were arranged for trial in the spec
r session to day. The accused all plead
guilty and were fined $50 each. O
Philip Klein, who was not able to pay
as fine, was sentenced to one days imprisc
r. ment.
le Committed Suicide.