The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-10-25

make any predictions as to the, future. Two
doctors gave out a more escouragiins, report
from the sick room. but all the time they rc-
~ in> It w to Predict 'IeeIasa p TT tnRS hs ssi SSsf T. W 8n hSsnt:
own % nat at the WhIse f House w"s Wksat has o..
Cured since her return has been set forth
daily In these dispatches.
The Story CT Her Life.
To begin this story Of tho life Of a typical
American woman takes us back to n small
college town in southwestern Ohio in the days
when there was more wilderness in that State
than there was cultivated land. when tho peo-
pie were all hard working and almost poor.
when education was rare. and tastes were
simple. and tho ~luxuries unknown. A few
years before 1888. in which year Mrs, Harrison
was born. the Miami University had been
founded by the hard handed farmers who
revered education next to religion. DR.. John
W. Scott. Mrs. Harrison's father. was
a professor in this university" and
therefore u man Of note in tho little commu-
nifty which had most OF the book learning Of
southeastern Obi" within its boundaries.
When q daughter was born into the Scott
family they christcned her Caroline and
called her Carrie. She grew I'D into n quiet.
rather shy girl. with q pleasant face. that was
redeemed from the commonplace by q pair Of
brown eyes Of great beauty. and by . small
mouth. about which q smile OF great sweet
ness could play. Her mother kent no hired
girl. and therefore she and her daughter did
the Homework.
The future Presidents vito was no more
fond OF baking and sewing and busting and
sweeping and scrubbing than are girls nova
days. but the work had to be done. and Mrs.
Scott Taught her daughter to do 1t well. a
branch OF education that stood her in good
stead In after years. When she was old enough
to go to o school above the common schoola
seminary had been founded. and her father
mad been made President OF it. This was
little moro than a high school then. and gave
the armers' daughters a taste for education
rather than an education itself.
The young women ut the seminary and the
young men ut the university" naturally
sought one another's society and this made
the village OF Oxford gay. after a sedate fash
ion. all the winter. There were socials. there
were sleigh rides. and In spring and fall straw
rides and picnics. There were no dancing and
no cnrd playing. for those things were held as
nothing less than devils wiles to increase
original sin. There were no charerons and
no lne gowns. The girls on these holiday
and covered tIeir beads with stimiy starched
Miss Carrie Scott. pretty and very dcmure.
and young Harrison went on these OK peditions
together. They had been drawn each to. The
other by the similarity Of their tastes and. by
t theiF erna "iSist SI Tie q one eei from the fhe college dHa S asd
the other from the seminary. It was the most
natural thing 10 the world that they should
and she Was barely -. Neither Dr.. scott nor nor
old Tippecanoe's son. the father OF BENJAMIN.
y"ung couple started with inethinEE in the world
except good hearts and good consciences md
500 that HsTrison's father had got together
They Went to indianapolis. then the rromis-
Tx town Of the far Northwest. Tor Chicago was
this day can know ,li'iiis Of lie Young couple
i lhiystd II ye must Sof be naya TOY for them hsa 70 70 l anG. m9nsS
how they got on at ali. In this tho young VIE
hoT" the hsrder Ifr,; nnd bore It so cheerfu,ly
them before they had heen marriei a year.
doing her own. work and looking after tie
chiIdi Il was II tlis struggle thai the two
plary dignity and sweetness. in the bonds Of
bearing hard things with courage and mutual
band went ava 10 tho war to return . Gen
eral. After the war WAS ended came his bril-.
IIi isns p] 81 inSian snr sitsr M Ss .ts l"r MTs' H RsGiaG,
Of indianapoiis. ana, helped IIor hastapd as
music. and for painting, and she cultivated
t n"sb. and r kspt nv %b %In ~ ,r Ssaa Sns ( ss Ssn. Is her :
Congress she had her Grst experience with
society. as the world calls it. Thistraining gave
in the White House. As a Senator'S wife tus shs
made little impression upon the gay society.
a Msr f bnns' , %er : WSiI.ssas s9s 5hs guilt Nbi'tb Of asT
person mhnm attended, shs n saula and .siy. fG Su 2 fsw friends
Senator from Indiana was a sweet and refined
woman OF generous mind. and IN ideal wife
When her. husband was nominated for the
ever, He and shs wsr. sempeliea to i've In
s smai isf Cannes t 70 say y, ann uSi i of Tf H.. W "jn
outlet lie. The rresldent,s wife did what she
tic nieG Id feasai ms IN nh" the i isf i istis II home mot th "1ni nmI
occupied. TO her esnecially notorieiy. andthe
But she maintained her husbands dignity
and position. and entertained with grace and
s sMTi. q E ssIa, n w ter e latte, nsuld T HsraI WIEN "nn. ,1G
t bore PAN an 5 pna ! ISa and S"f' rsi" "Msy to to In st even ven s i.es
il was not until after lilo nominating Con-
vention had given her husband perhaps tho
To,t signal t,i I'm r., o. hi, ,i!s W lu to ihnt tImS
t hat she she nus must have psass or de; ihsn The
doctors discovered that death had beon near
hatttiS was not far away. Since tie Ii nirrsst In,uiiI"S.
tin OF alarm from Loon Lake tho whole colnr
try has known the progress OF events.
This simple. uneventfui story Of u wife
standing shoulder tn shoulder in a long and a
strong and . successful contest for, success
t h"s d hsHn soI IN f 9Ss ll sss Of GS @aa Hsa W$s s I me to
and womsn.. 1t has never heoH told Of a
swcotcr. nobler woman than Mrsl BENJAMIN
Harrison. In the early days Of poverty. no wife
could have been more cheerful or more help
inl. In tho war time. nc. wife pushed back the
the home and thu, children with a cdllnerb bear.
ing while her heart was breaking, And In the
midst "i the most arduous domcstit duties she