St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-13

One item Of news from London this
week has created more feellng,or rather
revived more feeling, than any uncon-
nected with national affairs that has
come over the cable for a great many
days, and that was the announcement of
the death at Capri, Italy, of Algernon
Sartoris. who married Nellie Grant at
Washington some years ago. Old St.
LOuisans remember her as bright lit
tie thing. the idol of her silent father.
remember her as a pretty little girl at
the big sanitary fail in St. Louis during
the war. She wore a monStrouS white
cap and sat in colossal shoe surround
ed by hundreds OF dolls. The Quaintest
"Old woman who lived in shoe" that
eyes ever saw. Her Winsome face, as
she SOLD the dolheS for the benefit of
the sick soldiers. was picture never to
be forgotten. Any child would have at
tracted attention in such guiSe and
under such circumstances, but when it
was told that this was the daughter of
our beloved Grant her stool become
throne to hold
This Cur Royal Princess.
SomehoW,as the years went by, chang
ing her from WInSome lasSie to no
less winsOme woman, and l saw her
name in reports of social doingS at the
capital, l always saw, grown little
taller. perhaps, the sweet child face
under the cap that handed the doll |
bought to me with such pretty gravity.
But then gravity was a common thing
in those troublous days.
The news that our Nellie was TO wed
an Englishman, and that the loving
heart of her father was Wrung over the
thought of it, and that he had yielded
only when he saw that opposition was
useless, which was an open secret at
the time, was sorry news to the admir-
ers of the girl all over the country We
read with some forebodngS the story of
the brilliant wedding at which the
daughters of men highest in the land
aided as bridesmaids, of the Journey of
the gay party to New York to bid the
bride godSpeed on her voyage, l think
the hearts Of more than one American
was heavy with sympathy with the
farther and mother as they saw, men
tally that parting. Whispers were abroad
already of the coarSenesS of the man
she had married, and we felt that Grant,
keen Judge of men that he was, had
read the man and found him unworthy.
Then came talk of his treatment of her
and of her umhappiness, and then when
the brave hero
Was Fighting Death,
and longed for the presence OF his only
daughter. she could only come by
leaving her children as a hostage, as it
were, for her sure return. Now he is
dead. There will be very few tears
shed for him i'll America. What of the
lesson this sad story teaches? Will girls
ever learn that the Judgment Of those
whose love watched over them from the
first moment that they lived can be
trusted as almost infallible in its decis-
ions upon the men VINO aspire to their
hands? DO they not know that the
simple fact that these men are willing
to urge them to be regardless of the
feelings of father and mother in these
vital matters is an argument
against tneM! Alu uO yOuH9
men not know that any girl
who could be persuaded to go against
the wishes of her parents to the extent
of marrying in opposition to them has
that about her that will prevent her
from being an ideal wife? | have
known several marriages of that kind
aud ! do not know a single happy one
among them. In this matter father
OF mothers eyes are not blinded by
passion. On the other hand they are
Sharpened by love. If sometimes you
are tempted to think this love is unrea-
Sonable, remember what it is willing to
do and bear for you, and hesitate before
you wound it in such way. Nothing
can be lost by leisure. You know there
is an old law that says There's luck in
leisure" and you may find that there is
the greatest luck in waiting to gain
your parents approval of your choice
in such a serious matter as marriage.
AUNT POLLY.