St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-03

lived both summer and winter at the
family home at Charleston, w. Va.
To be sure, this is only a, two hours
ride from the capitol, but that has
been sufficient to keep Mrs. Wilson
from any but the rareSt appearances
in Washington society. -
Aside from her natural domestic
tastes Mrs. Wilson's delicate health
and the youth of her children have
censpired to keep her away from
the capital even while congress was
in session. So distasteful has she
found the gay life there that she
never goes to Washington for more
than a week or, at the outside,
month at a time. When there she
remains at the house of relatives or
with her father, and can rarely be
/ and even that she attends only to
I crafty her husband.
/ So little known is she that when she
appeared at an afternoon reception
given by Mrs. Tarsney, of Missouri,
Wife of Mr.. Wilson's close assistant on
the ways and means committee, good
Democratic women hurried to get a
glimpse of her to see what the tariff
bill makers wife looked like They
found a slender woman of medium
height, dressed in black and wearing
her dark hair waved about the tenn
pies. She has very bright dark eyes. a
/. cordial smile, is quietly self-possessed,
ana not only is blessed with a sense
of the humorous, but among her
friends can give expression to it.
Mrs. Wilson is a daughter of Prof.
Yelling, president of Columbian uni
YersiJy. While her children of whom
there are four, We're young, Mrs. Will
son used part of her time at Charles
town in looking after their educati
herself. One of the sons is well known
to every congressman, as he has been
with his father at the capital. The
elder daughter, who is seventeen years
old, is at young ladies' school in
Virginia, and Betty, the youngest,
aged fourteen, is with her mother.
At the Charlestown home Mrs. Will
son leads a quiet life suited to her
tastes. She reads a great deal. looks
after the poor in the neighborhood
and is devout churchwoman. Mr.
watson is able to reach his family with
short railroad ride and finds com
plete rest there, for Mrs. Wilson saws
He can find plenty of people to worry
MIN about politics, so when he comes
into the home we never discuss poll
tics. l prefer other subjects, and he
hears enough of it outside"
Late in the spring, year ago. Mrs
Wilson came to the capital to care
Tor her. husbands health. and until
ne could leave Washington Mrs Will
son endured great anxiety, watching
hef husband almost throwing his life
away over the tariff bill They snent
part OF the summer in Mexico. where
MRS. Wilson nursed her husband baclx
TO health. When he sailed for En-
rope she returned to the country homo
she has been in Washington the MAST
WINTER Tor more than for years nrevi-
ously, but has for several reasons re-
NAMED In seclusion. She would have
peen very glad personally to have seen
her husband out of political service
Tor q time, and Mrs. Wilson is not
looking at the position and duties of q
cabinet woman with any pleasure or
even qualification.
inc Wilson's are not rich, and in
accord with Mrs. Wilson's strong die
like to entering society the new post
master generals household will NOT
make any attempt at gayety. It will
not be decided for some months as to
whether they will take a house or
reside at some hotel next winter.
III Mrs. Wilson's health continues 70
improve during the summer as it has
In the last six months she will be able
TO go through with the most important
social duties that fall to the lot of q
cabinet woman.
MRS. Wilson will spend the. summer
at the Charlestown home.