The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-02-12
SHE IS A HOME BODY.
GENERAL HARRISON'S FIANCEE
EXCELS IN DOMESTIC VIRTUES.


Not Beautiful, With Simple Tastes and
Absence of All AGectation- Something
of Her Life Story.
Benjamin Harrison starts his presi-
Dental boom with wedding bells.
And now every woman il the land is
reading up the book of Dimmick.
Is she pretty? Does she know how to
dress? Is she learned? Is she in society?
LIS it love match? Would she prove
worthy successor of Mrs. Cleveland?
These and thousand other questions are
agitating the bosoms of Columbia's
daughters
Mrs. Dimmick has walked in the
blaze of White House social functions in
the past and retained her mental equi-
poise. She impresses one as able to do it
again successfully, even if called upon
to be leading lady.
The axiom that little men incline
naturally to tall women is shattered in
the present instance. Mr.. Harrison has
been like the lovelorn swain who sang:
I will not dream of her tall and stately.
Mrs. Dimmick is petite. She confers
upon her future husband the dignity of
great stature when they walk together.
She must look up to him, as every good
citizeness should do to a former presi-
dent and a possible future chief execu-
tive of the nation.
Mrs. Dimmick is not Sin society.
She does not shake your hand with an
altitudinous twist in greeting. She has
never been more accessible than since
her engagement was announced, but she
will not be interviewed.
Every honest American must like her
from the first, because she possesses a
qualification so dear to the average
American heart-a total freedom from
affectation.
She is not dreaming about being 'sthe
first lady in the land. That is a sub
ject you must not breach to her, unless
you desire to forfeit her good opinion.
She speaks calmly and frankly of her
approaching marriage, but smilingly re-
fuses to take you into her confidence as
to the time and place of its celebration.
The dominant feeling in approaching
a fiancee of the successor of Washing
ton is one of diffidence, not unmixed
with awe. You can hear your heart
thump as you distinguish her football on
the stair.
Mrs. Dimmick, however, puts you
Immediately at ease. Hers is the gra-
ciousness of the woman who has mas
tered the art of homemaking.
She is very plainly dressed in a black
silk gown that has seen service, and
wears no jewelry save a pin at the
throat and few rings, one of them a
solitaire diamond. She has evidently
been busy on some housewifely duty,
for she has not even waited to smooth a
rebellious lock or two of hair that have
strayed from their fastenings.
Mrs. Dimmick is not a beautiful
woman in the ordinary sense. She has
neither unfathomable eyes, faultless
features nor ravishing complexion. It
is not the senses she takes by storm, but
the heart.
Her face is fairly youthful, with the
ebullience Of good feeling. The eyes
dance with enjoyment as she talks, and
the lips smile frequently and almost
girlishly. You can see she enjoys the
situation. To become the wife of Ben
jamin Harrison insures past as we'll
as future. She is woman enough to
raise her hand to her hair once or twice,
so that you may see her engagement
ring And you like her the better for it.
Her eyes have prevailing tints of ha-
eel, and every schoolgirl knows that
such eyes mean steadfastness and truth.
The face is little careworn, but you
remember that its owner has been tried
in the battle Of life. The forehead is
low. broad and unwrinkled, and crowned
with an ample coronet of soft brown
| hair; the nose straight and delicate !;
the lips, trife too thin, perhaps, but
firm and contented in expression.
AS you absorb these characteristics,
you begin to understand what Mr.. Har-
rison meant when he said that Mary
Dimmick was the only woman in the
White House who knew enough to be
silent when he wanted to be quiet and
think. Socrates would have given up
his familiar spirit for such a woman as
this.
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