Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-10-28
THE HOBARTS.


The history of the family life of the
is but the annals of quiet fam
lily. 1t is always a high compliment to
q household when there is little to write
of it-a proof that the manner of its life
is equal, that harmony prevails, that the
days come and go in that pleasant peace
and quietness which should be the aim
of all family relationship. To go among
the neighbors of a family that circum-
stance has placed in prominent position
IN the public mind. and to hear nothing
but good things of them: commentator
of the frank generosity of the husband,
admiration of the multiplied charities of
the wife, commiseration in the one grief
the family has sustained, and the joyful
in the success that has come
to them, is a pleasant sort of inyestiga-
ton to be called upon to make. If you go
to Paterson, \. j., where most Of the
single and all of the married life of the
Hobarts has been passed, you will find
just this kind of feeling expressed by the
many persons in all stations Of life who
look on them as near and dear friends.
The home life of the Hobarts, in all the
years of happy continuity, has had but
when the angel of death claimed their
only daughter, a girl of most attractive
personality, who had won the love of the
friends, both old and young. While their
hearts bled at the thought of the bright
young life so early closed, Mr. and Mrs.
Hobart are persons of strength of will
and purpose and they do not let their
private grief darken their daily life. They
believe in the duty to the living as well
as the remembrance that belongs to the
dead. They want the life of their boy,
u lad of u, to be full of all that is whole
some and joyous, and that will form him
to be the kind of a man his father is.
Mr. Hobart is self-made man, and suf-
ficiently well made to be able to surround
his family with those refnements of life
that are dear to the progressive man.
The home of the Hobarts is a model one
in it's appointments. Mr.. Hobart made
it, and Mrs. Hobart keeps it, in a COM
pletely satisfactory manner There is
nothing so helpful toward fitting a man
for outside duties as a pleasant home en-
vironment, and this Mr.. Hobart has to an
even unusual degree His household is
filled with good fellowship. No man liv-
ing is less egotistical than Mr.. Hobart.
He is singularly notes.-the does not
like to acknowledge any good qualities
in himself-but he is not reticent in Civ
ing expression to his appreciation of what
his wife has accomplished in her private
and public life. He likes to dwell on
those characteristics that have made her
just the proper helpmeet for a man of his
temperament. He says my wife is the
of ha iyvn yhot
he really means is my wife is the best
woman in the world for me-" Theirs is
well-rounded partnership-eachs supply
ing any lack in the other. While Mr.. and
Mrs. Hobart live in a comparative de-
gree of elegance, the tastes of both are
simple. Each shrinks from display of
any sort. Each enjoys the most modest
pleasures, each strives for the comfort
of others rather than their own. There is
something genial in the atmosphere Of
their home that wraps one in it's folds the
moment the threshold is crossed.
No one who knows Mr.. and Mrs. Ho-
bart will doubt that it will be trial, and
a great trial to them, to leave the home
that is so much to them and take up the
burden of official life, should fate will it
so, as we all so fondly hope; but all who
know them will rest satisfied that no man
and woman better equipped for public life
ever entered it. The Senate will be pre-
sided over in q manner to rebound to the
credit of the nation, and in the social
functions in which Mrs. Hobart will have
so large a share, men and women alike
will be proud to be presented to her, and
to be represented by her. The congenial
of the Paterson home will
be carried into the Washington life, and
the same loving kindness will be there.
There are men who are strong enough
in mentality and executive ability to keep
a town prosperous and countless organi-
cations going, and women forceful enough
to lead in society and understand the
workings of the whole world, from art
to politics. Carrot A. Hobart is the one
and Mrs. Hobart the other.
With a husband of such marked ability,
and with taste for association with able
and cultured people, with desire to see
and share ali that is best in our nation, it
is not remarkable that Mrs. Hobart
should be ambitious for Washington hon
ors. She would not be her fathers own
daughter. nor yet a typical American
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