The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
SHES n / / g.AIl|IRI or THE WRIST I \
interesting Sketch of5 Mrs. Bryan
AS She Traveled East With
Her Husband.
"A Close Observer Watches Every
rlove and Reports it Ac-
curately.
PLAN, Pleasing and Unassumihg
But Winning the Hearts
of the People.

But Winning the Hearts
of the People.
There were two Russians Of high de-.
gree on the train which carried the
Bryan party from Lincoln to New York.
They said they were travelling, for to
! admire and for to see the ways ct the
great republic. They were full OF an
E! incredulous delight at their good luck III
falling headlong into the very thlck OF a
presidential campaign. They talked poll
tics with the farmers who got on at every
station; they asked the porter whether
the members OF his class are in: favor: OF
gold or silver. They hung out the win
dows, and devoured every hurah at every
wayside demonstration, writes Winifred
Black.
They waved large, enthusiastic hand
kerchicfs at he children who stood IN tue
doors Of country schcolhouses ana
shouted as the train went by-but, most
i$of all, and most untiringly of all, they
stood on the platform OF car across the
yestibule and watched Mrs. Bryan.
W.
they watched her.
One day they talked about her.
This Mrs. Bryan. the wife of the man
the people cheer-wI1ere was she born?'
s'In Jacksonville, ILL., said the oracle
of the party.
Jacksonville ?"-
.'It's little country village"
'sShe was educated?"-
SIN Monticello, another country viii
| llage."
..'Her parents?" i..f
Country people," :. o.
t'Rich?'
t.No; only moderately we'll to do
when she married Mr.. Bryan he
| wasp
"a country lawyer. That was II years
ago"
we have found her. said the taller
Russian, with an air Of deep conviction.
s'We have found her. said the shorter
Russian, solemnly.
.sAs, for example?" said the oracle.
tsThe American woman said the two
Russians In a chorus. = - -
ssShe was born and brought up in the
country. She marries country lawyer.
In ten years she goes with her husband
through the land. The people go mad
about him. They beg her for a flower,
for keepsake. The whole world seems
to be shouting. And she stands there on
that platform, as calm and as serene as
il she sat on the lawn in the country viii
lage and watched the church members OF
the community play-what you call the
game? Croquet?"
"In Russian said the oracle.
The Russians threw up their hands.
'tIn England, in France, in Ger
many?"
/, .sIn England, in France, in Germany"
said the smaller of the Russians, speak
ing with voluable intensity, figure to
yourself the woman of the people-wood-
en- Shoes dialect, overwhelmed, or-oh,
it is too abs,,rd-and this American it
is not to be believd.''
The Russians were right.
Mrs William Jennings Bryan is typ.
ical American woman; woman OF the
middle-west type.
/ Not the gaunt, hollow-eyed, sun
of Garland's story.
Not the oyer-dressed exuberant, bejew-
eled woman who figures in what the
writer's are pleased to call character
sketches; nor the yet the big-hearted,
ignorant neighbor of the dialect author.
A real western woman; a woman who
is intelligent, we'll educated, practical,
quick to see Joke, shreWd, sympathetic
and unaffected; woman without trace
of couuetry, or self-consciousness OF any
sort. pleasing or otherwise; a woman
who has been through emergencies and
knows how to NEE them; woman who
can swim and ride and play tennis; a
woman who knows three languages be-
sides her own; a woman who can sew
and cook and make roses grow, and who
would no more think of being ashamed
Of those accomplishments than she would
h think Of hiding the fact that she loves
children.
IF Mrs. BRYAN were left alone in the
world tomorrow, she could earn her own
living in any one OF a dozen different
ways. And she wouldn't stop earning it
TO tell people how Inundated she was by
her fallen fortunes, either.
And. with all these things to make her
interesting, she is just little bit of a
pale, delicate-faced woman, that can
make any human being fall in love With
her in ten minutes.
The first time I saw her, / thought:
tsHow clever she looks!' The second time
u saw her I thought: How pretty she
is She isn't pretty, anu "Heil YOU ie
away from her you know it.
She makes .'dressy'' women seem like
fashion plates. and she makes women
with an air seem affected. And all she
does is simply to laugh little. and lis
ten, and say something appreciative now
and then.
She brushes her brown haiE4.straight
back from her forehead, curls two little
side locks and makes smooth coil Of
brown braids on the crown Of her head.
Her head is small. we'll sharped and
wen carried.
4 Her forehead is too high and too bulg-
ing for beauty, and her way of wearing
her hair aecenuates this pc liarlty. as 81
i She has well cut regular ia
;stra.ght npse, a. resolute chin and asmts-a
schicyo,,s mont b. Her eyes esgreaf, big
serio blue gray eyes, and
. she sis presid lent sof 8 WOMAN scinD in
iIia1cpIn ID. She belongs st6 g sNlt IN ming
club ana ding club. She Il, s.aai one
Epf the beet extenp pore speak era sin her
ninb. and she keeps house aa as
81 he VII ich she aiIl-
Icessap lis elnfnds one. ssss
& She 8 woman ysi ssenins
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