Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-04-08
SHE Is A HOME BODY.
Ex-PREsloENT HARRISoN'S FIANcEE
excELs IN DOMESTIC VIRTUES.

| Not "A .ssociety woman"-A Little Woman,
Not Beautiful, with Simple Tastes and
| Absence of All Afectation- Something
of Her Lifo Story.
Benjamin Harrison starts his presi-
Dental boom with wedding bells.
And now every woman in 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?
Is it a love match? Would she prove a
worthy successor of Mrs. Cleveland?
| These and thousand other questions are
aeitating 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 !:
Twill not dream OF her tall and stately.
She that love may be fairy light.
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 former presi-
dent and possible future chief execu-
tive of the nation.
Mrs. Dimmick is not Sin society,""
She does not shake your hand with an
altitudinons twist in greeting. She has
never been more accessible than since
her engagement was announced, but sho
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 the
first lady in the land" That is 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 black
silk gown that has seen service, and
wears no jewelry save 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
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. 1t
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 well
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 nnwrinkled, and crowned
with an ample coronet of soft brown
hair; the nose straight and delicate
the lips, trifle 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.
Mrs. Dimmick was married to Walter
E. Dimmick, Oldest son of Samuel E,
Dimmick, who was Pennsylvania at
torney general under Governor Hart
ranft IA years ago. He died three
months after their marriage.
Mrs. Dimmick's father was Russell
f. Lord, who was general manager and
chief engineer of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company. He married
Elizabeth Scott, who was sister of the
wife of Benjamin Harrison.
After the death of her husband Mrs
Dimmick went to live in Annapolis with
her mother and her sister, who WAS the
wife of Lieutenant Parker. Mrs. Dim.
mick has always made her home with
her sister, Mrs. Parker, with the excep-
tion Of one year, which she spent in
Washington with her aunt, Mrs. Harri-
son. Mrs Dimmick received the finish
ing touches to her education at the Ell
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