The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-05

aunt and niece was said to have beer
pathetic in the extreme.
After Mrs. Harrison's death Mrs
Dimmick went with the family to In
Mrs. Mckee came East to join her hus
band in New York. That was a little
more than year ago. Since that time
| Mrs. Dimmick has lived with her sis
| ter, Mrs. Parker. in New York.
With Russell Harrison and the Nc.
| KEGS living in New York city the ex.
president has had ample excuse for his
rather frequent visits to Gotham, and
nothing could be more natural than
that he should display an interest in
Mary, as he always called Mrs. Dim
mick.
BY means of the present perspective
Ii is easy to see that Cupid had laid his
plans long ago, but the ex-president
never felt the keen edge OF his dart
with realizing sense of what had
| struck him until Mary left Indianapo-
lis and came to New York
Soon after her departure he began to
talk to his old cronies in Indianapolis
about being lonely and asking them to
| drop around some time" which was
unusual in him, for while he has al
ways been cordial in his friendships he
had shown, since the death of his wife,
very marked aversion to society of
any kind.
The old fellows did drop around, /"
but Mr.. Harrison was disappointed
They were good friends and all very
well in their way, but
Well, the next thing anybody knew
Mr.. Harrison was in New York enjoy
ing the society of Mary. and 1T was not
very long afterward that these two
agreed that life without each other
would be hollow and uncomfortable.
HOW THE SECRET GOT OUT.
IT was their intention to keep their
engagement a dead secret until such
time as they should select for the per-
formance of an transformations wedding
ceremony, which they decided should
be some time in the spring of 1896. In
deed no word of ii would have escaped,
so 1t is said, except for the indiscretion
of Washington jeweler who fashioned
a ring for Mrs. Dimmick at the order
of General Harrison. AS it was an en-
gagement ring, a beautiful diamond,
the jeweler drew natural differences,
and this high social secret was too
large for the jeweler. He had either
to let 1t out or burst with the sheer
Importance Of it; so, being a prudent
man, he let 1t out. Then a newspa-
per correspondent took it in his pro-
fame hands and put it on the Invest
wire he could find, and flash, all the
world knew.
Then Mr.. Harrison, in his brusque
decisive way. put an end to all clamors
for verification of the rumor in a 20
word bulletin tersely conceding that
the engagement was a fact, and shut
ting off further inquiry by forestall-
ing II.
A few words more as to Mrs. Dim
mick of to-day. She is not beautiful
woman, but she is more; she is cnarm-
ing, giving that word It's fullest mean
ing. IN Inquire she rs petite and almost
glrlish. her age is less than A. and
yet more than her face and manner in
dicate. her features are good, but not
regular. however, that tact does not
prevent her from being exceedingly at
tractive. She does not appeal TO your
senses, but to your heart. She has a
taking way" that is not artificial, and
your admiration Tor her springs from
the same source that General Harri-
sons did-you are won by the gentle
womanly goodness of her, the good
ness that SHINES in her face and makes
it lovely.
Her modesty in dress amounts almost
to plainness. She wears no jewels save
a pin at the throat and a ring-the
ring-on the proper finger. She is a
model woman.
AS for Mr.. Harrison, every American
and most foreigners know of his great
ness in statecraft, upon the battlefield
and in the highest levels of his profess |
sion, and all have noted his always |
chivalrous attitude toward the weaker |
and better sex, but few are aware of |
the depths of his nature, the steady |
glow of sympathy and tenderness that |
is hidden from the world at large by |
the seeming GOODNESS of demeanor, |
which is a superficial shade of dignity |
that is his by nature. Only his init
mates and his family know this, the |
real nature of the man. Mrs. Dimmick |
knows 1t and feels it's sustaining force, |
and her smile is all the sweeter for the
In a maternal way, the couple are
we'll provided for. Besides his elegant |
home in Indianapolis, Mr.. Harrison has
other valuable property and an extern
sive law practice which has increased |
rather than diminished since his re-
turn to IL. And now II is said that he
has so many orders for magazine ar
ticles he intends to devote his time
hereafter to literature, an enterprise
which, by reason of his scholarly fit
ness for il, could not prove other than
lucrative. Hence IL appears that all
the circumstances that surround this |
happy event are suspicious and fore
shadow for the distinguished pair the
happiness which in compensation for |
past griefs they richly deserve. And
when on April 6. in the city of New |
York, they came forth from st.
Thomas church as man and wife, not
)ne hand OF all the thousands that |
wave acclaim would stay the casting
II the proverbial "old shoe" or for an
instant doubt the potency of the happy |
oortent. Walter j. Davis.