The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-08-01


matter all over the world is much more
interested in the presidents wife than
II is in the president himself. Emer-
son says that life Is only little con-
versation. and say that you can not
have conversation without society, I'M
less one has a constitution like Macau-
lays and Ii is not reported that he
talked to himself His idea of pleas
ant party was where one voice and
that one his, talked all the time TO
many ears.
From gay Dolly Madison tothe gra-
cious Mrs. Cleveland. the people have
intruded upon the privacy Of the presi-
dents family. The people want to
know how the presidents wife looks.
what she wears, how she brings up her
children and what they say and do.
By unremitting effort President and
Mrs. Cleveland have kept their chill
dren in complete seclusion SO far as
the newspapers are concerned. In
consequence, gossip. unable to under
stand such conduct. says that the
children must be witless. In point Of
fact they are bright and pretty. and
Mrs. Cleveland believes that the idle
tales about the children will not hurt
them as much as publicity would.
The president is not a sovereign, but
his wife occupies the only throne In
America. Mr.. Cleveland's three hun
bred pounds of resentment at the
American people for taking so much
interest in his wife is 50 much waste
choler. Mrs Cleveland has a gracious,
womanly manner, a trick of remem-
boring people and of listening TO any
one who is talking to her with perfect
attention and the manner Of being es-
pecially delighted with him, that sug-
gests the stories told of Recamier's
others that has made Mrs. Cieveland's
administration so successful. She APP
plies the golden rule in society and in
forgetting herself she will be remem-
bered longer than any one of her pre-
decessors. If the Chicago convention
had been allowed to indorse Mrs. Cleve-
land il would have done ii by acclama-
ton.
Simplicity and entire self-forgetful-
ness characterize Mrs. Bryan. Her un-
worldly absorption in books and babies
and her husband is shown by her clear,
direct. matchmaking glance. Her life
has been one of study. She is an only
child and her mother was almost life
long invalid. "She was such a thin
little girl" her father said, Il hated to
punish her when thought ought to-
The doctor said she must be kept out
Of doors. Luckily she did not like in
door life and all day long she tagged
her father, and her little dog Frisk
tagged her. They dug in the garden
and her father made funny rhymes
that she whispered herself to sleep on
at night Long before she could read
she knew the names of the bugs and
worms that her little hoe and his big
ane turned up in the garden. The man
showed the little girl with what exact
perfection all the insects were made.
and how they chung TO the earth. BY
the time she was ready for books she
was kin TO everything they told about.
She idealixed the earth and its gener-
ating and regenerating character
From a puny child she has grown to
be q strong woman with a rare power
II endurance and concentration. She
and her father sat on the porch at
night and he told Greek and Morse
stories of the stars. He told her how
TAR away they were from them and
rom each other though they looked 80
He told her what a speck
he world would look IL they could
ook at IL from Venus. Then he took