The herald., 1896-11-01

always wore the simplest gray, brown
and black dresses, made jn the plainest
| fashion. She wore no jewels, because
they were living as economically as
| possible and had no money to waste on
| such frivolity. Then Mrs. Bryan's tastes
| do not run in that direction.
| Mrs. Bryan's head is the most notice
able thing about her. 1t is very shapely
and the heavy dark brown hair is always
| brushed smoothly back from very
high, full forehead The hair is thick,
soft and fine, and simply collod into
mass on top of the head. Mrs. Bryan
! isn't pretty nor handsome. but she has
strikingly intelligent and strong face
! The eyes are dark and large and eX-
pressive. The nose is large, with good
width between the eyes. The mouth and
| chin might almost have been cast in the
same mould as Bryan's own, so striking
| is the resemblance in firmness and de-
| termination.
Mrs. Bryan would sacrifice and endure
| anything once she had made up her mind
that a thing was right. She has Ideals,
| and will consider her husbands nomina-
| tion as righteous and a step towards
| what the Bryans maintain is the cor
| rection of the wrongs of the masses OF
| the people. She has a sweet and we'll
| trained voice in talking, and the men
| and women who penetrate her reserve
| appreciate her honesty of purpose and
| sincerity. She despises shams of every
| kind, and, above all, is natural and un-
affected.
! 1t would require more than the possi-
| bility of ruling in the White House to
| turn this woman's head. With all this
| Mrs. Bryan is not at all assertive. Mrs.
| Bryan might elect to run White House
| affairs according to her own ideas and
| not after the manner of so-called official
| society, but no one who came in contact
with her could help respecting her and
| in time admiring her character.
Bryan and all his friends admit the
wife has held up the hands of her nus
! band more than effectively, and Bryan
!; himself takes no praise that does not
include his wife.
Mrs. McGuirl1 in New York World
WHEN SHE HEARD THE NEWS.
The following is an interesting ac-
count written by Mrs. McQuirk at the
time of the Chicago convention OF Mrs.
Bryans reception of the news of her
husbands triumph:
There was no more undemonStratlVe
person in all the vast throng that gazed
down upon the wild scene following the
announcement of Mr.. Bryan's nominal
ton than a demure little woman who sat
in the second row of seats just back OF
the platform. A pair of brown eyes,
which snapped vivaciousy as each new
blue and white guidon was added to the
forest of standards around that of Ne
braslla, surveyed the scene as calmly as
though they were regarding less NOV
ing spectacle and one that had less per
sonal significance.
Mrs. Bryan, for the owner of the brown
eyes was the wife of the nominee of the
convention, was unusually elated at the
triumph of her handsome young hus-
band, but she by no means displayed the
delight she felt by any display of per-
sonal emotion that might make her con-
Spicuous.
Only once during the noisy demonstra-
ton did Mrs. Bryan rise to her feet.
Then in the supreme moment of her hus-
bands eXaltation she arose and leaned
forward. In her hand she held white
handkerchief and this she waved to the
delegates below. But none of them saw
her
When the nomination had been made
and she rose and left the Coliseum, not
an eye was turned in her direction and
! tonight she laughingly told a reporter
for the World how Chicago policeman
had made her wait at the foot of the
stairway leading from the gallery in
which she had been seated until some
female friends of his got tired of looking
at the spectacle, and consented to make
way for her to pass out.
The Clifton house, where the Bryans
are stopping, is on Monroe street, op-
| posite the Palmer house. 1t is classed as
modest family hotel and is much af-
fected by the farmer folks who visit
| Chicago. The apartment occupied by
| Mr. and Mrs. Bryan is on the parlor floor
Of the hotel. When Mrs. Bryan reached
| room Z, as the apartment is known, she
found her husband already surrounded
by crowds of politicians. They made
way for her, although one of them whis-
pered in Mr.. Bryan's ear while Mrs
Bryan stood upon tip of toes and receiv-
ed the kiss that her husband proffered.
Then she left him to the politicians to
take charge of the flood of telegrams
that began to pour in.