The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-01
MRS. CLEVELAND AND CHILDREN
Wife of the Ex-President as a Per-
feet Type of WOmanhOod.

American women look upon Mrs. Cleveland
as a perfect type OF the womanhood which
velop. She is for youth, for middle age for
old age. She is for the merry-hearted and
for the weary-footed. She always seems to
have the ready power Of knowing what to
do and how to do it.
The writer once had the honor of travelling
twenty miles in close companionship with
Mrs. Cleveland. 1t was at an excursion on
the steamer Baton Rouge down the Mississippi
talents is tact, and, if success depends upon
grasping the opportunity, she never lost one.
During the trip down the river an old gem
tleman, who seemed quite dffident, was most
anxious to be presented to the first lady in
the land" Accidentally Mrs. Cleveland heard
of it, and Immediately she acceded to his re-
quest. In the course of conversation it was
learned that Mrs. Cleveland had known a
nephew of his in the East. With a nice per-
ception of the old mans weakness for this
nephew, she spoke of his talents and his
versatile pen. She drew her new acquant-
ance out with kindly tact and happy queries
until he was astonished at his own briliancy.
The consequence was that the old man went
back to his home in the wilds of central Mis-
souri, perfectly happy, praising the whole
Democratic administration and asserting that
there never had such executive ability been
shown for ages past while he insisted that
Mrs. Cleveland was the youngest and clever
est woman that ever entered the White house
not excepting Dolly Madison.
Mrs. Cleveland Is of about medium height
Dut OIL appearance. S1e was
then quite slight and very graceful. Her
chief charm was, and is, her exquisitely
modulated voice and her thorough mastery
of the old-fashioned art of conversation.
When the responsibilities of the White
house developed upon her she was very young.
Her natural sweetness of disposition and great
idea Of stern duty came to the rescue She
has won not only the respect, the admiration
and the love of own people, but Of the
whole civilized world. When the dignity of
motherhood came to her she did not, as many
young mothers do, lose her identity in her
children. She neglected none of her social
duties, but always cheerful patient and
gracious received her friends with bow and
a SMILE So American women have come to
look upon Mrs. Cleveland as an ideal mother,
alike mindful of what she owes to society
and ever careful of the welfare of her little
ones.
She is now the mother Of four children.
Ruth, the eldest, was born in New York on
Oct 8, 1891. She promises to be quite a lin
guist; already the little baby speaks German
as we'll as English. The second child, Esther,
discovered America at the White house in
October 1893, during President Cleveland 8
second administration. She was the first
child ever born there. Marian, the third
little girl, WAS born at Gray Gables in July,
1885, and is consequently now more than two
blue eyes and silky hair, and lungs that tell
us 'hes all right"
The ex-president bears his new honors mod
estly He said with a laugh the other day:
II don't want to brag about this baby, but