The age-herald., 1898-07-17

Olive and Masters Ralph and Harold Sampson.
 If midnight burglar by mistake
 should wander into the Sampson par
 lors. 1t would take only flash of the
 dark lantern to discover the fact that
 he had struck the residence of a naval
 officer. The furniture of the Glen Ridge cottage does not belong to the family, as the house was rented furnished, but
 those odds and ends with which clever women manage to add charm to even
 the most pleasing interior take the form of naval souvenirs. Flags and sort of ladder of hatbands stamped with the names of the different ships Admiral Sampson has commanded lint one corner of the parlor wall, ant sketches and photographs of the her | of Santiago are plentiful. These. fl
 must be explained, are all treasur, trove of the present war and were sent to the family by the artists who went to
 the front as representatives of the diff
 ferent journals to make pictures for
 their papers. The large photograph from which most of the newspaper cuts were
 made was never seen by the Simpsons
 until sent to them by the enterprising
 photographer who had secured a snap
 shot at the admiral.
 One would suppose from the aversion l that the Simpsons have to being photo-
 graphed that they had a deep and un- alterable suspicion of cameras and pho-
 tographers The only photograph of
 Mrs. Sampson which is known to be in
 existence reposes safely at Santiago in | the left breast pocket of the admiral.
 No amount of eloquence has so far been
 sufficient to persuade her to have that
 photograph duplicated for the accom-
 modation of the enterprising journalists
 who make frequent pilgrimages to Glen
 Ridge for that purpose.
 Mrs. Sampson is a distinctly intel lectual looking woman. She is tall, with a fine, commanding presence and thoughtful brown eyes. Her hair is dark and without single silver thread.
 She is strong and vigorous looking, im-
 pressing one with her good common sense and amiability. If Mrs Sampson will not have a photograph taken, Mas | ter Harold, the youngest son, so resem- l bles his mother that one has only to l imagine him in feminine attire, with lux
 uriant dark brown hair smoothly part ed from his broad low forehead. and be- hold, one has a fair picture of the admi- | rals wife!
 1 This aversion to being photographed 1 is one of many traits that mark Mrs. Sampson as being unmodern. | There is. however, one kind of club | which the junior members of the Samp- | son family would find agreeable-that l Is a tennis club. When Admiral Samp- | son himself isn't smashing Spanish bat | teries. he is never so happy as with | tennis racket in his hand. A few years l ago he had the reputation of being the I finest tennis player in Washington. He l and ex-Secretary Olney made a team of l tennis players that left trail of vic- 1 tories behind them over which Wash
 ington still speaks with bated breath. l Matched against each other they afford- 1 ed a scene of conflict that would at least run the stornning of Santiago a | close second.
 1 Strangers who met the dignified naval l officer and the secretary of state on Pennsylvania avenue engaged in sol- 1 emn converse, edging nearer to catch l one of the words of wisdom on affairs l of state that fell from their experi- enced lips, would be startled to find l them plunged in animated discussion of l tennis scores and expert ideas on serv- 1 ing the ball. All the younger Samp- | sons are good tennis players, and had
 the admiral remained in New York, as was the expectation when they took the | Glen Ridge house before the breaking out of the war the general public l may be pretty sure the Glen Ridgers would have seen some crack tennis playing.
 l Until vacation time the two Sampson l boys were in daily attendance at the l Glen Ridge school. They are bright llt- l tie fellows, full of fun and high spirits, l and were great favorites with their | schoolmates, who felt deeply the honor 1 of association with real live acting rear | admirals sons. Masters Harold and i Ralph, however, were not in the least 1 spoiled by the admiration of the other l children who looked on them as sources 1 of information quite superior to the 1 daily newspapers.
 When Admiral Dewey won his great victory at Manila and there were sur misses that the war would be speedily brought to a close, Master Ralph made himself heard with the protest: Well, hope the war won't stop un- til papa has had a chance in a good scrap"
 Miss Olive Harrington Sampson, the younger daughter, is engaged to be married to young San Franciscan. She l is a very handsome girl, with the l brightest and merriest of brown eyes l and a figure that is the perfection of slender grace. Books and music are fa- vorite recreations with her, although she has a ~hoiesome, happy interest in society, for which she is eminently fit- ted. Her sympathies are keen and quick.
 One of her latest interests is the College Settlement work on the east side of New York, to which some of the workers among the poor introduced her. At her first visit to the Settlement house, on Rivington street, the little ur- chins of the east side who were not en- titled by membership to the pleasure of meeting her mobbed the door and were at her request admitted instead of be- ing dispersed by the police. The young sters on their best behavior, marched past her in orderly file, satisfied, and
 spread the news over the east side of
 how they had shaken hands with the
 daughter of the man who is "lickin the
 Spaniards down in Cuba"
 Mrs. Sampson was a Miss Elisabeth Burling and was before her marriage