Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-31
A DAUGHTERS LOVE.
Charming Vivian Sartoris Nursed Her
Mother Back to Life.

Charming Vivian sartoris Nursed Her
Mother Back to Life.
This is the story of pretty Vivian
Sartoris-"Little Snshine,'"' her father
used to call her in the childhood days
gone by-and how she left the merry
whirl Of Washington society to nurse
her mother during painful illness in
New York City
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris. the
Daughter of the Nation-"Pretty Miss
Nellie" they called her at the White
House when her father was in the
Presidential chair-has been very Ill.
All her friends-and the whole nation
loves pretty Miss Nellie"-were
shocked at the report that she was suf-
fering from cancer, and hoped it
might prove wrong.
Her daughter Vivian was Informed
of her mothers sickness, and, casting
aside the life of a society belle at the
very height Of the season, took the
fastest train for New York that she
could take, and was not many hours
in getting to the bedside of her loving
mother. There for days and weeks
she stayed, looking after her patients
every want, and no sick one was ever
attended more carefully or tenderly.
No girl ever commanded so COM
pletely the homage of a nation as did
Nellie Grant in the days before her
unhappy marriage to Captain Sartoris.
In temperament she had the rare gift
of sunshine, and that was why brave
General Grant was pleased to call her
Little Sunshine as she sat upon his
knee in the big White House at Wash
ington, night after night, when his
Presidential tolls were over. From all
the wide world over princes and poten-
tates came to clasp hands with Presi-
dent Grant, and to tell him what
great man he was. OF course, they all
saw Nellie, and capitulated to her
smiles. 1t was the same with folks at
Washington, too. for Nellie had the
same smile for ALL But wedding bells
brought sadness to the White House,
and sounded q knell for the laughter
of Little Sunshine" Miss Nellie had
a will of her own, the iron will inher-
tied from her soldier father-and none
the less unbending. She fell in love,
and not all the admonitions Of her
father and mother and friends could
bring about disenchantment.
Algernon Il. Sartoris was the son of
a rich Englishnan who owned land in
Wisconsin. Both son and father came
to America in 1873. At that time Mel
lie Grant was coming home from Eu-
rope, and they crossed the ocean on
the same steamer. The Presidents
daughter fell in love with the young
Englishman, and, strange as it may
seem, every one else who met Sartorls
disliked and distrusted him. His own
countrymen, even, who were attached
to the British Legation at Washington
had no good word to say of him. Gen.
eral Grant suffered the cruelest mis-
givings, and did his best to dissuade
his daughter from entering into matri-
mOny. She was only nineteen, but she
was willful-very willful-and she
married the man of her choice. The
ceremony was performed in the East
Room of the White House. and Mr..
and Mrs. Sartoris went to live in Eng
land.
Her life was far from happy. Sar-
toris was not what he should have
been. But the elder Sartoris treated
her as daughter. Three children
were born, two girls and boy, and
the elder girl, Vivian, is the one who
has been nursing her mother in her
recent Illness
When the elder Sartoris died he left
this daughter 100000 a year income,
and for while she lived in London,
on Cadogan place, but later years
brought longing for the homeland,
and she returned to America some
years ago.
She asked Congress to restore her to
citizenship, and. unusual though the
request was, it was granted, and Mrs.
Sartoris says she will never again
claim England as her home.
Thus it has come about that fair Wv
ian Sartoris is an American maiden,
after all.