The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-09-09
MRS. W. }. BRYAN
True. Womnniy LATHE woman,
with Brains aud Culture.

with Bratns and Culture.
Winifred Black In the New York Journal.
The first time I saw Mrs. Bryan I
thought she was plain. She wore very
plain and nos particularly weIi-made
dress. and her hair was drawn tightly
back from her forehead. both TOO fun
and too high for feminine beauty. and her
mouth was so firm as 90 seem almost
stern; but when ! had talked with her
half an hour I thought her extremely at
tractive
Her face Is a mirror OF expression and
her manner r. 40 simple. 30 direcs and so
unaffected that u IL impossible 70 help
liking her cordially.
Mrs. Bryan's eyes talk. they laugh and
cry and smile. and feel sorry and fira
with Indignation and melt with gentle
tenderness. They are the kind OF eyes
that never belonged to a sOuiless woman
since the world began.
When you have known her q little long
er you admire her, and when you have
known her little longer you love her
know many people who have lived right
beside her In che small word of a small.
provincial town. and they all love her.
She IL a typical American woman OF
the Middle West.
She IA the sort OF woman who could
drive out across the prairie into new
country, take up n claim and prove u.
hold Il and protect II herself without
losing one minute either her refinement
or her modest womanliness.
She f. the sort OF woman you meet up
IN the mountain towns teaching school.
walking four miles 20 the schoolhouse ev-
cry morning ana getting all the pupils 10
work like tktle naiierE by the mere force
OF her personal influence.
She can cook and sew and write cluD
paper and swim q mile or "a. take a turn
on her wheel. drive pair OF mettieaome
horses. ia up al night with a neighbor's
sick child. preside ~ an obstreperous
meeting match ribbons for the baby's cap.
get up . church fair and paclfy the La
dice AID Society.
Anything she must do she can DO and
DO Il well.
she Is distinctly an intellectual woman.
She reads, and reads deeply. but she
thinks more than she reads. and she has
the saving grace OF a light and froIicsome
humor that keeps her from regarding
herself or her kind too seriously.
She tells a good story better than any
woman hut one l ever saw.
She has three great chume-her chill
drsn. Ruth. William eDd Grace. A lady
with a d0wu-drawn mouth told me scan
dalous things about the children once.
THAT William IL terror" she said.
end Ruth. oh. Ruth II awful I think
Mrs. Bryan bad better stop racing around
the country With her husband ana tend 10
them"
When I questioned the lady about Will
lam and the nature OF his heinous crimes,
she SAID that she had seen him with hor
own eyes at a plcric and he had large
hole in the knee Of HE stocking. and was
a. bold a. brass about a.
She aeo told me that those same scan
daiized optics OF hers had hehold Grace
climbing . cree.
Dear me-" said Mrs. Bryan. only one
hole7 I've seen William leave home w a
brand new outht-Euit. stockings shoes
and all-and come home without a whole
stitch on him. Haven't /. William Il
guess 80 said William smiling ruefuily
10 into his mothers eyes and in the half
dark I saw a brown. stubbed. hOylsh
hand reach out and take the hand OF che
soft-eyed woman who bore him. and who
loved him and understood him too well to
nag him about a hole IN hia stocking.
Mrs. Bryan IL a tremendous help 10 her
husband IN a hundred WAYS. she has I'M
falling tact and imperturhable good hn-
NOR. She knows people ana understands
things. ana Nr. Bryan makes nos the
slightest homes OF telling anyone VINO asks
that he never took an important step In
his NE since his marriage without con-
suitlBg his wife.