Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-07-19
MRS. BRYAN.

wear and tear OF the coming campaign,
there will be one TO whom William
Jennings Bryan will look, above all
others, for inspiration, help and en-
couragement.
That one-is his wife.
The democratic leader and Mrs.
Bryan have been married sixteen years,
working hand in hand, bond of per-
feet confidence between them.
Her husband is the ruling spirit of
Mrs. Bryan's life.
Fashion and society have no place
in her life, for she does not care for
either. She lives her life with un-
swerving faithfulness to her varied in
terests, and shuns ostentation and
hypocrisy.
With husband of such astounding
activity as Mr.. Bryan's, with children
who have inherited their fathers
energy and spirit, with her own father
blind, yet eager to know of the worlds
progress and the worlds affairs, and
with an invalid mother requiring
constant care and attention, one can
readily perceive how Mrs. Bryan's
time and energy are taxed to the ut
most.
She is an ideal American housewife.
Mrs. Bryan's maiden name was
Mary Baird. When she became Mrs.
Bryan she possessed, as a foundation
for her future knowledge, the same
academic education and training that
her husband had received. He, how
ever, had studied law before they were
married, and, prompted by a desire to
catch up and to have a share in all
that interested her husband, Mrs.
Bryans first step after marriage was
to take a course in law and obtain adj
mission to the bar. Over the legal
cases that occupied Mr.. Bryan's atten-
ton they worked and studied together.
When it was discovered that she was a |
lawyer, a congressman who meant to
be very agreeable inquired of her with |
what line of law she was most familiar. |
Mrs. Bryan's quick answer was:
Domestic relations, sir"
Attention was first drawnsto Mrs.
Bryan at the time Bryan made his
famous tariff speech in the house. |
Bryan generously declared that his |
wife deserved a share in the praise. |
She had helped her husband to pre-
pare the speech
Mrs. Bryan's head is the most
noticeable thing about her. 1t is very !!
shapely and the heavy, dark brown
hair is always brushed smoothly back
from a very high, full forehead. The
hair is thick, soft and fine, and simply
coiled into a mass at the back of the
head Mrs. Bryan isn't pretty nor
handsome, but she has stril1ingly in
telligent and strong face. The eyes
are dark and large and expressive.
The nose is large, with good width be-
tween the eyes. The mouth and chin
might almost have been cast in the
same mould as Bryan's own, so strik-
ing is the resemblance in iirmness and
determination.
TO Mrs. Bryan her chilGren's welfare
is her breath, her life. 1t is only
when, after the romping and mischief
making that make up days life of
country children, the little ones fall
asleep in sheer WEAKNESS, that the
other life of Mrs. Bryan begins. Then
she discusses law and politics with
her husband, reads to her father. and,
when there is nothing further 10 do,
slips into corner of the library and
reads Hawthorne, her favorite Ameri-
can writer, or Hugo, whom she likes
the best of the great novelists.
In order to preserve her health Mrs.
Bryan took to swimming and bicycling,
but it was always at night, when the
household work was done, that she
in this recreation. She was
one of the founders of Sorosis, a local
club composed of twenty-five of the
leading women of Lincoln, but her OBJ
iect in joining this association was
more to have an opportunity to discuss
with other women matters that in
terested her than to obtain any mental