Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-07


photographs ever taken of the great
premier shows him, bareheaded, adj
dressing an open-air meeting, with
gray-haired Mrs. Gladstone standing
behind him holding an umbrella to
shield him from the sun.
This picture is emblematie of her
life. She was ever holding an UNI
brella over her famous husband; ever
protecting him from annoyances and
intrusion, and ever watchful for his
comfort
Volumes have been written about
Gladstone, and the articles in periodi-
calls about him seem beyond enumera-
ton. But about the wife, outside the
mere mention of her name, there is al
most nothing in print. Possibly a
volume has been written with her as
it's subject. If so, it has never gained
sufficient prominence to warrant its
being put on sale in bookstores and
to be added to the collections of public
libraries. Even in one of the best of
the lives of the statesman, Mrs Glad
stone is mentioned but once. Then but
few lines are given her, and for these
the author begs pardon, terming them
an intrusion into Mr.. 'Gladstone's
private life.
AN this is, probably, as Mrs. Glad
stone would have it. While her hus-
band lived she was content to remain
In his shadow; content to do what she
could to help him in his labors. and
seemingly not DESTROYS of drawing the
eyes of the public upon herself. In
life she was just part of her husband.
which was her glory; in history she
proably would not care to be other
wise.
Mrs. Gladstone comes of a family
beside which other families called old
seem mere parvenus. Her ancestry can
be traced directly for more than 1000
years to the chief of a tribe in North
Wales, who flourished in the early
part of the ninth century. Her
father, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne.
died when she was about s. leaving to
his widow the care OF the estate and
OF his children, two girls and son. |
Fortunately she was of noble charac-
ter and credit for the admirable quail |
tiles that Mrs Gladstone has shown |
In her long years before the Eng |
lish public can be given very Justly to |
the mothers training.
While Catherine Glynne and her
younger sister-they were known as |
the handsome Misses Glynn"-never
into the whirl OF London So
ciety, they had as much OF its pleas
1res as they cared for. Both were in
telligent and found interest In the So
cial and political problems and move |
ments OF the day, even more than they |
did in the excitement of London sea-
sons.
Even before her marriage to Mr.. |
Gladstone in 1889 Catherine Glynne |
was deeply interested in philanthropic |
work. After her wedding, although |
her duties as wife came first, she gave
more attention to schemes that had
for their object the helping of those
who needed assistance. She and her
husband started the Newport Market
refuge, now carried on at Westminster
with an industrial school attached.
Its object is to furnish shelter to per-
sons in temporary distress
During the cholera epidemic in 1866
she secured care for hundreds of Lon
Ion waits who had been left home
less by the death OF their parents or
by their being removed to hospitals
Tor treatment. She established the
Free Convalescent Hos, where those
who are recovering from illness and
have no homes can have fresh air,
wholesome food, and comfortable Iodg-
ing. Another charitable institution of
her founding is the orphanage at
Hawarden, at which boz are kept un-
I'll they are old enough to be appren-
ticed to trades. Besides those who
have been helped by these public char
tiles with which she has been con-
nected thousands have been assisted
by her privately.
But, as has already been said. Il IL
as wife that Mrs. Gladstone was
greatest. II may be truthfuIly said
that mainly tn her Mr. CsIa de.n,., -.