The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-16
THROUGH LENT.

"l'm making but modest rrctcnses," sl,c cried: /:
OF sins aud transgrc,.ions confessed
And I'm eating tho Things that always did cat,
md doing the things that like TO do best.
Though Lent.
Your approval or not. 1 hold to the view
That the person does pcranoe enough,
Whose way through the streets of this town must
pursue,
During Mareh--ior it's tough
Through Lent
THE DEATH OF ex-Presidant Har-
rlson recalls to many people in
this city memories of the wife
u who now mourns her great be-
reavement and whose early years
were closely identified with this region
and with many prominent residents of
this city.
In those days Mamie" Scott Lord.
as she was know, was a beautiful
girl, who visited Sluch in Honesdale
after the removal OF her family from
that town to Albany. She and Walter
DimmiCk. a brother Of Messrs. j. Ben
jamin and q. du T.. Dmmick. of this
city. Wcro sWeethearts from childhood.
When she was twcnty y-one or twenty
two years old they We're married at
Dimmick. who themselves had just
been married. and who We're occupy
ing their hom,. which is now owned
10y Mr.. G. y. Simpson. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. Mr. Pandle-
ton. Of st. Luke's church, in the east
parlor. the bay window Of which has
remained the same. although the
house itself has undergone many
I. s,, ~.
dow that the only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Simpson was married to Mr.. II.
H. Brady, it,, rather more than Il year
ago.
The marriage Of Mr.. ana Mrs. Wal
ter Dimmick took place twenty years
ago next October. The young people
went west on their bridal tour ana
while roughing it in a far western re-
gion it is supposed that the bridegroom
suffered infection from the unsanitary
condition of a hotel. for on their re-
turn 10 New York he fell i'll with
typhoid fever and eleven weeks after
his wedding day was carried to his
grave. The stricken young wife came
to Scranton. and for two years lived
in the home from which she went forth
rs a bride. 1t is a peculiarly pathetic
llilhtuJ tblllttltu Win llldt SOJOllII
with her husbands relatives that at
no time did she even once cross the
threshold of the room where she had
taken the vows of wifahood. That she
muurncd her young husband long and
d"solatelY is well known.
AS Il niece of Mrs. Benjamin Harri-
SON she had always lived much in that
'amily. From early Eirlhood the mar
who has just passed away was her
ideal Of all that a man should ba--a
RaNard. sans pcur ct sans reprOche,
The affection which she entertained
Tor him during all those years was
something apart from that which or
dinarlly exists between mortals, and
IT is the privilege OF the writer OF
these lines 10 state on good authority
that the marriage was not, as the
world has generally believed, based on
the hopes of an ambitious woman, but
was Il love match pure and tender
ana True. She is woman Of the ut
most fascination and charm. The al
most idnlatrous regard in which she
has held the fearless. noble. majestic
personality that has just left the world
poorer was something unique in its
sincerity.
What do girls talk about to men?
VAS asked of a young man the other
day. one who is exceptionally enter
aiming and clever onversationally
He pointed toward himself with comi-
cal solcmnity.
Il used to think" he explained,
that | was peculiarly interesting or
Congenial when a girl made me tho
% subject of our remarks. OF course.
went away with a remarkably lofty
opinion of that girl and probably told
the other fellows how phenomenally
bright she was and how pretty she
was growing. You know a mans
idea of feminine beauty Increases ac-
cordinG to the ratio of her admiration
for him or her tact which makes him
appear well. After while il struck
l,c that these young women with phe-
nomcnally bright minds We're growing
plentiful. ] met so many OF them and
all the time my head was growing
Sweller. Finally l took some oC the
other men into my confidence and
made the discovery that they had
idcntically the same experience. The
fact is, it is "A cult nowadays for the