Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-06-13
FROM WASHINGTON.

FROM WASHINGTON.
An Interesting Letter From the Ma.
tion's Capital.
Even in the absence of that sur.
charge which questions of politics
give to our social life there is a con.
fusing multitude of events of much
interest. ",...-1e
The continued illness of Mrs. Nc.
kinley is constant check on the
jjubilant feeling so prevalent these
days among all classes OF people. An
invalid for years, her condition has
now been considered for some time
quite critical; and the bulletins pub
ished lately in regard to her health
are stated in very guarded terms.
All All hearts hope that Improvement
will set in rapidly and surely; and
that the White House may be
adorned during the next four years
as has during the last term, with
the graces OF a true woman, a noble
and beautifully sweet wife. Her
present condition reminds me of the
time when I saw her in the Capitol
last 4th of March, at the time when
her husband, reputed equally lovable
and devoted, was inaugurated the
second time as President OF the United
States. Though Mrs. Mckinley is
not a celebrated beauty, there radi-
ates from her countenance happi-
ness sublime, contentment so sweet
and charming that few indeed must
those be who can withstand her at
tractiveness in a single glance. Her
bearing is altogether devoid of that
gaudy self-satisfaction much too
common in the modern woman. :.
Her contentment is complete in her
husbands success. Every muscle,
each twinkle OF the eye, every smile
seemed to say: ''This is my happiest
day. ! see my William at the very
pinnacle of success. The people of
the greatest nation on earth have
once more confirmed my belief in
him. II am happy because he is
happy And this even while she
almost tainted J Hall ways from the
Senate Chamber to the platform from
which the President delivered his in
augural address, Mrs. Mckinley was
unable to go further, and the process
sion OF foreign ministers and am
bassadors, senators and congress-
men, and other distinguished men,
was broken up. If the Presidents s
wife has served no other mission she
has most certainly refuted the false
allegation that we no longer have
any real women among US, that all
are becoming in a larger or lesser
sense Carrie Nations, feminine mon.
sters, saloon and joint-smashers.
Woman's gentle art still sways the
land, and her winning influence
reaches every corner OF the world
not by her own devices but by those
Of others. Still there are a sufficient
number Of good women in our land
to make Tennyson sing as of yore:
| "In the name of wife, and in the
Rights that name may give,
Are clasped the moral of thy life,
| And that for which I care to live"
The Memorial Day in Washington
is very attractive. But to realize
that the Both of May is the day set
aside to in deed pay our respects to
those who sacrificed life, not to men.
tion innumerable pleasures not real.
lied until they are taken from US, a
person must be aware of it before.
hand, since the 'largeness' Of the
everyday life in a great city over.
whelms all incidental things. The
feeling that penetrates every citizen
of Warren that "this is Memorial
Day. rarely comes to the surface in
life's m@lstrom in a large city. You
must be there in the doing or you
lose it. But once on top or in touch
with the feeling OF the day the under
current is too powerful to let you
Immediately sink back to your for:
mer position. Like objects thrown
out on the great breakers, it is i'm
possible, almost, to force them down
until they have been carried on the
surface waves against the shores
and then the under current just
as surely takes and carries then
l. H.