The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
MRS. SICNES DRAWS
VEIL OVER PAST
Wife of Aged General Has Been
Reunited to Him After ~
Years Separation.

Reunited to Him After "a
Years Separation.
New York. Special: .sTo he reunited
after 20 years to one husband, the
father Of ones children, is indeed q
strange and somewhat painful expert
ence," said Mrs. Daniel E. Sickles. the
handsome Spanish wife OF General
Siclsles, as she sat In the parlor of the
Hotel Brevoort, where 81 years ago
she came is a bride OF the famous war
hero and diplomat.
Life seemed to appear before me
somewhat as those moving pictures do
that n sees at the theaters, when ]
iooked again upon my husband after
these years Of separations. Pleasant
and painful memories followed one an
other and tears filmed over my eyes,
but I tried not to show my emotions to
my husband, who is older and more
feeble than I, and not SO able to bear
up under the thought that indeed we
all get old"
Did he speak o. Q u appearance
Mrs. Sickles was asked.
"Ah, indeed, yes, and-man hat he Is
he first remarked upon my stoutness!
He could not see the traces Of beauty,
perhaps, that / have left she added,
with q tiny bit OF melancholy in her
voice. land if he thOugnr I was Htfll
good looking, though changed, he only
thought 1t. for he did not tell me so.
And that is SO like a man. isn't It He
saw only the stomtness az me ana INV
lost figure. And / still looked out OF
the same BROW eyes and only a few
not SO very. very many, gray hairs
could he find among the brown, and
vet, How stout you have grown was
what my cavalier OF the other days said
TO mo
A Beautiful Bride.
When Mrs. Sickles came to the Hotel
Brevoort as a bride she was MANY
years younge than h general. Ha
was then minister to Spain, and. nat
urally, when he brought back the lovely
young daughter OF Spain as his bride.
all of his diplomatic and social friends
In this city and in Washington gave her
welcome. She was heralded as he
most famous beauty who, had visited
these shores from any European capt.
tai.
The unusual reunion has been
brought about by Mrs. Sickle,s son,
ing in Athens, where he has been sec
rotary Of the American legation, and
who has now been ordered to Siam. He
purposed visiting his father en- quite
and the mother decided to
him and again renew her acauaint-
ence with her husband.
Although separated from her hus-
band these many years, Mrs. Sickles
denies that any animus inspired the
separation.
Brinus up Children.
"yon see sba exnlainoa az
very vo,,ng when T marri.a mas ~
No - = aaHa+aa :, my
7 fo,na w That 1 1hs 20 me, ana When
him tn his own coe'ntru - ,iu ~ = oo oooa
scaros1,r ,aoana;iS .as W. couio
neonle and country and % 49, ny
new land And ca ,atainaa ~ LIS s
littla ch;Idra, Ga re,aaina ~. .Mo
hon,e ~ nv, nonan -, 49, - .is
thew died eight years acc. Since then
I have made NV Roma WITH Nv 40 LIZ IN
ter. Mrs. kentho WIZ 10 81
wwife of tha secratarn ~ - ny
emhassv n, Wanna aDa -,,th Isl
who has been sacrataru ~ .ha s SUI
lean leration in AthanS T ,s nsl.
nv life was filed In hr,p o; me- ,,n +,aaa
two childra, Who .ra nan ~ nmsse
and so General Sict1as w. masfi ~.
own life-a hannv ono 7 49, 49, us rs
America T have baan ao,,,un -
tent in Eurone nv co,oinn - =.
this time was n bapnx, thn,,sht a.
was s,1epested hv nv ~ mntai
whose duties will taxa him ~ &C.
and who Thought that ba n.o,,a 49,
his vacation in Nexu Vel, ,,o;tian .a M
father. I came az r. seanad thn LIZ -
thing for mo to 40 nov, ~ 4hs ilsn'
eral is In feehia boaIth ona sen,
me more than In forroar aamas neea
he could he about among l,is ~. -
and he never lacked friends eit,,sr
women or mann addaa ~ lie ..ashl
O fieeting smile In her rooa H,e, VIII
brown eyes eooo H"euieo
And shall yo,, rema,n .l,,.v. 49,.
uith ~ o., "i"ayS Aefe
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