Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-03-19

Of polished oak and four walls of in
teresting pictures pictured walls
very often reflect the personalities
dWlIing within them, you know.
From these walls look down Lin
coin and Webster, TOlstoy, Bryan
himself--a large portrait in OIL
an Mrs. Bryan and jefferson. There
is also a picture OF the capitol in
Washington done in split straw by
an Italian admirer.
The books on the shelves run the
whole gamut of literature, ancient
and modern, with the emphasis on
essays and economic subjects, and the
nat-top desk, a massive affair, is
lightly burdened with writing ma
terials, since the Bimetallist---he is
still that--does nearly all HIS writing
In his ONCE in the basement.
In the library, as In every other
room, there are curious and beauti-
full trinkets. some OF them rare and
valuable. which we're given to the
Bryans in foreign countries.
In the billiard room upstairs are
hosts Of queer looking contraptions
given him by missionaries here and
there in foreign countries. Among
these are many samples OF the hats
worn by various peoples. and in these
the Nebraskan takes peculiar delight.
He dons one after another, even to
the wierd headgear OF the Parsee
widow, and each time he smiles a
funny smile, as II seeking some sort
OF expression TO nc the top piece.
Bryan. when at home. gets up at
every morning, so as TO write a
while before breakfast, and from
that time until 10 at night, is about
as busy as any man in the country.
And the biggest Bryan is the CO
worker with Mrs. Bryan, who is
his constant companion In every
thing he does. She studied law just
after they were married and was adj
mitted to the bar-not because she
wanted TO practice. but because she
wanted to be real help to her hus-
band in his work. And that she was
and still Is.
Now that his work has resolved
itself so largely into writing
ing editorials, lectures, letters,
books and articles for magazines
she has learned to use a typewriter,
and besides his big desk in the Of
fice, In the basement Of Fairview, is
little stand, at which she sits when
ever he is there. taking dictation on
the machine or answering some Of
the hundred or more letters that
are sent out to him from the Com
moner ONCE every day.
All his mail is delivered to the Of
fee of his weekly paper, which is
Just of the main street in Lincoln
and is supervised by his brother,
Charles w. Bryan. And last year.
100000 letters addressed to William
Jennings Bryan, with variations, were
received there.
He seldom goes to the office OF his
paper, though he writes the leading
editorial for It each week and keeps
a close eye on the proofs.
His home life is as simple as that
of the average wel-to-do farmer,
though II differs from the latter in
most ways. In a coy little frame
house not far from Fairview lives
his farm superintendent. who looks
after the stock and the crops. for
Farmer" Bryan seldom has time
from his desk to look after the ac-
tual running OF things. He keeps
close track OF how matters are "com-
In on" however. and he knows good
corn and wheat and fine COW almost
as we'll as he knows political econ
omy, which is very we'll indeed.
His exemplary life which. in its
moral aspects might well be accept
ed as standard by any young man.