The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-23
WIFE OF SHERMAN
DEVOTED TO HOME
More Concerned About Her
Family Than Shining in
~ Vanity Fair

Washington, June 23-Mrs William
Howard Taft. having now become
through her husbands nomination. one
II the nest interesting women in
Washington society. has entirely re-
vised her plans for the coming sum
mer She has deei1eJ no. t. enca
the cottage which she his leased in
Murray Bay for the last four years
but to spend the summer in Cincinnati
with Ner husband.
Miss Helen and young Charles p.
Taft will so to Murray Bay and visit
friends there, among whom are Justice
and Mrs Harlan and General and
Mrs Oliver Robert Taft viii &C to
Murray Bay for q short visit but he
is anxious to see something of cam
paigning and will pass most Of his va
cation in Cincinnati and travelling
through Ohio and adjacent states.
Mr. Taft. contrary TO general belief,
Ihas no home in readiness for his re-
ceBtion in Cincinnati. and It is to get
a comfortable palce for the summer
that Mrs. Taft has hastened her deTart-
ure from Washington. In Cincinnati
they will be entertaiEed by relatives
Judge and Mrs. Heron. her parents,
and Charles p. Taft, whose palatial
home is one of the show places OF the
city
Charles Taft erieved.
A very important youngsier these
days is Charles p. Taft 10 years old.
Charlie has been nursing a grievance
ever since he came to live in Washing
ton When the papers take public
notice of him they invariably add that
he attends the same school and is in
the same class with Quentin Roose-
welt. Charlie shyly limited yesterday
that perhaps the time might come
when the papers would tell that Quen-
/ tin Roosevelt vent to the same school
with Charlie Taft Charles observa.
/ ton on the convention and its out
come was thus worded "We are de.
/ lighted aud we appreciate the great
/ homer but we were not astonished;
we had ANTICIPATED it months age"
Mrs. Taft will not return TO Wash
ingtOn until next autumn Her home
viii be left in charge Of the excellent
Japanese servants whom she brought
from the Philippines and will be Kept
in readiness for unexpected journeys
Mrs. Sherman Little Known.
Washington society does not know
much of Mrs. Sherman, the wife Of the
vice presidential candidate Though
she has lived in Washington ten years
she has, accor ing to her most intim
ate friends, hen more concerned about
her family aud her home than about
shining in Vanity Fair For the past
two years Representative and Mrs
Sherman have lived al the principal no
little. For serevral seasons previous
however. they leased the handsome res
lidencs of Admiral Upshur, on Connec
ticut avenue and were prominent
among the entertainers Of their
state
Mrs Sherman Is rather fragile-look
Ing, with pleasant face and soft, gra,
hair. Her manner Is her principa
eharm. She Is cordial yet reserved
land her conversation Is always inter
lestiug She has the reputation o.
knowing how TO discuss II in ,ne mos
lenterlaining way Mrs Sherman nevel
lseems to care for large entertainments
Mrs. Sherman comes of the mos
Industrious Revolutionary ancestry
though she does not holong 10 any o
the patriotic societies in WashingtOi
Tor New York. She rather breads sucl
strtnuous efforts as membership a,
these societies seems to entail. Ii 4
said that shs has promised to join tn
daughters Of the American Revolution