The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-29
MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND TELLS
OF DOMESTIC DELIGHT.
No Mother Could Ask Greater Pleas
ure Than Her Children; Does Ev-
erything to Avoid Publicity; Keeps
Pictures Out Iof the Newspapers;
Late Husbands Expressed Wish;
Will Take a, Trip to Europe.

New York, Oct. 26.-"No woman
could ask aTgreater interest than her
children" said Mrs. Grover Cleveland
at her summer home at Tamworth,
\. H., just before ,ther departure for
Europe. 'Other interests come into
every woman's life, but that is the
main one, | think. 1t has been my
greatest interest for eighteen years.
Il want my children to be in the
country as mach as possible during
their childhood, out of the confusion
of city life. OF course, we are in the
it is not like this.
Il am so glad that they are not
public children any more" she added.
TT is different with older people,
think. But both Mr. Cleveland and
myself always were careful to guard
orr home life"
= Keep Out of the Papers.
Mrs. Cleveland remarked that Mr..
Cleveland always preferred that the
pictures of the children should appear
in print as seldom as possible. She
explained one feature of her preju-
dice against publicity thus:
photographs of children always look
TO me like caricatures. In picture
you see just one expression, while you
know that a child has hundreds of
little moods and lenses. 1t does not
seem to me as if a photograph was
ever as beautiful as a child. | some
times feel that way about my friends
1t never seems as if their photo.
graphs do them Justice.
About our country life? Why,
there is little to tell. We live out of
doors. No not on the piazzas," she
added, smiling, as her visitor involun-
tarily glanced out on the broad YER
anda that trimmed the western wing of
the house. 'Out doors, in fields, in
pastures, everywhere.
This is the first year that we have
had an automobile here, and it seems
as if we had been in it most of the
time. We also go on long tramps
through the country. With the White
mountains only fifty miles away,
there are beautiful walks here Some
times we 60 berrying Nearly every
year we climb one or two mountains,
but this year we haven't found time
1--WE always spend a few days at
Duncan lake, in the camp that Mr..
Cleveland built here 1t was there
that he often used to 60 on his fish
ing trips. 1t is seventeen miles from
here, in the town of Ossipee, and about
a mile from the station.
Likes Quiet, Restful Life.
1--WE go bathing down at the lake,
boating, fishing, in fact, we have all
our summer water sports during the
few days that we camp there. Richard
is developing quite love for fishing;
he often went out with his father
and has inherited his love for the
sport.
1T is the quiet, restful life of the
country that we care for. That is
the aim of everybody who goes away
in the summer, | think. There are no
events up here on Stevenson hill and
no social life except what we make
ourselves. Friends, books, and the do
ings of the children-that has been
the summer routine
"Yes, we like this country home be-
cause it is so quiet" Mrs Cleveland
continued. 1--WE can look out on the
mountains from nearly every window
1t is like the sea, they seem to grow
on us. We grew to love the sea
l.,.k
the keen, bracing air of the hills seem
to agree with the children better. It
was on their account that we gave up
our summer home at Buzzard's Bay.
They are just as sturdy as can be.
every one of them, and of course much
tanned. l shall be sorry to leave
here" she said with a sigh.
Intended Trip to Europe.
Mrs. Cleveland then spoke of her in
tended trip to Europe, where she ex-
poets. to remain an indefinite time.
This winter her four children will at
All through the summer Mrs. Cleve-
land had been busy making plans for
the journey. No widespread announce
ment of her intentions, however, was
made. Her plans were no more ella
borate than those of Mrs. Jones or
Mrs. Smith since she hoped to leave
quietly. When she sailed there was
no more ostentation shown than ac-
companies the departure of any mother
who is looking forward to a year of
foreign life for her children.