The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-22
WOMAN WILL SOME
DAY " MILLIONS
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, the
Least Known of the Worlds
Wealthy Women.

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is considerably
younger than her husband. and 1t liz
but natural to suppose that in the or
binary course OF events she will OUT
live him many years. Moreover, it will
be years before little Miss Carnegie,
the only child, becomes of age, SO that
Mrs. Carnegie will. upon the death OF
her husband, become, in effect. II not in
reality, the custodian of her daughters
fortune as well as her own.
That Mrs. Carnegie is the least known
American ~millionairess and the most
retiring Of the wives of the republics
most conspicuous citizens Is due en-
tirely to her own wish and inclination.
She has been im~portuned time and
again in every possible manner to en-
ter fashionable social life, feminine
club activities and other spheres
which engross the attention Of her sex,
but always she has given the same de-
cision-that she prefers to make her
home and her family the center of her
interests. But it must not be supposed
from this that Mrs. Carnegie is In any
sense narrow in her activities, her SYM
pathfes or her appreciation of all the
things that go to make life worth liv-
ing.
She has taken the most active inter-
est In all her husbands public projects,
and many OF them, as carried out, rep
resent her ideas quite as much as those
which originated with the famous steel
maker. Moreover, h has travelled
most extensively her
husband on almost all his innumerable
journeys. and every person who meets
Mrs. Carnegie is quick to realize her
cleverness and the fact thai she has
g. sense Of humor as keen as If not
keener than her canny husbands.
Mrs. Carnegie, who is now in her
Sind year, is a native of New York
city, which has always been home" to
her, although she has acquired nue.
affection for her husbands native town
Of Dunfermline, Scotland. AS Louise
Whitfield, the daughter Of a prosperous
merchant, she grew up in the metrop-
oils. and quaint old Gramercy park,
close by her home, was her playground.
The Carnegie and Whitfield families
| We're old friend and the merchants
daughter n Andrew Carnegie were
good friends for years ere any thought
of a tenderer relationship seems to
a entered the head Of either. The
romance that eliminated in their mar
riage began In 1878, when andrew Car
| negie returned from a trip around the
world n found his girl friend trans
formed, In a comparatively brief a
of time, into a most attractive weman,
with just the right commingling of
heart instincts and intellectually to
appeal to a man with the tastes and
temperament of the human dynamo
from Pittsburg.
However, 1t was not until eight years
later, and following he death of the
~ironpaaster's mother, that the two We're
united in marriage. Miss Whitfield was
so years of age at the time and the
groom was so years old. the wedding
was a very simple one n conducted
so quietly that 1t was a thing Of the
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nous manufacturer learned of the
event. The honeymoon was spent on
the Isle Of Wight, and then the cou-
pie went to Scotland, where they leased
a castle, which they occupied for some
10 years, or until Mr.. Carnegie, in 1897,
purchased his now famous Skibo es-
tate and removed with his wife and
baby daughter, Margaret, to the pic
turesque castle, where it has ever since
been their want to spend the interval
from May to November of every year.
Among her fntimates Mrs. Carnegie
has the reputation Of being an ideal
mother. Notwithstanding the demands
upon her time by many house quests,
q voluminous (much of It uninvited)
correspondence n elaborate house
keeping arrangements which she per-
sonally superyises, it is seldom that
Mrs. Carnegie finds it necessary to d.
gress from her rule to give over the
morning hours of each day to her
daughter Margaret, reading and talking
with her, playing games, and, If oppor-
tunity offers, riding, driving or walk
ing in the open Mrs. Carnegie, like
her husband, is an enthusiastic dis
ciple of the outdoor life and a owe fol-
this healthful sort of existence is being
tostered in the only child of the Car
negies.
While Mrs. Carnegie is fond of out
door life she does not go in for siren
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less a passionate love for music car
be considered one. She has a strong
preference for the music of the pipe
organ n it was she who has been the
inspiration of Andrew Carnegie's nu-
merous and much appreciated gifts OF
pipe rgans to churches on both sides
Of the Atlantic. In not a few instances
Mrs. Carnegie has herself paid the sal.
ary Of a good organist in order that
the people of a poor congregation
might derive the fullest BENEFITS from
an organ installed by her husband-o1
through his aid-for Andrew Carnegie
following the usual custom, prefers tc
contribute from one-half to four-ffths
the cost Of the instrument rather thar
to donate it outright.
Mrs. Carnegie's simplicity Of taste
extends to dress, though it NAV bs
added that this simplicity is of tina
difficult-to-attain variety which In.
wolves the use of the richest materials
the most perfect harmony OF colors ane
the most artistic ensemble effect. Mrs
Carnegie has her own personal char.
tiles quite apart from those to which
her husband gives so much of his time
and on several occasions, in connection
with her helpful work on behalf of the
thousands of tenants of the Skibo es-
tate, this naturally reserved and re.
firing Lady Bountiful has actually
been induced to make an impromptl
public address.