Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-19

home is typical of its mistress. and is her
special joy. 1t is great hall through
the entire width OF the mansion. hlled
with windows where bright flowers bloom
through the winter months and where
cool-looking boxes of green's add to the
charm in the summer This room is by
far the most spacious and elegant of any
in a private home of Des Moines or its
vicinity. 1t is furnished in modified
colonial fashion in dark mahogany, and
possesses every accessory for luxury and
comfort at prandial events.
Nothing so delights Mrs. Young as to
fill this noble looking room to its utmost
capacity and to serve the dainties for
which her home is famous. The beautiful
flower garden and the fine old forest trees
that surround the Owls Head also are
unfailng joys to Mrs. Young and the OBJ
ject of much solicitude. So devoted is she
to this residence that only reluctantly
has she departed from it even for few
weeks. She has made only fleeing visits
to Washington this winter. and it is Yet
undetermined whether she will continue
to reside at a. hotel next winter, as she
and the senator did this season. or
whether they Will become householders
in Washington. It seems likely, how
ever that they will compromise the stu
alton and establish their household gods
in a large apartment house. Mrs. Young
is too welded to home life to be content
at a hotel, and the senator misses his
home food.
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Il have never been a clubvoman" said
Mrs. Young, but it can easily be under
stood that / never had leisure for this
kind of amusement. Ny life has been
filled from my earliest married years
and found that the cares of home and
family engrossed time to the exclusion of
outside interests. Then l have taken an
hSn hi i'm In yaa
progress OF events i'll the country, the
state and my own community. l have
been a constant reader of papers since
my earliest years. and / find abundant
food for thought and even occupation i'll
this daily habit
Mrs. Ioungs Inequalities have always
been in line with her husbands activities
and she has never sought social honors or
leadership through personal. ambition or
desire to make a career outside her hus-
bands special field. Senator Young began
his journalistic career when he was a
mere boy. At the time Mrs. Young, then
Miss Josephine Bolton, studying at n
private school in Des Moines, Mr.. Young,
as mere stripping, was doing work on
the State Register. one Of the Clarkson
papers, and identified with that honored
name in the development of newspaper
enterprise in Iowa. The two met in the
usual way of young people. having mutual
friends, and the marriage occurred soon
after Miss Bottoms school labors were
over. From Des Moines Mr.. Young and
his wife removed to Atlantic Cass county,
Iowa, where he started a paper. They
remained there for about nineteen years
Believing Des Moines TO be the center Of
things, where his interests lay. MIR.
Young came back to his Old home twenty
years ago and founded a paper. He con-
tnued i'll editorial harness constantly
every since until he was appointed No
yember IL. 1910, to fill the unexpired term
Of United States Senator Jonathan -.
Dolliver.
Senator and Mrs. Young have three
children. Their only daughter, popular in
the social life of Des Noines as Nellie
Young, married Mr.. John Herrick of
Bolivar, n. Y, and resides there. She
spent part Of the winter here with her
parents, and will return next season TO
make a more protracted visit. Of the two
sons, the elder, Harold Bolton Young,
held a captaincy during the Spanish
American war, and is business man or
Des Moines. The second son. Lafayette,
jr.. followed the footsteps of his father
into journalism He graduated with high
honors at Ann Arbor. Mich. and lmme-
diately entered the office of his father
paper. where, like his mother. he learned
every detail of the newspaper business.
Since his fathers election to the Senate
he has acted as business manager and
chief of the editorial staff OF the paper.
and has assumed entire responsibility OF
the publishing business.
Mrs. Young is a charming woman. per-
sonally, and is noted throughout the state
for her wit and general fund OF intorma.