The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-30
BRAMWELL BOOTH
LIKE HIS MOTHER
HAS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PER-
soSALITY FROM THAT OF ais
vERiLE FATHER.
OF FINE MAGNETISM
HAND-CLAsP 10 TENDER AND
WARA--MRs. BOOTH, WOMAN
OF RARE CULTURE AND
ABILITY
By LOUISE RICE.

I A]SttSh% hbANG&
! The oIaost son VI W I4lIam Booth
and Catherine Aumtora WAS always
sooked upon as the tokicai successor
+ TO ms tatner, though a distinct ssass-
mcni TO mat eIeCt was never mAae.
lie has been .AIitd the Moltke OF
the salvation Army. because OF has
uemeautus gr.p upon the relns of ats
g government; uut tor him. Inc e&acg
and wondeIfuAy detained organi1a-
ton might never have exist.a. but
30 QHleuy has he worked beninu the
scenes mat The genera pueHe does
not realize as YET how powerful
personality has come into the worlds
IimelRht.
I Bramwell. more than any of the
BOOM children, resembles ms mother.
even in manner, speecn and ekpres-
sion. he mas a. sOitIy rounded oval
lace am q clcan yoUtniui skin. wnEcA
ia ocentuated hs MS prematuiely
/ white nAir. His platform manner Ia
also that OF his mothers: the psne-
( tratingiy sweet and competing
/ rather than the wrile and powerful
! one of his fatner.
! IL 10 in personal intercourse. how
! ever. that his greatest power lAes. tie
| is pre- eminsntly magnetic. when met
/ eye TO eye. nIs nanoClasp Is subtly
z
is OF that rare klnu which conceats
I Itself behind an apparent reliance
| upon others to do mat very Thing
! which he Ia VT the actual moment
effecting. His knoWIeuge of ali army
/ matters 10 nothing SHIRT OF phenonle-
nal Consult him on the most mn
! portant scheme the army has ever
evolved, and he knows all about 1t;
question him concerning some tech
/ meal detail, and he tnen and there
draws you a diagram which fully ex-
plains 1t He knows an enormous
number OF people. in and out OF the
army. by their names. He reinem-
beers faces. He has mind which Ia
! naturally scholarly, and which q
stocked with the best OF English lit
| erature.
| Not an Imitation.
AS the son OF an epoch making
i father. Bfamweu Booth Is q brilliant
exception to the usual nonentity. lie
! lis not feeble imitation Of General
/ Willlam Booth. but a distinct and en-
trey different personality.
| Like every officer In the Salvation
| Army. the generals son, long before
the actual army scheme had been
worked out. had to begip at the be-
ginning, as now his own children, In
| their turn, are doing. AS he resem-
| bled his mother In an almost morbid
shrinking from publicity. he was Sc,
| to work at FIRST among the children
BY holding meetings. as volunteer
officer, In a slum cellar. he gathered
around him quite band OF poor
children who tried to help their little
comrades.
Meanwhile, the army was growing
rapidly, desperately In need of ON
+, GERS, and was beginning to and Itself
| fairly overwhelmed by the mass OF
detail work necessarily entatied by
such q scheme. At that point. the
| generals oldest son stepped ror"aTo
and began to systematic and organ
| ize until the Office work of the army
| became a model of its Kind. and ne
showed the calibre OF which he was
made. when. with the late William t
Stead. he aided and abetted the strug-
! gle which the army began against
what LIS now called the White slave
! Traffic.
He Meets Ills Wife.
Mira. Bramwell Booth was the
daughter of a well-to-do physician.
who sent her to London to lash
| ionable finishing school, 10 see some
| thing Of the gaieties OF the town and
! 10 prepare herself for society.
| One evening through mtshap. a
| fneateT party ChitIe W hotthhe' AAN
the head mistress, plying the disap-
| pointment OF the young girl, took her
| to a Salvation Army meeting to which
| she herself was going. Mrs. Booth.
| the mother" OF the army. was one
| of the speakers at the meeting. and
! her i'm parsioned appeal found Ri In
| slant response In the noble heart OF
| the young girl. who almost I'M"
| mediateiy began 10 look forward to
| joining the new religious organize
| ton. She went to France with one
| of the generals daughters. who Ia
| called the Marechale, battling through
| the first troubled years OF the cam
| raign in that country, and. at the
age Of twenty-one. she became the
wife of Mr.. Bramweli Booth.
She threw herself with especial
server into the rescue work for wo-
| men, which was then Just In its In
fancy. and became the leader In q
hrrnch OF tho srmy's work which has
spread TO an almost unbelievable OK
tent.
The fret rescue home was IN a
umbie-down house OF the White
Chapel roed, and there were only
Young Mrs Booth and o few WON n
helpers This was less than twenty
Ave years ago To-day there hre
rescue homes in every large center
Of Christiandom, and the workers in
that particular branch are numbered
by thousands.
Mrs Rrainweil Booth was a blue
eyed, golden haired gi-i. with a blush
rose complexion and an expression
of mingled sweetness and hrmness
She is a woman of rare social charm.
still deeply blue Of eye. and incr%d
ihiv blush rose OF complexion, da-
spite the constant pressure rom her.
and her faith and ardor for the wo-
men to whom she has devoted her
life are just ss keen.
RrookS--Tratn.S sm-
BrrMPASS. VA, Dec. 2s.-Mr. and
Mrs. Trainham have announced the
marriage OF their daughter, Lucy. to
Mr. r. Brooks. on December 2sth.