Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19


| to furnace at Winona Lake home. SEN
=, check for same.
dispatched payment for laundry bill
! to South Bend Ind.
Wrote and sent nine letters.
Answered phone a dozen times.
HELPED Billy Sunday get ready tc
! work. Brought, paper. sharpened pencils
and procured other necessary materials
| Sunday works fast and likes everything
directly at hand. SO as to insure no delay
It is mas duty to see that nothing is
overlooked.
AFTERNOON.
MAN came to talk business. Mrs. Sun.
day stayed at home to attend to this mat
ter, thus permitting Billy to devote his
entire attention to his regular duties.
''wrote and dispatched four more let
tiers. one to an expert accountant in
Pittsburgh; another to convict in the
Ohio penitentiary.
Received two callers.
Answered a letter to the editor Of the
Beacon Journal, Akron, O.
1.-TWO ladies' called ona of whom had
an appointment by mail.
''Rodeheaver introduced singer who
wished to try out with the idea Of joining
the Sunday party.
washed.
Supper.
EVENING.
Prepared her husbands clothing for
three changes during the day, took out
and put in buttons and laid out clothes
ready for his immediate use.
ATTENDED evening service.
Prepared Bits lemonade.
Eyes, Ma Sunday Is some busy lady.
Bill took a sip Of the temperance thirst
quencher, then said, And il ma hadn't
Wouldn't have had q minute for my
work." 49,
., That the helpful relation existing
between Mr.. and Mrs. Sunday Is ap-
parent to the casual observer is indi.
Gated by the following letter which
appeared in the Columbus Citizen
after the close Of the campaign in that
city in the usual column of letters
from our readers. Under caption OF
THE Power Of Ne1l'' the letter goes
on to say:
Whatever Billy Sunday has done for
Columbus, he cannot have failed to have
left. deeply imprinted In the hearts Of all
that heard him preach. wonderful ex-
ample of the love Of strong man for
his wife. Who can have failed to notice
his loving references to Nell. From the
first day to the last Of his seven weeks
campaign he acknowledged her power.
Billy Sunday has come and gone. That
he had power and success il shown by
1900 human beings accepting his teach
ings and publicly acknowledging their
has oh hNr tHr ~
ton Of $4,000 for his meritorious work.
But back Of 1t all IL Nell
Sunday evening when Billy Sunday
had closed an inspiring sermon In Me-
mortal hall and the people were hating
on decision. Neil stepped in to the
breach, lead the choir and all uncon-
scious Of her power swung several hun
dred penitent to \ public ackhowledg
ment OF God. And the beauty OF it all
lish something. No, she was just trying
TO show herself real, live helpmato.
Just trying to help Billy. that was all.
No wonder Billy Sunday speaks reverent-
ly when he says Nell"
Far more than the average outsider
Is permitted to know Mrs. Sunday
figures in the counsel of the family
and in the determination Of the activi-
ties of the evangelist. No campaign
Of any moment is agreed upon without
her assent. Anything like an innova-
ton in arrangements is referred to
her for advice. Like the wives of
many great men she looks after the
detail of his physical comfort with
great care. She it is who sees that
he has his overcoat Immediately after
a period Of strenuous exertion. She
skillfully extracts him from the throng
of curious who press about him at the
conclusion Of every meeting, and on
the other hand sees to 1t that not the
smallest child who has real cause to
meet the evangelist fails Of doing SO:
Wherever possible in campaigns the
Sunday party secure private home
for living and for headquarters. Only
where this is impossible do they &C.
cept hotel accommodations.
In September. 1913, the Sundays
, celebrated their silver wedding ami.
versary, and press dispatches thus de-
scribed the event: Is
'Billy Sunday and wife reached the
twenty-flfth year Of their married life on
September 5th and they celebrated the
event quietly but happily at Winona
Lake A number of their friends called
at the Sunday home during the day and
offered their congratulations on their sill
yer wedding anniversary. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sunday received congratulatory messages
from friends and admirers in all parts Of
the country
The evangelist is just as devoted to his
wife today as he was quarter of q CEN
fury ago when he was counting ma, then
Nell. in Chicago, while he played on the
old Chicago White Sox baseball team.
Billy always has an eye for the comfort
of Mrs. Sunday wherever they go and II
his wife Is not at his side he Is continu-
ally inquiring of her whereabouts.
MRS. Sunday has business ability rare
ly given to women and can conduct the
affairs Of her husband evangelist better
than he himself, according to his own
confession.
''His little peculiarities, what he likes,
what he dislikes. how things should be
conducted are known to her and she al
ways makes every possible effort to see
that accommodations are suitable to his
comfort.
Mrs. Sunday has that same tact that
enables a woman to accomplish great re-
suits while apparently moving in even
tenor Of her way Their home life is an