Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-05
5AO SUNDAYS EYES
.RE FOR ONE WOMAN,
And SHE'S AN ANGEL
vaucelist F finds Gentler Sex
|Repellent Except When
Saving Souls-A Word
Picture Of Ma"
pv A WOMAN REPORTER

,o woman on earth that BILLY"
-, cares anything about is Mrs.
,,,o sunday. She is at once his COM
Ma inspiration, his guiding star. AS
,rs rest. they might just as well be
,,,opt as far as he is concerned.
,cept when he is saving their souls,
,sn are repellent to him. He doesn't
n talk to them; he doesn't care
,,stan 10 them. In fact, he doesn't
onything at all about them And,
oor a particularly successful revival,
~ NJ the fair sex, in an excess of
.lan confuse the man with his mis-
ana try to brook the distance he
niaced between himself and them,
.nuIses them. No matinee idol stun
Nm He has eyes for one alone.
20, don't believe this, ask the
,,tIv happy woman who happens to
bts w,fe-the one who travels from
an 10 ocean just to be with him when,
usa her own expression she's such
,,sloying soul''-she who has come to
'.eiladelphla to listen to his lectures for
4 aIJeavens knows how oftenth" time
doesn't expect to be the least bit
FED.
"pA" REPELS ADVANCES.
I'VE have been married for q years."
will tell you, land in all that time
ave never known him to talk privately
sb woman, or call to see one. IT,
s The course of his work they make ad-
rces TO him, he repels them, keeps
E 4, pt an arms length. 1t isn't that he
afraid, but he just isn't going to give
IL devil a chance"
IN women In general are synonymous
"a temptation and the evil spirit, it's
IN TO see that Ma" at least Is re-
.|rded In the light of an angel, but a
" Industrious angel, at that.
In at the Sundays temporary home on
ring Garden street everything revolves
|Ibund MA" She is the buffer between
clamoring city and the evangelist who
- come to save its soul.
Mrs. Sunday, the newspapers are call
n to know what Mr.. Sundays next
ture will be-
s Mrs. Sunday, the trunk man is here,
here does Mr.. Sunday want his trunk?"
frs. Sunday, a man wants to know IL
4. Sunday will sit for his photograph"
And with smiling countenance and the
rgetlc vlvacious manner that is never
tent from her, Ma" sees to everything.
Il Is the medium through which all
1nmunlcations go to Billy Sunday and
bugh the members of the household
low him to be man of lightning tenn
n yet he has never been known to
II n.y. at her, no matter how often she
aerrunts him, or how raw his tired
.fves may be.
fhe smallest detail in the daily round of
8 life from the orange juice which he
rs at night after an exhausting day. to
q boiled eggs that are a part of his
prnlng meal, are subject to her
fufinizns eye. Everything must be
Ptright. Ma" sees to that.
MET AT PRAYER MEETING.
prayer meeting romance was theirs.
had its inception back in 'S6 i'm Chi
70 at the Jefferson Park Presbyterian
Rarch, and though that is almost 80
Afs ago. the first blush accorded Mrs.
nday MS never been removed.
us iunny how things happen" said
e ieanlng her elbows on the table in
e plg dining room of their temporary
pme mere, her brown eyes taking on a
Ilnliliseent look. when 1 first met Mr..
lnoay ne had come to Chicago to play
~ thoush he was a Christian then,
pu we met In church, not on the bali
9u.u. uldnt care a thing about him,
used to invite him to my house
ssese my chum was wild over him.
- thousht there was no bliss like
fsnpns an evening with Mr.. Sunday.
% as not to be out In the cold used
4 mFne my gentleman friend (she said
ftt
make quartet
~ somehow or other we got mixed,
~ I'd alway find that II was 'Pa, was
King to. I don't know how TJhhv I,ked
nut after a while VI know T came
nke Il pretty well. We use To meet
~ often, too, at prayer meeting and.
pusn lived direstIy across The street
~ .ne church, the longest wav round
= .z,a, us shortest way home in those days
Msn we became engaged in IS on
ears Day, and were married in
j x ,alle year That was 27 years ago.
+ nAse Tour children now. George and
- VINO are married, and Billy. Jr..
~ ~ the baby, aged Z. who is In the
ssude. expect I'll have to leave
= .ssy sssu,y Tor a little while at the end
..,n ~. - OF so hers In Philadelphia and
eA TO Winona Lake to see how
s'eFen are doing, and incidentally |
~ % few buttons.
BILLY" HARD ON BUTTONS
3 never quite been able to figure
sne said. smiling humorously,
esper The two growing boys or Mr.
ras tore on the most buttons. but
sily b,,s,. e phree OF them am kept |
ro every meeting at the tabernacle
~ hes = ana jumps into a warm bath, |
sInr st thing that do Is TO look for
+ se,'..d ~ nhd them, too.''
oAlilg at It from, ma ,.,,,t - ,,,
49, etnely attractive woman who has
.bo,,s sF own life into her husbands
s.ssrie "a lhe least permitting her own
4 ~. rsisonality to become sWamped.
E IA, apuy nieknamed Ma" She Is |
7s.Iin ~. sweet and motherly and do
|n ~ she Is much more besides.
st,a LIST place, she is a smartly |
oest tronan. Billy himself Is partly /
s ssIrE Tor this. He tust hates her
waists and skirts, she says. and |
IA one-pleee froeks. Moreover, in
1n oslns smartly equipped In a
~ eoesn't expect of a person
M - Afs' sunday Is an artist of
friends declare, and the walls
neay bungalow at Winona Lake
with oil paintings for whose
q she Is responsible.
ssnefmore. she IS clever, human
snormously interested In the big
husband is doing, with him.
M o soul IN Il and ready to make
sny Eacrihee.
sf an she win tell YOU earn
1od's work. not ours, that
fms on. Our time Is really