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Show MARRIED. Yesterday morning In this city, by Rev. Father Oster, Mr. James J. Hill to Miss Mary Theresa Mehe-pan. Mehe-pan. Mary Mehegan has fulfilled the promise prom-ise of hr youth. From the day she en-erod en-erod the "modest little frame cottage in which the Hills b?gan their married life, at 34 Canada street, until today, w hen she is mistress of the great house in St. Paul, she has always been the same sweet, gentle, refined woman. T'r.affectfd, she has gone through the greatest test to which character can be put the passage from extreme poverty pov-erty to extreme wealth. She has proved herself a true gentlewoman, modest and full of warm-hearted charity. No details of her beneficence ever get abroad, except now and then when those who profit by her kindness break fllence In spite of her. With the fine cnjnmon sense that always characterize character-ize her she has never attempted to hiae the story of her origin, and the lowliest of her relations are always riven a hearty welcome in her great house. Even Mr. Hill'B enemies in the northwest and he has a great many-concede many-concede without exception the beauty of his wife's character, and the Eharp tongues of the most bitter society gossips gos-sips speak only pleasant words about hr. ' She has reared nine children, six girls and three boys, and all have grown up to do her credit, and to pay tribute to her character. There has been no taint of scandal In the family, fam-ily, no angling for "society," no seeking seek-ing after titles, nothing whatever of the un-American snobbishness or tuft- hunting that has grown so common of late among the very rich in this country. coun-try. Four of the girls are happily married, mar-ried, and all fixed their choice on poor men. and sterling Americans. The eldest eld-est son, Louis Warren Hill, married a trained nurse, a member of an old Minnesota Min-nesota family. The years have brought Mrs. Hill many social and other responsibilities, but first of all, she still remains the careful, prudent housewife, putting her husband's comfort and her children's welfare ahead of everything else, just as she did in the little Canada street house when Mr. Hill needed her frugal fru-gal management to help him to success. |
