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Show means. There is no doubt but trurt ctmgress. if the matter were brought to the attention of the national lawmaking body, would grant Mrs. Harrison a pension of $."..000 per year such as is now received by Mrs. Garfield and such as was v jted to Mrs. McKinley after the assassination of the late president. Mrs. Harrison, however, has never made application for any annuity, nor even for the privilege of franking her letters, although al-though 'any presidential widow can presumably be placed on the. postal free list" tor the asking. Any such action has been unnecessary, as Uen. Harrison left his family well provided pro-vided for. It need scarcely be explained that Mrs. Harrison. who is now in her fiftieth year, was the second nmEe wife of Benjamin Harrison. The first Mrs. Har- SiSjiEtt rison. who was Caroline Lavina Scott, ami to l "SS- whom Harrison w as married in 1S.".",. died at VVl the White House a few days before the presiden- -.".-V tial election of 189.2. In 1806. when Harrison V".".'".'! . -. was 6:'..years of age, he was married to Mrs. Mary ags-l: Scott Lord Dimmick, a niece of his first wife. 57""" The second Mrs. Harrison, who at the time of By Marie LwrnroN WoGbttvrrWImm mdaUR tin- first time in a mini- VJ J ber of years, after the demise M I of Grover Cleveland, and un- J iii the retirement of Theo- tSBSBSSIm dorp. Roosevelt, the Lnited MKwwI s,:ll,'s did notnumber among Its citizens a living ex-president of the republic; and the number of living widows of presidents Is comparatively compara-tively small considering that some of the nation's chief executives married women many years their Junior. Surviving presi-Jential presi-Jential widows are Mrs. Garfield. Mrs. Harrison and the lately bereaved Mrs. Cleveland. Regarding the life of Mrs. riarfield and Mrs. Cleveland since they eft the White House the public has heard more or less frou time to time, but Mrs. Harrison has lived so quietly and in such seclusion that the American people have been told little of her home life. drs. Harrison has a comfortable home were put in place but yesterday. yes-terday. The windows are of leaded glass and all the open fireplaces are of rough stone, similar to the one in the living room. A nook in the "annex" that would prove of interest inter-est to every housewife is the "storeroom." Housekeeping House-keeping half a dozen miles from the nearest market requires foresight, even if yon have your own vegetable garden, and so Mrs. Harrison has a capacious closet, the well-filled well-filled shelves of which remind re-mind one of a full-fledged grocery store. While on the subject mention may be made of another unique adjunct of the Harrison country seat the tin closet. This tin closet consists con-sists of a small room, completely lined with tin, in which is stored all the bedding, clothing, etc., when the house is closed for the season, a necessary neces-sary precaution to thwart the field mice a destructive destruc-tive pest in this section of the country. The third of the principal princi-pal structures on the Harrison Har-rison estate is the Refuge, a two-story structure rustic, like the rest set in the midst of a densely wooded area. This building build-ing was erected by the late Gen. Harrison in order or-der that he might have a place to carry on important impor-tant work wholly undisturbed, undis-turbed, and here he did all his preliminary work on the celebrated Venezuela Vene-zuela case and other important im-portant legal undertakings upon which he engaged following his ' retirement from the presidency. On the first floor of the Refuge is ex-President Harrison's old workroom, with its broad windows and large open fireplace. the wedding was 38 years of age, i6 a nativt of Pennsylvania and was a widow when she married the ex-president. Her first husband was Walter Erskine Dimmick, son of Samuel E. Dimmick. attorney general of Pennsylvania. She was married to the Peunsylvanian in 1881 when she was 23 years of age and the young man died in January of the following year. Mrs. Dimmick had. therefore, been a widow 14 years when she wedded Gen. Harrison early in April, 1896. In arranging for his second marriage, ex-President ex-President Harrison settled the bulk of his fortune for-tune on his children by his first wife, and then set about making a new fortune, in this he was very successful, for his professional services were in constant . demand and his fees large. Estimates of his second fortune at the time of his death ranged all the way from $200,000 to $400,000, His largest single fee, reported to be $100,000-, was received for his services as chief counsel for Venezuela before, be-fore, the international commission which met in Paris in June, 1899, to settle the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela, which had for three-quarters of a century been a source of international complications. Fond as is Mrs. Harrison of her life at Berkeley Lodge with its opportunities for quietude and absence of convention, she does not derive such keen enjoyment from the experience as does her little daughter Elizabeth, born February Feb-ruary 21', 1897 the only child of the former president by his second wife. Miss Elizabeth Harrison, who is now in her eleventh year and whose latest portrait is presented herewith, is an exceptionally attractive girl with a rare, elusive type of beauty that is almost wistful, i Little Miss Harrison has large dark eyes, similar in their depth of color to those which contribute so much to the distinguished appearance ap-pearance of her tall and stately mother and a wealth of chestnut brown hair that rolls back from av unusually high forehead. As is characteristic of children who have spent most of their time with older folk and have played little with other children, this youngest living daughter of an American president Is quiet and demure, with beautiful manners and a shy modesty that adds greatly to the charm of her personality. Of the other two presidential widows living, Mrs. Cleveland is best known to the present generation. The whole life of this lovable woman, since her gorlhood days, radiated around the life of the only man the Democrats have succeeded in putting in the White House in half a century of effort. They were wedded in the White House during the first term of the then New Yorker. Her triumphs of the first year were abundantly abun-dantly repeated, and when once more the pair retired to private life to take up their home in beautiful "Westlands," their Princeton abode, Mrs. Cleveland remained a beautiful memory to the nation that had genuinely loved her. Mrs. James A. Garfield has long survived her husband, who has now been dead almost 27 years. In Pasadena, Cal., Mrs. Garfield has a summer sum-mer home. There she spends a large part of her time in the midst of idyllic surroundings. She spends most of her time sewing and reading. read-ing. She is a sweet and gracious woman, gentle and kindly and always ready to speak of the triumphs of her husband. at 121-1 North Delaware street, in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Ind., the city which was always "home" to her late husband but she spends but a fraction of each year in the Hoosier capital. President Harrison's widow is fond of travel and devotes not a little of her leisure i to journeys by easy stages in one part or another of the European continent. When she does elect to spend an interval inter-val quietly under her own roof she manifests a strong preference for her quaint country home in Herkimer county, New York. Here Mrs. Harrison Harri-son can usually be found from early summer until late autumn. That this rural retreat in northern New York should prove a magnet of undiminished power for Mrs. Harrison is by no means strange. The place is. for her, full of associations, it was at a farmhouse in this immediate vicinity that Gen. Harrison and his bride spent their honeymoon. , The ex-president was always a great walk-,er. walk-,er. even in the days when his time ;was occupied by the manifold duties jof chief magistrate, and he and his wife tramped over the whole country-jside country-jside during that first summer of their wedded life and then and there selected select-ed the site of the habitation which they built the following year. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, this habitation which is fraught with so many memories for the presidential widow is conducive In the highest degree to that seclusion seclu-sion which Mrs Harrison craves. Berkeley Lodge, as the Harrison place was named In honor of the ancestral home of the Harrisons in Virginia, is situated on a point of land that juts out into what is known as Second Lake of the Fulton Chain a series of those connected waterways which are so abundant in the northern part of the I Empire state. Not only is the Harrison estate distant a number of miles from the nearest railroad, but it is wholly inaccessible by wagon road. The only means of communication with the outside world is via the small steamers which ply on the lake and which stop on signal at the private dock which Mrs. Harrisou has had constructed on her property. Through this lone artery of transportation come the occasional oc-casional guests entertained by Mrs. Harrison, their tfaggage, the mail and all supplies of every character intended for the household. Mrs. Harrison's home is half a mile or more front the nearest neighbor, but isolation was the aim of Gen. Harrison when he built this residence. Indeed, he and several wealthy men who co-operated with him purchased practically all the land bordering on the little lake in order that the district might not become be-come too thickly populated. The Harrison estate es-tate comprises only about 36 acres, but through the arrangement above mentioned the Harrisons Har-risons were from the outset of their occupancy Insured against intrusion. Berkeley Lodge, which is in truth not a single dwelling, but a whole cluster of log structures, occupies a knoll overlooking the lake, but is so hidden by trees that it is unobserved un-observed until the visitor is close upon it. The main building is a picturesque two-story structure struc-ture with a large octagonal tower on each forward corner. The space between these towers, across the front of the house, is occupied oc-cupied by a wide porch. Practically the whole central portion of this building is given over to a huge living room, open to the roof and with a monster fireplace of field stones, laid up roughly with no mortar showing. Conspicuous Con-spicuous on the mantel is a portrait of the late ex-Rresident Harrison draped witli an American flag. The towers which flank this unique structure are given over to tiny bedrooms, bed-rooms, those on the second floor being reached by galleries to which stairways ascend from either end of the living room. These sleeping apartments are reserved for the use of Mrs. Harrison, her daughter and closest personal friends. Located a few yards distant from the main building and connected with it by means of a rustic walk is tile "housekeeping annex," which contains the dining room, kitchen and quarters for the servants. These rooms, alike to all those at Berkeley Lodge, are ceiled in selected spruce, which, though unvarnished, retains its beautiful cream tint as though it in the center of which latter lat-ter is the remarkable heart-shaped stone which the general and Mrs. Harrison found on one of their honeymoon walks. Adjoining this room is that formerly occupied, by the general's gener-al's secretary. This room and those on the second lloor reached by an outside stairway are all now utilized as guest chambers. Mrs. Harrison is of the opinion that when there is a large house party at the lodge it is good for both hostess and guests not to see too much of one another, and consequently she gives her visitors a sense of independence by installing them in a habitation of their own, so to speak. Although there are 14 bedrooms at Berkeley Lodge and a greater or less number of guests are being entertained almost constantly, Mrs. Harrison lives very simply and maintains a most unpretentious establishment. The wants of the household are looked after by a capable housekeeper. George, an old colored servitor, who has been in the employ of Mrs. Harrison for a number of years, and a general utility man, whose duties range all the way from gardening to service as guide and boatman on the occasion of those picnics or one-day excursions excur-sions which constitute the one form of diversion diver-sion favored by Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Harrison is enabled to live in a style befitting the widow of an American president owing to the fact that she has independent |