Show COURAGE DISPLAYED BY wj WIVES vES s OF OP PRESIDENTS Chicago The courage with which Mrs Me Mc Imey has borne the injury to he be belu lu bAnd brings sharply to public pubic at attention a attention t the tM many crises cri es through which the wives of or American presidents have bave pa ed and the manner In which they have bave met the calamities or res possibilities l n upon th them m From Martha Washington Va to Mrs McKinley some Home very high types of or the best beet wo of or America have suffered and lived do don suffering to the glory of or the people pooDle who have hae honored them Martha fartha Washington Wa was a widow when vh n sho she married George Washington and therefore was not unacquainted with the complex nature of men man She k enjoyed enjoy 1 wealth of her ber own and a social position po Literature relating to Martha Wash Washington Washington ington Is scarce Her husband entered the presidential office at a time when the country was with pov poverty poverty poverty erty and diverse political opinions end a nd so social loI lal entertainment was not called for tor forThe forThe The wife spent her time at Mount Ver Vernon Vernon Vernon non caring for far the Joint estate of her ber herself herself self and husband and to ht he ho came as often as pit the cares of his office would permit It Is IB said of ot hv her h that she thought much more of or hla elevated po positron position than he be did but that he be was accused by his enemies ot of over er driving dr vIng his salary and of or having offered of offered offered to betray the tho colonies tt to the Brit British BritIsh ish lab early in the revolution she forgot his eminence remembered only the suf suffering suffering fering man and save pave him the best of ot S herself Mr tr ashington M she said after his death was t to me always the most kind and Indulgent of or husbands I IA A woman cut no n conspicuous figure in tn Washington life lire until the tho arrival of ot 7 Jolly DolUe Dollio Madison th wife wite of ot the thel fourth president She was clev claver er or she was witty Ut she was as spirited n JiB as her h r husband was amiable The He se e was cot not much of or a 11 White House Kiuse Su e In se days Madison was nc net n tn rho most p ular lar president ve we have had bad but out ran t an all the troubles of the I time shines the face of DolUe Madison MadI MadIson Madison son a n distinguished wife In extremely dark hours Collies Dollies great hour was I when the British entered Washington and drove the outward form of the government ahead of it This was on August 23 1814 Few men there were In Washington that day but Dollie Donie Madison was in charge of ot the public documents ant and Dome Dollie was not retreating until thelast th the thelast last moment Late in the night of Aug Auga 23 3 a note came to her from her husband hus bus husband band which briefly said that the Brit Ish were stronger than supposed that tha they probably would enter the city and that she must mu t be ready to flee on a moments notice To her bel personal property the brave brav woman gave no thought She gathered op up instead all of ot the cabinet papers possible packed Jacked them In trunks filled a carriage e with them and waited fo for Cor the coming of oC Mr rr Madison The nex next morning she ahe he ascended to the roof o of tie tte house bou e and with a spy s y lass glass searched the country side for lor a 8 sign of the ap of ot her husband She said after ward vard that what she saw was Groups Group of ot military wandering In all directions as if It there was a lack of lr arms or o of spirit to light fight for their own wn firesides At noon the sound of or cannon was wa heard and Just before 3 came cam two messengers bidding her to hasten her departure Taking a wagon leaded It with plate and government papers sh she ordered all an valuables deposited with the Bank of or Maryland She broke ou out of ot the frame rame Gilbert Stuarts picture o ot of Washington and gave gate it to one Jacob Jaco Barker to convey conay to a place of oC safety Then she drove to Georgetown bu but but I anxious as to the safety o of oC her husband returned to Washington to search for Cor him Finding him sate safe I she h to Georgetown and spent spen Urn the night there while white the British rioted In the national capital Long after af er Dollie D Madison had I passed from frow existence Mrs Abraham AbrahamI Lincoln came to Washington as th the I first lady l dy o the land In the year ear 1840 I as th me old chronicles run run Mr Lincoln become became be ame engaged to Mary Todd of or Lex I Ington Ky Icy a daughter of ot Robert S Todd They were married Nov 4 f r 1842 and Mrs Sirs Lincoln survived her husband after atter his untimely death in fn 1865 So far as the history r of ot this coun cou try ry has progressed no woman ever came ame to the White House in more try Ing ng times She lived through such a period jeriod of national existence as it Is to toe be e hoped no other American woman will trill ever be called to to oa to face For Forer her er It may be said that she was ten derly erly loved and cherished by b the great gr at commoner who thought an Injury to a woman was vas a sin too heinous to be expiated i While Mrs airs Lincoln was facing the fearful earful trials placed upon the si dents denis wife during the war another woman wo woman 0 man In more modest circumstances war waif living the life Ufe of ot a soldiers dire Ife She was Mrs Ulysses Grant who as Julia ulia Dent married plain U IT S G Grant an Aug 22 2 1848 He was vas in the regular army then and stationed at Det R t later he w was as sent to Panama and then hEn hEnto to o San Francisco then to Vancouver and to other points on the coast Mrs Grant and the two chit chil bU dren ren born remained in the east Of at this his Grant says In his memoirs In the late summer of ISM 1854 18 4 I re rejoined rejoined joined my family to find in it a son whom wheat I had bad never seen born while I 1 Ivas IWas was vas on the Isthmus of or Panama I l Ivas Iwas was vas now to commence at the age of or 32 a new rew struggle for our support My wife had a farm near St Louis to I which we went but I had no means to tostock tostock stock lock it A house had to fo be built also alsoS I y S i Mrs Grant was by her husband husbands s side t i side ide through all the hardships which j I I io followed e Few v of the e aristocracy of StLouis St Louis in 1868 f could g u have been made a I Io 1 to o believe that the Grant Grunt who Wh 0 hauled wood for Cor th n and the wife who wait walt waited waited I ed d for Cor him at the farm would be jn sin their heir way to the White House tn ten I It years ears later 1 It was in May a 1861 that i el I Grant t entered the t service I of r t the state s of 0 Illinois and began that career w which was vas to make malte him twice a president t I Mrs Rutherford B Hayes H yes ns as the successor of ot Mrs Grant in the WhiteHouse White V te House came Into the social life lire of the capital when much bitterness prevailed Democratic authorities and Democratic wives believed that Tilden had been elected and that President Hayes was wasa a usurper Mrs Hayes was a woman woman of or tact slow to give provocation and most anxious with her ber husband to allay the bad feelings aroused during the election She succeeded in doing this long ong before her husbands term ended One ne of oC the strongest steps taken by her after atter her arrival In Washington wax vas wasa a a stand against the use of ot liquor at presidential functions Like Mrs Grant she survived her husband and ands andIs andis Is s still living Mrs James A Garfield is also still living JIving Her life Ufe at Washington covered cov covered ered ared a little more than a year ear Then the he assassins bullet took from her ber hus bUS husband husband band and happiness repeat repeated I ed testimony of or her love and affection for Cor him given when he h was dying forms one of or the most pathetic yet y t J 1 beautiful chapters In the history ol of 0 American presidents I Mrs Grover Cleveland was in a sense a daughter of ot the nation Her romantic wooing by Mr Cleveland her marriage In the White House her tour of f the country and welcome from all classes th birth of her children chil children dren iren and above all her bel ability to know her place and to keep it with grace and modesty made her easily the most popular of all the presidents wives since Dollie Madison passed away The respect of or the nation was laid aid at her feet and in the hold on the national na heart she had a much strong stronger er grip than her distinguished husband Mrs McKinley completes the list Of what she has borne It Is not necessary to write The nation has shown her during the last week that sympathy which makes all the world kin leaves no room for doubt as to its sin sincerity sincerity As to personal love sacrifice s untiring devotion the life of or President McKinley with his wife has h been a astory story of or duty sanctioned by the hg I est affection I |