Show sirs gladstone she is one of the most charming looking women yon ever saw a sweet kind face framed in full soft lovely hair and topped by a cap of velvet and lacea gawn that falls in artistic folds and rustle and a way of looking at you as if she were interested in everything you said mrs gladstone ahe does not caro for society as it is meant by the round of halls and receptions and the giving and going to them but she is delighted when she is at the head of her own dinner table and has about her a circle of friends who know and love her and mr gladstone unlike the wife of any other prime minister she never went in for having a salon forstr rounding ronn ding herself with rich and powerful friends who would simply care to be received at the house of a prime minister and yet have no real interest in the cause which ho so thoroughly and entirely championed instead she has given her time to caring for him to seeing that he was dundei any and all circumstances as comfortable as possible and that in this way hia health was preserved for the nation for whom ho did so much good hei happiest moments are is with her husband at hawarden but on every important occasion she has always been by his side just remember that this means going over the country in railway trains being for hours on open air platforms and th enyou will understand why the people of england worship mrs gladstone as a heroine cor ladies home journal |