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Show MRS. BRYAN. flfl 1 IB The greatest factor in the Amcrl-Bfl Amcrl-Bfl can home is the wife, and I may be flfl pardoned for giving some slight notes flfl of Mrs. Bryan's character. Class-IB Class-IB mates in college, she and her husband flfl were married shortly after gradua, flfl tion, when she studied law and was flfl admitted to the bar, not with any cx-BB cx-BB pectation of practising, but merely BH that she might help "Will" as she HH invariably calls him in his office flfl work BH All through their married life she HH has been studying things that would BH help Will shorthand, typewriting, flfl proofreading, the art of editorial cx- BB prcssiou, and the mysteries which BB in 1896 proved unfathomable to so BB many of bimetallism HI Some years ago I was a guest of HH the Bryan home in Lincoln. Coming HH to breakfast at an hour which seemed HH ' abnormally early to the jaded mind HH lb of a New York morning journalist, I HH found a vacant place. HH " Where is Mrs Bryan?" I asked. HH "Oh," said her husband, "three HI limes a week she goes to the univcr- HH sity before breakfast for an early HH 1 class in German. You sec," he con- HH I tinned, with a smile, " I can't read BH German, and she thought it might HH be a good thing to have some one HH in the family who could get at first BBJ I hand the sentiment of the German HH HH Nevertheless, the breakfast was ad- BH jf mirably served. This in itsself is BBJ ! not of importance, but helps to illus- BH i trate the fact that foi all her intel- BH I lectual work Mrs. Bryan is no Mrs. HH i Jallaby, but a thoroughly competent HH I working house-wife. The Bryan HH , home lias ever been a model of ncat- Hfl 1 ncss and good domestic management. H S From The Home Life of William IH j) Jennings Bryan, by AVillis J. Abbott, HH in Munscys. f |