| Show 6 4 DAUGHTER how the ne Warr lora lorys girl won her iler husbands Hus bandA A description of jar sartoris an old washington lady who has enjoyed d an intimate acquaintance with the grant cami family aj and who was a frequent inmate of the white house during di the tile generals occupancy tells me tins rehi relative tive to the marriage of nellie grant to mr sartoris 10 nellie with two young ladies in company with a cabinet officer and his ills wife were crossing crossing the ocean on a 9 visit to eui europe sartoris am biad been looking at some land belonging to his father falber in ill wisconsin and anti was gas returning home by the same samei vessel ressel the three youndla young ladies d ies began a flirtation with the L englishman and anti each tried to capture him but nellie won as one odthe of the misses afterwards r ds told me when it became known to the family of sartoris that ho contemplated matrimony his mother 0 objected to miss grant saying ehe she desired that lie should be married to the english E lis hladY lady the objection was over ruled however by the son sartoris coming again to Ai america and asking the general for the hand band of his d daughter ho ile refused the regu request ept nel nellie ie was in lovo love with the JE englishman ug and went to her mother with her futh fut heri cra refusal mrs grant favored the union and sought the general ge he afterwards after warda said to me I 1 had bad to yield when her roo mo ther calne to me with tears in lier her cyca eyes and asked mo me to comply with the wishes of sartoris nellie was the generals Gene raUs favorite child he worshipped wor shipped her and it waa was a hard bard blow to him to give her up and allow her to go eo so far from him after the marriage the mother of the bridegroom became attached to her daughlee in inlaw law nellie Nelli chad had neglected her education in fact she knew know little of anything when she left for her new home airs mrs sartoris became her teacher she taught her ber music painting the tile languages and the more practical branches of education A naval officer who visited her in england once told roe me ho lie could not see how she could be happy she had comparatively no associates her catherin law was one of those beastly englishmen aad her husband talked of nothing but horse racing and sports they lived in a little house away aray from the old folks and drove to the home of the latter for their meals often nellie and her ber husband would join in romps she was a romping girl I 1 have seen her myself push sartoris around among the chairs of the white house as if he be were a boy sartoris has some money by the bath of an cider elder brother about a year ago he received an annual income of but he spends a great deal of this iu in sporting he ile ia is an exceedingly polite man and and will never hesitate to perform a gentlemanly act for a lady he ile is exceedingly kind in disposition too his appearance I 1 though is ungainly he is one of the most unprepossessing men I 1 ever saw his clothes clot lies never fit him he wears broad striped pantaloons and coats pf af immense broad figures figu washington letter |
