THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S WIFE.

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 532, 2 March 1889, Page 8

THE NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENT'S WIFE.

npHE Mornimj Journal publishes the follow- -*•• ir>g remarks about Mrs Harrison, tbef &*/ American President's wife :— I Mh Samson was born Caroline Scott, | an I first opened her big brown eyes — which, b|' the way, have always been her chiefest beauty— fi-t Oxford, o. Her father, Dr John W. Sclott. waj then a professor of the Miami University \ He ; g now living in Washington, at the age of nine, with Mrs Bussell Lord, Mrs Harrison's sister. Jl 'My girlhood was an unusually happj| one ' Mrs Harrison said in a recent conversation^ ',1 did not think so at the time, for my little troubles seemed in reality great ones to me. I wefnt to the school and afterwards the college over \fvhic.h my father was president. I had my girl fifienofs and my household duties. My mother was) verjy careful to make a good housekeeper out of m<£, and I had to take my turn at bread and cak^ making, and learn to do all kinds of fine needle-\ work that girls know nothing of nowadays. Mjf father looked after my brain and tried to trairA me "to think for myself," as he used to put it.* I married before I was twenty years old, my| husband was not a year older, and together we \ put the finishing touches on our characters.' } When Mrs Harrison was a girl, Society in her J Western town was ideally simple. She wore a % calico frock, a little white apron, and a sun- f bonnet to school, even when she was studying! higher mathematics and Latin. When she wae£ married her gown was of fine bishop's lawn, with) a tiny bit of handwrought embroidery on the neckf and sleeves. Her Church dress was a soft brow^n merino, with a big bonnet, and her best visiting dress a lavender sprigged delaine trimmed w'?th real lace at the neck and wrists. | Carrie Scott was the sweetest little wife I ewer knew,' said an old lady who lived in Ohio at t|he time. ' She was one of those bewitching little girls that you just had to love, and we used? to say the fairies made her hands and feet, tlfiey were so small and prettily formed. She has a little, rounded figure, big brown eyes, a sweet fed mouth and soft brown hair, and the merrijest laugh in the world.' j Mrs Harrison is still a handsome woman] in the prime of life. She lAjictitc and plump without being stout. She has a fine intellectual f&ce, a firm, rounded chin, and a mouth full of sv/eet curves, and when parted, showing her clear, white teeth. Pier nose is rather long find straight, and her greyish hair is cut shorwin, front, curled and gathered in a soft knot at the back of her head. On Election Day she wore one of her usual house dresses. It was of heavy brown silk made rather plainly, but in the fashion of the day ; the basque fitted perfectly, and fine cream lisse was fastened in the neck and sleeves. A small gold brooch and a tiny white apron were worn, the latter because Mrs Harrison spends much of her time looking after her new little granddaughter, who was born early in July and is known as the ' campaign baby.' ' Will Mrs Harrison favour low - necked dresses ?' is a question many women are asking. If one can judge from her own dresses she will not favour French decollete, gowns. Her own evening dresses are cut in slight V's back and front, and the sleeves reach the elbow, although she has beautifully moulded arms and shoulders.