Mrs Gladstone.

Te Aroha News, Issue 166, 21 August 1886, Page 4 (Supplement)

Mrs Gladstone.

It has beeu.jthehajjpy fortune of great; British politicians to have wiveß who aided! thM^l^riilg^ r the'.c*wB of/ office- and j make their prfvate-exUtenoe blessed. Not: md~r«f,fco, s >Bitt wasothe accomplished com.paniontof hia labours, or toJEox the, lovely' being w^to jjwerwed* hpFapell' upon him to the, \lMt/"tPii^i8 f the' wife of the great 1 Minutor to Hii honoured 'and glorious age.i Mrs Gladstone is no longer rr a k rare 'visitor to 1 the House of Commons. „ She is a tall, distinguiahed^ooking 'woman;| following - her hiilband "in th^feilvWecl of years," but at his aide always 'either in" truth or in the closest sympathy.' Her face is strong^ K©sn and refined. 'A forehead high rather« than broad'; full bright eyes rich with feeling, a long, straight nqse^ h}gh at its joining with the forehead, a' sympathetic mouth, a clear, sonorous voice,' a simple, stately manner, gracious and womanly, a style of dress suited to her age and atation—euch are her exterior oharabterietice, Who does not rejoice that she has lived to behold the laurels on her husband's head, and that he 'has her to walk with him to the not distant end ? It was my privilege to ex* press to her the admiration with which in our country his efforts for the betterment of men and Governments are observed, "and her response showed that bhe, as well as he, finds in this Vaster sympathy a deeper happiness. — Margaret F. Sullivan, in " New York Sun."