Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1882 — Lincoln's Home Life. [ARTICLE]

Lincoln's Home Life.

When children came to Abraham and \fary Lincoln, the* husband and wif dopttd the old-fashioned custom <1 ■ailing each other “father” an 1 ‘mother.” And up to the fatal hour of Lincoln’s death they never used any »ther form of address in the family, -in m atmosphere like that which then en veloped the White House nothing bu t the stiougest conjugal affection could lave maintained even- a shadow of d<* mestie. happiness. But it is a matter of record t' at Lincoln; in M:is own hqfnelr phrase, constantly referred to his home

and family, to his wife and boys and to his daily domestic concerns with real enjoyment and with the unaffected simplicity of a villager who had never dreamed of political power and greatness. —New York Times.