Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — GOOD MRS. ROCKEFELLER. [ARTICLE]

GOOD MRS. ROCKEFELLER.

A Charitable Woman AVho Loves to Help the Poor. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, wife of the millionaire, is said to be at all times a woman of very charitable Inclinations. Her Edith’s intended marriage to Harold McCormack, son of the reaper man, is the talk of the social world across the entire continent. Aud partly to consecrate the event aud partly from thankfulness that her favorite daughter has found so true a heart In return for her own, this good woman has been devoting half of each day to helping those who have no such cause to be happy. The Rockefeller home on the Hudson, where the marriage is being planned, abounds in fruits. Its hundreds of acres bear thousands of tons of apples. There Is no greater apple farm along the Hudson. And this fruit has been made into appetizing things for sick people to eat. Mrs. Rockefeller actually superintends her own cookery as far as the preserving is concerned. She is a AA r eslern woman, strong and brave. The temptations of wealth have never touched her. She Is as sweet and unaffected to-day as she was when the oil well spurted up In her husband’s farm, giving her, a tired, little school teacher, and her bookkeeper husband a chance to enjoy the things that success can bring. At fall Mrs. Rockefeller goes into the great sweet-smelling kitchen that lies In a wing back of the Tarrytown house and looks over the baskets of fruit, rosy and luscious. The mau chef has been left at home In the town house. A capable housekeeper, a couple of assistants and a few of the neighbors’ girls help her. She does no real work ' herself, but superintends it all. She sees the sparkling jelly come firm and clear, and she knows that the neighbor lassies, to whom she Is a benefactress all summer, go home with pockets lilled with silver for their share In the oldfashioned canning. There is a rumor that on the day.of her daughter’s marriage Mrs. Rockefeller will give away forty trousseaux to the daughters of Hudson river farmers. She will certainly fete them, for the Invitations have been sent out. and it will be no wonder, so greatly do the Rockefellers desire to please their humbler neighbors, if the popular young bride and handsome bridegroom dance upon the green with the farmer lads and lasses, as the tenantry of England dance upon their landed estates.