THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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lar. In 1888 she was married to 

 Richard Yates then a young law. 

 yer struggling for a foothold in his 

 profession. As a matron Mrs. 

 Yates became a leader and the 

 Yates home in Jacksonville was 

 noted for its delightful hospitality 

 and the charm of its quiet refine- 

 ment. Two daughters have come 

 to add to cares and joys, Catharine, 



Yates last month there was a pleas- 

 ing family picture that touched 

 tenderly upon the heart strings of 

 everyone who witnessed it. 

 Grouped around the young incom- 

 ing governor sat his beautiful wife 

 and two pretty children and the 

 proud mother who had sat on that 

 same platform forty years before 

 holding him in her lap while his 



DOROTHY AND CATHERINE. 



aged nine, and Dorothy, aged five. 

 Today there is not a happier nor 

 more interesting family circle in 

 the state than the one that occu- 

 pies the highest position in Illinois 

 political life. 



In the pomp and ceremony at- 

 tending the inauguration of Gov. 



father was inducted into office. 

 The yojmger of the governor's 

 children did not understand the 

 nature of the long program that 

 was conferring honor upon her 

 lather and dreadfully boring her. 

 Finally childish impatience could 

 stand the strain no longer and she 



