Show RECEIVED BY MRS MADISON recollections of drawing room held by the wife of the second president when it became known that hat sirs mrs manisci mail Mani bifson soi intended to hold a reception it vas nas called a draving draw ing room by everybody 1 and I the th white house was known as the palace or less f frequently re quent ly as the great house for the names of things were still english many fervent players were ivere offered up tip for fair weather for 1113 night for most of the guests would have far to go and on oa a bid bad night a chariot might got get stalled alas it rallied rained and the carriages drew up nt at the white house door nil all spattered with mud arid and the splendor of the liveried black coachmen and footmen was sadly marled one or two chai lots broke down in it a mud hole bole near the white while house floure gates which vas as one of the worst places in pennsylvania avenue but tile occupants vero carriel cirri ej on oil by passing friends fri the politico poltico of oe the house had bad not yet been reeled erected but the guests alighted at the stone steps and were unde amder cover almost immediately there a brilliant scone scene greeted them rally hilly SOU people more present and the house was glowing with lamps and large having a thousand wax lights the unique arid and symmetrical arrangement ot of the rooms and halls balls thu appropriateness of the new furniture and the brilliant costumes ot of the guests all combined to make a scene which an air unprejudiced d iced and discriminating observer must have ad mired and remembered gallard hunt flunt in harpers Ilar pers I 1 magazine for june |