Show presidents WIVES ladles who hayo shone as mistresses distresses Mi stresses of the white house baltimore in erlan j washington J july uly 12 washington BOci society etY whether i at hocq 9 playing 1 a y i ng lawn tennis ai driving vin j g 1 or boating 0 a t i 11 9 or atthe at the seaside or me mountain I 1 1111 has been watching the course of events at chicago with in a good 1 deal of interest society in 14 washington h naturally takes more interest in the question ti estion of who shall be mistress athe of the white chit e house than does society anywhere else of course this mistress of the while white house la is recognized do a the bead of washington ashington tV society and while the wife of tho the republican candidate is well known here there waa felt quite ai as buelt interest to know who would preside there should a democratic Fro president ident again enter its portals the du duties ties of 1 1111 mistress kress of he white house aro are quite laborious ious and it is probable that society feels as a I 1 dixius ix ius to know who it shall be ag a the individual herself who is to assume those duties the long hours of reception in which she must stand and hake shake by the hand the rows of nameless and uni tin known known visitor again occasions spoils on which she must sit at state dinners and say pleasant nothings the weary eary worry ot of appeals for i 01 office which aro are made not alone alo d to the president but to her by privileged friends as well the annoyances af other ll 11 public station and the self its privileges of the press all tend to make the position an uncomfortable one of course there are many pleasant features and many which gratify personally and it is hardly possible that any who know the details of ita its duties and pleasures pleasures lea would reject it or seek to up q so if it were offered yet r 0 have been those among presidents wives wives who regretted that their du ties took them within the white house iio u se there is I 1 a feeling that should mrs Bl blainer Bla inos ainee husband be elected she would not make a pops pop t ular mistress afi tho whito hu houdei se she fever never has been a especially popular p in washington society S she eo e is is rather reserved in manner haughty i sam borne people call it devoted to her homei and her children and not caring much for socie society i t y as I 1 it ia n in washington personally she is above alcove the medium height with a rather stern and expressive face set in a frame of white hair bair a well de figure a manner somewhat cold and reserved bet an experience ien ee which renders her quite effi chent to be an able mistress of the I W house I 1 1 4 jonhson TO ARTHUR i if 1 1 Pre president eident arthur is the fourth president who iwho has entered the white hou house so a widower his term has been onea far he is not only familiar with and informed of f the details of eucial life but his sister mra mrs mcelroy who has been the acknowledged mistress of the while white house during ibis term is also qu quite ite accomplished in a social way very retiring in I 1 her tastes and wit without liput ambition for p public bublic precola Tc cognition I 1 fio however v ever I 1 she haa has been seen by y Was bink edtl general a la 11 ty anglias and has lias oriff been known personally to a it circle ex the tile women of tle the I 1 Y h s tracing jack back to the ill ie beginning form an interesting c chapter or series of chapters in the history of not alone washington society butof ati 0 n under administration the social features had bad scarcely developed was I 1 0 open e u to IOU sa adv tend tending ing their rece receptions eions and lunch t ables were screal spread at their evening evening entertainments for many runny bund hundreds reds under general grant the white 1 ate house waa gay but there was not that dim democratic gy critic freedom marked tho the regime of mrs grants as mistress 8 of the chit 11 house 0 aid another firm term vil back backmire 11 rg 1 Jobu soo wife of andrew johnson was mistress of the white house she was an 1 invalid andrall an and diAll personally received little receiving her in lier chair her daughter martha wife pat terson entertained in her stead ren ova orating ting thweat the wat stained 1 battered habiliments adf of th the e ina mansion with rare I 1 upon the benall allo allowance wand of which congress made for this burp sel 1 TAYLOR TO LINCOLN mra mrs lincoln who preceded acceded kaai mistress of the white house in im a great turbulence and na tio al tribulation and there is s small wonder that the recollections of lier her time there are not agreeable ones to tb those who were here durin during 9 that period an ambitious woman I 1 w with ith little experience outside e a country town when called here deprived il i ved of the counsel of her husband und by tha constant attention L to 0 public affairs which his duties required guided stricken with grief during t the e years carilo of h her er stay by the losa loss of if hei fa favorite v son the painful experience ri of her time in theW tho lita house culminated din in the as sassine shot which was heard around the world preceding mrs lincoln carh et lane 1 I iho adopted telof ter of JAti james ies buca n auf t ithe wh 0 wa waa s if t 1 r w I 1 T H J I 1 1 I 1 C 11 kc X r rf K I 1 1 the anly bachelor president we have ever had gave to Wp washington hington society 9 on one e of the roost most brilliant S social ocial administrations athas it has ever had mrs pierce her predecessor was 6 a sensitive sh shrinking woman laiq had seen her son ditled by h a railroad accident but a short i before her arrival at the white souse and who daring during her stay there attended to social auti duties es only I 1 because they were d duties tie the next in the order tracing back is mrs fillmore fill more who was more strongly marked as a literary i woman than ilia n any cinci since 0 abigail adams I 1 it was her taste for books which established the library now in the white house her husband having through her solicitation asked of congress and obtained an appropriation a of for a chite house library ho no sadder woman ever reigned mistress of the white house than the wife 0 of f she had bad accompanied her husband in all of his war exper experiences ances caring for him in camp and counseling with him upon tha the field during the presidential don contest test she prayed daily for clays election 1 it I 1 is so a plot sha said s t deprive me of the comforts pf af a home which I 1 had expected to enjoy joy now that the war is ended she came to the white house only as a matter of duty her daughter bettio bettie bliss being pushed the front to bear beai the burden as mistress odthe of the establishment when her husband died didd within the walls of the while white house she was heart broken t and during the two remaining years of her life never mentioned the white house unless necessity compelled I 1 J Q ADAMS TO POLK preceded mrs 1 taylor ay still liv esin the city of nashville sho she is the only woman who ever held the position of private secretary president she having filled that position through choice during luring her husbands term she was a woman of great ability quite as familiar with affairs of state as was her husband and even more so as to Oe details tails sarah isirah knows where it is was custom ary remark when any document cr or book was wanted she did not eyen neglect her social duties and wa spoken obby of by an english lady as not noti be being ing surpassed sur surpassed passe I 1 in beauty iscyle or dignity by any of the three queens whom ae she bad seen under tyler the white house had two distresses mistresses mi stresses his first wife died there during the he early part of his administration and her successor miss garner Garn erpf of new york afterward known a as the bride of the white house being married to president tyler in the presidential mansion mrs harrison occupied the ha white house as its mistress her health having prevented nied her from coming here with her husband whose death followed a month later before her arrival van buren w was asa as a widower when he lie entered the white house his daughter was it its s mistress jackson wa was also a aia widower Q when n he lie entered the white house hav having ang become sq buta but a few months previous and under the thel most painful of circum circumstances jea is wife who iva was a ai gentle trustful woman had marr married i ed in her earl early y years injudiciously and had been divorced afterward I 1 marrying jack t son during du ring hia his campaign ca the tongues 0 of r partisan malice did not spare even mrs ja jackson zon but her husband had spared her keeping freig her the newspapers which con cov bained these attacks after r his bis election however beverl dittin bitting in heil her room at a hotel in e whither she had gone one to prepare for r the th beard journey bourney to tp washington 0 ni she overheard in an adjoining room too the tongues of the them gossipers goss 1 apers detailing det detailing ailin the slanders which the press bal had published regarding hersell herself the agitation rought upon her by this caused an attack ebeart of heart disease and in a fe few w ll 11 hours ours she was a corpse corp e mrs John Quincy adams thew if fo 0 of Jack jacksons sop lk p predecessor gave to NV washington amore a more brilliant soe social lal reign thabit than t had ever known pro yoking mr john agg the first ieh ortha nd reporter a s V lug tin ta the production his ills fia famous poem a couplet of which runs rup thus I 1 11 1 belles and matrona matrons mat rons maids abid nind madam I 1 am i 1 ii j i abare A al IAre arc gone 0 to o mrs td amsl 11 t I 1 I 1 TO 0 N I 1 her re reign go was was I 1 quite in it con coll with that of her predecessor mrs mon 1106 w ho was CA the tile daughter ter afa british officer and little given ito ocial enjoyments enjoy ments hey Madi sonis spoken of as the only ionian of social gei go niu s ever occupying er the house houtie he lie believer in in social life as itchen it then existed and ive ave few levees or entertainments Ms is daughtery 4 qt those few which he did givhand Madison wife of his S secretary ec of st state te occupied they the place lace of chief lady at tit the white Hou houseas seat stale dinners abigail adam Adams wife ofF of president ada aina ama who preceded 1 Jef jefferson Terson va the first i 1 mistress df the whitehouse ake dried her blot clothes leir in the great east cast boorn roam on haslid washday i but w wai as for al all anat t n remarkable markab N 0 11 I 1 I 1 i lit ejmer ill a t q ii I 1 1 tit i h MA ioa axil m 11 I 1 JK A 1 I 1 woman no one who was not such could write to her husband as she did when the english kings proclamation cla clai mation nation regard regarding inthe the colonies was published this intelligence 9 ence will make a plain path for you yell though a dangerous one I 1 could not join today to day in tho the petition of our worthy pastor for reconciliation between our no longer tyrant state and these colonies liet lo us separ arct abc atc they are unworthy to bo be our brethren her predecessor martha washington preceded tho the white house |