Show A NATIONAL HOTEL hiltS OIIOYEIV diTOYEHjAXD IS Tillil FAIR LADLAY Tlic President and 3IIs WIf1oda3 Keep House Jur Very 3Inchi More Spfenilia Style Titan Dill tra AlIeriH Adams the First Cute lain of the VJiitc llonie I Washington Feb 31Yhen tim young Irish architect James Hoban designed in 17D2 a mansion for the president of the United States after the Dublin palace built > by the Duke of Leinster the housekeeping for presidents pres-idents was quite simple The fair and stately mistresses bo ginning with Mrs Abigail damS ordered or-dered dinners and suppers with all the dignity of their position served by maid and men servants according to need but with her house iii a wlld r ness the weekly washing dried in the east room there was little formality in household management Doily 31i < lisoiiH Reign The gifts graces and successes of beautiful Dolly Madison while in the White House have gone dawn into history Her cook maids and Ole Black Joe who provided for his han sum mistress all the southern deli cacies were famed for service Fabty loW were paid for produce anA market day was the event of the woJa when heavy coaches jolted from AliV l andria to the capital when the gen tr came to meet the foreign ships and add to their stores precious jars nclia fruits and old Englands choicest treasures Lafayette in 182S pronounced the White House an American home oC eminent social and intellectual elegance ele-gance The lovely Emily Donelson hostess host-ess of the Jackson reign entertained royally officially and socially The four or five following presidents dispensed dis-pensed generous hospitality Mr Bu chanans chef came fromi Baltimore and Miss Harriet Lane revived Its b It-s lendor and fashion of courtly service ser-vice Their entertainments were elf grant and expenses enormous President Tyler lived sinrply but his juleps in summer and egg nogs in winter used a good share of his salary President Pierce was popular dining everybody Grandfather Harrison went to market mar-ket and needed no steward Mrs Ijincolns Domestic Perplexities To no other president to no other mistress of The Peoples House could come the peculiar perplexities and burdens of housekeeping as to our beloved Abraham Lincoln From attic to cellar through the grounds the corridors places public or privat was the confusion of war Little Tad with his democratic visitors at tare t-are steps and day and night the tramp of soldiers officers and xneig7 1 gers everywhere To Mrs Lincoln 4jt was new confused and untried mr Lincoln months and years r J wholly selfforgetful indiffererfT r the expenses and waste comfort or I discomfort Twenty thousand dollars was spent during his first term Silver i ornaments and valuable furniture were I stolen costly hangings cut to pieces The family of Andrew Jackson with ceaseless pains and patience renovated reno-vated the house Their state diner were costly and official duties exactA A Dlerrj Regime I With the Grants came merry children child-ren hosts of jolly friends and great social freedom Their steward Me la was beloved of diplomats princes and officers who dined at the White JiOUSB One hundred and thirtyfive thousand thous-and dollars was used in Johnson time the same in Grants first term the second 110000 10000 was used on the new green houses Great Improvements were made during dur-ing Mrs Hayes reign The jeweled screen in the vestibule cost 3380 Congress Con-gress gave Mr Cleveland 574000 11 Harrison 96000 President Arthur was the prince of dinner givers His liquors were his greatest expense The steward tells me that President Hayes spent greater sums on beautiful entertainments enter-tainments and decorations than any ther president except Mr Arthur Uncle Saiii Obligation The White House is often called i W big hotel and the president its landlord land-lord I is housekeeping an a large scale the expenses divided between Uncle Sam and his servants The Executive Ex-ecutive Mansion is official and pr ip ta home of the president and his famap and one can hardly credit the smtiu uninteresting routine of daily work within its walls which is frantically sought after and rushed into print The house has cost over 52000000 and 1J5 000 each year is for the presidents salary sal-ary and expenses Silver china glassware glass-ware linen for table and bed rooms and necessary furniture belong t > Uncle Un-cle Sam All personal service is paid for as by any gentleman in his own house Government Gov-ernment laundries the house linen avn t attends to th house cleaning butb the beginning of a new administration old servants are retained or dismissed as the mistress sees fit The steward is directly responsible for all valuables He gives a bond of 20000 and receives a salary of lSut He is appointed by the president and all United States property is put into his charge The solid silver service of the Monroes the gold spoons and forkS of the Van Burens pieces of the Lincoln Lin-coln china parts of the decorative service ser-vice made for Mrs Hayes are still in use and stand on the mahogany buffet buf-fet in the private dining room Quaint urns pitchers claret jugs and relics of value grace the bvffet The silver Is marked Presidents House the linen embroidered U S The steward stew-ard relieves the mistress of all care has charge of the under servants who attend to the entire housework Mrs Hayes Thought it Magical The first time that we called npr Mrs Hayes informally some ono asked And how goes your new housekeeping house-keeping 1n Hayes Her handsome eyes twinkled as sj replied merriy1 like i Eyraj thing in this house moves as if by magic Everybody is so good and dos so much for us The state dinners are given at the presidents expense gyen He gives to the steward a sum of money the expenditure of which is supposed to be in proportion to the official rank and grandeur of the invited in-vited guests Government furnishes to cabinet officers of-ficers horses carriages and coachman but the presidents are personal pr pert p-ert ertyThe The flowers of the White House are its pride and glory There is no r gn to tell of the wonderful decoratlAs violets and orchids the roses pansies orhids each the favorite of its beautiful mistress mis-tress nor of the pretty nooks and earners ear-ners arranged from one administration tion to another by the wife and mother for the comfort and pleasure of her little lit-tle ones her husband and many guests The old house is sacred for its century cen-tury o associations and inside its busy walls are very like to happy American homes where the dignity of the high position is blessed with love and content Not ruled by kings or queens but by a man chosen by tha people MARGARET SPENCER |