OCR Text |
Show MRS. L TYLER SEMPLE MISTRESS OF WHITE HOUSE (Washington Cor. N. Y. Tribune) Mrs. Letltla Tyler Semple, whose reign as mistress of tho White House antedated ante-dated that of Mrs. Roosevelt some sixty years, has Just cplebrated the eighty-third eighty-third anniversary of her hlrlh. For nearly a quarter of a century she has lived at the Louise Home, in Washington Wash-ington where she hecelvcd' her friends with the same gracious charm that characterized her hospitality when, in the early forties, she presided at the head of the President's household, Mrs. Semple, at the death of her mother, early In the administration of President Tyler, became the "first lady In tho land," and was regarded as one of the most beautiful women In the social life of "Washington. Although now more than four score year9. with snow white hair and deep set eyes, she still retains i traces of the beauty for which the Tyler family was noted, and her' mind, etlll active and vigorous, recalls perfectly the stirring Incidents of the early otrug- gles of the Whig and Democratic parties. |