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M COMSTOCK EN Mrs Herbert Hoover er or Mrs Al Ai Smith sets up her domestic menage r in the White House next March she he will do It according to customs established established by 32 predecessors sors women of unusual persona personalities and talents who have ha molded to its present pr form the tIle glamorous role of First Lady Lally of the Land Love Loye romance adventure success and failure have come to them w while ile mistresses of the nations nation's first horn home Three of them Letitia Christian Tyler r. r Caroline Scott Harrison and Ellent Ellen t 4 Axson Wilson died there three more Julia Gardner Tyler Frances Folsom Cleveland and 1 j Edith Galt Gait Wilson Vilson by marrying men already In office came to the White House as brides Only two of our Presidents were bachelors when inaugurated a proportion which shows them tobe to tobe tobe be no exception to the rest of humanity In this 1 particular respect They were James Tames P Buchanan and Grover Grove Cleveland and Mr Cleveland remained single only a year ear after his term began Three Presidents were widowers when they took tool the oath of office and to daughters or sisters fell the responsibilities of First Lady of the Land Martha Washington the first to hold this position had no White House Bouse in which to entertain enter enter- r taro tain m the diplomats and foreign guests of the new Republic but the elaborate formality of the receptions receptions recep recep- levees and musicales held in the temp temporary Presidential residence at Philadelphia set a n definite social tradition Ends Liady Washington was wasa 2 u n a widow when she married the famous s general the mother of two children and she brought him hima a estate which helped make him the richest richest rich rich- est colonist In his part of the country She Is lh described as a quiet unassuming woman a n good mother and a charming hostess who held court with her Idolized husband with ease and grace In spite of the lavish ceremony the times dei de de- i landed It was thus to Abigail AbgaIl Smith Adams wife of the second President of the United States that r fell the distinction of being the first mistress of th the e White r S Howe House use C She was Introduced to her new r abode on a n bleak November day In 1800 1500 Behind her lay a torturous stage coach Journey over the miles of mud and wilderness which lay between t her and her luxurious Philadelphia home And be before ore her well her well read what that staid and bril woman wrote her tier sister a n little later I arrived about one o'clock at nt this this' place known by the name of the City and the name is all nil you can call so as ns I expected to find it a n new countr country with houses scattered over oyer a space of ten miles and trees and stumps In plenty with a castle of a house house so so I found It The Presidents President's house is In a beautiful situation In front of which Is the Potomac I hate hale been to George George- J town It Is the dirtiest hole 1 I ever eYer saw Ifor for a place of any trade or respectability of inhabitants This house Is tw twice e as ns large Ins as us our meeting house I believe the great reat hall Is las big I am sure It Is twice as lon long Cut your coat according to your cloth cloth but but tl this s hou house e is Is' built for ages to come cornel 1 Mrs Adams was compelled to endure embryonic Washington only three months for Pr resident President Jefferson moved In the next March Jefferson JetTerson was jn a widower and affairs at the Castle were were ordered Eby by his two daughters and by t the e vivacious and popular Doll Dolly y Madison at that time wife of the secretary of state For 16 10 years while Jefferson and her r husband were President Mrs Madison bunt built to colorful dignity the social life lite of the White nom Hou e for over oyer 50 new years she held undisputed sway over V Washington society She was mot Inot handsome it it has even been said that though brought up in the Quaker faith sh she rouged took tool snuff and played cards for high stakes But ac no- cording to one of her biographers this daughter of f South Carolina Is believed to have made greater contribution to the a social life of Y the 4 country than any other woman who b bail nil the honor of living in the White House se Y t. t i i J. S I m t I 7 r Though Dolly Madison was twenty one years younger than her distinguished husband they lived together happily for fort two forty two years ears When he died at nt Montpelier l his widow returned to Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington and though then nearly seventy se and in straitened circumstances she made her little house opposite Lafayette square now the home of the Cosmos club a n magnetic center of social life Her death In IS 1849 1840 when she was seventy seven was mourned by the entire capital Her IIer Immediate successors successor's though perhaps less well known each left 1 the he stamp of her personality upon the social regime of the White House There was Elizabeth l I Monroe a quiet intellectual woman of stately bearing and Louisa Johnson Adams who though born abroad educated In foreign courts and a n person far beyond the average of her generation was prevented by ill III health from continuing the festivities Initiated by Dolly Madi Madl- son Though Rachel Jackson son died perhaps of a broken heart some months before Old Hickory was was inaugurated and though she was much maligned during the stormy campaign which preceded preceded preceded pre pre- ceded his his' election his passionate devotion to her memory was responsible for momentous momentous' events during his administration though social life at nt atthe atthe the White House was actually In the hands of her sister law Mrs Irs A. 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J Donelson And It was Angelica Singleton his law daughter and a n charming belle of t the e South who presided over overo o official iclal dinners for President Van Buien Buren a n aw w widower Letitia T Tyler ler made First Lady of the Land bythe bythe by bythe the death of President Harrison only a few months after his inauguration died In the White louse House President resident Tyler met the woman who was to be his second wife Julia Gardner of New York In story book boole fashion They were brou brought ht by hy the death of her father who was killed In nu nr explosion on the Potomac and whose body was brought to the White House Immediately after atter the accident The brilliant activity with th which the new Mrs Tyler brought her husbands husband's administration to to a close ended abruptly with wall the entrance of Sarah Childless Childress Polk Poll Polla a beauty of the dark Spanish type with a regal manner manIl r whose strict religious lous beliefs caused her to banish dancing and the serving of refreshments from White House louse functions Mar blur Margaret garet greet Smith Taylor faylor undertook the duties of First Lady of the Land reluctantly resenting resenting the demands this new honor made upon the husband she had already s seen en thou though h the hazards of a spectacular car career er as Indian fighter Con Cons Cons- r- r so it Is said she sat quietly knitting Ung and smoking a favorite pipe while her bel daughter Mrs William Wall Wallace nee Bliss miss saw to the installation of new v lighting fixtures and furniture In the mansion and entertained for her father Abigail Powers Fillmore a self educated woman and a school teacher be before or her marriage e was another who this time because of lameness put the burden of playing hostess on a n da daughter And Jane Tane Means Pierce entered the Important role under a n cloud of grief for the death of her thir year teen old ear son killed In a n railroad accident r and though a n competent if somewhat detached n hostess she had such a dislike of politics that they were never ne discussed in the Presidents President's home hem e while she was around During the administration of the bachelor Pres PresIdent Ident James Buchanan his ravishing ra niece Harriet Dar Bar Barnet riet net Lane Johnston one of the most beautiful an and d popular of the women who have held that post thou pla played ed First Lady of the Land and brou brought ht t to the historIc mansion once again a period o of or f high festivity Then came Mary Todd Lincoln a pleasant-faced pleasant cheerful woman who would b be e satisfactory In her pI place nee whose hose life Ufe at nt the Cap Capital Ital darkened by the death of her son Willie Willip c and the Presidents President's assassination could not have hav e been a n very happy one Her successor Eliza s McCardle Johnson though she taught her husband 1 to read and write was an nn Invalid while sh she e lived in Washington and was forced to relinquish h the duties of her exalted position to a daughter A new social era ern as well as ns new furniture nn and d decorations entered the White House when Julia 1 Dent Grant became Its mistress A talent fo for r entertaining and unfailing energy enabled her t to n promote a u continuous round of gala gaIn functions among them the brilliant marriage of her daughter daugh dough ter Nellie one of her four children Lucy WE Webb Web bh h Hayes also an excellent hostess m modified ti the n e nature of White House entertainment by banish banishing h. h ing lag the serving of Intoxicating liquors And the tin custom of lavish la and efficient entertainment lisped by these two was ably continued by hy Mrs l John E. E McElroy sister of President Arthur am and successor to Lucretia Garfield whose term us m S First Lady was cut short by her husbands husband's assas Though President Cleveland entered office a a bachelor his marriage to Francis Frnncis Folsom soon son n after gave Washington one of th the most mast popular t hostesses It has en ever r known The young oung Mrs hg Cleveland was the idol of the women of her gE gen generation generation n many of whom still remember the dresses she wore at her fam famous ns public receptions Caroline Caro Caroline Caroline line Scott Harrison an unusual woman skilled sl it In t painting and music and the first firt president general genera t of the Daughters of the American R Revolution died die 1 in n the White House leaving her re responsibilities t ta to toa ton a n daughter Mrs 1 McKee IrI At tho close of President McKInley's McFinley's odium admin I a quiet one socially due to the III health I of his wife Ida Saxton ton McKinley l Edith Carow Carat Roosevelt another woman still fondly remain remembered became First Lady of the Land She was VH an engaging Intelligent person pelson keenly Interested I In the activities of her famous husband and sue such sucha a devoted mother to her five fi children Unit tint slip ship a I 1 has lias been called the American Cornelia Tho I best remembered occasion of her life Ilfe In the hi hili torte mansion Is the marriage marr-Inge of Ali Alice Roosevel vl I to Nicholas Longworth present speaker er of th th iii house With Helen lichen Herron raft Taft the n new w Interests of modern woman were Introduced Into tile the House Mrs 1 Taft was active in civic i and was the founder of the Cincinnati R orchestra Her lIeI successor Edith Axson son Wilson ln died during n n her husbands husband's first term In ollice un an n was followed by hy Edith Galt Gait Wilson Nilson on mistress SR 4 i ithe the nations nation's first home during the times of the World 1 war Florence Kling was again a modern woman with modern modem idea Ider heln being the first Presidents President's wife with the pore powe to vote To 10 the demands of or a most elaborate te social program pro gram Grace Goodhue Coolidge e tt who ho after sevc se i years ears as First Lady of the Land yields her tier lion Uon next March hu has lent a n charm and tact th then n have end endeared her to the American people She Sheh 1 J Ja a graduate of the University of Vermont elmont and nO before IH her r marriage taught In a school for the deaf In Northampton Through the death of one lilt of her two sons Calvin J Jr h the long lOBi Illness ss of her mother and the death of her husbands husband's father through wearing years of continuous publicity she ha has m maintained ned a n calm culm gracious g dignity and been always a a a. a true First Lady of the Land |