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Show THREE ARE LIVING 1 WIDOWS OF EX-PRE8IDENT8 OF THE UNITED 8TATE3. Mrs. James A. Garfield, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrc. Grover Cleveland Cleve-land Alone Remain of Former For-mer Mistresses of White House. With tho death of Grover Cloveland the last of tho living ex-presldento of tho United Stntcs wos broken, but it added ono moro to tho ranks of tho widows of tho men' who had In former days ruled tho nation, bo that now thero aro threo women who once shnred tho honors with their husbnnds In tho Whlto Houbo. Theso threo widows wid-ows nro Mrs. James A. Oarfleld, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison nnd Mrs. Grover Cleveland. It hns nearly always been tho caBo that tho widows of presidents havo outnumbered former holdors of tho office. Mrs. anrflcld has long survived hor husband, who has now been dead almost al-most 27 years. Slnco his dentil sho has lived to boo her son, James Rudolph Garfield, steadily advanco CaStf to n place of prom-1 prom-1 gr5v " Incnco In tho nn-TfXiSh. nn-TfXiSh. tlon's councils un-JMSlW un-JMSlW til now ho has viSi? H become a mombor V of tho president's ' I cnbinet, and In vVvV view of his youth JfeyAjjfl has at least a !&V2?N right to hopo that ('?Stw. tho history of tho ,r Adams family mlgtht bo dupll- catcd, nnd tho son of n former presi- .j Jcnt Eo t tl10 " (?&&r Whlto Houso. Pnr-tlculnrly Pnr-tlculnrly has Mr. Mrs. James A. Garfield a right to Garfield. nurso this drenm In vlow ot tliojact that he comes from Ohio, which has usurped tho one-time placo of Virginia aB a producer ot chief executives. Mrs. Garfield divides her tlmo bc-tweon bc-tweon threo places. Sho deeply loves her old homo town of Mentor, O., which Is rich in memories of her young Hfo. Thero her children wcro reared thcro aro a thousand memories mem-ories of tho statesman who wns stricken strick-en down by tho bullet ot Gultcau. Mrs. Garfield Is also partial to Washington. In Passadena, Cal., Mrs. Garfield has a winter homo. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was not actually ac-tually a lady ot tho Whlto House, for her distinguished g, husband had re- SjJ tired from public life beforo ho wed the beautiful Mrs. B$g? Mary Dlmmlck, CMtgeSrl the favorite nleco 'IfifiEt of tho first wife A of tho president. J Sho becamo a C member of tho ijffy sS$r2 Harrison house- $S7& hold prior to his "xk&?$$x election to tho presidency, nnd ( K JmZ? after lila Inaugu- CdJf,' eft", ration sho took a LLKAaJ prominent part in xEa all tho activities Mrs. Benjamin of social Wash- Harrison. Ington. The first wife, Mary Scott Harrison, was an Invalid during a large part of Mr. Harrison's stay at tho Whlto I Houso, and much of tho social duty 19 devolved upon Mrs. DimmlcK. R Four years after his passing from tho Whlto Houso Mr. Harrison an 'Wm nounccd his purposo to remarry, 'Hfl A woman of rare beauty and charm Mrs. Harrison Is naturally vory pnpu HJ lar, both In Indianapolis, whero Rh HJ had her homo, nnd "uxedo, N. Y. IHJ whero sho spends niucti of her tlmo. ;S Mrs. Cleveland hna only lately bees H mado tho widow of n president. Thi 3Hj wholo llfo of thli H lovnblo woman 1H N slnco hor glrlhoQ H ggptfcv days, rndlntoi 1H j6t-mtj(M nround tho llfo o . IS f&Spi$U the only man tin fflr jx Democrats havi )SH T r succeeded III put- ill X. -!- ting In tho White IM Houso in half n H Afc-.sC. ccutury of effort Jm f&Kp&y' ri They woro wed V 1101,80 during the ?i&?Mtfv nrst tcrm of u, 1 WihWft " tllun Now Yorkor .?"fOHHVM Forthoromnln ji iwgiLJ ng three years ol r his term Mrs. Mrs. Grover Cleveland prcsld-Cleveland. prcsld-Cleveland. cd with a charm and n dignity thnt woro Irresistible, ' and that gavo hor perhaps moro thorough thor-ough popularity than any woman of ; tho many who havo held tho tltlo ot : "first lady of tho land." For four years moro In prlvnto llfo Mrs. Cleveland continued to hold a ' place in tho affections of the people, nnd when In 1892 tho vote of tho people peo-ple carried Grover Cloveland back ! Into tho chair ot Washington many n Republican found tho pangs ot hav- 1 Ing a Democratic president lessoned by tho fact that his selection returned ' Mrs. Cleveland to her old placo. Her triumphs of the first tcrm wcro jm abundantly repeated, and when once W moro tho pair retired to prlvato llfo B to tako up their home In beautiful 9 Wcstlands, their Princeton abode, Mrs. H Cleveland remained a beautiful mom- ory to tho nation that had genuinely B loved her. 'fl |
