Show DIGNIFIED IN NAME HAVE BEEN THE MI STRESSES OF THE WHITE HOUSE out one woman has harhigh Ha had dHigh high honor of being the wife of one and tho the mother of another president ral famo 0 la Is fleeting enough in the caso case of men but when it comes to women tile goddess Is telco avico as fickle almost 1 tiny public sch ool pupil more than tell en icara years old cin can repent repeat tho the names of the presidents of tho united states but tit liow how ninny many know tho presidents wives doubtless 90 per cent of the adult population la Is to name 0 offhand ifland than a half duzon dozen women whose ainali occupied tile white house knows martha washington was wan mrs custis when sho olio was married mail led to the father of iha 1118 country lint but liow how ninny remember lier her maiden nial doii name naino was there al alo aio o cozens of fa tin the alie country which if heraldry lier aldry obtain in america would io bo entitled to emblazon the nations shield on oil their cont coat of arms aims by reason of having been connected with presidents through their ances tresses ti esses they rep tile iho names of dandridge Dandil dge culls smith wayles skelton Sk olton payne I 1 ayno todd Hort hartwright wright johnson johnbson John bon donolson robards It hoea hiles Sy somines mines christian Chil stian gardiner gai liner calill dress powers carmichael appleton Alc mccardle Cardle dent webb rudolph herndon Horn don folsom scott lord Di donimick saxon lee and chrow and hoso choso aro are only names of denta wives the mothers of the presidents beginning with originally boro boio the surnames dall ball boylston roylston noyl ston randolph callway Con COll wiy waY jones smith hutchinson aloes armistead knox stroller millard lC kend endrIcks ricks speer hanks Alc mcdon Doii ough simpson Dir birchard chard 11 allou stone neal irwin allison and bul lock only one woman had the lionor honor of being both the wife and the mother of presidents she was waa abigail smith who wits was married to john adams the second president and whose son john quincy adams became the sixth president another woman elizabeth dassett bassett was wife and grandmother of presidents her husband was william henry harrison Harrl bon ninth occupant of the white house her grandson Ki andson benjamin harrlson the twenty third in line that all tho the presidents have been dignified men from their early years Is biown by the christian names of their helpmeets help meets among the wives of the presidents thero there never has been a flossie a Da botto a dessle a lutty kilty nor oven even a gwendolyn hortense or alabel the only woman whose given name approached frivolity was dolly Al madison adlon and she no doubt was christened dorothy or dorothea unless a mistake was mado made at the ba font thero there were vere two 11 marthas arthas and its as many Abi galls Caroll carolines nes marys ellgas and jullas julias the other presidents wives have been respectively dolly louisa rachel hannah anna letitia sarah margaret jane lucy lucretia Luc retla enlen lil llen frances ida alice and edith equally staid were the names of the presidents mothers thero there have been two each of jane E ellza liza anna and nancy the other mothers of the presidents divide tho the names susan susanna rin nelly abigail maria sarah isaiah phoebe harriet hanlet sophia Al alvitia and martha the wife of the first president and the mother of the latest were named martha it Is hard to conceive of any of those women being addressed addi essed by undignified diminutives |