Show n l t iho White 1 The Tl Vernon V association hUH haw I he h hod J JI Us its annual meeting In la Washington Wn ni his ala body ot of women I L from frum rum euty e r section of ot the tho thol t 10 I l tinted nite l States Slates with unqualified d success and 1111 governs go erns the home of Geo Go Why does not nola a body bod undertake to look after atter the tIe home of the I of 01 tho the United What Is the domestic economy of 0 t the Vi House a n woman of ofa a ra m of ot President There lint any an vdu inns the Ibe reply Its It s all nil Hall Columbia and practical pull poll Iks lb This it is I absolutely true In la nothing Is li the In t so no much a n servant trant of ot the thelie people lie pie ni as a h he U h In la administering the tho do mesH affairs of or his tome bomb In ht 11 the the Ie Mansion Ills uis manner of or living Is by the American sentiment vw heh at once onee attaches suspicion to the goal who puts put on style Menu 1 cards R f a stAte tate dinner are kept kepi from general as carefully as tho the die of ot n a note nole lest hit falling raIling Into the pads ot of the plain people Iho they ho be c the keynote ot of L a Ial against t Im hn tendencies in III meats and sines 1 A campaign charge of t H helped to defeat tho t hn n a lif President Van and his V 1 Curs are e ever eler mindful of ot his fate tate in The hll J uw creates creales r an or r order no of ot domes In the t I s sm a e there lm l simply Imply appalling to rj and men accustomed t to and good tern orm Irm At the theto s reception last New Years Tears t 1 the tho rl sights to 10 greet gr et the vial t the mansIon was lIas 11 Uncle Jer r I a de rah c colored man w whose whoRe L In the While S Jouie dates from rom tta n tat ana na omon among f the no n OH n is rueall ln In hand bly sager g to leash hrush anybody who iY ik that on before to President belne lire dent Su I W t When Wh n McKinley Mansion took possession house l of the tho leg all men lIere In the 01 t aboul work work luny hat NI tf 1 them th h ur thabit wearing soiled celled collars cullers and aprons that were neVer I nth an tried In attempt memo The to late lale reform 10 put While beginning Secretary livery liver Instantly the Amen Amerl 11 9 cutet prInciple aM Of was deemed the indignation n on the part of or people was Wall everywhere ex cx Ir U I retired Col i who took If disbursing army tit l hns an ss ot order substitute and began t to trained 1 for tor the colored men menN N Mw er doing housework The President vetoed this It was bad politics Practical politics In Iq the first cause calise of the domestic dome tlc disorder of the White While WhiteHouse House All AI the labor except the chef la II paid by b tho the government It Is la organ organized organized under tho the direction of a steward who Is n II bonded of the tho govern government government ment on n a salary ry of or ISOO This frills steward stewart Is a domestic He lie acts nets not on only onI only ly I as steward but as butler housekeep housekeeper hous keep keeper er and dispenser of political patronage from the tho Presidents kitchen door lie He HeIs lieIs lieIs Is ft a 1 colored nun man always and the colored col colored ored orel people from rom precedent have come came cameto cometo cometo to regard the tho Presidents Housework as ns their political plum Four men art are em employed played to 10 do chamber work and Ind parlor work The wages of each Is two dollars a n day The chef has ms las two assistants paid by the government In the Instance of n a 1 man two WI dollars a day or If It n a woman one ono dollar n a day The Tine laundry In is sustained by the government It Three women constantly employed there re one dollar n a day There Is II also a II woman nominally housekeeper virtu virtually virtually ally all head hend chambermaid who wino Is paid one ono dollar a n day da These Thee domestics owing their positions to political have regald for tor no other authority In doing their work The Tho of the Executive Man Mansion sion aien IB is provided for rOl by b nn an annual I of This amount Is al 11 always always ways in excess of tho the sum Ium needed and tho the balance may ma bi Ll devoted to altern altera alterations or extensions of or the tho mansion atthe at atthe atthe the discretion of ot the tho disbursing of the Ule household Since the th people of the tho United States assume to keep house houe for their President why do not women omen see lice to It that the Work Is la done The rhe Mount Association A presents present resents to at ut nonce home a building wonderfully and Immaculate In the housekeeping It displays Why Wh should sho ld not an nn l Mansion association accomplish ns as much for the home of the President 7 The fhe first thing necessary Is 1 to rescue the Executive household from the tolls toils of or optics Thu next thing would be to give Rive work to women and pity pay pa them the tile same ns Its men Is there anywhere nl n finer Oner opportunity for n per perpetual practical exhibit of a t triumph of household economies l f |