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Show DIGNIFIED IN NAME HAVE BEEN THE MISTRESSES OF THE WHITE HOUSE. Cut One Woman Has Had High Honor of Being the Wife of One and the Mother of Another President. Fame Is fleeting enough In the ea." of men, vbut when it comes to women tho goddess Is twice as fickle. Almost any public school pupil more than ten years old can repeat the names of tho presidents of the United State3, hut how many know the presidenta wives? Doubtless 90 per cent, of the adult population is unable to name offhand off-hand more than a half dozen women whose husbands occupied tho White House. Everybody knows Martha "Washington "Washing-ton was Mrs. Custis when she was married to the Father of His Country, but how many remember her maiden name was Dandridge? There are dozens of families throughout the country coun-try which, if heraldry obtain In America, Amer-ica, would be entitled to emblazon the nation's shield on their coat-of-arms hy reason of having been connected with presidents through their ancestresses. ances-tresses. They represent the names of Dandridge. Custis, Smith. Wayles, Skelton, Payne. Todd. Kortwrlght. Johnson, Donelson, Robards, Hoes, Symmes, Christian, Gardiner, Childress, Chil-dress, Powers, Carmichael, Mcintosh, Appleton. McCardle. Dent. Webb, Rudolph, Ru-dolph, Herndon, Folsom, Scott, Lord, Dlmmlck, Saxon, Lee ( and Carow. And those are only names of presidents' presi-dents' wives. .The mothers of the presidents, beginning with Washington's, Washing-ton's, originally bore the surnames I'all, Boylston, Randolph, Conway, Jones, Smith, Hutchinson, Hoes, Bas-sett. Bas-sett. Armietead. Knox. Stroller, Millard, Mil-lard, Kendricks, Speer, Hanks, McDon-ough, McDon-ough, Simpson, . Birchard, Ballou, Stone, Neal, Irwin, Allison and Bullock. Bul-lock. Only one woman had the honor of being both the wife and the mother of presidents. She was Abigail Smith, who was married to John Adams, the second president, and whose son, John Qulncy Adams, became the sixth president- Another woman, Elizabeth Eliza-beth Bassett. was wife and grandmother grand-mother of presidents. Her husband was William Henry Harrison, ninth occupant of the White House, her grandson, Benjamin Harrison, the twenty-third in line. That all tho presidents have been dignified men from their early years is shown by the Christian names of Iheir helpmeets. Among the wives of the presidents there never has been a Flossie, a Babette. a Tessle, a Kitty, nor even a Gwendolyn, Hortense or Mabel. The only woman whose given name appioached frivolity was Dolly Madison, and she no doubt was christened chris-tened Dorothy or Dorothea, unless a mistake was made at the baptismal font. There were two Marthas and as many Abigails, Carolines, Marys, Elizas and Julias. The other presidents' wives have been, respectively. Dolly, Louisa, Rachel, Hannah, Anna, Letitia, Sarah. Margaret, Jane, Lucy. Lucreila, Ellen. Frances. Ida, Alice and Edith. Equally staid were the names, of the presidents' mothers. There have been two each of Jane, Eliza, Anna and Nancy ; three Marys and four Elizabeths, The other mothers of the presidents divide the names Suaanna, Nelly, Abigail, Abi-gail, Maria. Sarah, Phoebe, Harriet, Sophia, Malvlna and Martha. Tho wife of the first president and tho mother of the latest were named Martha. It is hard to conceive of any of those women being addressed by undignified diminutives |