The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-11
An Old. Fashioned Family

An old. Fashioned Family.
Chicago Inter-Oceap.
Washington letters inform Us that all
! the Cabinet, except Secretary Thomps"a !,
have gone mo The country to live, loi-
! owing the example of the President,
Mr.. Eyarts is away 10 Vermont, where
he is spending The not days on MS farm,
with bis family. Such little man as
Evarts is big enough 70 hsVe eleven
: d4ughte -s-a series OF human stairs, born
IN regular grstatiOn, leading from the
/ base nent OF childhood 10 the first door
of matronly life. No one ever heard
MIR. Evarts complain oi millinery oitiSi
but think OF paying tor four times
eleven hats t year. -Four times
eleven are forty -four Forty four hats
! at ten dollars hst-an extremely modest
figure, by the ways something alarm
ing to think about. A small calculation
in reference TO the necessary domestic
expenses IN the EYsrts family will at
once show how absolutely essential 1T Is
| that MIR. Evarts should continue his law
practice, even though n member of the
Cabinet. To set good example, Mr..
Evarts must live withln bis ~
come. He gets salary 81 5000
a year. Summing up some OF
his necessary expenses We have
Il hats at SO per hat.................. S4iO.UO
3 hats or Mrs. Evarts ~ so per hat oOW
hat for Mrs. EvartS ............. 6.Uo
- pairs boots at 81 per pail. Z5i.V0
) pairs boots for Mrs. Evarts at ST. 2l.O
| pair slippers for r.EVartS at $3.50 2.5O
y pairs slipper at Si..................... eeoO
pairs slippers for Mrs. warts at
Haip sTinnsrs for Mr. Fvorf; Oh can ~
Patching boots testimate ed ............. 1000
Total tor boots and hats. 1919 10
Here is nearly o8a-cighth of Mr.
Evsrts' salary ea,en up in bonnets and
boots Then the drcs.eS, and ribbons,
and hair-plns, striped stockings and
beached muslin and embroidery he has
TO buy for twelve women. It's enough
to drive the poor man distracted, to say
nothing OF the foreign policy OF the gov
ernment weighing on his mind and the
clamorlngs Of office seekers 1t would
be measure of economy for Mr. Evarts
TO move to Senegambla. We have seen
pictures of Senegsmbia pole whose cos
TUNES were not at all expensive
The price o. One pair { boot.
would clothe whole family there.
Whenever there Is dress party to which
Mr.. Evarts' young ladies are invited 1t Is
SAID that the poor man hunts all over the
cellar closets Tor rat poison, and, finding
none, goes or the back porca and weeps
at the extravaganza of the age. And no
wonder. Think o! buying diamond ear
rings and bracelets, to say nothing OF
necklaces ard lockets, for twelve women,
and the mere trlhe OF carriages
at each party. No creature with
spark OF humsn feeling IN
his breast would crowd more
than two party dresses into carriage.
Two goes in twelve six times, under
Standing that the Secretary Of State rides
! or the box with the driver. Six times
five are thirty thirty dollars party for
carriages and it makes il lock like Il tu-
neral to head such u procession of car
riagcs. Then come the bouquets-lt be.
gins to git bewiIdering; and after paying
all these bills to have te wait nj the door
Of Il dressirg-rcom tor wife and eleven
girls to loop up each Others trains.
Mr.. Evsrts keeps a-ge majority of
his family on farm he has in Vermont.
To have q farm WhCre he could send the
glrls 10 CImb fences and chase butterflies,
struck MIR. Evarts Ms very handsome
'dea, so he got one, sent his family up
there, and goes up occasionally to see
now they are coming on. It's economy
20 also his own garden truck, and the
gtrs can help little now and then st
wedding But during the winter it's
like having u perpetual party, when the
fellows begin to come in to spark
Mrs EvarLs shuidcrs US winter comes on
at the amount OF popcorn that will be-
troi into the carpet, and the young fei-
lows try TO SIT each other ont, so that 1t
makes preS,y much of an all night job of
IT, Nobody realizes how much Mrs.
Evarts breads winter.
When Mr.. Evuts travels with bis
family he charters II car lie don't like
b. 90 10 sleeping car agent and say
"G We me twelve lower berths and ore
upper because the agent always looks
at him and asks If 1t IS theatrical
troup, and if they have arranged for
special rates. So he cnsrt ars sleeper
and says nothing more about it. OF
course when M Eyarts presents that
pass for the Hon. William NJ Evarts
and family, there Is a ripple OF excite
ment, but ne has learned to bear this
with e9usnimitv, and irown down any
gigglo that may appear impending on
the part of the conductor.
When Mr.. EvarLs set about having
this family, he didn't realize the annoy
ances Il would ircur It's delightful
experience to have eleven pretty girls
meeting you with Kisses wneu you come
bone at night, and twenty-five soft, fair
hands stroking your HAIR, but there are
outgoings As well rs mornings to this
business, as Mr. Evarts himself will testi-
~. Not for the world would he spare
one o. the rosy number, however, and
not for the world would he see the num-
Der reduced. The sight OF an old-fssh-
toned family Toes us good in these de-
generate days, ard wesre glad to see this
example Sc. by one IN such high posi-
ton.