Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-06
gadiss' GoIalllls.
WASHINGTON SOCIETY,

l.
Washington is pleased to know that
the administration of the next first lady
in the land" will be but continuation
of that of Mrs. Hayes. 1t is matter of
congratulation, not only to US, but to the
whole country, and especially to a city
like Boston, from which come so many
of our most welcome visitors, that wo-
man who has been all her life and in |
every sense a lady is to preside for the
next four years over the Executive
mansion.
Quietly, but with the truest kindness,
has Mrs. Garfield presided over her
modest house at The corner of Thirteenth
and | streets in this city during the
years since Gen. Garfield purchased it.
In it she has entertained, often in the
simplest stye, but ever with old-fashion-
ed, true-hearted hospitality, all of wit,
wisdom, beauty that Washington has
had during the years she has been here.
She is an accomplished hostess, as we'll \
as an accomplished woman-they're two
very different things. Living as the
Garfelds have had to live, in the most
economical way, doing without elegant
clothes, fine furniture, sumptuous food,
good, new and rare old books, dearer
than all else to them, they have contrib
uted more to make Washington winter
life pleasant and profitable than many
other families who have supplemented
less taste and culture with more money.
Mr.. Gar6eld's receptions have been the
largest ever held by the wife of mere
representative. They have far surpassed
those of more ambitious Senator's wives,
and have appropriated those of the
ladies of the Supreme Court and Cabinet
families, in size merely. In attractions
they have stood abreast of any of them.
This simply because Mrs. Garfield is a
sweet tempered, cultured, refined woman,
in whose smile it is pleasure to bask.
When we consider that, without allow
ing her manifold cares to interfere with
the performance of her social duties, she
has managed her establishment alone.
and personally conducted the training Of
her boys fer college. we can conceive
her superiority, with all her social sue
cess, to the mere society leader"
Gen. Garfield is the president of oul
literary society, and during the past
year it has met at his house. 1t was
more pleasantly entertained there thar
it had ever been before. Mrs. Garfield
exerted even her latent social powers
that night, and it was difficult for hel
guests to break away from her delightful
d parlors. The latter, entire nous, were
i and are, furnished in the style of Noah
: That makes no difference, of course
y although the contrast between them anC
those which some of the guests had lief
at home was marked. There was some
thing really pathetic to me in the infor
nation telegrapbed from Cleveland tina
Gen. and Mrs. Garfield were purchasing
furniture and sealskin sacque. How
ever. they can afford to crafty thei
taste for four years now, and forget th
pinched past. What we here rejoice il
: is that. when Mrs. Hayes steps out an
Mrs. Garfield steps into the White Hous
"a on the 4th of March next, there will b
o. o. no abrupt turning in the course of tn
!. Presidential, or rather the Mrs. Presi
: Dental, social customs and DEGREES.
is needless to say that Mrs.; Hayes wi
" be missed. She will be missed by man
. of whom the world knows nothing, want
y to know nothing, the naked, hungry
sick and in prison, unto whose want
she has ministered "all so silently" b,
90 regrets will not be SO poignant as
by wound be were she to be succeeded b
!. ~ an inferior woman Washington lett,
as to Boston Herald.