Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-12-02
WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
What is Thought of the Next Mistress
Of the White House.

of the White House.
Washington Letter to Boston Herald.
Washington is pleased to know that
the administration Of the next first
lady in the land' will be but contin-
uatiOn of that Of Mrs. Hayes. 1t is a
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 wei
come visitors, that a woman 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 kind
ness, 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 entertain
ed, often in the simplest style. but ever
with o.d-fashioned, true-hearted hospi-
tality, all of wit, wisdom and beauty
that Washington has had during the
years she has been here. She is an
accomplished hostess, as well as an ac'
cOmplished wOmm-th they're two very
different things. Living as the Gar.
fields 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 con.
tributed more to make Washington
winter life pleasant and profitable than
many other families who have supple
mented less taste and culture with
more money. Mrs. Garfeld's recCp'
tions 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
apprOximated 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 sim
ply because Mrs. Garfield is a sweet
tempered, cultured, refined woman, in
whose smile it is pleasure to bask.
When we consider that, without al
lowing her manifold cares to interfere
with the performance of her social du-
ties, she had managed her establish
ment alone, and personally conducted
the training of her boys for college, we
can conceive her superiority, with all
her social success, to the mere society
leader"
Gen. Garfield is the president of our
literary society, and during the past
year it has met at his house. 1t wa,
more pleasantly entertained there than
it had ever been before. Mrs. Garfield
cXerted even her latent social powers
that night, and it was difficult for her
guests to break away from her delight
full parlorS. The latt ar, cnire Do"c
were. and are furnished in The style OF
Noah. That makes no difference. OF
course. although the contrast between
them and those which some Of the
guests had left at home was markei.
There was something really pa,hetic
to me in the Information talcgtgplcd
from Cleveland that Gen. and M,
Garfield were purchasing funi!u'e and
Il sc1lskn sacquc. However, they cau
afford to g9tify their taste for foIt
years now, and forget the pincheI pn,t
What we here rejoice in is tha;, when
Mrs. Hayes steps ont and Mrs. GalieIu
steps into the While house on the 4,h
of March next. there will he no a6run,
turning in the course Of the presdeil-
tal. or rather the MIS- Presidential,
social customs and DEGREES. 1t is need
less to say that Mrs. Hayes will be
missed. She will be missed by many
of whom the worlds knows nothing,
wants TO know nothing the NAKED.
hungry, sick and in prison, unto whose
wants she has miniStered "all so silent
ly;"but regrej will not he so poignant as
it would he were she to he succeeded
by an inferior woman.