Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-23

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Piled the President. half dreamily. lyon
| must be careful of your grammar" The
morphine lie had taken hypodermicsily I'M
doubtedIy affected him at that time, for
the point was not very we'll taken. 1t sa-
| vored of hypercIiticisnn, and the President,
when well, makes no faux pas in that direc-
ton.
The food on the White House table is
scrupulously
WILL PREPARED
And well served, Mrs. Garfield insisting
more strongly on this than did Mrs. Hayes,
who was an easy-going housekeeper, and
did not make SO much fne art conse-
| Grafton of the table rites as does the
former. An Attorney COW from the Mentor
home furnishes delicious milk and cream.
She is not being MIXED just now, however,
and Mr. Shoemaker, very wealthy citi-
| zen of Baltimore, at whose house the Col
fax family and later the Hayes family used
to often visit, has seat over new-milch
Alderney to supply the Presidents present
craving for milk. The tea, coffee and but
ter are always of the best--a point insisted
upon there is abundant fruit a5 breakfast
and dinner, and there IS always soup 81
lunch, followed by choice cold meats
| beef, fowl and often game. This is re-
| fnement on the 9 Goldfish and prunes OF
J the HAYES lunches, which, however, may
have been maligned. Economy was al
ways remarked upon as a ruling feature
under the last dispensatien in its
ordinary home life. The Grants, On
the contrary, were high hyers, both IN
yisnds and wines. AT the Garfield home,
| table wine and brandy are not used;
Apoliinarig water is served, il desired.
| Tue desserts are not specially elaborate;
they are always good. Flowers from the
| ample Conservatives adorn the table at
every meal When guests are formally
pt esent there is little need of change IN the
| menu; there is generally q simple caangs
| in the dinner service by the substi tuition Ct
| q larger and fuller set. At state dinners It
has been their intention to set forth vine,
| according to the established custom. Stew
ard William Crump, a plump, frlsh-iook-
ing retainer, who was an orderly IN Col.
HAYES regiment and came in with his dis
pensation 70 the White House, remains as
Steward still It was part of his duty to
bring the daily meal orders to Mrs. Gar
field for her approval or alteration. He is
now the Presidents special nurse in any
CAPACITY in which Mrs DR.. Susan Edison,
who has for years been Mrs G4r6eld's per-
sonal physician, and is now on deck in the.
sick.roofn, cannot act He lifts the Presi-
dent N his stout arms, as no other can, and
the latter cannot bear to have him long
away from his bed The Stewards fesJ
have become SO swollen that be cannot now
do full duty at the bedside, and Colonel
- borra
HAD TO TAKE HIS PLACE.
Colonel Rockwell is Superintendent Of
Public Buildings and Grounds, and besides
being a college classulate of the President,
his brother married Mrs. Garfeld's sister.
General Swain was q subordinate member
of the Court of Military Justice, with the
rank OF Major. He was an army friend OF
| the President, and about two months
| since. on the retirement Of Judge Advo-
cate General Mckee Dunn, he was lifred
over several of bis seniors into that de-
sirable vacancy. Hsis stout, " chunky"
massiff-looking man, very generally poPu-
lar.
! There was a change Of cooks at the
White House when Mrs. Garfield came In.
| Ths rosy health and strength OF her hus.
band and family is due no doubt in great
measure to this lady's thorough belief In
the gospel OF good food She is the only
| frail and worn looking one among them.
In time 81 health she sits cheerful, though
! never talka.ive, at table. Sac has an IN.
| troverted manner, and seems almost averse
to joining in conversation, yet her traits
impress one as highly positive. She
/ dresses neatly but very plainly at break
fast and lanch, but makes a more elaborate
toilet for dinner usually in RIGA black SILK.
The after dinner hour the President has
adopted for recreation, going down stairs
to the billiarG-room usually for game
with his boys or his friends. 1t IS favor
tie game with him Colonel Rockwell or
General Swain, who are more than ire.
duent guests at his table, often join him at
this diversion. Mrs. Hayes, whose deyo-
ton to flowers was passion, converted the
billiard-roo OF the Grant regime, which
aAioined the state diuing-roon, into an adj
ditionaI conservatory, making fine artistic
| effect on state occasions, with the fohage
disclosed to view from the dining room
| through the long, opsn windows. The
floor of the room was so rotten that 1t had
to be renewed any way, and IS the Presl-
dent had no use for that sinful game, Mrs.
! HAYES utilized the room as suited her best,
and thus added one more attractive teml-
nine oracs to the mansion at the expense of
the unregenerate male idea of amusement.
| When President Garfield came in he
RE. ESTABLISHED A BILLIARD ROOM,
For, though a professor Of religion, which
Mr.. Hayes was not except by his wife's
proxy, he is not sancsimonious like the
other gentleman. Il is a difference of
temperament rather than of conscience
both are good men. The President for
this purpose took possession of the base
ment-room that Fannie and Scott Hayes
and the McCrary and Shellabarger
| who studied with them, occupied for 3
schoOl-room, their governess beng an ac-
complished young Virginia lady, whose
duty it also was to play the piano for those
Sunday evening hymn singings which are
another vanished institution there. 1t was
a subject Of. frequent query why, with that
large house at their disposal, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayes, WAC so delighted in their children
and in the sunpyside of lie. shonld have
fitted mp basement school room. General
Garfield, believing devoutly in the gospel
of good air and sunlight, promptly trans
ferred the shrine Of the scholastic deities in
his new home to cheerful northeast cham
Der in the business part OF the mansion,
where the morning sun could shine upon
the bright young heads of his sturdy boys
Donald Rockwell, the son Of Colonel
Rockwell, studies with his sons, and the
three expect to enter Williams College
together in September. Their lessons for
the day end at l o'clock. The President
holds their tutor in high esteem and
pleasant personal relation to himself, and
made the selection with scrupulous care,
calling him away from lucrative medical
| practice in Helena, because of what he had
been told of his rare gift for training boys,
as developed in four years' teaching at
Phillips Academy landowner and elsewhere
before he began the practice of medicine.
During the present dark days at the White
| House the studies OF the bows are naturally