The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-24

The New York Herald has Washington
correspondent who saws: He il fond nj
reading, generally, what would be called
light English literature, as his selections
Tor the Florida trip would Indicate So
says Brentano who sold hun his personal
selections the other evening. He has an
excellent memory, and wonderful verbal
memory for pages of ThPckeray and Dick.
ems. lie can repeat with school-boy accu-
racy sentence after sentence from the old
British poets, and woe to the man who
questions the accuracy of his quotation
II such thing should happen, saw early
IN the evening, the president would fatigue
that man till midnight with argument, and
then get angry If he would not sit up a m
tie later to hear him through. But If it
were u lady his gallantry would forbid
such severe punishment, but he would
bring ms legal experience TO his aid and
ask why she thought she was right. One
would say that President Arthur, bv his
manner toward his lady guests, was to- any.
ious to appear pleased with their company.
II he thought he had IN any manner Of
Tended one, 1t would make him miserable
until he was certain he had been forgiven
Ihe PRESIDENT has, during his occupancy
OF the White House, had the society OF sew.
eral OF his sisters, who have attended in the
most charming manner to the social duties
OF the mansion; and it is not within the
recollection of anybody that the proprie.
ties OF the White House have ever been
more decorously observed than during Mr..
Arthurs administration. When every-
thing has been said that could be possibly
thought in compliment to the President
ooth IN regard to his official conduct and
social life in the White House, there vet 70.
mains his own declaration that il Is in the
greatest degree irksome to him to bear the
daily, ceaseless routine which the office i'm.
poses upon him. The task OF eating a ouail
every day for month is nothing to be com.
pared IN his opinion TO thewearying monet.
ony OF an Office that must be repeated nv
the occupant as well US by the people in
every. nook and corner of the executives
mansion. The visit of the New York deco
rators, the establishment of the green rad
and blue rooms, the ornamentations of tbe
vestiole and hundred ether little novel
Ties have helped to make. his life in the
white House uncomfortable.
Beside the preparation of his daily food
by cook who is the peer, il not the supe-
rior o, any IN Washington, which gives the
president as much pleasure as can come
from such servant, he likes TO Iinger NJ
The dinner table. The fascination of wine
with nuts and cigars aud coffee, tempts him
to give digestion undisturbed away at an
hour alter dinner is over. 1t is not only
the love OF luxury, but the demand for il in
ms moments of rest from official tasks,
that makes the private dining room the
most agreeable of all the rooms in the man.
sion; IT there is company to be received in
the Blue Parlor the president hastens to
make himself the most delighted of hosts
when the lateness OF the hour is urged as
reason for guests withdrawing, the pres.
dent wonders why he should be deprived
of such exquisite pleasure because il il Get.
ting late. 1t is always late to him. Late
to bed, late to get up, late to his breakfast
late to his dinner and late when he comes
back from an afternoon drive, Late is the
apology for everything in the White House,
and yet there was never president who
did his work more exactly, more conscien-
uously ana with fewer personal mist axes,