The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-26

Grant himself, being OF . stolid nature, with
o face Ike that OF SPHINX with an express
sion as set as that Of marble statue, could
go through the rigmaIoie OF foreign poten-
uallties and high born mobiles without en-
barTssments, because he wouldn't know, in
the fret place, il he did make a mistake and
be Souldnt care in the next place. Ladies',
however. IS rule, are not 60 constituted,
theDk fortune, and Mrs. Grant Is Of sensi-
tive nature. However, she vas taken hold
OF By the ladies OF her husbands cabinet,
and proved an apt pupil in sll the necessary
lingo and highfalu,iRism OF her position. 81
that before the second term closed ie was
generally conceded, even by the most hyper
critical and the NEST tenacious observers IN
Washington, that she made very creditabie
hostess ID the White House. Probably the
years 1924 we're the most corrupt ever
known in the city of Washington. They were
the years when contracts were given out
when al manner of army and navy business
afforded special inducement to rascals and
unusual opportunity for fraud. Grants Sec
ond term stands second and almost on par
with those years as an era OF corruption, OF
political cbicsneTy, of pecuniary infsmy in
every line Of national outlay, The city was
filled with frauds, with shsrps, with scoun-
drels OF both sexes. Lobbyists hounted
through the streets lilo princes. Con tractors
metaphorically paved l. 9 streets with gold,
charlatans OF every name and style and in
clination had their own sweet way in life,
and the treasury poured forth its millions
into the capioious pockets Of public
plunderers. The city was alive
from end TO end. Never vas the
line d. avn so broad, so deep, so unques-
tlonably between the society OF politics aud
its partner. the society of i'll gotten wealth,
and the old time Wellington residency, IS
then. They gave emphatic protest when
ever an impudent attempt was made to cross
the quiet portals Of responsibility, and made
the carton Crows feel that the domestic
hearth was no place Tor them to rest on,
and the quiet homes of decent people no
place for vice, even though gilded, to pose
end Carce =.
TIE GARFIELDs.
g.. .1leve Washington would have
I'D IL supremacy of the Garfield home.
/ Me no--'t discuss Garfield personally at all
in this connection. No man knew him bet
ter than J. with his big head, well stored
with available material, his warm heart his
generous hand, his cordial welcome to Tom,
Dick and Harry, as we'll as to Thomas
Richard and Henry. No man was too rich,
too great, too high, for Garfield TO con- pan.
ion with. No man too poor, too Low, too
small, for him to greet with hail, fellow,
well met" But be snd his wife had lived for
many yeaIs--tWenty. thlnk-in Washing
ton, and he was al ways a conspicuous mem
known to society, and beyond very few
friends, chiefly people from Ohio, they had
no visiting aeqaintsnces. Mrs. Gafheld is
pie IN, quiet, unassumiDg, neatly dressed wo-
man. She possesses ordinary intelligence
! anc rs'her an unusual familiarity with the
advanced literature of the times, about
which she heard her husband talk, aud OF
which possibly she read. But, in ordinary
parlsnce she wasn't woman OF culture, far
less woman who cared anything whatever
| for society. Now, g. &c IS n individual life
| it is in public life. If you want to make
woman fond of you, you must let her se
that you are fond OF her. II you wish society
/ to welcome you, you must be ready algals
10 entertain society and TO welcome it. i
would be too much 20 ssk that society, whidh
had ignored Mrs. Garfield for twenty year,
when she was the amiabe and esteemed vile
House OF Representatives, shoDh
ruth TO welcome her aud o
make much of her, she n
tsinipg her retiring demeanor and models
characteristics simply because she Was the
wife of the President OF the United State,
Homo respect, civilities, courtesies, yes, brt
recognition of leadership, willingness b
follow in the train of suggestive entertain
ment, not at all Mrs. Garfield is an estirnE
bic woman. She was good wife and So
licitous mother, but she Lever would haze
shone at the White House any more than
yesrs OF her previous residence there. Mt
urally
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's ADMINISTRATION,
te inning under cloud, caused by the de.th
/ OF Garfield and an undeniable feeling Of IN
certainty and unsettledness throughoTS the
country, was not at first notable tor It's
brillisncy. Then, too, the fact tbt there
was no mistress to do the hoIors IN the
White House had its effect. Thefresidenfs
81 Loo k1ar, ~ "a l
learn from the old-time people IN Washing
ton that she has the respect go esteem OF
| the best elements in the CSpitai' 30 iar as
| public dinners go, ID ffesldent since the
| time OF Buchanan hHs ever attempted the
proper thing. up3h President A-thUr's in
suerration. ne has made that speciality
| and unive1Ssl commentator inaorses the
yerdlcs of well done, good and faithful
! hosl." Bless my heart, was there ever bet
! Ger illustration OF the utter imbeclity and
uselessness of President Hayes than this?
Here have been racking my memory 10 re-
call the ladies of the White House, and l
actually forgot there ever was such Presi-
dent as Hayes or an administration over
which he presided. Now, wasn't that iCnny2
Mrs. Hayes is a well-bOrn, Tell-bred go man,
a little cranky on the temperance question,
perhaps, but very much above the avefa &c OF
the wives after all. Had her husband been
made President under any other circum-
stances than those which unfortunately az
tended his success, her opportunities would
have been 81, ater, and the circumference of
her social achievement larger. As iG is. her
supremacy was a kind of milk aud watery
affair, fit parallel to the smiable, but ut
teTly ineffective administration OF the acci-
dental President her husband. Now, then,
We come upon another run Of baohelorhood,
with another sister at the head OF Affairs
social unless the rumor be well grounded
which gives domestic partner TO the Presi-
denteltct. Let's hope rumor IS correct
Captain Mitchell. of the bark Antonio
Sala, New York and Havana trade, came
home IN May, entirely helpless with rheu-
mstism. He went to the mountains, but re-
ceiyiDg no benefit, at his wife's request began