The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-05
Speaker Carlisle's Wife.

At all official dinners this winter
Mrs. Carlisle, like Mrs. Keifer last
year, will rank her husband. and if
the president is present. will take the
position corresponding to his. This
official etiquette seems very strange
outside of Washington, but here. where
so many guests at an entertainment
are official, it is absolutely necessary
that there should be some rule of pre-
cedence, or else there would be bitter
jealousies. At dinner the oldest SEN
ator in point of service takes preced-
ence of all other senator's present,
even though he may be the dullest and
most uninteresting one present. In
the same way the members who have
served the longest take precedence Of
the younger ones. ..f. ...#
Mrs. Carlisle is woman who can
fill any position. She is a Kentuckian,
having been born in the city Of Cow
ington, where their home now is. Her
father was a prominent man in Ken
lucky, and was mayor of Covington for
many years. Mrs. Carlisle inherits
the splendid physique of the typical
Kentuckian. She is five feet nine
inches in height and straight as an ar
row. Her figure is as 1.-THE as young
girls. She is blonde in complexion,
with blue-grey eyes, set rather deep,
with marked eyebrows. Her blonde hair
is banged and worn slightly waved in
the prevailing fashion. 1t is difficult
TO realize that Mrs. Carlisle is the
mother of two grown sons. The eldest
one was married last spring to Cow
ington young lady. Mrs. Carlisle is
very proud of her "two boys" as she
always calls them. She has great faith
in her husbands political success, and
has always herself done great deal to
insure it. She has been as cool as her
husband during the speakership strug-
gle, and has not doubted for a moment
that he would be the next speaker.
On the opening day of congress when
her husband took the chair as speaker
Mrs Carlisle sat in the front seat of
the members gallery-the seat which
is always reserved for the speakers
family. She wore brown cloth suit,
trimmed with ostrich trimming, with
mantle of the same. A small brown
bonnet completed her costume.
Mrs Logan. who has been visiting her
son, who IS fourth-class man at West
Point was telling me something of the
discipline at that institution. Consider
ing that there are exactly 5000 rules,
any one of which if broken gives boy
dement,, it seems almost marvellous
that they are not all expelled. Young
Logan received demerit for coming
out of his room while fastening the up
per button of his coat His room
mate received dement, for leaving in
his room chair by the window instead
of by the table, with the legs of the
chair at the exact distance from those
of the table Smoking is positively
prohibited. One of the instructors,
Lieutenant Gale, very small man,
was going the rounds of inspection one
night and found one Of the young mems
room full of smoke.
The cadet stood attention" when he
came in, the cigar having been pitched
out Of sight. Lieutenant Gales said
nothing TO the young fellow, and he
was greatly delighted, thinking he
would not be punished He ran off TO
a friends room and told him of the
circumstance, exclaiming about Gales
kindness in not furnishing him. That
night at drill the young cadets name
was called and an order read to him
that as punishment for smoking he
should make q tour" for three success
sive Saturdays. A ''tour" consists in
walking in certain limits for an hour.
One young cadet the officer have al
most despaired Of ever making a sol.
der. He appeared the other day at
guard mount in slippers. How can
you ever make soldier Of a man."
exclaimed an officer, who would ride
horse with his feet in slppers?"
They are severe in lessons as in discip-
line; fourteen and fifteen pages M al
zebra for one lesson is just an ordinary
lesson. With such severe strains physi-
cally and mentally, it is wonder that
the health of more young men is not
permanently injured at West Point
Washington Special.