The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-02
BELYA'S CABINET.
Some Grave Affairs Seriously
Discussed.
THE CABINET NEXT YEAR.
The Head Of the Nation and Her
Advisers as We Shall Probably
See Them.

her dress
The attorney general took out he
knitting and and said, ''Well, Nigh
as well be working. No telling how lon
wen have to wait"
''For my part, said the secretary 0
war, II think it is rather beneath tn
dignity of apresident to spend all he
time getting new clothes.
mot but what she needed them badly
enough" interjected the attorney gen
eral somewhat viciously.
"WeI, "said the secretary Of the in
terror, "the postmaster general hash
come yet, anyway. We always have Il
wait for her"
AT this point the postmaster genera
hurried in.
Il am afraid I'm late" she said
breathlessly. but I just stopped al
Seaton Perry'S d few minutes. They've
got in all their fall things, and there are
some of the loveliest combinations you
ever saw"
Eager attention on the parto cabinet,
interrupted by the servants announce
ment:
"Her Excellency, the President Of the
"Good morning, ladies'"
aGOOd morning, Mrs. President" (All
In chOrus.) ooh! what a lovely dress. "
yes" said the President, Il thought
I would just wear it down and let you
all see it. 1t is pretty, isn't it? Just
look at the hang of the train.
It's perfectly magnificent" said the
secretary of war. Those fine pleatings
of crepe de chine give it such a lovely
finish. Butisnt it just little short in
frOnt?'
why, of course" said the president,
with some asperity. 4 have them all
made that way so as not to have to
change when l ride the tricycle."
Il hope it's all silk, said the attorney
general, sticking her -knitting-needle
through her back hair, while she rubbed
a piece of the dress between her thumb
andsfnger ''Did you save me a piece
for my crazy quilt?"
''Oh, yes" answered the president.
affably. and now let's go to business,
ladies. l haven't much time this morn
ing. l have to sit for my picture at l
o'clock"
"The most important business I know
of, y said the secretary of state, SIS to de-
eide on a minister to the court of St. !
James. You know Lowell has asked to
be recalled"
cob, yes, 1 forgot all about that, said
the president. Whom shall we send ?" |
IF it had only been earlier" said the |
assistant secretary of the navy, refec- |
lively, II would have gone myself but
the season Is over by this time, and then
] get so horribly seasick."
1t viii be hard TO get any one to 90, -
nhCnrTrnd a 4ay- Of
told the climate is so damp that your |
hair never stays in curl at all"
Is that sO?" asked the president, ap- |
"Well we must send some !
one, and you know l won't receive any
suggestions from congress until we can !
get house and senate with a majority
IF ladies"
Il tell you what" suggests the secre-
Cary OF the interior, rapping musingly
on the table with her thimble. my Sis
ter was saying the other day that she
had to have her winter suit made by a
London tailor. Suppose we appoint her,
and she could send US over anything we
wanted"
cts curious, " murmnred the secre-
tary of war in an audible aside. that
the secretary of the interior always has
a sister to suggest for everything"
The secretary of the interior looked /
absently out of the window at the
view and took no notice of this remark,
and no one else taking it up, her sister
was agreed upon, all coinciding when
the president justly observed. "You
know we can recall her if we change our
minds"
And then" the president went on.
there Germany to provide for. :"
VIII - hO e IL
one to Germany, Mrs. President? asked
The secretary of war.
'Oh, don't you know" said the sec
rotary of state, there's Herr Most and
pork and LaSker and Bismarck and all
hose things to talk about"
Il know there was a color called Bis
narck some years ago, said the Secre-
AIRY or the treasury, meditatively, as
ne sorted her crewelS, but 1t was hide
)uSly unbecoming
but there's new red brown this
all, said the postmaster general
'agerly, that's just peri ectly lovely for
9arK complexion, thaogh l think my
zeal brown"
Speaking of seal brown" said the
assistant secretary of the navy, how
ABOUT the commissioner who was to be
'oLS " AtaSka 10 provide US all with
dolmans? It's getting pretty
,ooli the frost touched my tUberOseS
asst night; it's time she was sent I
hink"
Its long, cold journey" said the
resident, and no society after YOU GET
here but ChillycatS, as they call those
and no wonder, Maybe we
TouId better send man"
Perhaps the secretary of the interior
as brother who would like to go.u
the secretary of war, saTcas-
cally.
IF I had" responded that LADY,
,Verely, he would know what to get
hen he got there, and not bring back a
iTceI OF plush things, expecting people :
think they are seal. !"
This was such direct hit at the secre-
ry OF wars last winter garment that
e president wisely effected diversion
calling to order the postmaster gen
al, who was heard murmuring to her
lghbor about something "edged with
ieep rUffle of antique lace" :
by the way, inquired some one. :
gnere Is the secretary OF the navy?"
she said in the note she sent me.
az she had a nervous headache, " re-
Onded the assistant secretary, "but
servant said she had cried her ewes
| because her bonnet didn' t match her a
! after all, and perked up behind, be- AT Al
;, 100 bad, said the president, emphat- Al
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