St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-15
Ladies Who, as Cabinet Minister'S
Wives, will Hold Gentle Sway
Over Washington Society.
The Maiden Sister of the President
Likely to be a Favorite in
Social Circles.
A Strong Woman and an Amiable One, Emf.
nently Fitted to Preside at the
White House.
The Wife Of the Vice President
Bride-Garland's Mother and Fair Young
Daughter-General Notes.
Correspondence of the Globe,

their families. IhlS is especially the case
with regard to the families, for our cabinet
officer is, as rule, too busy for much of
social life and leaves that feature Of his
career to his family. The cabinet officers of
the late administration were very busy lot,
emitting the secretary of state, and took
little time for social matters. All of them
had desks at their homes, where portion of
their work was done in evening and early
morning; and it looks as though the new
cabinet would be much buster than even the
old one was, for there are many more appli-
cations for Offices to be handled and that must
be handled by the cabinet officers themselves
instead of by the president, as has been the
case in former administrations. So, it
appears that the social duties of the new
administration will fall more heavily on the
ladies than was the case with the last one.
And so the personnel of the social part of the
cabinet is eagerly discussed by everybody
taking an interest in social life. Although
the new president is wifeless, as was his pre-
decessor, he will have plenty of assistance in
his social duties. He seems to be suddenly
possessed of numberless ''sisters and cousins
and aunts."
THEY HAVE FAIRLY SWARMED
about him since his arrival, and the back
counties are not yet heard from. From all
New England, from New York and from Ohio
they were here. The idea that seems to have
prevailed that Mr.. Cleveland was lonely
bachelor with maiden sister and no other
relatives appears to have been quite in
error. No doubt he was surprised himself
to see how many relatives he had. So it ap-
pears he will have no lack of relatives to as
sist him in his d1ties in the White house.
Miss Cleveland, his maiden sister, who is
to be the mistress of the White house, as it is
understood, seems likely to be fayorite in
society. She makes good impression. Her
receptions have been crowded thus far, and
she is already making good the promise that
preceded her that she would be found wo-
man of rare tact. She has a faculty of re-
membering names and faces that especially
fits her
FOR THIS TRYING PLACE.
Then she is strong, physically, and this is
much in her favor, for it is no child's play
to stand up for hours at a stretch and shake
the hands of those who come, at the same
time exerting oneself to be amiable and say
pleasant things. Then the goings and COM
ings, the late dinners and the long hours at
state events, when she would be expected
to sit at table three or four hours,
coupled all the time with the thought that the
eyes of the nation are upon her, will make
the duties of the coming four years pretty
heavy ones to her. Miss Cleveland is the
principal attraction in the east room,
where the receptions are held,
and she looks in every way fit to preside over
the social ceremonies at the famous mansion.
She wears her blonde hair short, and it curls
about her forehead, making very pretty
frame for the intelligent face beneath. One
Of her intimate friends says she possesses re-
markable talent for remembe bering names and
faces as well as the circumstances under
| which she has met each person and the topics
| OF conversation they discussed with her, how
ever many others she may have met at the
same time This, her friend says, was shown
in marked manner when Miss Cleveland
accompanied her brother to Buffalo since
his election, when they received a great
ovation and she was introduced to hundreds
at the charity ball and remembered each one
| Of them each time she met them afterwards.
Miss Cleveland was 80 situated at the ball
last week that comp paratively few could reach
ber and obtain an introduction. ''President
Cleveland will not give much of his time to
social festivities" said Private Secretary La
mont yesterday afternoon, .'but will content
himself with getting acquainted with his Off
cial visitors" Nothing definite has been
agreed upon concerning
RECEPTIONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
except that Miss Cleveland will receive Sat-
urday afternoons during March.
| After the family of the president comes
that of the vice president. ''Mrs. Hendricks
is certainly good-natured lady, and one
who will be able to adapt herself to circum-
Stances" said gentleman who attended
| her reception at the hotel the other day.
''She wore very costly dress at the reception,
the front covered with handsome beaded
| work. The crowd was so dense that those
next to her pressed 80 against her dress so
that the beading was instantly being broken
off by the pressure and the beads were pop
ping and rattling about like hail. But she
| didn't vince at all, but stood her ground
with smile. When some of her friends
called her attention to the pressure and its
effects, she passed the matter by with some
good-natured remark, indicating that she was
NOT TO BE DEFERRED FROM HER DUTY
by so small an incident She was certainly
the recipient of very handsome attentions,
and knows how TO make herself quite at ease
under the most trying circumstances" And
so she does. OF course her ambition has
been to reach the point which she has won,
but in the midst Of success she has taken oc-
casion to speak her mind plainly about the
feature Of the last administration which has
made so much remark in the past few
months, the excessive display both Of dress
| and undress at the social events Of the past
winter. Both the vice president and his wife
have shown themselves likely to become
prominent figures in the social world here
for the next four years, not only by reason Of
their position but because Of their taste for
this experience as well.
Next after the vice president will come the
secretary of state. Mr.. Bayard's family has
been, in its relations to Washington society,
extremely exclusive. It's members have in
dicated, as plainly as though they had said so
in words, that they did not care for many
acquaintances, and that they proposed to be
very careful about choosing them. What
their course will be as SUCCESSORS 10 the FREE
hnghuTsen family, who
HAVE LEAD THE SOCIAL WORLD,
is hard TO say, but It is pretty evident that
they will not forget pretty large share
of their exclusiveness. The impres-
sion prevails that their entertainments viii
not be extended to so many people as were
| those Of their predecessors. Mrs. Bayard Is
an invalid, but has, happily, two daughters,
who will be able to oficiate in
her stead when she is unable To
appear. One of these, the elder, is
noted in Washington as a most daring and