St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-28
THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.

THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times sketches very pretty
picture of President CLEvELAND's home
life. According to the correspondents
story, when the president is withdrawn
from the public gaze he is by no means the
cold, phlegmatic man he appears to be
while receiving visitors or listening to the
appeals OF office seeking delegations. That
erect, powerful body, which can bear with
out fatigue ten-hOur stretch of labor at
the desk, and that firm, almost stolid face,
before which the office-seeker quailS and
fearf1lly recalls the official sins of his past
life, have their hours of relaxation, during
which the president is seen in quite
changed character. In the family circle,
with only his friends and relatives around
him, he is described as being one of the
most genial of men. Divesting himself of
his public dignity and official cares, he en-
tens with heart and soul into the enjoyment
of the family hearthstone. Like most per-
sons with serious countenanceS, his face
warm smiles. He has rare faculty of
telling droll stories in an inimitable way,
but none of them at the expense of the feel
ings of other people.
1t is said that he shows more than
brotherly tenderness to his sister. All her
little pursuits are to him objects of deep in
terest. The Times correspondent says that
just now Miss CLEVELAND is deep in the
mysteries of Baconian cipher. AS the
president has high regard for his sisters
literary requirements and desires to pre-
serve their congeniality of tastes, he is try
ing very hard to interest himself in Mr..
DoNNELLY's latest discoveries, though the
correspondent doubts if the president cares
whit whether the Shakespearean plays
were written by the Avon bard, Lord
BACON, Mr.. DoNNELLY or anybody else.
Miss CLEVELAND is tireless deliver into
AnglO-SaXon antiquities, and her dis
tinguiShed brother endeavors to find pleas
ure in antiquarian researches with more or
less success. He even goes so far as to join
her. in seeking out the authorship of the
everlasting JUNIUs letters, which were at
tributed to nearly every prominent man of
letters of the reign of GEORGE I'LL, and
about which numberless tiresome volumes
have been written. The president is not
only fond of his favorite sister, but is on all
occasions manifestly proud of the refined,
graceful woman who, while presiding over
the social life of the capital, is infusing into
it new and broader spirit of culture.
His love for children is thus pictured by
the Times correspondent:
With his little golden-haired nieces and their
companions clinging to his knees he passes
some of his happiest hours. In his long rides
he always has one or more of these little
prattlers at his side, and finds in their inno-
cent talk restful oblivion of the jealousies
and deceits of public life. His fondness for
children was exhibited in an amusing way on
Easter Sunday morning. While standing at
his window after breakfast he observed
number of little girls rolling eggs on the lawn
back of the White house His face at once
lighted up with interest and he eagerly
watched the varying success of the contest
ants. At last one of the players perceived
the figure at the window and they all engaged
in an impromptu conference for the purpose
of inviting the president to take part in the
game. A Waterman was delegated to tender
the invitation and in few minutes the pres
ident appeared on the lawn, to the great de-
light of his little friends. While taking no
active part in the contest, he lent unusual
Zest to the remainder of the game by his
presence and the hearty applause with which
he greeted every skillful roll.
Singular enough, it is stated that the
presidents dislike of bachelors is as marked
as his affection for children. While pre-
ferring single life for himself, he has little
love for the society of that jolly class to
which he belongs. His most intimate
friends are married men, most of them
quite young and in the first stages of marital
happiness. In all his official life as mayor,
governor and president he has appointed but
one bachelor to office. The moral of this
is SO plain that he who runs may read.
THE gOSsipS are just now very busy con-
Meeting the presidents name with that of
Buffalo young lady who is supposed to be
the happy pOSsessor of the presidents heart
and their early marriage is predicted. This
illusion is dispelled by the Times cores
pendent, who tells the following story:
The most authentic reports have it that
while quite young man teaching school in
Western New York village, he met and loved
Il young girl not yet seventeen. They were
engaged but the poverty of both parties pre-
vented marriage. The young teacher made
up his mind to go to Ohio for the purpose of
providing home for his betrothed and was
on the point of starting for the West when she
fell sick and within a week was carried to her
last resting place. There are no absolute
proofs of the truth of this story. The presi-
dent has never mentioned the matter to his
nearest friends and the only source of in
formation is town gossip handed down with
perhaps the usual variations and additions.
Whether the President has remained single
out of a romantic fidelity TO the memory of
his youthful love, or whether bachelor life
is best suited TO his inclinstions is of course
matter of conjecture Those who know
him best say that he is too well fixed in old
ways TO change al this late day, and that no
bride will be mistress of the White house
while he is its occupant.
THE LAST PROP GONE.