Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08
Miss Cleveland and her Brother.

Miss Cleveland has thoughtful,
refined face, not at all handsome and
not at all ugly. She is decidedly sal
low, and looks as if she might be about
48 or 40 years old. She came here with
short hair, rather gray and slightly
waved all over her head. No woman
ever looks dignitied with short hair,
but it was not unbccoming to her, and
did not give her an absolutely aggres-
sive women lecturer look. If she was
so soon going to succomb to popular
opinion on the subject of short hair
for women it's pity she didn't pin on
her coils and puffs before she came
here, for so marked change here
would have caused a comment in pri-
vatc life, and in her case it has made
no end of talk. The women who
laughed and sneered at her for wear
ing short hair now do the same thing
because she has followed the fashion.
Poor woman! She looks anxious and
worried, and the sooner she learns to
follow her brothers example and
"gang her ain gait the sooner she will
be happy.
Her dresses are not remarkable in
any way; she has quite a pretty figure,
and might look better than she does if
she would hire some woman who has
perfect taste to dress her and to stand
over her dressmaker when her clothes
are fitted. She appears like woman
who has given her attention to better
and higher matters than clothes; but,
then, clothes are one of the minor
matters that woman in her position
must attend to herself or have some
one else to attend to. Her manners
are perfectly courteous, but not cordial;
she has no society manner of any kind,
and it is quite easy to see that, although
she means to do her duty as the mistress
of the White House, it is simply duty
to her and no more; that she is really
very much bored and very tired; that
she receives guests every day because
she must, and that she is thankful
woman when her hour is finished.
TO use the society phrase, Mr.. Cleve-
land is a very '' common-looking
man.; His best friends, his most
ardent supporters admit, what is GER
tainly true, when one first looks into
the Presidents face one sees just a
coarse face. But there is great deal
more there. No person, no matter
how prejudiced, can help seeing in bis
face and figure calm, powerful
repose, and full of dignity of the most
simple and impressive sort. He looks
like man against whom any circum-
stances, any people, any powers might
beat until they tire themselves out
without moving him a hairs breadth
from the position he had originally
taken for himself. One feels instinct
lively that here is man who is Presi-
dent of the United States in absolute
truth, and who is going to follow out
his own convictions if the world turns
upside down because of them. Some
people say Miss Cleveland has much
influence over him but people who have
talked with him do not believe it, and
one woman goes so far as to say:
| ..Pooh! influence the President? don t
believe that if the most enchanting
angel Of the female persuasion in
Heaven itself should fall at his feet
| with wings spread out she would make
| any more impression upon him than
the rest of US do; and, goodness knows,
| that isn't much.' His manners are
| perfectly courteous. He has pleasant
| voice, shakes hands cordially, says a
few pleasant words, if he has time,
and makes it quite evident to every
| one when their turn is over and in a
perfectly simple courteous way.