Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-11
WASHINGTONSO
CHARACTERISTICS or MRS.
COCKKEIIL's RECEPTION.

ture OF AnIeCC Dependency.
WASHINGTON. April 9.-The mi-careme
season passed very quietly in Washing
ton, the whole of society being sadly DIS
! appointed over the postponement of the
! Whitney ball for the benefit Of the news
boys. And truth to tell, things are rather
duh in Washington just now. The Sena-
torial ladies have about wound up their
visiting, and only a few of them are at
home on their usual reception days. OF
these few, one of the best known is Mrs.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, who justly
aspires to lead the literary sets of official
society. Mrs Cockrell is the niece of the
late Henry w. Allen, the war Governor
of Louisiana, and all in all makes the
nearest approach of any Of the official
ladies to TeYiVing the lost art of CONVEX
eation. She talks as literary people do in
books, and receives her Thursday visitors
in ravishing pale blue tea gown, with
dainty bound volume OF verse held be-
tween her fingers. She is very refresh
ing after the twaddling platitudes you
hear at most places. Her desire to as
! tablish a salon alter the fashion of Nine.
| Adams in Paris is TO be commended.
| On her night at home you may almost al
ways find some lion growing on her
| hearth rug. Another Senatorial lady
| who will be prominent for the brief while
! that her husband has seat IN Congress
is Mrs. George Hearst. MIR. Hearst, they
say. is a miner of the Yuba- Dam Poker
| ai-BlOody-Gulch-r ed-shirt- bowie knife
! description. Mrs. George Hearst is
! a little lady with dark hair, olive COM
plexion, an obstinate eye and an unsym-
pathetic face generally. She has been
spending the winter here living in a fine
.I,sI a,
| house with the kitchen up in the garnet,
! and she has given some very swell teas,
| being assisted BY some California girls
who have dead loads OF money and Paris
dresses. Mrs. Hearst is aristOcratic and
| cOnsorts only with the rich and fashion
able, and but few suspect that under the
we're de veneer of her social life there is
a warm. sensible, practically phIlanthrO-
pic heart and that her busy brain Is not
! ALWAYS set on wavs of advancing George
Hearst and OF attaining social hon0rs for
/ George Hearst's wife,
IN AN UNOBTRUsIvE WAY
known to probably not half dozen peo-
pie Mrs. Hearst is doing more good with
her money than perhaps any other
| woman In America. She has many young
men at various colleges being educated
at her expense, and many talented Young
girls in the schools, art galleries and
| Conservatives of Europe are pursuing
their studies entirely at the expense OF
Mrs. Hearst. She is always ready to
listen to the stories OF the young and
struggling, always ready TO lend help
ing hand to those who with talents and
ambition have not the means to 10 into
the fight and win fame without the aid of
a fairy godmotheT.
Miss Cleveland has been out of town
for a week or more, and the Presi-
I 4 h IseN1 1aNh 10
! of the White House all by himself.
At the end OF the season the small brown
haired mistress of the Executive Mansion
looks pretty well tagged out. l suppose
during the past winter 20, 900 persons have
shaken hands with her and listened to
her monOtonous 81 am pleased TO see y0u.'
Miss Cleveland is neither young nor
pretty, and depends for her social sue
cess ON the deeD esrnestness OF her ma.
ture and her great desire to do the right
thing and say the right thing. Her evi.
dent effort to please, her patient adapt
ing of herself to the detestable require
ments of Mrs. Grundy or Madame La
Mode, have been recognized and for q
wonder appreciated. | went the other
day into the smallest OF the State apart
| ments of the White House, the Red Par.
lOr. 1t is Miss Cleyeland's favorite room,
and before you are admitted there, unless
it be on public reception days, the atten-
dant peeps in cautiously to see il the
coast is clear. This room has a beautiful
| dark wooden mantel with under shelves,
a deep cavernOus fireplace with brass
fire dogs and on the wide wooden lodges
are set numbers Of rare porcelain plates
and dishes. A fur rug lies under foot and
on the carved oak study table are piles OF
books, poems, essays and some Illus
trated show works. A reading lamp sets
on a stand by the fireplace and a low
easy rocking chair is just at hand. The
lamp shade is nothing but large red
silk parasOl opened and with frill OF
lace about the edge.
THE REPUBLICAN LADIES ALL DECLARE
THAT MISS CLEVELAND
is a Republican, but she is not. She
is an Out-and-Out Democrat, but while in
the White House she wisely enough
leaves politics alone. AS for Miss Cleve-
lands book, since l have been in Wash.
ingtOn PVe made point Of asking every
body l'Ve met il they have read it. The
question was a trifle less hackneyed than
that OF the weather. In making my rounds
of calls | found nine hOstesses out Of ten
looked at you in a vague kind Of way and
mumbled out something about the
weather. 1t grew mOnOtOnOus. SO one
day sat down and composed eight or ten
! little speeches and questions for use on
such occasions, Some OF them were q
triAing startling. The mildest which |
fred off at Cabinet ladies', Senator's
wives, members wives and the judiciary
was "Haye you read Miss Cleveland's
bOOkg" | have not found anybody in
Washington who has done more than
read at II. yet it's a very bright and
pleasant book indeed, although here !
lind book that is only composed Of
essays is quite looked down upon and is
not considered to be a book at all. They
say that Mr.. Howells IS going to write a
book on Washington society. He was
hardly here long enough for that, but
think Won viii find that he Will introduce
a Washington episode into his next
novel, and Frank Stockton as good as
told me that he intended fetching
Pomona" 70 Washington next winter.
think Pomona making the round or Off
cial calls would be 100 funny for any.
thing.
TWO OR THREE TIMES
/ have met Miss Dawes the daughter Of
Senator Dawes, who Is likely 10 get beaten
inlthe next election by eX-GOy. Long, now In
the House. Miss Dawes is tall, and fine
looking. She has fair hair with a wide
part, and some piquant freckles on the
bridge OF her nose. She has written o
book The title is "llow We are Gov,
erned." ! don't suppose any human
mortal but the prooi-reader knows any
thing OF It's contents.
Senator Logan Is the most disappointed
I In oil fet,.