St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-03
mrs, CLEvELaND,s FRIENDS.
The Cabinet Ladies With Whom
She is ON Most Intimate Terms.

Washington Letter: AS the winter
season is about to open there is consider
able talk about Mrs. Clevelands preferences
among the ladies of the cabinet. 1t is
generally conceded that Mrs. Manning will
be the prime favorite at the White house.
Mrs. Cleveland had never met the wife OF
the secretary of the treasury until her
wedding day. While the other ladies OF
the cabinet uttered formal wishes to the
young bride after the ceremony in the blue
room, Mrs. Manning kissed her warmly
and with tears in her eyes wished the new
mistress of the White house as much hap
piness as she herself had enjoyed since her
marriage. From that time it is said that
Mrs. Cleveland had a warm place in her
heart for Mrs. Manning, and their friend
ship has grown stronger every day since.
Mrs. Manning is at the White house more
frequently than any other society lady IN
Washington. Mrs Cleveland cOnsultS her
! on points of capital etiquette and will. no
doubt. be, in measure, her prOtege until
she becomes thoroughly familiar with re-
quirementS here; and indeed, there IS
not lady in Washington better
fitted to coach the inexperienced than Mrs.
Manning. Although she has passed but
one season at the capital, her social tact Is
so great that she fell into the new ways at
once, and, by the end of last winter, could
hold her own with the veterans. The
friendship of the two ladies is due in great
part to the similarity of their ideas and
tastes. Both are young, fond OF social
life, love music, flowers and the bright
things in this world have not yet tasted the
bitterness of surfeit. The close personal
Frio Of hnS har iG qnOthQr
bond that binds them together. 1t is
limited that the other cabinet ladies are
just little bit jealous of Mrs. Manning's
success at the White house.
Mrs. Whitney, while not so intimate with
the mistress of the White house. is on eX-
cellent terms with her as she is with every
body else. She Is great admirer of Mrs.
Cleveland's beauty. and often speaks of her
as the handsomest woman in Washington.
This will appear peculiarly disinterested
when il is remembered that Mrs. Whitney
herself is pretty woman.
Mrs. Villas seldom calls at the White
house, and there does not seem to be much
| love lost between her and Mrs. Cleveland.
| The two ladies are so opposite in character
that they could never become friends While
! Mrs. Cleveland is bright. happy and impul-
| sive, Mrs. Villas is a cold, polished WO-
| men of the World--One who seems to have
studied out life philoSophically and con-
Guided that there is an immense quantity
of sham in it, Mrs. Vilas's tifteen-year old
daughter, Mollie, is a prime favorite at the
| White house. However, she is lovely,
| gOlden-haired little creature-One OF those
caressng, kittenish children whom it is i'm
possible to resist. Miss Mollie is some
! times seen with Mrs. Cleveland III their
drives, and it is hard to decide which is the
pretter. The young girl, by the way, Will
make partial debut this winter, as assist
ant at her mothers receptions, and no one
doubts that she will play terrible havoc
with the hearts of WashingtOn's gilded
youth, even though she be so young.
Pretty Miss Jennie Lamar, only daughter
of the secretary of the interior, has also
found favor with the warm hearted mistress
of the White house. Miss Lamar is one of
those dark, passionate looking girls, such
as are seen in Spanish pictures. She has
been here only a short time, is mOtherleSs
and almost unacquainted and Mrs. Cleve-
land has been very kind to her. One re-
markable thing is that there are
no chickering's among the wives and
daughters of the cabinet officers, and no
quarrelS about precedence. 1t was not so
when Miss Cleveland presided at the White
house. Then the cabinet ladies felt that
they had leader whose title was question
able, and each felt that she herself had a
better claim to the name of first lady in
the land" Now, however, they have an
acknowledged leader, young. beautiful and
brilliant, and they are united in their deter
minatiOn to make this administration the
most successful socially that Washington
has seen in many years.