Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-20
MRS. CLEVELAND'N HONE.
THE DOMESTIC QUARTERS OF THE
GREAT WHITE HOUSE.
Gossip About Mrs. Cleveland i-nd Her
Daily Lifc-H"w aud wh"r" She Lives.
The Firs! Lady Of the Land Gnd IIcr
Duties


made for her She is Il,,l hv tie servant,
Is toad ed Ly Washn ton suc..jy. and he
little ears hear nothing but praises Sh
and the president are very lowing and the
honeymoon Is passing without Il cloud a
far aS can 10 en-, IN tina matrimonial SKY
She is cat.v III erc>,rd IN the cDuutrr
houe. ard she find, ~ Whl'e House no
Uup "a> m The quarters Of the prcsdru
wifi" are ar d fcrrnt from those of the = e.
Ill n. The pubic knows Nil about tn
lat er 1t knows very Little about tn
former Mrs Cleveland Il now the head OF d.,
NATe Hou q and snc las the entire contro. q"
its arrangement Tres i Mt Cleveland wa
never a man II mucu domestic taste, H.
has not bean in the basement of the Wh {
House more thln once since the day Of hi
Inauguration, and he nnvor Epo- down lo
. the kitchen as Presid nj Arthur Il 4, to have
word with the cook. or to di. rct the get
ting up o his dinners President Clevelano
has confined himself strictly to his Office AM
his lodroom and he has spent n more tim
+ IN tue o;ncr nPlrtmrn's than though ttI
Nhi:e House was a greet hotel, and he was
living in it.
The White House is, after all, much like a
hotel The presidents family have only
about meth r of 1t as their private quar-
ters and the rub ic trot around through the
r1malning twU-thirds at will The house
has cost about &, 900 ,O.n AMI it Is a big. old
fa~hiun"d structure VITA Is OF waste room
the ceilings of III, ground floor are thirty two
feet high anl the front ,stIGule AMI hall with
its glass wall and marble floor is us cold a
barn and about dreary. a half dozen
moss myers are alw.ys present in 1t, ani it
% Ks more like an entrance to an art gallery
than TO the private quarters Of the ruler of n
great Fep"hlc. Tho East room would make
very nice ball room but 1t is OF no earthly
good except for grand receptions and one
ght well try TO make a living room Of a
two uCrr field as OF It sides 1t is thrown
olen TO visitors until > o'clock every day.
Its chairs ALWAYS stand back against the
wall a though they were chained there ami
the hig chandeliers which light it. though
they cost 5000 apiece look like iCiClcs with
their hundred, priNmalIc. crystal pendaLts,
and frerz the life out % any two. three pr
lLlf dozen people assembled below them.
The Blue room, the Green room and the Rcd
room are nice enough, but they lack the home
touches OF bits Of bric-a-brac, Tides and the
thousand and one little nothings which make
up home comforts They are pretty enough
and grand enough, but oAe feels as though he
ought to sec I! at h hair was kept straight
while he sits IN them, and il is hard to feel
cumfortah amid such >urrUundiuxs The
result Is that these rooms have never bren
home ike ones, and the real home of the
president is conf Iei to the second story.
The east side Of the second story of the
White HOUSE Is made up of Offices Presi-
Mt Cleveland hol Is his cabinet me, ting
where Abe L'nco n use / to sleep during war
mes. and he has for his private office, where
he r. ceivrs his business callers the oval
brary which FIllmores wife arranged an
which formed the rcccp ion room | think
OF Abigail Adams The White House hal
no; becn half finished when John Adams
came into IT, and his wife did most OF her
entertaining on the second floor The East
room was great, bar, uncarp'tei place
and Mrs Cleveland was very much amusNl
IN" other day when one nt the attaches of he
White House told her that 1t was bore that
Ms Adams hung out h.r clio. hes on rainy
wash dayS
Col. Lamont has onr Of the ggest rooms
in the WnIte HouSa II is just over the East
room, AMI Is he one in which Abraham
Lincoln u,el to receive his callers during the
war Tuere are four other rooms basi ie
these in tniS part of The White II, Use which
10 tue lorkkroving of the pre>idential man
sion; another has a telegraph operator, a
type writer and files OF the leading news
papers of the country, and third il a biz
waiting room. whc.o ca lerS are sometimes
shown who wish 10 See the president All
these rooms are shut Off from Mrs Cleve-
land She could come into them il she
wished, hut she does not do so. She has
h.,r, srynrol mos ba i.p,ls
off e lingering over the books in the Ii .rary,
and tsk NJ. now AMI then, one to her own
room in another part of the house, but even
thee visits have been ma lie when the presi-
deaf was alone.
If YOU c ull take n mammoth knife and
cat thJ White House aS you wou d a big
cheese, you could, by drawing the blade
across il from north to south at the end Of
the library, cut OFF Mrs Clevelands part
OF the White II use from that of the pres
dent Sh. has five he'd rooms and they are
ali large and airy. Just OFF from the library
there is a coy room which used to be known
a. the iris room, and 1t was in this that
Nellie Grant lived, and Nellie Arthur occu-
pied il dur ny the last presidential term
The presidents bridal chamber Is the state
and l can tell you 1t looks different
nov 10 what it did when Mrs. Cleveland first
came in it There are more home touches,
and the dressing table always has its flowers.
When President Arthur was here he had his
wifes picture. which hung on one of these
walls wreathcd With roses every morning
Now the rose, are every where about the room
and the gardener has done his best to make it
look beautiful There Is a wide lounge or
divan. at one side of the room. and the bed
is OF rosewood with a great canopy of silk .
brOcadc in god and silver above it A rich |
Tur Sh carpet covers the floor and there are
a number Of easy chars sea tered about the ,
rom Great chunks of wool lie upon the .
highly polished brass andirons and the
mantel Is covered with n heavy velvet cloth .
o. n 50 I, dark red There is a tidy on one
Of the arm chairs bearing the incrIption in
red. white and ue six
God bless our country and our presi- !
dent"
wonder IL Mrs Cleveland ma ie it and
whether, If she dill not, she is jaa Gus of the .
woman who dill Every thing matches here .
IN this room, but the toilet table looks far
d fferent now from what it did six weeks ago
Ii was in this room that the Prince of
Wales slept when he visited this country,
and if Victoria dies soon enough the bridal
chanIb Of President Cleveland will have
been the only guest chamber in the United
States that has slep: a king.
Miss Cieveland's old room looks out upon
the Potomac, and il NAV be that this Will
in time become the presidents chamber. 1t
Is one OF the most beautiful rooms in the
house, and its furniture is made in imitation
nf bamboo with joints corresponding 10
those of fishing rod. The chief objection
to this room is the fact that Garfield Law
here while he was sick, and one might fear
that his ghost woud visit ITS future occu-
pants.
Ms Clsvelard uses as her guest chamber
The room at the southwest corner of tie
" hite nouse. II is very pleasant room