St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-03
OUR COUNTRY'S QUEEN.
Mrs. Cleveland Returns in Better Health
and is Doing Large Amount of
Shopping.
How the President Treats His Mother-in
Law When They Take Drive on
the Avenue.
A Daring Beauty's Great Pranks--A
Dude Who Drank Wine Out
of Her slipper.
Merry Wedding Bells Ringing In the
Capital City--Lamar to We'd
Stately Dame.
Life in washington.

SDeClal GOrreSpOEue0Ce III Tue
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-The return OF
the first lady of the land has started the
turbine wheels of the social mill. and there
will be a biz grist ground out this winter.
Many debutantes will be hurled into the
hopper Many thousands of bushels of
chatf will be ground up with the few grains
of sound wheat 1t is great grind, but
demnItion grind. 1t takes philosopher,
statesman. Talleyrand and a Chesterfield
combined. to succeed in any department of
the business from the great wheel to the
boiling OF the whItened grist. Mrs Cleve-
land is in better health than when she went
away. Her figure is more rounded. Her
ewes are brighter and her step more elastic.
She has been doing suspiciously large
amount of shopping every day. and her
mother goes with her to advise her what to
get. 1t is given out that Mr.. Cleveland
will have his mother-in- law with him for
some months to come. He seems to enjoy
the mother-in-law very much, and is very
glad 10 have heI here A great many
people are curious to know what kind of
goods the young madam is buying. and why
she needs the assistance of her mamma IN
making her selections. Indeed. it is said
that Mrs. Folsom has been going around on
foot and buying. where she is not known.
some things about which she is
VERY SECRETIVE.
Some of the gOSSipS say that a guest is
expected and the ladies are engaged in
making up some useful and valuable gar
ments for the benefit of the person who is
expected; vet it is not supposed that the
coming one is TO be a poor relation. -
What it all means is sort of mystery.
Women will go shopping, you know; and
il is sometimes impertinent to inquire too
closely after their purchases. Besides,
nav be, it's none of our business you
know. The critical tabbieS of the social side
of Washington are finding great deal of
fault with the way the president treats his
mOther-n-law, in one respect. Whenever
the presidents Victoria is taken out for a
drive. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland take the
back seat, and Mrs. Folsom takes a front
seat with her back to the driver. She has
TO ride backwards. Many OF the old tab
bies have held conferences over their tea,
and have decided that this will never do.
The president should be more respectful.
If president is allowed to treat a mother
in-law in that way, what may the rest of
the Tables expect when they become
mothers in-law? Eli? 1t is expected that
one of the critical old dowagers will breach
the subject to Mr.. Cleveland one of these
fine DAYS. and then We'll see what interpre-
tation the chief magistrate puts upon the
rights of the husband and
THE MOTHER IN-LAW.
Unless we mistake the meaning of his
Big neck and broad base of skull he will
say: IF Mrs. Folsom chooses to ride with
US she must sit where l say. l am the boss
of this tepee, and if | must have a mother
in-law to drive with myself and wife she
must sit with her back to the driver. If
she don't like that, she might let us go out
without pushing herself into the shebang
with us. She can have separate rig, if
she wants it." That's about the size of the
speech Grover VIII make He is no mother
in-law's secondhand fOotStOOl. One of our
society leaders has come pack from a lark
gustatOry at one of the Virginia spring
rendezvous. She has the prestige which
should make her very popular. Her beauty
and bibulOSty combined will certainly cause
the SWANS to bnZZ and fit around her like
moths about the pestilential light. But she
is an ignis fatuus. The gOSSips say that it
is really true that she got so full of cham
payne that but for the expansive qualities
of her epidermic covering she N ght have
bursted. But, worse than all that, her
friend was a gentleman who so far sue
cumbed to the charms Of the wine and the
woman that he drank champagne out of
her slipper as he
KNELT AT HER FEET.
All this among society upper tendon. Is
il really any wonder that some of the aw-
fully fastidiOus folk complain and say that
the beauty is no better than the beast; and
that she must be tabOOed? But. will she
be? Not if the lords of creation have any
lords would fight valiantly against any one
who might intentionally bring their wives
or sisters into contact with the demi-mOnde;
but they will bring their loved ones into the
same atmosphere with a presumably VIZ
tuOuS woman who is guilty of such orgies
Well, if the others were all as mprudent
and were found out. it might not be such a
great strain of character. after all. Unless my
memory plays me false, this same petite
and daring beauty played great prank
three years ago. when she left her husband
at a charity ball and went off in hack
with an attache of the Spanish legation and
wound up so gloriously hilarious that her
husband had to send for a doctor imme-
diately after her friend brought her home
This is a sample of the 'sassiety" of The
Paris of America and LaZer- house of the
continent. lark! the merry wedding bells.
golden bells. What a world of merriment
theil melody foretells. Already they are
l-cIanging. and rumOrs says they will be
ringing and
JINGLING ALL WINTER.
They are making music for the haute ton
of Washington. Miss Alice May is soon
TO wed Mr.. Beaver Webb. the most famous
naval architect of Europe. He is the Gre
ator and builder of Genesta and Galatea.
nj tta. FOL Ial
of winning a prize in America. So he
trimmed his sails and won the fairest prize
Of our cap tall She is we'll known here.
having been born and bred in Washington.
Her friends are legion, and they all wish
her a continued and successful voyage with
her grand vOyageur. 1t is matter of fact
that the ilOsopher-statesman, the one alb
solutely greatest man Of the South of the
present generation, Mr.. Lucius Quintus
Curtius Lamar. by the grace of God and
the pleasure OF Grover tie First. secretary
of the interior, has been converted BY a
minister who preached from the text, Iii
is not good that man should live alone ,
Therefore he is a devOtee at the shrine Ot
hymen. and will wed the love of his youth.
He denies the philosophy and derides the
cant of Prof Tony Weller who said: Be
ware of vdders." He will marry Mrs
dOiL, OF MdcOI, I'd, d udIlo Ol WHOM IL Il
said that her stately Roman beauty is just
in its prime.
The mind has thousand eyes,
The heart but one.
Yet the light of the whole life dies,
When love is done.
v Mrs. Holt is no more than 45. nor les:
than so years of age. She is highly edu-
Gated, thoroughly cultured in the ways Of
society, and
WILL BE A BELLE