The Washington critic., 1886-09-20

gentleman Of such nobleness of char.
,cter, such sterling integrity. such
deep and broad kindliness. that though
two years have passed since he "fell
asleep" he is still remembered and re.
GREETED. From Mr.. Phelps Miss Car
roll and her brothers and sisters In.
herited large fortunes. The wife Of
Mr.. Phelps was a Spanish laly
of high birth and exceptional
beauty. The only child was a
daughter, who became Governor Car
rolls wife, and II Is from this descent
that Miss Carroll and her eldest sister
have inherited their delicate patrcian
Castilian beauty and their devotion to
the Catholic faith. 1t was always
pretty feature of their Newport sum.
mcrs to find these pretty girls knceling
each morning at early mass with the
rapt expression Of little saints on their
sweet faces. The Misses Carroll were
exceedingly popular in New York,
where they lived with their grandfather
during his life. Miss Carroll comes of
a family In which foreign and titled
alliances are the rule and not the ex-
ception. Three great aunts of
hers, the Misses Cation of Baltimore,
became the Marchioness of Welles.
ley, the Duchess of Leeds and Lady
Stafford. They were so beautiful, so
charming, so gifted, mentally as we'll
as physically, that they were known as
lovely, as accomplished and as much
admired as that other famous trinity of
beauty, grace and brilliancy. the Sherl.
dan sisters. Miss Carroll will be mar
ried In London, fashion becoming
too prevalent we who remain on this
side are apt to think. She Is now
abroad with her father and his family.
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A correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that Mrs. Garfield has
ordered her mansion in Cleveland
sold, and has decided to make her fu.
ture home at Mentor She has here
added to the modest frame house OF
her husband palatial "Queen Anne"
structure which cost 100000. There
are probably sixty rooms in both old and
new houses. They are all furnished in
modern style and with considerable
elegance, and there is an air of aris-
tocracy about the interior which Gar
field in his life did not know in his
own home. Although the house Is far
in the country, It has all the convc.
viences of city home, in plumb.
ing, gas-ftting and steam. heating
A natural gas well has been
yard is kept lighted day and night.
"Grandma" Garfield is eighty. five, but
a vigorous old lady yet, who reads her
country to visit her relatives of three
different generations. Her room is
modestly but richly furnished and the
face of her son looks upon her from
every side. A handsome tire.screen
with transparency of the dead stands
| before the hearth. A halfdozen other
portraits of him hang where the eye
meets them at every turn. Over the
mirror of the dresser is picture of him
as young man, taken in 1852. On an
opposite wall Is picture in
colors of the old pioneer home
Of the Garfield family, painted by
Mrs. Garfield. But the great relic of
this room is the last letter of the son to
his mother of which so many thousand
fac smile copies were sold. With Mrs.
Garfield live her father, Mr. Rudolph,
a brother, and his family, and also the
two Misses Mason of Cleveland, whose
mother and sister are now In Europe.
There are sixteen in the family and five
servants. A half dozen men are en-.
ployed on the farm, which consists of
200 acres. 1t is paying, although moth
ing is sold from 1t but beef cattle.