Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-14
TIE FIRST LADY.
She Makes Her Own Bed, Feeds Her Birds.
and Sometimes Blackens Her Shoes.

and Sometimes Blackens Her Shoes
Washington Letter l. Detroit Tribune.
"You ought to see the Kensington work
Mrs. Cleveland is doing" said a White
House servant to your correspondent
yesterday afternoon Eyes, indeed" con
tinued the old colored lady when surprise
was expressed at Mrs Cleveland doing
needlework, "she is the best / ever saw
at it. You wouldn't think she had the
time between the society matters and
talking to the president, but she made a
dozen of the prettiest ornaments already
before she went away on hor summer
trip"
girl in one of the down town millin.
cry stores where stamping is done says
she was surprised the other day, so soon
after the mistress of the white house re-
turned from the Adirondacks, to hear her
inquire what there was new in designs for
pillow-shams. A halfd girls at work
on the understanding of the new cone
shaped fall hats looked up iii amazement,
but when Mrs. Cleveland, who was with
her mother, went out one of them said:
That's nothing. Mrs. Cleveland has
knit her own stockings more times than
one, I can tell you. And sho has made
her dresses, too. Much as she is alb
sorbed with the society of the White
House. She has done more work i'll
needle art than any other fashionable
woman in Washington. What is more,
she makes her own bed, feeds her birds,
and-she sometimes blackens her shoes
herself"
The girls laughed and wanted to know
where all this fund of information came
from, when the speaker replied that she
got it from Mrs. .Cleveland's maid and
continued
"Do you know what the president says
when his wife shows him what she is do
ing with the needle? No. Well. he says,
What a girl' and sometimes there is
half suppressed sound which we all love.
OF course he kisses her pretty often, and
/ don't blame him. | heard the other
day that the president played peek-a-boo
one afternoon just as a senator came into
his office. and that there was n very rapid
movement of some one going out of that
Office; mean a lady went out very quick,
and rhe president grew red in the face
when the senator held up his hands and
said Now, no apologies, Mr.. President;
land is very happy at the white house,
and | hope her ambition to stay there
another term will be realized. The
president is so kind to her mother,
too He asked her to spend the winter
at the executive mansion, and she
will probably do it. Some
one asked Mrs. Cleveland how she liked
the place, and she replied that she had
only one objection; that it was pubic
place-everybod house, and that peo-
Pile came and went just as though it was
department. She likes a quiet place
sometimes, like they are going to have IN
the country for she is girlish yet.
The girls in the store where Mrs. Cleye-
land trades say she is good buyer and
pleasant customer. One day while she
was shopping for the summer trip she
surprised the girl who waited upon her
by exclaimng, when told the price OF the
article:
Il don't believe you charge everybody
so much!'
Yes. indeed, the same price to every
one" replied the girl But why do you
think we should charge you more than
other people,
protest. was the answer,
Mrs. Cleveland smiled pleasantly ana
the girl, who was very neat and pretty
was taken somewhat aback TO learn after
ward who her distinguished patron was.
Another young lady who has often
waited upon Mrs. Cleveland at store was
agreeably surprised one morning 70 De
told that she could lay aside for nersen
n duplicate of the article purchased FOR
kinduesses.'
If Mrs. Cleveland doesn't cease hel
clererness she will yet win over an =
those hauteurs in the maiden class ",o
we're nrope to speak i'll of her when she
outstripped them all and got the baen-
ton do not report success in becoming az az.
auainted with Mrs. Folsom who Is sLiai,.
II of statue than her daughter young
and fresh looking and quite agreeaoie'