St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

the senate to be in his drawing room when
the Thursday visitors are arriving, but Mrs.
voorhees, seems to have many OF his hos
pltaDle characteristics. Everybody is cor
daily received aud made to feel welcome
she has the assistance OF her young
daughter and some Of the latterS friends,
and her receptions are always crowded.
The wife of Senator Conger is a Trojan.
She is immensely stout, weighing over two
hundred pounds, but that does not detract
from her activity. She has not been Sena-
tor Conger'S wife many years, having been
widow when he married her. She is
very dressy, rather pronounced, and
has wild Northwestern way with
her that is quite effective in CIV
ing Omar a boost-for every senator's
and representatives wife in Washington is
working for her own particular husband,
whether they do it uproariously, like Mrs.
Conger and Mrs. Logan, or subtly, like
Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Harrison. They
all want to stay in Washington with the
prestige of senatorial dignity, and they are
quite willing to do their part OF the cleo
pioneering. Mrs. Conger is ''double rip
per-" That's the only way to describe her.
The wife of Senator Harrison, of In
diana, is remarkably handsome woman.
She has also very fine manners, and no
woman in Washington makes better ap-
appearance than she does in her own house.
Her only daughter is married. and she has no
one Of her own immediate family to assist
her, but following the usual practice OF sena-
tors wives. she has bevy of pretty girls on
hand to help her on Thursdays. Senator
Harrison is neither popular nor unpopular,
and Mrs Harrison's receptions are neither
very large nor very small. But a great
many persons go to see Mrs. Harrison who
don't care a pin for Benjamin.
The beauty of the senatorial circle is I'M
questionably Mrs. Don Cameron. She is still
a young woman, the niece OF Gen. Sherman
and Senator Sherman, and having no
children of her own, and practically I'M
limited means, one would imagine that she
would be the bright particular star in the
senatorial armament. But Mrs. Cameron
| is, perhaps, more Indifferent to whether her
receptions shall be a success or not than
any other senator's wife in Wash
| ington. She has all that money
can buy in her power and she seems
to prefer society little gayer than
the semi-pOlitical circle Of the average
| senator's wife. She seems to have but lit
tie political ambition for her husband. She
has not been in Washington much for the
last two years. and Senator Cameron'S long
| absences in Europe and California closed
their house for some time. Then they sold
their splendid home in Scott circle and this
winter have been in q very modest
| house Oh Jefferson place. She receives, of
course. once week during the season, but
at her house are more society people and
fewer of the homespun variety than are
usually met at senatorial receptions. SEN
ator Cameron is often the only countrfied-
looking person in his own drawingrOom.
while his wife is usually the handsomest, the
most elegant and the best dressed present.
The senator's trousers are affected by
strange and unearthly shrinkage. which, as
his shoes are remarkably broad for their
length, and also singularly long for their
breadth. present quite an interesting study
of Pennsylvania foot.lore. His vest, too,
always needs pulling down and his coat
pulling up, but his wife, by her beauty and
grace, makes all this to be forgotten. Mrs.
Cameron's taste in every particular is cor
rect, and her house, herself and her deport-
ment have no flaw at her receptions.