Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

does not go out much here because in {
measure Indifferent to what he does They
are glad, however, that he is going tC
marry, because 1T is always pleasanter tC
| have the wife of a President to preside al
the White House. Miss Folsom has not
| spent much time here and is unknown tic
the. majority of people who move in
society. 1t is probable that the President
will go away for some time after his mar
rlage. He has had number of invita-
t1Ons to visit Eastern watering-places
it is hardly probable that he will go to
the adirOndacks.
WHY MISS FOLSOM WENT ABROAD.
The best portrait of Miss Folsom now
IN Washington is a large one, WEIGH hangs
| in the Presidents. bed room. Miss Fol
som was very averse to giving a sitting to
the photographers when she was here
and has great horror of publicity. When
she was in Washington last a number of
paragraphs were printed about her school
life, which she traced to one or two of
her school friends. She quarreled with
them for it. It is said that she went
away to Europe so as to be out of the
range of gossip during the engagement
period. 1t is said that Miss Folsom ex-
pected the engagement would become
known, as the fact was known to the
Cleveland family in New York soon after
her departure from Washington from her
last visit to the White House.
MISS FoLsOM's LAST WASHINGTON VISIT.
Miss Folsom's visit to Washington last
spring was as school girl enjoying her
vacation. She accompanied her mother
and the two were guests at the White
House some ten or twelve days. They
were again very quietly in the fall, just
before sailing for Europe. Neither visit
occurred during the regular society season,
and Miss FOlsom's participation in Wash
ington social lifeiwas limited to one Sat-
urday afternoon reception by Miss Cleve-
land In the blue parlor, at which the
mother and daughter assisted, Mrs. Fol
SOM standing next Miss Cleveland and
Miss Folsom at her mothers right, dress
ed in simple white nuns yelling, trimmed
with lace. Her tall figure, with its Juno
like outlines and a certain quiet self
possession of manner, seemed incompa-
tible with school girl juvenility till it was
learned that Wells college embraced a
curriculum as thorough as that of Vassar
and that Miss Folsom, though twenty-one
y
graduating class of seven. During her
school days she had always a large por-
trait of the Presid ent resting on an easel
in her room, and the girls in passing by
the open door, became familiar with the
face of @the Governor" as his ward was:
accustomed to call him, reen after he be-
came president.
PEN PICTURE OF THE COMING BRIDE.
Miss Folsoms hair is soft and brown.
of shade between light and dark. It is
combed well back from her forehead
and loose wave tendrils fall away from
their confinement against the ivory white
ness of her face. She has violet blue
eyes, well-shaped nose and mouth and a
full round chin. The warm pallor of her
complexion contrasts with the deep red
of her full lips, in which all her color con-
centrates itself. Her shoulders are broad
and her bust and waist of classic proper
tions. She has finely moulded hands and
feet; not small, but well suited to her
height. With one other papl at Aurora
she shared the palm of being ''tbe beau
ty of school," the other being Miss Kath-
crime Willard, of Illinois, who was her in
innate friend, though not g fellOw-senior
and she is now in Germany cuItiyating
hSE FO1C6
Miss Folsom has been with Der there
during much of the pass winter. Many
of the young ladies have flowers pressed
in their albums, labeled from the White
House." these being menpentoes given by
her from the boxes of flowers weekly sent
her by the president from his eonserva-
tories here. For her graduation last June
he forwarded a particularly lavish sup
ply. On that occasion she wore white
satin, and, as one of her sehoolmates de-
scribes her, looked more like a goddess
than a woman"
Her student life has been marked by
seriousness and deep religious feeling.
She is member of the First Presbyter-
ian Church of Buffalo. She was deeply
loved by her teachers, more for her sol
idity of character and amiability of dis
position than for exceptionally brilliant
intellectual traits, though her average
scholarship was good.