The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-10
MRS. cLEvELAND's EXAMPLE.
Dan Pictures of Some Washington
Women Who Follow II.

From the Neo York World.
WASHINGTON, July lit is customary
-, congressman to believe that the capital
too warm for their wives and families
'ttar July sets in, and at about that time
n.nv congressmen's wives leave town. But
be exodus is not general by any means. A
~,ouIar arrangement for the summer season
!. t,r the family to locate at some point
i no,r enough to the city for the husband to
,u il on Saturday afternoon, spend Sun
3,v and return to his desk on Monday
Sone wives stay right here. 1T is not
|o"d for a man to be left alone" one of
Lose ladies will laughlngly say, and am
more comfortable in my house here, with
averv convenience and plenty of room,
Il ,ban I could possibly be at a hotel or board
n M place at a summer resort"
a Mrs Cleveland sets this example. She
and her mother are enjoying the cool
n treAzes that sweep about Oak View. Mrs.
Tojsom is young enough to be her daugh-
tar's most intimate friend. Mrs. Hoyt and
Psv and Mrs Cleveland have returned to
4 heir homes, and the presidents family have
a m nlans for the summer as yet.
Mrs Carlisle, wife of the speaker of the
bonse. enjoys the summer here, her roomy
mise with its cool airs, palm-leaf fans and
bsndana handlerchiefs, contrasting with
II ,ba hotel quarters in which she has hereto.
tore lived when at the capitol. She has no
h notion of leaving the city until congress
siiourns. She is a true daughter
nj Kentucky and a magnificent
4 specimen of physi al womanhood. She
nearly six feet tall, weighs 100
nn,nds and has great powers Of endurance.
! S.e dresses youthfully and looks a woman
in her prime. Her blue eyes are deep set,
and her hair, which she wears in a full
Straight bang in front, is the color of bur
rished copper, and it shows this year, for
he first lime, some gray threads.
Mrs. Carlisle takes lively interest in all
The political details Of her husbands posi-
ion, and is very well posted. She proba-
bly receives more calls than any other lady
noficial life who is expected to return Wis
Us, and is chronically behind hand on her
visiting list.
Mrs. Sherman, wife of the Ohio Senator,
tays with her husband far into the heated
term, although her heart is at the model
farm that is their home IN the suburb of
Mansfield. Mrs. Sherman is a large, placid
roman, with a mobile, bland face, softened
in its outlines and pleasing in it's details.
While not ambitious socially, Mrs. Sher-
man has made John Sherman's homo one of
The most hospitable in Washington, and
during previous winters, when they gave a
series OIL CdINi ItCeDllOilS 0N6l IOdit JDtT6
was always to be found i'll their drawing
rooms on those occasions a large and distin-
guished company. Senator and Mrs. Sher-
man have the happy faculty of making their
uestS feel welcome and at home in their
4 house. Mrs. Sherman has no children of
Der own, but has brought out charming
4 adopted daughter, who is a very highly &C
4 complished young lady.
Mrs Fairchiid, wife Of the Secretary of
1 the easury, is still in the city. The Fair
Echills bought the house built by John Field,
Of New York city, on New Hampshire
4 avenue. 1t is a large double house, with
large square rooms that are now covered
with cool and pretty rnattings, which are
very agreeable and reSttul. The covered
pOrticOs that surround the house are fur
lShed with cool mats aud willow wal o
tables. sofas and chairs, and lighted from
japanese lamps, forming delightful retreat
0T series of connected retreats in the sui
Try evenings. Mrs. Fairchild's mother has
med her sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling, in
New York state, so that Mrs. FairchlId is
eft alone with her archaeological studies,
which she is devoted. She has no chill
ren, and in the round black straw hat she
wears this summer, with its trimmings of
ace and flowers, she looks like young girl.
Mrs. S. S. Cox lives next door to Mrs.
Earchi.d, and is again presiding over an ar
stic house of her own. The front is of red
ahdstone, and there is a broad, platform
FT"ay Of stone to the front door. The
ball is roomy and has fireplace Mrs
ok is striving for Moorish effects, and the
biting room on the second floor has some
Fne Examples OF that style in the ceiling
dN0ratOus and the treatment OF the woods.
lrs. Cox imported several Oriental ideas.
Without duty, in household economy, and she
utilizing them in this new bijou house.
ehe has no wool rugs or carpets upon her
fooTs. They are covered with cream-col-
pred crash in dama>k figures and japanese
u5, that are made of haen jute, and are
noth- proof Mrs. Cox always provides a
Foyal chamber for her husbands study and
eE amply provided for in this house. Mrs.
OK Is most genial hostess and entertainer.
NJ. and Mrs. Cox returned from New York
city after the letter-carrier's demonstration
p Thursday.
Mrs. Dolph, wife of the senator from
HUegon, spends the summers in the city
'uen Congress is in session. Two years
80 she went abroad with her beautiful
Aughter, who married a New Orleans
e"Spaler man. poet and magazine writer,
hcAard Nixon Mrs. Dolph is the mother
SIX children, two girls and four stalwart
I0ys she Is tall, finely formed; has dark,
vayy, glossy hair; dark, expressive eyes,
Al brunette complexion that is the ideal
nc IN pearly white and rose tint tones.
IS Dolph IS well known figure in society.
le dresses becomingly, and always looks
WA attlred. Senator Dolph will take his
aMIly TO Oregon this autumn for the first
He since he was elected TO the senate, and
lot re elected to the office they will not
lle east for the short term of next year.
senator Hawley's English wife stays with
n' She is young woman, with decided
mons OF her own. and is just the opposite
yGe southerner's ideal OF a woman, softly
rulhg IN ali things She is tall, graceful
very English In appearance, and wears
blonde hair in a braided coil and front
ing she has many friends with the
.riord literary set, and during the recent
spell had Mrs Charles Dudley Warner
ySit her Mrs. Hawley drives a pair Of
O"h cobs to a phaeton and manages to
W e2mtortable. She expects to spend a
Y, days in Newport in August.
~nS' frank B. Spinola is great favorite
me first months of the session she
1'eu mere alone at the Arlington, holding
.9rt' while the general was i'll with
v1,naJsm down at Hot Springs, in Ar
'IS' ana she held receptions and enter
VIe Washingtonians in her own
'ls II her own CHEEKY, hospitable way,
vas socially successful. Mrs. Spinola's
", unaffected good humor and kindly,
tE manner made for her a large place
"e eSleem OF number Of good people
'ue general came to take his seat.
rn r1e now gone TO her country place,
nest, at Setauket, l.. /.