The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-30

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an elegant aud luxurious manner, TO pc
ftting nest for his brilliant bride
Harriet Lane is to-day n beautiful
| woman. Her deep, violet eyes reflect
the sadness Of her heart: her heavy
| golden hair has turned TO silver white
her perfect mouth has sad sensitive lines;
| her figure, Just MS perfect rs when she was
| the loved mistress of the White House,
| is always clad in sombcr black; her
luxurious home in Baltimore is as quiet
| as tho crave. Much of her time is spent
| in Washington. where she expects to re-
| side this winter. Wheatland." James
Buchannn's home. is her country home,
hut she seldom stays long in one place.
! Despite her deep ailiCtOn. Mrs. Harriet
lane Johnston is ever thoughtful OF
others. and tho hearts OF all who have
! ever known or heard of Harriet Lane
peat In sympathy with her in her sor-
| rows
Mrs. U. s. Grant.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, the only liv-
ing woman whose husband served two
terms as President of the United States,
resides ut No. 3 East SiXty-siXth street,
/ New York The house il within a
stones throw of Central Park, IN WIDE
residence street, and is historic as the
| place where cX-Prcsident Grant spent
many Of his last ns well as saddcSt DAYS.
Mrs. Grant received her fair inter
viewer with gentle raillcry about some
of her journalistic cmnils. She con
tinued more gavely;
,,,, | Will tell You anything / can of the
| Whitc House, but IL seems such u rou-
tine story, Life there always seems TO
have the same duties. | can only say
loved the White House and everything
! connected with the dear old historic
place. The eight years | spent there
were the hnppiest of my life. remember
| the entire time rs u series of dreams of
happiness, and Is broke my heart to
! leave"
We're YOU at all nervous when you
first went thcrcPn
Oh, no. you know il was different
| WIN me from what IL Is with most of
| INC ladies who hive been hostcSscs there.
Ulysses, as the successful General, had re-
cclVed oNatlons everywhere and | had
grown very used to them, and then, as
| mead Of the army in Washington. our
receptions were as brilliant as amy held
in the White House"
Is IL difficult to manage household
affairs at the White House Pr
WHITE HOUSE AFFAIRS.
~" Indeed, no; not 50 much so as else
where. For large receptions | gave sug-
j gestions to the steward and when every
thing was ready he would ask me down
the extent of my worry. At first they
triclted me in the flowers My eyes
trouble me and do not see very well, so
the sly rceues would put fresh flowers
at my plate and ones not so fresh at
other plates / think there is nothing so
shabby as wilted lowers don't you
agree with me? At last my sister told
me of their tricks; so watched them
carefully afterwards"
Who was the greatest man you en-
tertained at the White House ?o / asked
Roscoe ConlIling"
Bat, Mrs. Grant, of all the foreign
nobility"
Roscoe Conlsling was the greatest
man in every way, title or no title, we
ever entertained at the White House."
she replied In decided manner. 1t
would he tiresome TO attempt to name TO
you even part of the people we enter
tanned. OF course every one of note,
both visitors and Americans, was enter
tanned by us. We loved company and
we were never without It, / always
had some relatives with me during the
whole time. In our eight years / don't
think the dinner was ever laid for less
than eighteen. The General loved conf
pany as well as l did, and | wish /
could reproduce some of the conversa-
lions that were held at our table. They
never We're eXcelled. All, those were
happy days Ulysses loved horses and
he always attended to them himself.
We always drove four. L never knew
any thing bout them, and he gave mo
t'enty and plenty OF money ana never
asked what L did with it,
PLEASANT EVENINGS.
Our evenings were spent very in
formally and pleasantly at the White
House; After dinner Ulysses and Senator
Conltling and Hamilton Fish and others
of those old-timc friends used to play
Boston / doubt If YOU ever knew the
game. IL was played with cards. Ulys-
SEES was very fond of it," she added with
n laugh, and it did not please him to
be interrupted. But he was very often,
FOR visitors would drop in informally
sometimes on business, but our evenings
were delightful"
81 was like one in delirium all
during the war" she said with enthusi-
asm. L love the army and l was the
first to urge Ulysses to go to the war,
and after that | don't think L was very
patriotic | was II Southerner, born in
Missouri, and when i was married my
father gave me six slaves for my own
J property All my relatives and my
brother, Judge Dent were on the Rebel
side. But | did not care for them or
! for the Union men. All / thought of
: was my husband-that he should win and
gain new victories"
Mrs. Grant thus described the luncheon
, party given on Inauguration Day, March
4, 1877, when she welcomed President
and Mrs. Hayes and bid farewell to the
White House
FAREWELL TO THE WHITE HOUSE
81 had lovely luncheon ready for
| them on their return and / also ordered
,, the dinner and the breakfast for the fol-
lowing morning SO Mrs Hayes would not
! have that worry the first thing, Then
! i told the steward he must go to Mrs.
> Hayes for orders after that. After din
: ner, MS ! was still hostess, said to Mr.,
, Hayes Shall we return to the parlor p
, and he gave me his arm and Ulysses
took Mrs. Hayes. When we got in the
parlor | said i hope, Mr., Hayes, that
YOU will be as happy here rs we have
been for eight years. and then | said
, | 'Good-by,' and we drove away. told
: Ulysses as we were driving away that |
! had intended to say to Mr., Hayes what
Gen. BuclIner said to him when Buckner
vacated Fort Donelson: My house is
! YOURS but / forgot il. Ulysses just put
: his arm around me and said he was glad
/ had not. All the servants who had
+ served me during our term gathered In
! the hall to say farewell, and they were
: CRYING and l cried with them"
; Mrs. Grant has four children. Col.
! | Fred Grant. the eldest. with his pretty
: Iyife and children. lives with Mrs. Grant.
/, His children are named respectively
Julia and ULYSSES. Ulysses Simpson
, Grant DIETER known as Buck. the
Il second son. has three childrcn-Maricm,
Y Chnifce and Julia Dent. the last in honor
$ of her grandmother, Nellie Grant Sar-
n toris. Mrs. Grants only daughter and
y third child. resides in England. She has
s three cbildrcn-Algcmon, who is prepar-