Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-12
MRS. HARRISON AND MRS. MORTON
The nt-elect's Wife to Visit Mrs.
Grant and the Northumberland
rk Special to the Philadelphis Press.


Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the next mistress
of the White House, will come to New York
about the first of December. This will be in
accordance with an accepted invitation. ex-
tended several months ago ~ the widow of
Ulysses s. Grant These ladies are of long ac-
quaintance. Mrs. Grant lately moved into the
fine new residence of the Grant family in West
End avenue. The establishment is Just in COM
plete order, and during the winter there will
be considerable hospitality extended to init
mate friends, although without much in the
way of elaborate and extensive entertainment.
Mrs. Grants daughter, Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, will
soon be here, and the house will also contain,
for a time, the two sons with their wives and
children. Mrs. Harrison wrote yes to a letter
from Mrs. Grant last summer, asking her to
come to the new house in December The sue
cess or defeat Of Gen. Harrison was not con-
tingency in the matter, and it is expected that
Mrs. Harrison will keep the engagement.
Mrs. Morton, wife Of the vice-president elect,
says that she hopes to have Mrs. Harrison with
her for a while. Soon after the republican
nominations were made Mrs. Morton sent to
Mrs. Harrison a life-size photograph of Mr..
Morton, and requested in return a likeness of
Mr.. Harrison. The exchange of photographs
was promptly completed. Visitors to the Har-
rison residence have seen the portrait of Nor
ton, placed on an easel in the parlor. The pic
ture OF Harrispn, which was sent to Mrs. Nor
ton, was a much smaller one, but from it has
been made an excellent hfe-size drawing in
crayon, which is placed conspicuously in the
Morton parlor at Rhinebeck.
The town residence of Levi P. Morton is at
No. IS 9Th avenue, only three doors from the
building which has been occupied through the
campaign as the national republican headquar-
ters The family is still at their beautiful
country place at Rhinebeck, up the Hudson,
but will come down to the city in about ten
days. There will be two White Houses in
Washington during the four years of Harrison
and Norton, said person conversant with
Mrs. Morton's characteristics. What was
meant by that was that the lady has always
in New York fashionable society. Her hus-
bands $50 900 900 make him the wealthiest
man who has ever been officially connected
with Washington administration. While both
he and his wife are far from estentatiOus, and
are decidedly approachable, democratic sort of
people, they do not count dollars when playing
the host. If they do not set up and maintain
an establishment in Washington fairly rivaling
the White House itself in the way Of recep-
tions, dinners, and other formal sociability the
expectation of their friends will be greatly dis
appointed.
The daughters of Mrs. Morton will figure
handsomely in the Washington household, that
is certain. They are too young to be ''in
society,"" according to New York swell usage,
but that does not prevent them from taking
any bar to their prominence at the capital.
The eldest, Edith, will be in her sixteenth year
by the time the first winter of the new admin
lstration comes around, and that will be a suf-
ficient age to warrant a coming OUT occasion
for her. She is distinctly pretty girl, with
many graces of manner, and a fine education
already well along to completion. Miss Lena
is only year younger than that and Miss
Helen year younger yet.
One room in the 9Th avenue residence of the
MOrtons will this winter be decorated with the
many curious campaign badges and other de-
vices that were sent to Mr.. Morton during the
canvass. Some of them are comical, others
are costly, and altogether they will make an
odd exhibition.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MRS. HARRISON.
A New York Herald correspondent talking
with Mrs. Harrison about her painting upon
china said
you cannot do this sort Of careful work
when You are in the White House."
Not if it is as exciting as it is here" she re-
piled; but shall steal away to corner and
paint, for enjoy it more than anything else.
l think china painting is to women what poker
is to men. It passes the time and has delight
full element Of chance in the result of firing.
! have my own kiln, which 1 manage, and have
done my own firing"
A large tea cloth embroidered on boiling
cloth by Miss Williamson, of Lafayette, was
one OF Mrs. Harrison's congratulatory gifts and
her special admiration. large medallion in
the center was painted in dyes, with q view of
the scene Of the battle of Tippecanoe, sur
rounded with oak leaves and acorns outlined
with gold, silk thread and. beads. Mrs. Mckee
suggested that it should be used as the center
cloth for the first dinner at the White House,
but Mrs. Harrison said it should 60 under a
glass case. A visitor remarked that it was SO
delicate that a spot of claret would ruin it.
WINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
u. ,r%,..
House, Mrs. Harrison?" asked. "will you
carry out Mrs. Hayes ideas in regard to total
absyPence?" .
am a strong advocate for temperance, but I
shall leave it to my husband to decide. should
not wish to influence any one, but public and
private life must be considered differently, and
l shall not pretend to lay down rules for other
people,"
came from DR.. Fletcher filed with English
violets. Are English violets your favorite
hOwers?" / asked. ''Oh, no." she replied,
nothing English for me. like old-fashioned
sweet peas best Of ALL"
Then came bundle Of letters and Mrs. Har-
rison said: This is nothing to what we have
had Mr.. Harrison received at least a thou
sand letters this morning, many from people
we did not know, and while we have acknowl-
edged many it is an overwhelming task"
"Of course, President and Mrs. Cleveland
have sent their congratulations" said.
"Oh, 10" Mrs. Harrison said in a surprised
tone. Il have never expected that from them.
l scarcely think they would, under the circum-
stances"
The Wife Of the Next President.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Mrs. Harrison, who will next year succeed to
the unofficial and underlined, but extremely re-
sponsible and distinguished position now held
by Mrs. Cleveland, was before her marriage
with the President-elect Miss Carrie Scott, the
daughter of DR.. John w. Scott, formerly presi-
dent Of the Miami female college, in Oxford.
Ohio, and now residing in Washington 1t was
in Oxford that General and Mrs. Harrison met
he having received his education at the Miami
university. At the time of their marriage the
groom was not yet of age and the bride was
under twenty. They are now grandparents.
Their grandson, Benjamin Harrison McKee,
the ninth to bear the name. if he is to follow in
his grandfathers footsteps, must soon be look
ing forward to his own wedding for he is al
ready eighteen years old
Mrs. HarrisOn's education well fits her for
comprehension of the needs, aims, and duties
of her countrywomen. Brought up in the best
old-fashioned school of discipline and respon-
sibility, taught when girl to bake her own
i bread, to be her own seamstress and house.
keeper, the fruits of her early training appear
in the wise liberaiiy Of her mature authority
Though she is not what is technically called a
society woman, her position in indianapolis is
OF the greatest dignity and importance. Her
tastes, never capricious or affected, are those
of the enlightened woman of to-day. She
| gives two mornings a week to her painting and