The Washington critic., 1888-04-21


came on from Newport to Washing
ton, and stopped in YcY York for her
christening, In the little Swedish
church there the baby was christened
Louise and Mrs. Bigelow Lawrence
was her godmother. Louise has just
started with her father and mother
on her first voyage across the Atlantic
She will visit Paris and then push on
to Constantinople, her fathers new
post, and where she may have time
to grow double her present size before
she opens her blue eyes in Sweden.
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Should the whirligig OF politics tip
over and dump the Democratic party
out of power, says Washington let
ter to the Albany Journal the new
presiding lady Of the Executive Man
sion would have q difficult part to fill.
Mrs. Sherman would be q stately,
well-intending and much loved mat
ron Of the Mansion. Mrs. Blaine has
no fondness whatever for social life
in any of its forms. She is quiet and
retiring. A woman of strong intel
lect, but not at all given to the frothy
things which play so important part
in the average light and eyanescent
joys of social intercourse. Sena-
tor Allison is a widowor and
would, therefore, be represented
socially by some one selected TO do
the social honors. Mrs Cameron is
young and beautiful and would come
nearer to Mrs. Cleveland than any
one here among the ladies who have
had experiences in Washington life.
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Says Carpenter in recent letter:
Secretary Whitney, in his Office
at the Navy Department has been
more Democratic than any other
Secretary of the big State, War and
Navy building. He receives his Wis
itors without cards, and receives
every one. He has way of want
ing to have an interview with every
man who asks for an appointment
under him. and he is, / am told, u
remarkably good Judge of men. lie
believes more in tho employment of
men according to their capacity for
work than through civil service ex
aminatiOns and he is able to get
good deal Of work out of his en-
ployes. lie is not regular i'll his
hours of coming to the department,
but when he is in the city
he gets to it at about 10 O'Clock
a. M, and then receives callers from
! 10 until 2. He receives all who call
! between 10 and ~, but between II
! and those who see him are either
! chiefs offureau or men who have APP
pointmcnts with him. AT 2 o'clock
he goes to his lunch at home, and his
house is only a stop from the State,
1 War and Navy Departments. He then
| comes back and works till 4, and then,
if the day is pleasant, takes u gallop
on horseback about the country. He
is fond of animals, and has number
| of good horses and one $500 dog,
Some Of his work he does at his Wash
ington home, and part Of his reports
he dictates i'll his | street library,
walking up and down in his dressing
gown and slippers as he does so. He
has been taking remarkably good care
of himself since his threatened attack
last fall, and he now is the picture of
health. He has put on at least
twenty-five pounds more flesh, and
the red blood shines through his
cheeks. He has gymnasium in his
bedroom, and he takes turn at the
pulley weights regularly. He is a
tall, muscular, wiry-looking fellow,
and he believes in enjoying himself
as we'll as working.
,s*s
l handed to Senator Ingalls, the
other day some newspaper clippings,
says Croffut III one of his letters,
about his fervent Kansas vindication
and his nomination for the Presi
dency. "Yes," he said. ''my mai
comes crowded with it. 1t does noI
disturb me at ALL The Office Of Pres
ident seems TO lue the least dcsir
able of all the offices within the gic
of the people Of the United States
And, per contra, the Office of Senator
seems to me the most attractive of all
positions in the world to q man who
has any fitness for its duties and de
sires to impress himself upon his fel
lows. He is always sure of mlgnifi
cent audience, and if he has really
anything to say he may be SURE
of its being telegraphed to thC
ends of tic Republic withir
an hour and placed OH the breakfast
tables Of ten million readers To be
President has no advantages that can
offset its serious responsibilities and
annoyances; Senatorship is the
ideal Office of honor and opportunity v
The ingalls, children, seven in mum
Der, are phenomenally handsome
Six Of them are here, and they arc
quite as comely and attractive az
"Longfellow's daughters Of whom
so many photographs were sold. Tn,
beauty of the children's names strucl
me, and one day remarked it to Mrs
ingalls,. She then enumerated til,
list of the eleven, of whom they hav,
Ralph, Addison, Constance, Sheffield
Faith Marion, ,Muriol, Louise. Marion
aged 9, prides herself on being
Democrat, and she booms Clevelan'
at every opportunity.
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That popular actor, w. j. Florence
who sailed for Europe the other da
on the Etruria, to see Toole's ney
play, "The Don,' which he contem
plates purchasing, was once an en-
ploye Of bank-note company in Ne'
York city. He was talking about
, recently, and said to q TTiJune re
porter "The firm was Rawdor
Wright, Hatch & Edison. They wer
bank-note printers and had contract
from the Government. They printe
and gummed the postage stamps. /
: was my duty, as Office boy, to spen'
half an hour twice week with
I brush in my hand in spreading th
gum preparation over the stamps
(; This amount Of labor on IN
part supplied the entire amount re
: quired for whole week. Just thin
Of the difference between that tim
2 and now. | presume it would tax
! me three months TO cum by hnnd