Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-14
ABAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
How Newspapers Relieve thc MO
nOtony of Hard Work.

ROW the fsetl9ve thc no
notony of Hard Work.
The Cleveland day is an interesting
one 10 some ways, says q Washington
letter to she Boston Record. The presI-
dent is usually up at 6 Q. N. and at work
on papers left over from the night before.
Sometimes on gong into tbs library ii
will be full Of the Law books be has lett
on the chars while hunting MP GASES.
He has u colored boy TO take full charge
Of mis- library, snd when he issues special
orders the boy puts back OF his arrival
the books taken down the night before.
Breakfast is served at 8 a. M. and by the
time 1t is over Colonel Lamont has come.
Then is the time when Mr.. and Mrs
Lamont set about the table in the end OF
the upper corridor and make plans for
the next day.
Then is the time, too. when the scrap.
books are looked over. Colonel Lamont
does a great part OF the scrap-booh
work. He has had a deal of practice as
exehaDge.reader in the Office of the Al
bany Argus and elsewhere, and there
isn't a better or faster reader, q quicker
eye, than the o~olonel's. he looks over
about forty papers an hour, dashing his
1 p6uCII ht sD6 IA tiCi0 HO Wallis sbEse6GgGQ
and Tipping to one side for q boy to
clip. The New York papers are read
most carefully, Boston and Chicago
next. All references to the president
go into one book. ell references to Mrs.
Cleveland into another, and 80 on
The books are all turned over in the
morning, with much talk of q critical
and often of Q jolly nature.
4 H-t Tb4- kk1 -Ara;I4rA 5000 lr-6 g. he
room and his callers again, Mrs. Oleve-
land to her correspondence or callers,
and the day progresses. The tete-tete
of the morning Iasts an hour, and then
the president refuses to be disturbed.
He often does on other times. But
eager, audacious visitors overcome that
The favorite trick is to say the president
made an appointment for such an our.
The presidents mind is too much
charged with more important matters
for him to dispute this, and SO in the
visitor goes.
sometimes stops TO lunch. Oftepfimes
he goes home, however, and unless some
OF AIRS. Oleveland's Wells friends arr
there the Cleyelands are alone. Ever
then the privacy is sometimes invaded
Abh0 VIC Ctb6 Va TIE WISH vi Su6 ouuSh-
tional people there the other day. The
president shook hands with them, neatly
evsding the motions of an old lady whit
was bound to kiss him, and then threw
open the parlors TO them, going himsel
to lunch. The educational association
folks wandered about until one happen.
ed to see that the dining room door was
open, and at once walked over TO glance
in. This cheeky ect attracted still more
comrades, and there we're fully twenty
gaping in at the white house luncheon
when an attendant came and closed the
door. So says one OIL the weli-brei
visitors who wss there at she very time
The evenings at the white house are
NOT always or all devoted to work. TIL,
piano in the green room is frequently
opened and used. The mistress of tn
house has q voice OF average quality snt
range, and sings for her " amuse.
ment or that OF her guests. Miss Kat,
Willard, the latest guest, sang particul
arIy we'll.
But there is work in the evening
after 10 often, and il has been know
that callers have come up as lsse as Il
or midnight. In fact, the policemen
and watchmeu at the house have come
to eve be astonlshed at seeing o Wis.
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