Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-09
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Mrs. Harrison VIII Set No Fashions II
She Can Help 1t.

Little interest was aroused here by the
stories printed some days ago, alleging that
MIR. Blaine could not get into the Cabinet
because once upon time Mrs. Blaine had
grossly afironted Mrs. Harrison, since which
time the two ladies had not spoken, but the
matter seems to have excited so much at
tention throughout the country that what
may be called semi-otficial statement as
to it has been given out through friend
of the Harrisons 1t is substantially a
denial of the truth of the story, although
it is admitted that the relations between
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Blaine have never
been cordial. Mrs. Blaine, when Mrs. Har-
rison first went to Washington, treated
Mrs. Harrison about as she treated all the
new ladies " who made an appearance in
Washington society, with some disdain,
perhaps. Mrs. Harrison is of nature to
receive that sort of treatment with cheer
full resignation, but not with thanks. She
found herself very comfortable at Wash
ington, in spite of the cold shoulder turned
toward her by the wife of the Secretary of
State, and she treated Mrs. Blaine about as
Mrs. Blaine treated her. Mrs. Harrison is
a true Western girl, and if people don't
want to associate with her they needn't
she can get along without them. She met
Mrs. Blaine occasionally in Washington
society, but the acquaintance of the two
ladies never progressed any further than
| the implied limits which Mrs Blaine her
self had fixed. There were no affronts,
direct or indirect, from either side to the
other, and the matter of her probable So
cial relations toward Mrs. Blaine had not
been considered by Mrs Harrison until
brought up by the publication of few
| days ago.
At any event, the relations between the
two ladies would have no influence upon
the chances of Mr.. Blaine for the Cabinet.
| Mrs. Harrison has from the very start de-
termined that she would keep her part OF
| the administration entirely clear from
| politics. Her invariable reply to the hun
dreds who have written soliciting her in
fluence for some appointment, has been
| that she had nothing to do with politics
or Offices. So far as the social obligations
| imposed upon her by the official position
of her husband are concerned, they will
be scrupuleusly fulfilled without regard to
personal feeling. If she has any personal
likes or dislikes, they will be exercised
outside of the range of her official social
! duties
1t is the same with the wine question,
the hustle question, and score of other
questions upon one side or other of which
| Mrs. Harrison's influence is continually
being sought. I" 1t was not ! that the
people elected President" she put it once,
but the General. l don't propose to set
up at the White House as a dictator of
manners or customs. If he wants wine on
the table, or if it seems to be necessary for
| the fulfillment of our obligations to official
guests, it shall be there. Ny personal
| feelings about it have nothing to do with
the matter. And as to the bustles, why,
if some ladies want to wear them, they can
| do it, Pm sure, and if others don't want
them, why, they needn't; it's none of my
business either way"
The dancing question is another with
which the women reformers have been
trying to worry the wife Of the President.
elect, but she won't have anything to do
with that either. Personally she likes to
| dance, and she will dance whenever she
feels like it. Other people, she says, are
at liberty to dance or not, just as they
please.
One peculiar developement of Mrs. Har-
rison's independence OF character is dis
! like to be copied after or made to set a
fashion in dress or manners in spite of her
SELF If she gets an idea that other women
are wearing their hair in certain way or
draping their skirts after a certain fashion
Just because she does it, she gets provoked,
and changes the style of her hair or her
skirts at once. There will be no fashions
set from the White House while she is
there 1t is said that recently hair
dressing establishment in the East sent two
women here ostensibly to make money out
of the rush of business at the time Of the
Governors ball and other social affairs,
but really to find out how Mrs. Harrison
and the ladies of the Harrison family
dressed their hair, so as to get up some new
style TO be called the "A la Harrison
They were baffled because Mrs. Harrison
didn't seem to have any particular style Of
dressing her hair, but put it up in differ
ent ways, as happened to strike her fancy,
but never in peculiar or original fashion.
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