The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-08-02
tFrom our regular corespondent.)
WAsHISeToN, d. c., July 90, 1899.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 30, 1883.
The seat of government has been re-
moved to Deer Park temporarily ana the
railroad must be reaping heavy assess
ments from those that come and go pc
| tween the Capital and the ''lodge' in the
| wilderness. The President has arranged
| that no more trips to Washington viii be
necessary until his return for the purpose
of going to Bar Harbor, and Mrs. harrl-
son has easily convinced herself that the
White House Improvements SO dear to her
housewifely heart are progressing as evenly
as May day.
| Quite an official air peryades the atmos-
phere of the Presidents cottage. Messen-
ger BOYS hasten to and fro at all hours OF
the day and far into the night. 1t IS mani
| fest that Mr.. Harrison's escape from the
| city is not an escape from the Office seekers.
Mr.. Halford, the private secretary, goes
every morning about Q O'Clock to the Pres
ident's cottage. The first mails are looked
| over and the serious work of the day be-
gins. The Secretary writes about fifty
letters every morning. Ii is expected,
however, that Miss Sanger, the Presidents
private stenographer, will arrive this week
and relieve Mr.. Halford of much of his Ia
| Dor
The study in which these mornings with
affairs of public import are passed, is the
| largest room in the cottage. The windows
touch the polished veranda floor, and
cracking wood fire every morning drives
away the upland chill. In room above
Mrs. Harrison perfects her sketches of
scenery ia the neighborhood, and delight
fully iumbles colors and outlines in true
summer defiance of art. While Mrs. fiar
rison has no conception of craving she has
some conception of color, and her bits OF
scenery are not altogether bad.
But while in these things the Presidents
holiday is a slow lotus eating summer
dream, it has rude Interruptions, and these
| are not so much from the office seekers,
who have at least an excuse for their pres
ence, as for the excursionsts People who
are at home models ofgood breeding and
law abiding in most things go to Deer
Park and fall victims to the handshaking
craze. They long to go mp to the cottage
| and grasp the Executive hand and receive
load of fancied magnetism, of which
they can tell their children in days to
] come.
| The Presidents serene enjoyment of
children's society at all times and in all
places, is one of his homely virtues that
endears him to thousands of good natured
people who have kindred love for little
folks. The other morning he sat on the
veranda reading ne wspaper, when sud
| den chorus of shouts and screams rent the
air and little Ben, the Latrobe girls and
| Blaine Elkins raced across the scene, chas-
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Poppingilly the two Nal
tese kittens that accompanied the Presideu-
tia party to the hills. Up and down and
around they seampered, until the kittens
were caught and Mr.. Benjamin had fall
the play, which often jostled against his
chair, the President remained as sedate as
the day, oblivious to everything but the
reading.
| Olive Logan Skies is one OF the people
who brave the terrors of Il summer in
| Washington. Her years are carried well,
and in her waning forties she loses 10th
ing of her distinguished appearance, though
many distinguished women, like Lillian
Russell and Fanny Davenport, martyrs in
their old age. Olive Logan is 4 lucky wo-
man. The round, strong face, crowned
with its wealth of gray hair, is a decidedly
happy one. The old lace and rare, curious
jjewelry speak of a luxurious but refined
taste. Olive Logan is the kind of a woman
that one could love even after she grew old
and that is very much to say when one
realizes the edge of Victor Hngo's sarcasm,
''rhere will always be a plenty of old
women"
Olive Logan made her debut in journal.
ism at the age of twelve years, when her
contributions began to appear in the New
York Press then edited by that dirty, gin
drinking cynic, Henry Clapp, the most
learned and brilliant of the Bohem ans
Since then the amount she has written
and the widely differing subjects she has
touched upon are bewildering.
Her strong active nature has been trans
mitted to her two sons, Edward and John
Douglas DeLisle, who are connected with
the press of London and Paris, and who
are doing remarkably clever work. The
secret of the mothers success lies in her
activity and her bravery. Olive Logan
has the courage of her convictions and in
everything, even to her literary style, a
daring that welcomes innovations and
presses on to future that shall be better
than the past.
The Commission appointed by Secretary
Noble to investigate the practice of the
Pension Bureau in re-ratng claims is hold
ing daily sessions and expects to be able to
render its report by September L. The
report will probably in nowise implicate
Commissioner Tanner in any of the frauds
that have occasioned tins scandal.
| WESTON.