The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-03-16
THE cLEvELAHDs' FUTURE.
A QUIET LIFE, WITH A SUMNER
ABROAD PROBABLE.
But the Ex-President IL Not Much
Disposed Toward Foreign
Journey.


Journey.
WASHINGTON, March 9.-Mrs.
Cleveland's future movements will
always be interesting to the people
of this country. When she goes
with her husband to New York it
will not be to disappear and be for
gotten. She has made TO deep an
impression for that. The idle story
that she aspires to be one of New
York's "select 400 is, of course, alb
surd What Mrs, Cleveland is most
interested in and concerned about at
this time are two things-going
abroad and having home Of her
own. She would prefer to go abroad,
spend six months or more in quiet
travel and sightseeing, and then re-
turn to New York and settle down
to housekeeping in home OF her
own. But Mr.. Cleveland is not in
clined TO go on sightseeing journey
abroad in the first year Of his ex-
presidency. He believes it would be
impossible for an ex-president to
travel quietly so soon after Sesving
the White House, and he desires to
travel in no other way. Later on,
when being ex-president is more of
an old story, he may make the trip.
He is also averse to crossing the
ocean, and his interest in foreign
travel is not sufficient to Offset this
aversion to the sea voyage. Mr..
Cleveland, of course, may change his
mind. After months stay in New
York, and after getting his "hand
in" the business of the law firm of
which he is to become n member,
he will certainly change his mind
and spend the summer abroad il
Mrs. Cleveland can persuade him to
do so.
The President desires to get away
from crowds and away from people"
No wonder. Shaking hands with
crowds of people day in and day out
steadily for four years would drive a
man almost to desire the solitude Of
desert In the big city of New
York, busting world in itself, Mr..
Cleveland is far more likely to be
let alone than in town of ordinary
size. But Mrs. Cleveland has no
wish to make New York a summer
residence, and with a woman's quick
perception she sees there would be
no quiet life for them at any sum
mer resort on this side of the Allan
tic. Therefore, she wisely concludes
that the ex president would have a
much better time il he went abroad
and passed the summer in foreign
travel.
Mrs. Cleveland is regarded as alb
solutely unspoiled, and this may be
said without disparagement to other
women who have filed the place Of
mistress of the White House. 1t is
a singularly happy fact that almost
without exception successive mis-
tresses of the White House have
been women of strong character, but
not one of the number had anything
like the career of Mrs. Cleveland.
At no time has the presidents
wife appeared 80 much at "her best
as this winter, and since the ''defeat."
She las entered more into social life
beyond the White House, and she
has more than ever given her person
al attention to her husbands stste
entertainments, making them the
most attractive of the administra-
tion. The last busy days did not
make her forgetful Of the little every
day, humble courtesies, and the
pleasure of others has been her first
consideration.
Mrs. Cleveland has never for
moment showed herself conscious of
the admiration bestowed upon her
or betrayed consciousness Of power.
Had she disclosed this weakness,
her hold upon the people would have
been weakened accordingly. Her
young, 1.-THE figure, strong with vig-
orous health, and bright, smiling
face, facinated the crowds of White
House visitors. They endured any
length of waiting and no end of
'scrushing" receptions, just for a
''look" at her face and a clasp Of Der
hand.
One of the striking features in
Mrs. Cleyeland's career is that she
excites no envy in her own sex. And
what, perhaps, is more remarkable
and rare in the interest of a beauti-
full, attractive and so much admired
woman, is the Universal desire Of
other woman that Mrs Cleveland
should always "look pretty" as many
express it. There has been, from
the first, this wonderful evidence Of
loyalty in the devotion Of women to
the young mistress Of the White
House. Women of-all ages, married
and single, beautiful and plain, have,
without exception, shown a personal
pride and interest in Mrs. Cleve-
lands beauty and in the toilets adj
ding to her attractiveness.
Mr.. Cleveland's wife seems to have
profited by the best of official socie-
ty. Its hollowness, shame, frivoli-
ties and general insincerities have
not touched her. One cannot doubt
the great disappointment of the cleo
ton. She would have been far less
womanly woman had she been in
different to "defeat." But the dis
appointment has not added a drop of
bitterness to the sweetness of her ma
ture. She looked at "going out
from point of view wholly her own,
and not thought Of by the many who
regret her departure.
1t was one morning in the red
room, and before the presidents
plans we're settled, that Mrs. Cleve-
land talked frankly and sensibly
about herself as mistress Of the
White House. IF our plans we're
fixed / should be glad" she said.