The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-28

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What has been your greatest number,
Mrs. Fuller"
Thirty one," she confessed, laughing,
and don't usually get over twenty, as /
do like to stop and chat with people. II
seems futile thing to shake hands with the
hostess In the front parlor and slip out
through the back parlor.'
They say that all the world comes to
Belmont from 8 to Mondays"
THE MONDAY RECEPTIONS.
"Yes, they tell me 1t looks beautiful to
see tho line Of carriages down Fourteenth
street about sunset. ! should like to slip
out some time and see them myself"
DO queer people comep
mot so much to see me- The chief Justice
sees that side of our life. He has been
| reused twice at midnight bv messenger
| boys with special delivery letters from
cranks. One night there was httie fellow
| came; he did not look more than years
old. and presented an envelope almost as
big as himself After waking every one up
by his lusty pulls at tho bell, the letter
proved to be from a crank, Offering the
| chief Justice gratuitous advice on a subject
tho before the COURT
"Of course you get your share Of anus
ing incidents at receptionSV
standing as | do at the entrance 10 the
parlors ] am not apt to hear anything but
my daughters say the comments are enter
| aiming. They also say that they rarely
| escape the three questions: How do you
like Washington Do you like house so
far outt Do you know so-and-so in Chi
| cagoP The first and last questions may
| fail, but the second one never does. They
usually add to 1t some commendation of the
beautiful views"
ibid the house please you2"
HARD TO BE TRANsPLANTED.
"Yes; but l had lived twenty years in
one house in Chicago, and it was pretty v
hard to transplant mo. 1t seemed as
though was torn up by the roots. Ny
daughter Mamie and | came the week be-
fore the family, and we had to use a great
deal Of ingenuity in fitting tho furnishings
Of one house to another
Noticing that the house was arranged in
the German fashion, the question was
asked whether or not IL was Miss Marys
taste. Mrs. Fuller answered: "Yes, Manic
has been abroad so much that she has
imbibed foreign tastes. The Turkish rugs,
dlvans, couches and cushions are all her
ideas OF luxurious ease. You know foreign
ers think more Of bodily comfort than we
do"
A reference was made to the early de-
parture of Miss Mary for Berlin.
MISS MAMIE FULLER's AMBITION.
Mrs Fuller sighed a little as she said:
1--WE have TO lose her the last Of this month.
but it is almost an old story. She has been
abroad five years, aud has given her time
solely to music. Her ambition is to be a
professional, and her whole heart is In it,
She has a tinge Of the Bohemian in her ma
ture, but am in syinDathy.with hor. N TIL
ing shows the rigid society code here better
than Mamie's experience. To enjoy the
pleasanter features-such as dinners, recep-
haa IN ,lft,
regard to the formal requirements
Intending TO be here so short
time, Mamie hes made few
formal calls, and as n consequence has not
been included in all our invitations. This
piqued her little at first, as she d les enjoy
a good time, but she finally yielded to the
exchange of formalites and last week she
went to several pleasant cotIllions + l.
quette is "A stern but just ru err" Mrs
Fuller added with a smile. Next year
shall present two other daught Mildre
who graduates at Wells College In the
spring, and Paulins. They are totally
u like one being dark, the other fair, but
both are tall. Paulina has at last got her
wish, and is back in Chicago. She writes
that she does not want to come home until
March Al
The question was hazarded that perhaps
Miss Pdulina preferred Chicago.
Mrs. Fuller gave a doubtful shake lof, the
head as though she was not reeiy yet 20
compare the old with the new Chicago is
dear to us all, epecially to the younger
girls, who are not out in society here. The
chief justice wanted Paulna 10 enter
society this year, so that she would not
think so longingiy Of her old home, but she
was anxious TO wait for her sister. She is
not in school, as she has had TWO severe ill
nesses and is not strong. For that reason
she is near TO her fathers heart, and he
misses her.
A rosy little girl rushing in with face all
aglow from her outdoor exercises caused
Mrs Fuller 10 remark on tho beneficial
qualities Of Washington air
1--WE haven't had a doctor in the house
but once since we have been here, sho said
"Of course, am dosing all the time 4
woman with so large a family soon learns
10 doctor. But | consider it marvellous.
The climate is certainly doing woi ders for
us. In Chicago | was hardly without n
doctor. My lI,tle boy is especially happy
here. He has gained three or four pounds,
and plays out Of doors all the day"
HOSPITALITY OF wAsHlSGTJN SOCIETY.
Mrs Fuller then spoke Of tho friendly
hospitality Of Washington. "It seems TO
me southern in its open healtedness," she
SAID. 1--WE are liberal and kiud 10 strangers
in the west, but there IS little more Of
that teeHng mere tnAL the most uJOys CIV
ingup his whole house TO the entertainment
Of his guests. II is An indehnsble differ
euce, but am part kentuck.an and ap-
prcclate it. have not entertained as yet,
as il is a point Of etiquette, | believe, for the
members Of the cabinet and tho justices OF
the supreme court 10 entertain the chief
justice first OF course. the dinners ten
dered b. the chief justice aud myself have
been doubly pleasant, as l knew nearly all
OF the cabinet aud supreme court before
coming 10 Washington
Had you ever met Mrs Clevelandp
80, yes. You know she and my daughter
were ia the same college. Mildred entered
the fall after Mrs. Cleveland graduated.
We called at the white house two years ago,
and when the President found out that my
daughter was at Wells, he said Mrs.
G Cevelaud will surely want her b. come
down. She went, and she and Mildred
talked like school girls for an hour, discuss
ing the annual hOnors, wondering who
would get the valedctOry aud VINO the
sautatory, aud wno would play at the
next concert Ms. Cleveland was as
eager as IL ,he was still school girl.
She loves her college and sue is loved
there. Although not in tho least "A book
worm, she never mi sei recitation The
girls liked her because she was always ready
for fun. Mss Smith, the principal, said
she was known all over the school and by
all tho people Of the little town. She had a
smile for every child, and they all loved
Miss Folsom. THat is the reason she sue
cesds 10 admirably IN her present position.
Mr.. CievelaId's equAble nature wins more
hearts than hor beauty and wit y