St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-01


winter. Young people will always be
seen at the house, but | do not mean
that Florence shall forget that there are
other things besides society,"" she added
quickly. She spoke with decision, and
il Is safe to prOpheSy that Miss Florence
will net pass at once from student 10
society girl.
THE WIFE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR
will appear least of all at the capital,
as she will devote the winter to the care
of her youngest child, the lad VINO mas
been i'll almost since his father entered
the Harrison cabinet. She will spend
December at her house here, but II the
winter proves severe she will take her
son to Florida and leave the care of the
house to her daughter Emily. n girl
scarcely nineteen, but having the early
developed eapability of the New Eng
land woman. Mrs. Proctor is very
literary woman, and her four children
have been educated at home under her
supervision, there always being two
gOYerneSSeS in the house. She Is stu
dent of French and German, great
reader of magazines and the best lltera-
ture of tie day.
To talk to her once person would
think her shy, non-Teceptive and unln-
tereSted. This same person at the sec
ond talk would reverse the character
iSticS and faSten them to himself, for
when Mrs. Proctor talks she does it so
we'll and shows such a complete knoWl-
edge of her subject that the man or
woman of many but rugged acquire
mentS keeps still. She has the dr0il
wit of the New England woman, and is
worth the buShel of salt which GOethe'S
cautious apothecary prescribed as dose
hnfAra frinn1Ch inS formed Mrs.
Proctor's house will be the finest in the
cabinet circle for the season.
MRS. WHITNEy'S SUCCESSOR.
Mrs. Tracy will preside over an artis-
tic home and one more elegantly and
richly furnished than any of the cabi-
net houses. She-iS unwilling TO leave
Brooklyn. where she has lived for so
many years and been identified with the
charities of that charitable city. Her
coming to the capital means as much, in
the Lady-BOuntiful sense, as Mrs.
Whitney'S arrival four years ago. Mrs.
Tracy was one of the founders of the
Home for Friendless Children in her
own city. and for years has been one OF
ITS most helpful patrons. She has that
noble quality of charity, and her change
from place to place means more than
a moving of furniture. She Is WO-
llldll dDUNG with q
cate cameo complexion and face framed
in the prettiest gray hair. She dresses
well but quantity, and with little of
statelineSs of a woman of the colonial
days. Society she does not like one bit,
and her daughters, Mrs. Wilmerding
and Miss Tracy, will relieve her of many
of the ceremonies of her position. She
likes small entertainments, where few
people, old friends, if possible, meet
and have good time, with plenty of
Joking and repartee. Her house in
Brooklyn was meeting place for the
well-known people of Henry Ward
Beecher's church when that famous
minister was living.
MRS. NOBLE.
Few women enjoy life as much as
Mrs. Noble, wife of the secretary of the
interior, for she does not live by work.
The other cabinet houses are orderly af
fairs that are regulated by the despotic
clock, but the house over which Mrs.
Noble pFesideS begins at 8, 10, IL or even
IL, as duty calls any member of the
family. There are only four of them,
the secretary and Mrs. Noble and her
two sisters. the Misses Halstead, and
each one of these four does as he or
she pleaseS. 1t is an idylIic. but not a
practical life. and some way the day
makes as perfect a whole as if each
hour had been set for some regular
work. Mrs. Noble is not pretty.
She does not dress with the pre-
ci5ion or the American woman,
but she is quaint, original, laughs when
she sees anything funny, and will get
more genuine pleasure out of her life
i'm Washington than any other woman
in the cabinet circle. No cares burden
her. She laughs If the carpet men.
drapers. paper hangers, and chore-
women all come the same day after she
mad arranged the sequence of vista
lions for the last fortnight. discusses
impossibilities and possibilities with
them droily, and has the quality of put
ting herself on a seemingly equal foot
ing with all castles of people. She is as
eccentric as an Old-faShioned ehrys-
anthemum, ard none of her qualities
are alike, Just as none of that flowers
petals are of the same length. This
winter she says she will entertain COM
paratively little, as she knows few peO-
/ pie in Washington, and wishes to take
time to draw a characteristic circle
| about her.
MRS. MILLER.
Mrs. Miller is another lady of the
cabinet who means to take the winter
| TO get acquainted with the ways of
| Washington society. 81 shall have
| Wednesday afternoon receptions, of
| course" said she, ''but this winter will
| give no formal entertainments. | may
! give a few small muSicales for my
| daughter, but our life will be very quiet,
as my daughter is not strong and do
| not wish her by any means to do what
| is usually expected of a Gebutante.
Other winters 1 will invite a number of
her friends to spend part of the season
| with her, when she will be well enough
acquainted with the capital to entertain
| them pleasantly" If people did not see
| Mrs. Miller'S grown children they would
| be apt to call her thirty, as she has
! the young look peculiar to fair women
! who have lived happy lives. She is of a
| buOyant nature. and cOnfesSeS that
| when she is tired she can read good
novel and forget all her woes. Her
! house is well ordered. and her daughters
| have the accomplishments of the old as
| well as the new regime. When asked
what were her accomplishments. Miss
| Florence, the eldest daughter. laugh
ingly replied, making of bread and
| butter SCOTCH" The Miller household
cabinet homes. They rise at z,
have breakfast from 7:3O to s,
and the attorney general always
walks the three-quarters of a mile
| to the Judiciary epartment,and he very
| often walks home in the evening. Mrs.
! Miller has one quarrel TO pick with the
change from indianapolis to Washing
ton. Her little daughter doesn't like it
because people never go on the street
with their babies, but she herself OBJ
iects because her husband brings a pile
of official papers home each night and
spends the evening working at them.
There is a good comradeship among
! father, mother and children, and the
| family is one of the happiest.
! MRS. wANAMAKER.
The big house on | street will have as
| charming q mistress under the Harrison
! as it had under the Cleveland admins
! tration, for Mrs. WaDamaker has the
| savoir faire which made Mrs. Whitney
/ the ideal hostess. 1t is safe to venture
| that at the close of four years the wife
| of the postmaster general will have left
| a faultlesS record in society. She will
| never do anything unconventional or