The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-17

The first thing that all our Presidents
have had to do after entering the white
house was to get acquainted with it. Almost
MI of them had, previous to their entering it
as masters, seen some part OF it. Cleveland
never catered the whi6o house until he en-
tered it as President and didn't know the
family staircase from the dusty and grimy
steps up which so many thousand office
seekers have trod
Gen. Harrison was never in the private
part of the building until after the inaugu-
ration, but II he has any difficulty in find
ing bis way around he has close at hand one
who can guide him from attic to cellar, and
that is his wife. Mrs. Harrison knows the
white house just as well to-day as she will
four years hence. She was in the house
once during Gartield's brief administration.
But after Gen. Arthur canein Mr.. Harr son
used frequently to go there with parties of
yourg lady friends who wanted to see the
domestic side Of the 81 eat mansion, and she
TOOK great delight as she watched the girls
peep into the bed chambers and look with
shy and yet prudent glances at tae bedroom
furniture and the bed dra cries aad they
would listen as she told them that this room
was Nellie Grants, that one Harriet Lanes,
d then going across the corridor
she would show them the room
where the Prince of Wales slept, which,
during his administration, was occupied by
Ger. Arthur. Perhaps Gen. Harrison
will learn to pace the conservatory in
the moraing to get his ideas well stimu-
lated That is what Gen. Arthur used
to do. But whether or not Harrison IL es
the conservatory for recreation, his wife
will be pretty likely to be fou ID there as
many minutes in the day as she can spare
from her duties.
Gen. Harrison, like all our recent Presi-
dents, excepting Arthur, doesn't care very
much for hoEe md tn smell of roses makes
nm Sueeze. But Mrs arrlSJ IN not oulv likes
flowers but knows them, ami now that there
is gentle romance of a president al woong
in TIE conservatory-fo twas there that
Cleveland won his bride-it is safe to say
that Mrs. Harrison will make the most of
the sentimental situation.
Hayes and Arthur had a habit of rum
maging around the white house, hunting up
odd hooks and out of the way corners.
Hayes discovered that There was a garnet
hlled with all manner of art truck and
relics. He roamed around out of curiosity
and with a partly reverential spirit, but
Gen. Arthur made his explorations with an
aesthetic eye, that he might beautify the
place, and cover up some eyesores there
with things of beauty. 1t was a revelation
after Gen. Arthur had become settled in the
white house what an artistic eye and un-
limited patience could accomplish in the
way of pleasing corridors and delightful
decorations
Gen. Harrison follows the habit of Presi-
dent Cleveland in his daily life in the white
house. lie gels up SO as 10 have his break
fast about s O'clock, and the breakfast is
bound to be a good one, for, like De Witt
Talmage and some other brain workers,
Harrison likes a good square meal to begin
the day with. After breakfast be lights his
cigar and goes to the library. Frequently
he follows his habit when senator, Of TAX
lug brisk walk for half an hour after
breakfast.