Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-30
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL.
SOME OF THE LADIES OF THE
ADMINISTRATION CIRCLE.
Mrs. Harrison's Horror of Being Stared
At-The President's Lucky Physician.
The First Lady ~ . Shoppers. 8. Co.'s
Especial Correspondence. I

Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-I am sorry to
say that Mrs. Harrison is not in very
good health. She is now under the doc
tors care, and is confined pretty rigidly
to diet Of milk and stale bread. She
says she has appetite enough. but the
cruel doctor WIZ not give her permission
to appease WIN her own fashion. The
trouble is gastric one, and can be re-
moved only by persistent caution as to
diet.
The president has doctor, too, but
does not often have occasion to send for
him. Tis u curious fact that cne call to
the White House brought, or is in fair
way to bring, a fortune to Washington
physician. Since the president made DIR.
Sewers his physician this young gentle
man, already popular and successful, has
found his practice quickly doubling. He
is now the hardest worked man in the
city of Washington, his White House
patient, probably, excepted. DR.. Sewers
is no more than 35 years old. and his in
come is S25, 900 year.
Mrs. Harrison Is rond or the church,
too, but she has given up attending, and
for rather novel reason. 1t is not the
condition of her health that deprives her
of one Of the pleasures Of her life, but
her dread Of being stared at. 1t Is an
actual factthat the people gaze at hSr 80
much in church that she can never tell
whether the minister is preaching on
foreign missions or infant baptism. So
she has resolved to stay at home. She
goes occasionally to the theatre, which
she wouldn't do but for the protection
from curious eyes afforded by tho cur
tains of the box, which she invariably
occupies.
Mrs. Cleveland never objected to being
stared at; at least, she never tried to get
away from the crowds. She had way
of smiling at masses Of people as much
as to say she recognized and sympathized
with their curiosity. Besides, she was
woman enough to take a little delight
out of the consciousness that some ad-
miration was mixed with the curiosity.
Even the receptions, out of which Mrs.
Cleveland used to derive so much
pleasure, Mrs. Harrison is looking for
ward to apprehensively.
"A room apouU wnicn sau memories
cling is the library Of Mr.. Cox in the
handsome home built by him in this city
few years ago. Mrs. Cox never goes
into the library when she can help it,
for that apartment reminds her of the
many long evenings spent there in her
husbands company as his secretary and
companion; for Mrs. Cox was ons of
those women VITO helped their hus-
bands with every detail of their work.
Mr.. Cox's library table stands just as he
left it. Not paper or book has been
disturbed. Still it is the acme Of order.
liness. Sam Cox, with all his brilliancy,
was man of method, Of application, Of
toll. Not alone his wit, but his persist
ency, his mastery of all the subjects
which came to his hand, won him sue.
cess.
Cox was known as one Of the best in
formed men in the house. His knowl-
edge was fairly encyclopedia. A hint of
the method by which this reputation was
won lies upon his library table. 1t is an
atlas 80 full of clippings from news
papers and magazines that the book is
swolleh to thrice its original proportions.
At the map of Nicaragua, for instance,
are fifty newspaper cuttings about that
country, its politics, statesmen, army,
navy and commerce. SO with Chill,
Brazil and all other countries, particu-
larly the western nations, in turn.
II Mr.. Cox had not been man of care.
full method, not even his great industry
would have enabled him to keep abreast
of modern thought and literature, and
at the same time TO perform the prodig
ious amount Of labor which fell unou