The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-07
APPS o1,EvELAND's HOPES.
Diana and Wishes for the Future.

,-.sr,,xaroN. March 3-Mrs Cleve-
Nv future movements will always be in
i iNIo.ting to the people of this country.
WIEN she leaves Washington and goes with
~ husband to New York it will not be to
,;..nnear and be forgotten. She has m de
oIo' 55aen an impression for that. The idle
storv that she aspreS to De one Oh New
~, siselect 400" is, of course, absurd. To
mot to be one of New Works select
p Ioo y is the least of her thoughts, if in
"a she has given it a single thought at
T What Mrs. Cleveland is most inter
a. ia in and concerned about at this time,
eo 60" two things-going abroad and having
Ione of ner own. She would prefer to go
nbroad. spend six months or more in quiet
9ravel and sightseeing, and then return TO
New York and settle down to houseGeep-
40 in a home of her own. But Mr.. Cleve-
i Ia5l is not inclined to go on sightseeing
tnnrnev abroad in the first year of his ex-
y.osidency. He believes it would be i'm
iossihle for an ex-President to travel
ppU;atIv SO soon after leaving the
qIghite house, and he desires to
trovel in no other way. Later
w when being EXPIRE .ident is more of an
aid story, he may make the trip. He is
oiso ayerse to crossing the ocean, and his
interest in foreign travel is not sufficient to
ofFset this aversion to the sea voyage. Mr..
e eyeland, of course, may change his mind
ofter a months stay in New York, and
sftar getting his "hand in" the business of
|ba law firm of which he is to become a
member, when ne ceases to be President of
The United States. He will certainly change
his mind and spend the summer abroad if
Mrs. Cleveland can persuade him to do so.
Tie President desires to get away from
crowds. and away from people" No wonder.
Shaking hands with crowds of people day in
end day out steadily for four years would
drive a man almost to desire the solitude of
desert In the Zig city of New York, a
bustling 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 per-
ception she sees there would be no quiet life
for them at any summer resort on this side
of the Atlantic. Therefore, she wisely con-
cludes that the ex-President would have a
much better time if he went abroad and
passed the summer in foreign travel
Naturally, like most people who have
been abroad once. Mrs. Cleve-
land has the greater desire to go a
second time. To make the trip one OF re-
creation and rest from his four years labor
in the white house would be no part of the
ex-Presidents consideration. He does not
wish to rest from work, and does not feel
the need of a vacation. His sister, Miss
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, always said:
"Work Is so much part of my brothers
life that he would not thrive without his
daily systematic toll" Mrs. Cleveland is
forced to the same opinion, for the Presi-
dent is apparently in better health now, at
the end of his four years, than he was at
the beginning. 1t is certain that he is look
ing remarkably we'll, and appears in the
best of spirits. And Mrs. Cleveland has
never been SO much at "her bestn as this
winter.
Mrs. Cleveland is regarded as absolutely
unspoiled, and this may be said without
to other women who have
filed the place of mistress of tue white
house. 1t is a singularly happy fact at
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
MS Cleveland The second Mrs. Tyler
was charming bride, it is true. and was
much admired. But the romance of Mrs.
Tyler's marriage was tame story beside the
white house wedding of 1885. That was
the sudden transition of pretty school
girl from her books, over a few intervening
months of travel, to the high a. d resp 9nsi-
BILE position Of the Presidents wife and
mistress of the white house. 1t was more.
1t was the quick lifting up to dizzy pedes
tai of this beautiful young woman, before
whom the American people, one and all,
bowed with such unstinted praise and out
spoken admiration as to be little short of
worship. And, from first to last. there has
been no lack of worshipers. Surely, it is
no fault of theirs that the object of adora-
ton has not toppled down In pieces like
ordinary clay.
"She must inevitably become vain" was
the assertion made to a friend of Mrs
Cleveland few months after the wedding,
and when she was still talked of and written
of so enthusiastically as the white house
bride.
mo, she will never become vain
woman" was tho friends reply. "She has
no vanity; at least not that sort. But all
this will in the long run make her careless
and Indifferent ABOUT her social duties and
to her FIR ends. She will think small things
not wo tn her while, and she will of course
be criticised. This excessive adulation will
turn her head in that way, but she will not
be a vain woman"
After nearly three years Mrs Cleveland
has proved that her friends prediction was
both right and wrong. She is not vain
woman; not a shade of vanity has been
seen, and Mrs. Cleveland is now as free
from all sign Of personal vanity as she is
free from all frivolity. Her nature pos
Sesses none of either. Has her head been
turned, as the friend feared? Not bit of
1t. On the contrary. the Presidents wife
is more than ever mindful of trifles and
more than ever thoughtful Of others. In
stead of indifference, her loyal nature has
drawn her friends closer, while she has at
the same time enlarged her friendship.
her interest in the white house, past and
present, has grown stronger, her interest in
The people has broadened and deepened,
and TO every social duty she has not once
Jailed to give a delightful vigor and earn
eStness as well as the charm of her own
graceful personality.
AT no time has the Presidents wife APP
peared so much at cher best" as this winter,
aud since the defeat" she has entered
more into cial life beyond the white hou 9,
ana she has more than ever given her per-
sonal attention to the Presidents state en-
tertainments, maxi & them the most attrac-
i've OF the adm n stration. The last busy
Gays have not made her forgetful of the lit
Tie everyday, humble courteses, ard the
pleasure of others has been her first consid-
Grafton. The prediction and che thought of
ssooer-mnded people was wide of the mark.
MRS. Cleveland shows to-day more simple
lty OF character, and her honest. earnest
nature is even more earnest. There Is the
same sweetness and naturalness of manner,
sympathetic and frankly responsive and,
Wlthal, something of humility, completing
tne charm by which she still attracts and
n9ius the people even more firmly than
wnen they were daZzled and fascinated by
Tue glamour and romance of the white
mouse wedding ard possessed with wild
curiosity to see the Presidents bride.
=, MRS. Cleveland has never for a moment