Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-11

what the hot sun means on our asphalt pavements. Should the present weather continue the summer exodus will soon begin. It's warm, very, very warm.
 Then things are dreadfully dull socially, politically and every other way. Most of 5he offtce-seekers have gone home dis sussed, and the few appointments that are being made are not of kind to attract great attention or to stir hangers on into looking for something herewith. All told the capital city is in it's most un- happy mood.
 The centennial ceremonies at New York seemed to mark the beginning of this unhappy complaisance in our local affairs. Thousands of the people who left the city then have not yet returned, and the influence of the weather was first felt about that time. The gaieties of the social season were over, too, many of the newspaper correspondents have quilted town and we have had fewer visitors than usual even for this time of year. Soon there will be a grand break for seaside and mountain and Washington will be duller than even now.
 During the absence in New York of the president, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Mc- Kee, Mrs. Harrisons sister, Mrs. Scott Lord was in charge of the White House and the welfare of the little McKees. She has had busy time of it, for every wo- man that knew her here, who had even F speaking acquaintance with her, has found some pretext for calling on her, with the hope that she would see just a little more of the presidential abode than she had ever seen before. Even when Mrs. Harrison is here Mrs. Scott Lord spends most of her time at the White House assisting Mrs. Harrison in many wayS-seeing the callers she is unable to see, answering letters and relieving her of many duties. She is considerably younger than Mrs. Harrison, and, while their is a resemblance between them, she is very much darker, more slender, a tri- fle taller and a great deal more of the so- ciety woman than Mrs. Harrison. She is very pleasant little wSman, blessed | with tact, and dispenses with ceremony in receiving her callers. She has been in mourning for quite awhile, but will very probably put it aside during the summer. Mrs. Lord received her callers the | other day in a simple, pretty tea-gown of black India silk with full loose front of black and white silk. She has two daughters who will undoubtedly be added l to the list of ladies in the presidents | family, and take part in next seasons | entertainments at the White House. | They are both married, the elder one is l the wife of Lieut.. John F. Parker, of the navy, who accompanied the Samoan 
 the younger daughter, is a widow, hay | ing lost her husband, who was the son of the late Attorney-General Dimmick, of | Pennsylvania but a few months after their marriage She has been abroad for | some time, and was about to start out on her travels from Berlin when Lieut.. Parker and Mrs. Parker sailed. She will | now wait for them and return with them. They are both pretty women; Mrs. Dim- mick is 8 blonde with a pretty, we'll rounded figure, and Mrs. Parker is g. | brunette spirituelle, and looks enough like Mrs. Mckee to be her sister. AL though Mrs. Scott Lord spends the | greater part or her time at the White House, she still keeps her apartments at the boarding house on Twelfth street 1 where she and her father, Rev. MT. Scott, lived before the inauguration. Mrs. | Harrison has at last prevailed on her 1 father to give up his position in the pen | sion office and come to the White House to live. He too4 up his quarters there just before the departure of the presi- dential party for New York on the
 occasion of the centennial, but doubt if
 he will feel half so happy and contented
 with his occupation gone.
 The White House is so crowded now that a folding bed had to be bought for
 Mrs, Harrisons room, and the large
 bathroom turned into sitting room.
 When visitors are shown through the
 White House the observant always re- mark that all the handsomest pieces of
 furniture, etc, were selected by Arthur.
 One object that always attracts attention ! is an elaborate brass piano lamp in the
 red room, with its red parasol shade set
 awry in a rakish manner, that Mrs.
 Cleveland selected. Her most enthusi-
 astic admirers from the couhtry-ge
 erally bridal couples invariably walk all
 around it and take in every detail. We
 will soon have new pictures of Mrs.
 Harrison. As soon as she has recovered
 sufficiently from the fatigue of her trip
 she and Mrs Mckee will be photographed
 in the gowns they wore at the inaugural
 ball.
 great deal of the red-tape at the
 White House has been done away with
 and the nonsensical custom of sitting
 even the ladies' callers through the
 presidents private secretary did not
 survive the past ~