Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
A NOTED ADMIRAL's WIDOW.

hduellne NlDuO0 DanIgfe0, tne willow OF
Admiral Dahlgren, spends her winters in
Washington. She has built fine house
here on wedge of ground facing Thomas
Circle. She planned the house herself, and
its interior is filled with curious ideas in
architecture. Her library has floor of a
spiders web made OF wood inlaid with diff
ferent colors, aud Mrs. Dahlgren once told
me that this web was meant to indicate that
the pursuit of knowledge should be without
end and should 60 on as long as life lasts.
1t made me think Of my girlhood poetry:
Round as this ring that has no end.
30 is my love to You, my friend.
1t is the same in the curious tiling OF the
library fireplace. "The passion flower"
said she, represents the love which one
should have for learning" and other curl
Gus conceits 1 found in the ceiling, the ar
rangement of the books and in the hanging
of the fine old paintings which looked down
upon me from the walls.
Mrs. Dahlgren is another literary widow.
She has written a number of novels and
some books of g more solid nature. She is
very earnest in her Catholic faith, and in
her library there has been made a little
alcove containing statue of the Virgin.
The light which comes into this alcove
shines through a stained glass window and
the interior is made in the shape of a heart.
A lace curtain separates the alcove from the
rest of tie library, and it is here that Mrs.
Dahlgren says her prayers. She is very
kind-hearted lady, is not ostentatious or
snobbish, and. though she has seen many
years, she knows no lack of mental or phys
ical vigor.
WIDOWS OF COX AND RANDALL.
The widow of Sunset Cox owns several
houses at Washington. One of these was
built after Mr.. Cox returned from Turkey,
and it has rooms fitted out after the Turkish
or Moorish style of architecture. The frieze
of one room is a text from the Koran and
the portiers are richly embroidered curtains
from Mohammedan mosques. The house is
worth, 1 judge, about $50, 900, and is one of
the most oom portable homes of Washington.
Mrs. Cox also owns house in New York,
and sic has spent most of the winter in that
city. She is, am told, engaged in writing
a biography Of her husband, and she pos
sesses remarkably literary taste. Her hus-
band referred many things to her, and she
was, like Mrs. General Logan, one of the
most valuable wives that q statesman ever
had.
She kept all kinds Of worries away from
Sunset Cox and it was through her aid that
ne was aDle 70 accomplish sucn great lie
work. She travelled with Mr.. Cox wherever
he went, and 1 have in my possession
picture of herself and husband taken by the
midnight sun in Norway. Mrs. Cox was
originally very well-to-do. Her husband
made great deal out of his books, and he
was a success as a lawyer. During the
latter part of his life he made some good
investments and his estate was quite large.
Sam Randall lett next to nothing, and
his estate all-told will probably not foot up
S25, 900. BE was not money-maker, not
money-lover, and might also say that he
was not much of mouey-spender. The
little house which he owned here at Wash
ington is not worth over Sc, 900, and am
not sure, but I think his country place near
Philsdelphia was rented one. Mrs.
lawyer of Warrington and though It IL noi