, 1890-02-23

IS 80
Her art should be dignifed by a higher
title than within, caprice or fad. for she
works in dead earnest, and would, i
verify believe, prefer the fame of an
artist more than of mistress of the White
House.
Her work Is not the least bit amateur
fish. although she has only studied with
In late years.
She has sense about her
subjects and never chooses anything Of
the colossal proportions OF the artist in
the Vicar Of Wakefield" A bit of a ma
rine, a stretch of landscape, n glowing
flower or ripened fruit are all in her line,
and, II possible, she always chooses sub
1ects she can sketch from nature. rs she
has the artists repugnancc to copying.
Unlike most amateurs, her grapes are
eatable and her flowers can be smelled-
in fancy.
have seen her take n rarely colored
begonia or oddly shaped orchid from the
White House Conservatives and spend
many an hour trying to get the exact
mixture OF colors TO tone with natures
paint box.
Artists have the reputation OF being
ttbah1 "a Ia ditc1 10 tltJ MOIk. Jul
Mrs. Harrison keeps herself trim and
taut and never has the wildly disheveled
or extravaguntly aesthetic look OF the
typical woma artist.
There is no better appointed house In
Washington than the vice presidents,
and II Is all because Mrs. Morton makes
servants her lad. Such roper nunkies
the capital has never before seen.
On the box Is n stai5, pompous indi-
vidual whom Mr.. Morton brought over
from London. Heis n model already,
and every other coachman is trying to
copy his studied air of Indifference, his
pompous handling of the ribbons and,
above all. his pyramidal mutton chop
whiskers He looks at least like a Sec
rotary of state or a minister from one OF
the great powers. Even more imposing
han the coachman Is the butler. Six
feet two inches is he and OF proportion
ate breadth. His trousers narrow to-
ward the feet and wrinkle engagingly
around the ankles. His "westcut~ would
make Beau Brummel shed tears of envy,
for 1t is of scarlet and black striped satin
and sets without a wrinkle. But his man
nerl With feet drawn back and toeing
a line, he looks down upon a sutton for
Mrs Morton's presence and announces
in the same impartial tones:
Mrs. Morton is not receiving today"
or Mrs. Morton will see you"
There is no appeal from the buffers
court
The ladies Of the cabinet all have
their fads, too Mrs. Blaine's is reading.
There is no readable book published
that does not appear on her desk a few
days after the critics have pronounced it
worthy acceptance. So well is her mind
stored that that brilliant man and ia
nous orator. Daniel Dougherty, pro-
bounced her, after talking with her half
an hour, the best read woman he ever
met and one of the cleverest Mrs.
Blaine takes an interest in everything
Gail Hamilton does, and that caustic
writer might almost be termed her fad.
For some time Mrs. Blaine was interested
in Gail Hamilton's attempt to prove that
the hanging of Spencer Fairfax was not
justifiable.
Mrs. Window claims that she has no
fad. but her pretty daughter Flossie has.
She has taken a little corner in the new
house and fitted it up as a studio. Be
tween her outings as a debutante she
means to paint, and just now she has for
n model a dusky quadroon girl who is
her mothers maid.