Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-01

has had three rooms furnished brightly for the
two cooks and two chambermaids who sleep in
the house, instead Of going out to sleep as has
been the custom heretofore. She says that al
though she cannot expect to have the lower floor
remode!ed in her day she hopes that it NAV be
done by the one who follows her, and Il you'l
believe it, that good woman cherishes another
dream that she also does not expect to see full
filed while she Is mistress of the White House.
good clean, Holland tiles substituted for the
rickety boards in the kitchen. She says her
ideal kitchen is the kind that they have in the
Netherlands. where the floor clicks cheerily un-
der the quick step Of the cook. The kitchens
have countless shelves built in the walls and
these filed with saucepans, skillets, grid
some of them look as though they had seen yeo-
man service for century. The Xixptl 4
good right arm Keeps them poiishea
that one can see her face griuning HYoedly on a
hundred surfaces az she stands iNkhe middle Of
the room kneading her bread " There are big
ranges built into the walls Of eit r room so that
Mary Robinson can put in 4 hbzen loaves Of
bread at the same time that sheAf Louisville,
Ky, - bAstes a ten-pound roastsA The table in
the big kitchen is long enough to feIfout cookies
for hundred youngsters with the kz1ssaRssffs5Ef
for sweetcake for which Master Benjsn1fd A1efeee'
is distinguished, and is kept as white as daily
scru bbing can make it. From the second kitchen.
there is a dumb waiter going up TO the servicS
room, and at the entrance to the room there i14
refrigerator which almost touches the cei23Hg.
provender but the dry groceries. which are kept
in larder near the smaller kitchen.
STEWARD NJ KIM AND HIS DUTIRs.
Across the hall from the kitchen is the stew
ard IS room, a large apartment under the state
dining room. It is tastefully furnished with
carpet and chairs sent from the upper rooms and
contains q large desk where Mr.. McKim enters
the marketing in books as large it takes to
enter the deposits at the treasury he comes in
about II from the Center market, where every
thing in the way Of meats and vegetables are
bought for the White house, enters these pur-
chases and each month draws up summary of
the month expenditures, which / have heard
are of size to maks an ordinary whistle
f'Razzly Dazzle, - with all the mournful intonR-
tons of that pathetic song. The walls of the
stewards room are lined with closets which
he has charge of every valuable in the White
House and has to give pretty sum as bail for
their safe-keeping. Hitherto each steward has
had the privilege Of taking his books with him
when he left, but it has lead to such an endless
confusion when any attempt to trace up the his
tory of silver and china has been m de that Mrs.
Harrison has ordered al books to be kept. Be-
and on the opposite side the big furnace room,
while at the extreme end OF the hall is billiard
room where q president and his opponent fire.
Quently chalk the cue.
MRS. HARRIsoN's LAUNDRY.
But the laundry-that Is worth seeing, for .
cleaner room cannot be imagined. 1t is large
and light and of one corner Is q little carpeted
ironing room. There is an old fashioned New
England fireplace there which was built in the
wall as far back as the time when Abigail Adams
came down from Boston and wrote back such
gruesome accounts OF the barn-like east room
which she could put in no better use than to
dry her clothes. This fireplace is still used for