The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-05

USE III OulS Guy.
and his wife and of her lifelong friendship
Win the late George Bancroft Her chief
treasure Is an old-time bracelet made of
T MI ana set with fine daguerreotype
Inc interest attaching to this is the fact
that it is the HAIR and picture of .Johu G.
Salhoun and inscribed by the giver with
MS name and the date Miss Graham
relgned a queen in the Richmond social
Worio, her family being pre- eminent among
southern arlstocrIcy. The war. however.
severed the family relations; one brother,
refusing TO eeceoe, remained an officer and
served IN the Union army. This breach
was, was Oily healed a few years ago when the
pro der was telegraphed to that his favor
tee SISTER, Hartley, was dying. At her bed
size IN Richmond the war ended, and Gen
eral Lawrence Graham, now on the retired
llst, nVes In Washington and is daily visi-
tor at the Louise Home Until a few
months ago, when Miss Graham was
severely Injured by fall, she maintained
relations with the highest social and official
HE In Washington. She dwells with pleas
ure on her first meeting and subsequent
friendship with Mrs. Cleveland The deli
cate courtesies extended to this aged lady
by the young and flattered wife of the
pride and cabinet Photograph of Mrs.
cleveland and her mother taken together
holds conspicuous place on the wall of
MISS Graham's pretty room. During Mrs.
CleVeland's stay at the White House, Aunt
Hartley was the frequent recipient of fruits
and flowers and since then, in her long con-
nnement, the delightful invalid has been
frequently remembered by thenow officially
second lady of the land
SHE PRESIDED AT THE VIII TIE HOUSE.
Less written about perhaps, vet more
conspicuous as an essential part of our ma
tonal social history, Is another inmate of
the Home, Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, wife
OF the late Purser Semple, of the U. S. N,
and daughter of President John Tyler.
Mrs. Semple, now nearly seventy, has been
a resident here for eight years, and is one of
the most delightful among that group of
very lonely and distinguished looking ladies
OF the last regime. While her vigorous
mind takes in the shifting phases of this
dlzzlly progressive era, like the other
stately white haired ladies who figured long
ago as principals in the drama of society,
Mrs. Semple loves to linger reminiscently
upon the past-her past-and its historic
environment. A hour with the lady who
reigned at the White House in her girlhood
Is like turning back to page of entertain
lngly refers to herself as interesting only
along with other antiquities, but the readi-
ness with which She not only recalls the
past but enters into the topics of the hour,
the dignity and elegance OF Ger manner and
the strength of voice aud brightness of her
eyes protest against that term. She is one
OF the rare women who may bridge over
the two or three generations with their per-
petual youth. She is frequently impor-
fnr init lN,,% III.
ladies' Of old-time notions of dignity and
proprlety, shrinks from ANYTHING that puts
her name sin print While she talks so
brightly and entertainingly of the old social
life OF her fathers administration, one is
continually reminded of the future of the
photograph, and that conversation trap,
If set up in any of those forty rooms, would
catch an enormous amount of entertaining
history.
AN OLD CHARACTER.
A quaint, familiar figure has vanished
from the Louise Home Odd Miss Pannell.
of Norfolk, Virginia, is no longer seen on
the streets In the curious costumes that at
tracted smile from every passerby She
had been at the Home for many years, and
except for her extraordinary taste in dress
was woman of good mind and was noted
Tor her extreme piety. She was for many
years treasurer of the society for the poor
of St. Matthews, and when she died re-
Gently DR.. Chappelle said that one of the
saints had departed from earth She was
short, stout, old lady with round, wrink-
led face which was frightened by small,
keen, dark eyes and set off with most
marvellous halo of long black curls, wig, it
was suspected. Then her bonnets and
gowns and shawls were unlike anything
described as in fashion for fifty years. Her
church costume would possibly be pink
or blue gown ruffied to the belt, a bread
sash OF contrasting colors tied at the back.
and white silk shawl embroidercd in CAV
flowers would be iauntily flung over her
shoulders. Her bonnet, a huge black straw,
fashioned over models long since forgotten.
was weighted by masses of gay artifcials.
To these add gloves of white cotton. an
ancient hand satchel and tiny red parasol
and you complete the array of this fanciful
octogenarian.
SOUTHERN LADY ON THE RACE QUESTION.
Mrs. Calhoun, another ancient resident
at the Home, stately, dignitied woman. is
among the younger Of the inmates She
bears the famous name of Calhoun and as
is natural, regards the South with unchang-
ing admiration. In speaking Of the race
question this lady, familiar with the old
plantation life, was led to say:
"Only the southern people know and an
precjate the colored people. We alone un-
derstand them. The North dlslikes the
negro personally, but loves him politically.
If we deny him political rights we are his
personal friends
She then related touching incident in
her experience of the after war days which
she said was repeated all over the South.
Said she:
AT the close of the war we were miser-
ably poor. We had nothing and no ability
to earn anything. Winter came on and we
would have suffered from cold had it not
been Tor the generosity of one of our old
servants, who had been a favorite house
servant who hauled and split the wood he
gave US. Again and again he came with
his load until we had winters supplv and
when my mother died he came again with
his brothers and begged that thew alone
might have the privilege of preparing her
for burial, of carrying her to the church
and covering her in the grave. Do you not
think, and the lady's eyes were bright
wit tears, "that there is affection he
tw cen the races in the South? Yet those
very servants all voted the Republican
ticket because of their gratitude
A UNION GENTLEwoMAN.
Miss Margaret Loughborough, another
white -haired lady of particularly gentle
and elegant manners, Is the only permanent
guest of the Louise Home who enjoys the
title of "a Union Woman
She was a daughter of the late Nathan
Loughborough, gentleman of the old
school who served in official life during the
administration of Madison and Jefferson.
He was a lifelong intimate friend of Mr..
Corcoran, and when his daughter, late in
life. needed home, she was personally in
vited by the founder to reside here. It is
little wonder that this delicate and refined
woman of nearly eighty years dwells with
special warmth on the great kindness and