The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-03

ances. BY and by, so rumor has it, this
semi private apartment was monopolized
too much by women having no business, and
by Congressman who preferred to while
away their time in such society to the
duller duty of law-making. However that
may be, the committee IN authority year
or two ago, seized upon the women's recep-
ton room, and on the plea of crowded quar-
tiers appropriated it for the use of the said
subcommittee. About ten feet from the
south side of Statuary hall are ranged
eight massive pillars, behind which, on
either side of the door are two long, mar
row. and comparatively secluded spaces.
Into one of those were transplanted few
tender old rugs and some internally disor-
gained leather furniture. Then adding a
table, some blank cards, and genial old
gentleman to superintend, the committee
wrote placard, reception room, for
ladies only and tying it with a white
string around one of the huge pillars, the
deed was done. The artistic beauty of
Statuary hall has been destroyed, but the
proprieties have been preserved, and a
Congressman having business with ladies
is very careful that the person he meets in
this gaping audience chamber shall be wor-
thy of presentation to his mother or his sis
ter or his aunt, should such of his esteemed
relatives suddenly present themselves.
Immediately on adjournment these rugs
were rolled up, and along with the sofas,
chairs, and the superintendent table and
big printed placard, have been stored away
until next December Among the reduced
number of officials and watchers at the
Capitol, are the only two women on the
payroll of that big establishment. These
are the two matrons in charge of the
ladies' private reception rooms of the
House and Senate wings. Opening into
the House gallery on the southwest corner
are two cosy, nicely furnished apartments
set apart for the exclusive use of women.
Easy chairs, ice water, mirrors and toilet
appurtenances are at the service of the
sigbt-seers and visitors to the gallery Mrs
Heart, the genial, dark-eyed widow IN
charge, is an Ohio woman, and though Re-
publican appointee, has made herself so
popular, that she will most likely be I'M
disturbed by the party's change of fortune.
cLEMENTINE.
1t is very handsome and stately woman
who has charge of the subterranean par
lor accorded to women in the Senate wing.
Her fine brunette complexion, silky way
ing hair, soft voice and subdued manner,
but merely suggest the race to which she
belongs. Properly equipped and en-
vironed, Clementine might readily pass
for foreign lady of distinction, so easy
and we'll bred is she in her general car
place here through the Sherman influence,
and previous to her appointment was a
maid in the family of Senator Sherman
and that of the late general for more than
thirteen years. She is devoted to the
Sherman family, with the old instructive
habit of the Virginian servant to the
masters fortunes. Nothing so delights
Clementine as the recountings of the
clever sayings and generous deeds of the
various members of the Sherman family.
Of the.general she speaks with reverence,
and proudly refers to his generous expendi-
ture of money, of his daughters devotion,
and she pictures John Sherman as the most
genial of men at home and warm-hearted
and cordial to his close friends. Lady Wis
itors, especially Washingtonians, like to
stop and chat with Clementine, and they
find her far better posted on current
events than the average society woman.
She was. of course, intensely interested in
the election bill, and watched its fate from
day to day with eager hope for its success.
She was present when Don Cameron voted
to lay it aside, and her disappointmen was
intense, and not so much apparently, on the
defeat of the measure, as that one Of the
Sherman family could have voted to kill it.
What will Miss Lizzie sayl" Was Glenn
entine's mournful remark. By Miss Lizzie
she referred to Mrs. Senator Cameron,