Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-20

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| OF them, which Is possibly two yards square
has probably the remains Of an entire suit Of
homespun woven in the gray foundation
| which has also flower border. The center
piece is log cabin Of graceful proportions
| made of dark brown pieces. The other rug has
Harrison and Morton well defined in white
letters on a dark ground and in the center are
two flags with their standards crossed. Homely
as they are they are calculated to last two OF
| three generations, and anybody who admires
| the industry and thrift they embody would
think these two rugs the most interesting OBJ
| Jects In the cottage.
THE SIMPLE DINING ROOM.
The dining room is as simply furnished as
the rest. The table takes up the greatest part
| of it. The new fireplace is put in a corner
where last year there was three-cornered
closet. The closet was moved to another cor
| ner. The antique oak buffet is the finest piece
/ OF furniture in the house. When decked up
| with napkins and some of the White House
| silver and glass on it with the pretty china il
| makes quite a show.
| The kitchen and pantry stretch across the
| back part of the first floor. The culinary para
phernalia is pretty much like that everybody
| else has at the point There are the regula-
ton number of pots and pans hanging around
the walls. and as it has to be also the servants
| dining room. their table is in one corner in ad-
dition to all the rest The cooking stove is
| about the most striking object in the kitchen,
| and certainly the one which most interests the
family circle there.
| Upstairs Mrs. Harrison makes the hall the
family sitting room. There are more signs OF
| domestic life here than all the rest of the cot
tage combined In front the doors open on
| the yeranda, which has settees and rockers like
down stairs. The new fireplace is in the center
| OF the hall and will naturally be the rallying
point for the family on cool evenings. On hoi
| ones, which are much more frequent the hall
is quite comfortable with the porch as an
annex The hall has number of couches and
lounges, all furnished up with bright chlntz
covers and piled high with cushions. There
are plenty Of capacious rockers and sewing
machine, a reading and a writing table show
the diversity of occupations which will be car
ried on there. This months novels. magazines
and picture papers replaced today what was
left there from last summer. Lamps to read
by and lamps to look pretty by are also valua-
bic additions to the hall furnishings.
THE PRESIDENTIAL BED ROOM.
At the left of the hall is the Presidents bed
room. 1t has neat carpet on the floor and a
set of cherry-stained furniture. There are no
furbelows any where about 1t. Neither are
there any about Mrs. Harrison's room. which
is just opposite it. Her furniture is just as
simple but it looks more expensive. being imi-
tation oak. She has gay Powered carpet on
her floor, and when her toilet table is fixed up
with its dainty muslin accessories the room is
very pretty.
The room just back of Mrs Harrison is a
bath room, and next to that again is what is
known as Mrs. Mckees room. Adjoining that
Is cosy corner room. the nursery. where Ben
Jamln and Mary already very much at
home DR.. SCOTS room is left for visitors this
year. Mrs. Dimmicks room is also on the
second floor.
The third floor has the rooms used last sum-
mer by Mrs. Russell Harrison and the nursery
for her baby daughter. The servants rooms
are also on this floor
Across the entire front of the house on the
upper floor is billiard room. Playing billiards
Is the Presidents favorite relaxation when he
cdnnot get out doors to walk. The ladies OF
the family have not acquired any doxterity
scarcely at all in handling the cue although it
Is not for want of trying. For fun and excr-
else indoors any one of them would prefer
a romp with the children. When the Pres
ident plays billiards with little Benjamin for an
audience he never fails of an enthusiastic add
mirer for all his crack shots.
SIMPLE BUT COMFORTABLE.
As will be CLEANED from the above there are
the Presidents, but as it has all the essentials
for summers comfort that Is all its occupants
care for. The cottage next door, scarcely half
its size. cost 1000, and large proportion of
this sum was expended in decorating the walls
But there was not an unnecessary dollar spent
in getting ready the Presidents cottage and
considering the uproar there was about his ac-
ceptns the gift one might have thought it was
finished in gold and silver. The land company,
which presented the house and which virtually
controls the point, takes care of the property
in the absence Of the family. keeps il in repair,
got it ready before the family arrived and will
see to all their belongings when they leave it
again. The company also manages to keep u
curious public from peeping in the cottage or
by infringing in the slightest degree the
privacy of Its occupants.
Outside these little safeguards to guard
against any breaks in the divinity which doth
hedge the king about" the life of the Presi-
dent family will be as democratic as anybody
else at the seashore. Last summer the cot
tage:s seemed to expect that neither Mr.. or
Mrs. Harrison would think anything of cross
ing over the fields to return their call but if
| the ladies made one call they would have to keep
it up and they would soon be as busy receiving
visitors as they are at home. The next place,
Mrs. Harrison cannot accommodate many SER
wants in the cottage and she wants them to en-
joy considerable rest and quiet also. She man.
ages the domestic machinery with a house
keeper, a cook, waiter, her own maid and
the two nurses for the children. The family
wash comes back to the White House every
week. where the usual force of servants are
still employed.
THE DAILY ROUTINE.
Breakfast at the cottage is served at 8 o clock
or it will be when the family has settled down
to its usual routine. Luncheon is a plentiful
meal, on the table usually between and halt
past. The dinner hour is variable and depends
on the length of the afternoon drive. Seven il
the hour generally. Every day the waiter who
also acts as steward, goes over to Cape May to
do the marketing and the Presidents table is
supplied with the best that can be found. Fish
and oysters are steady articles Of diet and are
always good here.
For the rest Of this month the family will
have their immediate neighborhood almost safe
from intrusion, none of the hotels expect to
do any business before the LIST of July. II
strikes casual visitors as very odd that the ho-
tel nearest the Presidents cottage, and GER
tainly as desirable as any of them,
has the cheapest rates of the three,
which are run by the same enterprising man
ager, who seems to have all OF the present and
good deal of the future of the point in his
hands The same fascination may not exist
when the crowd comes does now in watch
ing the movements of the President and his
family. Excepting the cottagers nearly all the
transients here in valids and the arrival of
the White House family seemed a perfect god
send. 1t gave them something to wait for and
now they have somebody interesting enough to
watch their every movement
A MoMENroUs TOPIC
But at the hotel supper table the Presidents
political future, Mr.. Blaines health, the Ohio
senatorship and the Mckinley nomination and
all the rest of the great questions, which were
such burning issues on Wednesday night, sim
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