The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-25
A TALE OF WOE
Comes from the White House
Domestic Circle.
1t Contains just Enough Keen Gossip to
Make it Pleasant, Having Poignancy
Without Too Much Pain.
to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch

Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
WASHINGTON, March pa sad, but yet
very lovely little tale of wee comes from
the White House domestic circle A spar
row with a dainty blue ribbon on it's neck
brought it from the White House grounds
to the trysting place Of intelligent sparrows
on newspaper row. Mrs. Dimmick, the
sister of Mrs. Harrison, has ''given notice.
and 1t is said has taken up her residence
with another relative, Mrs. Parke, and
the White House pantries and closets win
no longer shine under the deft sapolion
fingers which for more than year have
operated at 500 month. The story is
rare and juicy, and it's true inwardness is
said to have been put out by the wife of
more or less distinguished Senator from
the region of Puget sound.
For the last year, in fact ever since Mrs.
Harrison took possession of her one dollar
cottage at Cape hay Point, Mrs. Dimmick
her sister. has been figuring in the news
papers IS one of the White House ladies'
Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. Russell Harrison, Mrs
! Dimmich-these have been in a certain
sense Mrs. Harrison's 'ladies in waiting
Mrs. Dimmick, good natured aunt that she
was, was usually assigned to the care and
custody OF the Baby Mckee brigade IN the
absence OF their respective mothers on
their social rounds. When either of tue
young mothers was required to act as
guests OF honor'' at pink teas and yellow
luncheons, 1T was Mrs. Dimmick who had
to warm the goats milk OH the gas stove
and eXpound the mysteries of Noah's ark
to the iuvenescenu minds of the White
/ House Mrs. Dimmick, quiet, motherly
lady, daughter also with Mrs. Harrison of
! that comfortable patriarch, GIranda Scott,
! looked after his comfort as well, and the
old gentleman took his monday cup of tea
from her hands with parental gratitude.
| Later ON Mrs Dimmick's name began to
appear as Mrs. Harrisons substitute at
certain social affairs at the White House
| Because OF her age and sisterly relation
ship, nothing was more natural than that
Mrs. Dimmick should figure IN the news
papers She has figured in a way which it
seems Mrs. Mckee and Mrs Russell Har-
rlson got angry about. They got their
young motherly heads together one night
after some reception, while the babies Nc.
Kee and the babies Russell Harrison were
nesting in their cribs, and with the
poignant memories of what houors had
been shoWered upon "Aunt Dimmick, u
that very evening, as representing the
White House." these cruel young women
resolved to give that estimable lady away
They gave her away in great shape They
caused to be conveyed to at leastthe wives OF
two Senators the information that Mrs. Dim
mick was on the White House pay roll as
"housekeeper," at 81, 200 year. This ere
ated breeze. of course, in society, and
Mrs. Dimmick's star began at once to pale
and within the last few days the gossip go
so strong and SO pointed that, to quiet mat
tiers and relieve the Presidents wife O.
embarrassment, Mrs. Dimmlck has ''giver
notice. probably got her wages and re
moved her belongings from the mansion.