St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-30
MRS. CLEVELAND.
Thoroughly Unaffected and Sim
pie in Her Tastes.

pie in Her Tastes.
Mrs. Cleveland is not, strictly speak
ing, beautiful woman. But there's
something in her face vastly better than
beauty. None of her photographs do
her justice, because the greatest charm
of her face Is its constantly varying
expression and her brilliant complex
ion. Mrs. Cleveland never uses cos
metics. She never has used them in
her life. The consequence is that she
has the glowing, healthy skin of a girl.
She is five feet six inches in height
and weighs $40 pounds. She is not the
social diplomat that she is credited with
being. Diplomacy suggests something
that is not altogether open and honest,
and Mis-. Cleveland is as frank as q
child. Her success in society and her
national popularity are due solely to the
fact that Mrs. Cleveland is honestly
fond of people and has genuine desire
to please just for the sake of pleasing
and not for any political triumph that
NAV result from it. She is thoroughly
unaffected and very simple i'll all her
tactics. She diSlikes display and no.
torety quite as much as her husband
does.
Since she has come to be one of the
principal figures in New York society
there has been an evident desire on her
part not to give herself prominence in
any way. She has her own circle of in
innate friends, gives her little teas and
luncheOnS, looks after her pretty house
in Madison avenue, and is altogether
happier, living in this quiet way, than
when, as mistress of the White house,
the eyes of the world were upon her.
Mrs. Cleveland is noncommittal re-
garding the possibility of returning to
the White house. Those who know her
best say that her desire is not to attract
attention to herself, but to further the
interests of her husband, of whom, de-
spite all gossip to the contrary, she is
very fond. The information comes
from Mrs. Cleveland's mother that the
marriage between her daughter and the
ex-president was arranged long before
Mr.. Cleveland was ever thought of as a
national candidate. Under any circum-
stances the ceremony would have taken
place just as it did. when Miss Folsom
mad completed her education.
There are few women in society who
are so we'll educated as Mrs. Cleveland.
She is college graduate, thoroughly
cOnVtrSant with the classics, con-
noiSseur in literature, and has one of
the best-selected libraries of any woman
in the country. She spends many hours
in the different libraries of New York.
She is one of the first visitors at every
new art exhibit, and in her home she
has some very valuable pictures and
statues which she has selected herself.
That Mrs. Cleveland is thoroughly
Womanly woman is evinceG in many
ways. No mistress OF the White house
10 @lx NJ No
looking toward the Potomac as home
ers. who was appointed by President
Lincoln and has held his post ever
since, although griZzled veteran of the
navy, can never speak of Mrs. Cleve-
land without CULVER in his voice and
suspicion of tears in his ewes.
"ld rather she'd shake hands with
me-" he said once, than to have the
finest present that money could buy.
Somehow, it used to make me warm all
over Pm good Republican, but l tell
you [ was sorry to see Mrs. Cleveland
90 away" and then. suddenly turning
to look out of the window. the old man
added: Il hope she'll be happy where
ever she iS-God bless her!"
When the term at the White house
was ended and the president and Mrs.
Cleveland came TO New OrK ner nrSC
desire was to have home of her own.
IL think l must be born housekeep-
err" she said, laughingly, to Mrs.
Whitney, one day, because Pm so fond
of putting OH cap and apron and dust
ing things"
The house, SIC Madison avenue.
above Sixty-ninth street, was chosen be-
cause it was pretty, though unpre-
tentiOuS and moi too large Moreover
the arrangement of the rooms pleased
Mrs. Cleveland. 1t was she who Sc
lected the house, but when she took
her big husband up to look at it he
quite agreed with her that it was just
the place they wanted.
Mrs. Cleveland was not poor when
she married, as many people imagine.
She had in her own right $500, 900 which
came to her from the sale OF some land
in Omaha, originally purchased by her
grandfather. John B. Folsom.