Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-02

Mrs. Palmer, or Mrs. Whitney, or Mrs. Carlisle or
Mrs. Boies, in case our national politics take a
somersault, as some think they will. If not any
OF these women, will it be the wife of the dark
horse, or will that sable hued animal have a
wife. or not, having wife, will he want to we'd?
anybody with correct solution to
this puzzle will supply great public
demand by stating it. The only promi-
nent bachelor in the field is United States
Senator David B. Hill. just because he is in
that lamentable condition his case can be dis
posed of first If Mr.. Hill comes to the White
House are going through tho same delight
ful experiences that preceded Mr.. Cleveland's
wedding day. 1t will not make the slightest
difference whether or not Mr. Hill exhibits the
faintest desire for feminine company, he
w Will be md the daily ", object of sus-
just as the other gentleman from New York did
and In due season take TO himself wife That
point settled, will the object of his affection
be young or old? Well, he need not leave
Washington to make an excellent choice and
one that would do his own taste and the good
repute of the nation infinite credit. II it is to
be President Hill what a quantity of feminine
emotions will be squandered in the direction of
the Executive Mansion. So far, however. If
senator Hill has any weakness or any senti-
mental regard tor the society of womankind he
has kept 1t locked up in his innermost soul
since he came here to live. He makes his
home at the Arlington Hotel and when not en-
gagged in his senatorial duties he is talking
politics with his friends, or sleeping, or eat
Ing. or walking about the streets, for he
certainly is not going a counting. good
many Senator's and other officials fam
lilies are at the same hotel. Some of the
wives are good looking and young and charm
Ing, and nearly all are fond Of society They
have had piles of fun all winter trying to get
acquainted with Senator Hill. Their husbands
have presented him and they have enjoyed
many fetching little talks, and 10 and behold
when they met him again he never seemed to
know them They bow and smile and are
always rewarded with profound Good morn
ing. madam" and that is us far as they ever
get. The Senator has been conspicuous by his
absence from any and all sorts of social Occa-
sions since he came here. So if he has any
romance tucked away around his heart it is
safe to say. that there is not in Washing ton any
woman able to point out the direction of his
fattering regard, aud there is evidently a wide
sea of conjecture as to the personnel of the lady
who may sit opposite President Hill at future
state banQuets.
Now for the ladies named and a good MANY
others who may feel that they might have been
mentioned with equal propriety. For verify
ana Indeed the writer of this may see in the
hSht OF subsequent events cause to gnash her
teeth and muss her front hair with consuming
rage that she did not have sense enough To do
race as their husbands, and u few make no
secret of their ambitions and hopes in that
direction, for. think they, nobody is as well
posted as their wives on the qualifications these
gentlemen possess for the best gifts the people
can shower upon its idol The most of these
ladies. however, keep securely locked up in
their own minds any rosy visions in which thew
may indulge on the quiet, and no amount Of
adroit questioning could tempt them to make
the slightest comment on the political situa-
N far fhnrr
cerned- In a city and at time like this, when
the political stOckpOt has been put on for a
long boil, 1t requires pretty well-guarded
tongue to keep from airing one 8 knowledge of
turns and moves that look innocent on the
face. For the social world the politics of a
President does not spoil the flavor of his din
ner parties, and, sad enough it may sound to
the serious observer of current events, the din
ners and dances of an administration are as
likely to live as long in history as its foreign
treaties
MRS. HARRISON.
Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland are the
only ones able to view the situation from the
mount OF experience. Mrs. Harrison has
known also the hard work while the struggle
is pending, well as the delight of the victory.
Her career as mistIesS of the White House
VIII make n bright page In its history. She
brought to Its duties all the influences of a
thoroughly good heart a weii-stored mind. n
graceful dignity and willingness to serve
others before she consulted her own conyen-
fence She has kept all her old friends. no
matter what were the variations of the political
thermometer, and she has made hundreds OF
new ones. Two ladies were sitting opposite her
one day lately at a luncheon. One more serious
minded than usual said: do you know what
read in that face? A wonderfully clear con-
cepton OF what Is right and strong, earnest
determination 10 do it," Her friend replied:
do You know what see? 1t is a simple thing.
but 1t is very rare. Mrs. Harrison NAV have
more bonnets than when she came to the White
House, but they are the same size The nation
Is justly proud OF the good example she sets in
her home life. Her patriotic impulses have
led her to make such improvements md changes
In the White House that its future mistress
will call down benedictions on her name.
no matter whether that lady will arrive one
year or five years from date. Not emitting a
single duty that the public by reason of long
custom could expect of her, she has done more
in social way and on a more liberal scale than
any OF her predecessors. No Presidents wife
has shown a deeper interest in our local instr
tutlons nor greater Willingness to see and be
seen at any anu all times by the people of this
city. In her marvellous good sense, as well
as In her graclousness of manner, the Younger
ladies OF the household Mrs. Mckee, Mrs.
Russell Harrison. Mrs. Dimmick and airs.
Parker, have each shown themselves quite as
gifted. Mrs. Mckees group OF intimate friends
in this city has wideneI until it has grown to
the dimensions of a geat host. Never was n
Presidents daughter more frequently or more
handsomely entertained by the official and
private residents than she has BEEN and with
equal truth, it may be added, few have recipro.
Gated all these hattering attentions with the
same pleasure and grace.
MRS CLEVELAND.
Should Mrs. Cleveland return to the White
House she will probably look at things in a
much different light from what she did when
she came there to be married in june 1885, or
to private life. There certainly never was
at every public appearance and Of whose move
more avidity. just in the height of national
self wife. Ali the world loves a lover and his
journalistic fraternity OF this city let any little
without n pleasantly worded paragraph it was
gallant sex took o hand In writing up the Cleve-
land home life. The history of that period
establishes the fact that these domes-
TIC sketches were not as acceptable
reading for Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland as the
uniformly kind and well put things which day
after day were evolved from the pens with a
womans hand manipulating them aud fairly
fhrobbing at the same time with nervous
anxiety to get the results into print Mrs.
Cleveland many times expressed her apprecia-
ton OF these attentions, and has often re-
ferred to It since, showing conclusively that
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