Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-14

Hayes / could let the doctor touch nv hand
This was done and the hand was dressed with
out trouble. Her tact was shown again and
again while she was in the White House. 1 re-
member an instance which occurred at Just
about the time the picture Of Martha Washing
ton was hung there. We had private
dinner at the White House one night. and
as usual we had the Marine Band to
play for Us. Mrs. HAYES was very fond
OF the Marine Band and we considered them
our friends. The party had left the table and
had gone into the east room. They had here
gathered around the picture Of Martha Wash
ington; 1t hangs. you know, Just next TO that
OF Washington on the east wall of the room.
Many people now suppose il was always hung
there, IT fits so naturally in with that OF Wash
lngton, but Mrs. HAYES was the one who placed
II there. Well. as the PARTY stood around the
picture. talking about it, the members of the
Marine Band, supposing that we were in the
other parlors. came rushing into the room in a
very rowdy manner and boistercusly took pos
session of one end of it, They we're talking
loudly and laughing. when all at once they
noticed the guests of the President at the other
end of the room. The guests at the same time
saw them and looked surprised. A scene was
imminent when Mrs. HAYES came in. She saw
the situation at glance and removed the en-
barrassment of all by going quickly to the man
pulling out handful. She then began to give
these to the different guests as souvenirs and
thus distracted their attention. The Marine
Band quietly withdrew and no one thought
anything Of their intrusion. l could give many
instances OF her tact. She was a woman OF
wonderful physical endurance and shortly be-
fore we lett Columbus for Washington she
shook hands with $4,000 people in fourteen
hours, and the last of these we're as cordially
received as the first. Among these were 200
school children. She had a wonderful executive
ability and she was altogether the ablest and
the nob!est woman have ever known.
PEEP INTO THE sAScTUM sANcToRUN
We we're in Mr.. Hayes bed room when
he was chatting about Mrs. Hayes. This is q
large room on the ground floor, Just off the hall,
between the reception room and the dining
room. Il is the room winch the ex- President and
his wife occupied during her life, and the
furniture is the same TODAY il was when Mrs.
Hayes died. A great mahogany four-poster
stands in one end Of the room. There are pic
lures and photographs on every resting place
about the walls and upon the mantel, and there
are books scattered here and there. "This, "
said Mr.. Hayes, sis the only room which
no one enter without knocking and come
in here when | want to be alone. If nv callers
push me too hard and l want TO absolutely in
sure my privacy for my work have this other
room in reserve and he pointed to his private
bath room, which is just off the bed room. In
company with him looked at il. 1t ia about
fifteen feet long and ten feet wide. and one
side of IL was walled with books and cases. At
one end there was bath NIB and at the other
there desk Uttered with manuscript and
papers of various kinds, and the room was in
shorts kind Of a bath room and workshop COM
bined. Along the tops Of the cases were books
bearing upon the subjects which the ex-President
was studying at the time visited him. and all
the surroundings were those OF hard work.
mo one will think of intruding their presence
upon a man when he ia in his bath ROOM" said
Mr.. HAYES. land great deal of my hardest
thinking do here. You note my books; these
are changed from time 20 time rs take up diff
ferent studies or become interested in different
subjects. ! am doing good deal of reading
and have an excellent library
Ex-PREsIDENr HAYES BOOKS.
Mr.. Hayes has, in fact, one Of the finest
private libraries in the country. 1t numbers
about 1000 volumes. and his collection of
Americana is one OF the finest in the country
He bought at one time 1000 volumes from
Robert Clarke il Co. of Cincinnati of books
bearing an American history and American
Biography, and these the book publishers had
been years in collecting. His books are classi-
fed SO that he can lay his hands in a moment
on any volume and they are arranged on the