St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-12
MRS. CLEvELAND,S sOCILL AIDES:

where she began housekeeping. andShe
is anxious to show Washington people
the beautiful little girl which has come
into her life during the past four yeips.
Washington people are very fonf3 OF
Mrs. Cleveland. They are indulgent to
her little whimS. and they make gteat
deal of her virtues.
When Mrs. Cleveland came into Wash
ington us. bride she immediately took
a pew in church, and went with relig-
ious promptnesS to each service. some
times going OH foot so simply attlred
that Washington people became at once
specially proud and fond Of her, because
| she seemed to want to be one OF them
and one with them. Now, although
scarcely resident, of Washington yet,
she has already made arrangements for
regular church attendance. and Is evil
IDENTITY going to fall right back into her
| old democratic ways.
There is going TO be great change in
| the management and style of Washing
ton society. There is no doubt about
| il. The change comes in with the pres
ent administration, and unless some
| thing unusual happens it will continue
| through the term. Those who are ''in
the know say that the presidents wife
! will be the leader of society. Four years
ago she was overshadOwed by Mrs.
| Whitney. who could spend thousands of
dollars where Mrs. Cleveland could only
spend one. But now there are no mill
| iOnaireS in the cabinet, and the admin
istration dinners will be less elaborate
than they have been since the days of
| President and Lucy Hayes.
Mrs. Cleveland, by virtue of her
youth. her beauty and her talent as a
| society woman, will lead Washington
| "a nd off
| Mrs. Lamont, who has recently devel-
oped into a much-admired social butter
| fly. Mrs. Lamont is herself OF the opin-
| ion that Mrs. Cleveland will entertain
extensively, and says that she Is glad
| that the wife of the president will lead
| society," in wealth and elegance, as well
| as by virtue of her rank.
| Mrs. Cleveland is very fond of quiet
| entertainments. She likes to have a
vocalist ora pianist to entertain her
guests at all evening reception or after
a dinner is over. She is very fond OF
amateur theatricalS, although she never
takes part in them, and she enjoys lee
lures and talks" on all the topics OF
the day. She will no doubt entertain
her guests in this way whenever posi-
Bile, and it is probably that in the fall
Mrs. Cleveland will inaugurate a series
| of instructive entertainments that will
both please and benefit the matrons and
butterflies of Washington society.
The wife of the president has one very
sensible idea. She does not believe il
long dinners. A dinner of more than an
hour and half wearIeS her, and.during
her recent winter entertainments in
New York and Lakewood she limited
her dinners to seven, and only seven
courses.
One of the bugbears of Mrs. Cleve.
lands life is that of moving. During
| her six years. experience as the wife OF
! Grover Cleveland she has moved more
| than ten times. And she frankly SAYS
that she is glad to get back to Washing.
ton, if for no other reason than that she
can ''stay put" for four years. She has
moved from Washington to New York,
and from New York to Washing.
ton. She has lived for a couple OF
years in tine Madison avenue house
where Baby Ruth was born, and she had
all the labor of transferring her house
hold goods and chattels to temporary
| New York abode, while her Fifty-first
street house was being fitted I'D for her.
This house was leased just before Mr
! Cleveand's nomination. Mrs. Cleveland
has been obliged to move to Lakewood
several times OH account of the severity
| Vi lIG NEW WlulClSS ouQ DIG HIS
| also migrated to BuZzard's Bay with
crib and cradle, baby carriage, baby
Jumper, high chair and trunks. Moving
is very serious thing when one has a
young family. And Mrs. Cleveland finds
that the rapidly growing needs of her
| little household makes 1t thrice and four
times as difficult to move as before.
Mrs. Cleveland's ideas regarding the
duties of presidents wife are peculiar
She says that, while public office is a
public trust for the president, it is not
such for his wife. She does not think
that it is her duty to entertain commit
tees or to listen to the rights and wrongs
of any public topic whatsoever. She
will not receive woman's suffrage COM
mttees except socially, and she utterly
refuses to influence the president in any
way.
Mrs. Cleveland personally looks after
her own household. She hires her own