The morning call., 1893-04-23

valuable. which used tn keep at my house.
but so many of the people who called on
me asked to see them that il gave mo a
great deal of trouble aud labor taking them
ont AMI putting them back in the places
where they belonged. So at last DECIDED
that would put them in the National MI.
scum. They are there nov in glass case,
and have been there since last October. l
have picture, which | prize very highly,
and which did not send with the COLLECTION
IL Is small painting on wood of De Witt
Clinton and his family. ClintNn's wife, who
was CuoaD, was said to have resent leh my
mother, and their child was very much like
me. therefore thought great deal of this
picture. One Christmas when | was 6 years
OLD and shortly before i left the White
House, Uncle Jackson asked me what |
wonld Ike told him that picture that al
ways stood on one corner of his mantel-
piece he gave II to me and since then it
has never left me. | always carry it with
me whenever / travel and it has been all
over Europe and the United States with me-.
mat picture OF my mother" showing me
liie-slze painting above the mautel m her par
Tor, looks very much like Mary Qneen of
scots Iaklng the peculiar dress OF TIL time
of Mary away from her picture that of her
and OF my mother would be almost iden-
teal"
Mrs. Wilcox went into the department
service hiteen years AGO. She was APP
pointed at tho instance of General Grant.
she had been married in 1852 to Colonel
WILCOX, Representative in Congress from
Mississippi. He was wealthy planter and
owned 300 slaves. He represented Missis-
sippi in the Thirty second Congress, and a
little later he moved to Texas and repre-
sehted that State in the House of Reyresen-
tatiPes lG the Ihirty-f0urtE Congress. At
terwaTd he was IN The Congress of the
Confederate States. He would have been
sent 10 the United States Senate after the
war if he had lived. He died in 1865. The
war had swept away most OF his property,
and after some years Mrs. Wilcox found il
necessary to enter the department service.
President Grant, who had her appointed TO
her DEPARTMENT position, was almost like a
father TO her, Mrs. Wilcox said.
Inc jackson relics in the National Slu-
scum, many OF which were contributed by
Mrs. wilcox, occupy case by themselves.
Most conspicuous among them is u huge
tortoiseshell comb presented TO Mrs. Jack
son by the ladies' of New Orleans and worn
by her at ball given in honor of General
Lafayette at Nashville in 1925 As the
fashions oil that day are again coming into
vogue, possibly the ladies who read this
story VIII understand how Mrs. Jackson
managed to sustain this hinge decoration on
her head. 1t is about eight inches high
and nearly foot wide. At each end was
carved harp and in the center was
painted a portrait of President Jackson
This was one of Mrs. Wilcox's memen-
toes of the jackson family inherited
from her mother. Another conspicuous
relic is a scimtar presented 20 General
jackson by the Sultan of Turkey. said to
have belonged at one time to Mnhammed
There is a military coat, worn by General
Jackson ut the battle OF New Orleans
Then there is the watch he wore in that
battle. Ii is chrOnOmeter of ordinary
size, open faced, In case of gold. The
dial also is OF gold. Then. there is a veil, a
yard square, embroidered with the name
Jackson" presented to Mrs. jackson by
the ladies of Cincinnati with the request
that she wear It at JackSon's inauguration.
AS she died before the inauguration, it was
never worn.
The most unique of these relics is a lock
of General Jackson's hair. 1t is but n
Scanty lock, for there are only eight or ten
lie on little velvet cushion, tied together
with a thread.
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.