Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-09

were started Mrs Cleveland found a task that could not be delegated to any clerk or maid. It took a week, and when the task was completed the lot had been reduced to one trunkful.
 A Chat With Mrs. Richard Olney.
 The home of the attorney general is now in quite an upset condition, for the family are preparing for thein move north for the summer, and trunks, big and heavy with straps, arc standing about in the lower hall ready for the baggage mansl attention. MT. Olney and his their cool New England home, and it is not likely that the capital will see any thing more of them before fall.
 The house which is at present occupied by the Olneys is the one which was for merly the home of Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of the ex-congressman from Ohio. Before this the Olneys lived in a large new brick in the outskirts of the city on the very edge of Massachusetts avenue, but this was evidently too far out for the taste of the attorney general So few months ago, about the middle of April, he moved all his family into the yellow brick which stands at the corner of Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth street
 Mrs. Olney has with her Mrs. M.not, her daughter, whose husband died in Boston about fifteen months ago. Mrs. Minot Is a slender young woman, and the proud mother of son, who is the apple of his grandfathers eye, young Frank Minot who is as sturdy and as independ- ent specimen of young America as can be found in a days journey. One rarely passes the Olney home without seeing the boy playing before the door with his little cart in tow, while his nurse is how ering near with watchful care.
 Mrs. Olney is a very young woman to l1. n1..,x1 tIAx. f.r 1AK. 1.n f.. eftI bright. Her manner. says the Washing ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Times, is cordial and pleasant, and there are few ladies i'll official circles who are more popular than the wife of the attor- ney-general
 What do I think of Washington so- ciety?" she remarked in reply tQ Che query of a recent visitor. "Why, it is just like that of every other city-some bad, some good and a mixture of the frivolous. But the society here is ger tainly most delightful and most charit- ably inclined, and 1t is without doubt one that can boast of people of the highest cultivation. I have not found 1t frivol- ous, but just as I would see anywhere a crowd of similarly we'll bred people.
 AS for the new woman and the top ics which are at present agitating the world, have not taken a great deal of interest, but I do think that in many cases IL WOulu De IIlOSI WlSe tO dliOW tO woman the privilege of the ballot es- pecially in the case of school boards. for 1t is in this direction that their judg- ment could be used to particularly good advantage As for voting in the general elections, that Is something that wo- man must decide according to her own tast-as for myself, I have too much to do at home to undertake duties abroad.
 These questions are much debated for and against by the people in our sect tion, where all questions of progress meet with great interest. But as I have not been home for some time I cannot say how the majority of the ladies in the north stand I do know however, that the fever for athletic sports is growing and is as great among the la dies asit is among the men.
 "One thing we can boast of in Massa- chusetts is that our houses are better protected against the cold than those of Washington. Of course. our cold win