Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-03

buckets empty in the evening. They
have no appreciation of the fact that
their father is the head of a mighty
nation, with even more unlimited power
than some of the monarchs of the old
world To live in big marble build
ing with nurses and servants to attend
to them is natural; for they know no
other life. If little Ruth were told
that she could not have milk, or cream,
: or candy, or bread and butter because
t.papa has no money and is out of
work" she would open her big bright
Seyes in amazement. That sort of Ian
guage would be all Greek to her. 1t
would be a foreign tongue, and she
would stamp her little foot and order
with anger that her demands be com
piled with at, once. We may hope and
pray that Ruth Cleveland and her little
Fsister shall never know what depriva-
ton means. While We are prone to
envy the successful and prosperous in
this world, we are not in yIined to wish
that others may sufftr poverty or pain.
No baby of the vl.ito louise has ever
/. come to grief, but ladies who have lived
in the executive mansion have known
reduced circumstan ccs in later life.
For many years there has been a resi-
dent of this city, living On charity, who
was once the leader CT the society of
Washington, and WHO was known as
the first lady of t,lc land" In 1912
the wife of President John Tyler died,
and her daughter Letitia Tyler became
the domestic manager Of the home of
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ministration. She was beautiful, too;
and her social reign was brilliant.
Twenty years after the Tyler admins
tration, at the close of the civil war,
Letitia Tyler-Semple, orphaned and
widowed, in reduced circumstances, in
3 actual need of money for food and
clothing, went to Baltimore and opened
a select school for young ladies. She
was about forty years of age, still at
tractive and beautiful, but proud of her
family, proud of her welded name, and
unwilling to become the wife of another
man; and so she worked with will and
succeeded. But her eyesight failed and
her health broke down. Destitution
stared her in the face, but she never
complained. Her circumstances, how
ever, became known to the millionaire
and philanthropist, William w. Corco-
ran, of this city, and he came to her
rescue. In memory of his beloved
, daughter, who died while quite young,
Mr.. Corcoran established home for
: ladies Of gentle birth and breeding, and
/, called it the Louise home"
Within year of the establishment
of this house of refuge, Mr.. Corcoran
learned of the condition of Lee
titia Tyler-Semple, whom he had
known when he was young
man, and whose father, President Ty-
Ter, had been his friend. Mr.. Corcoran
went to Baltimore, saw the lady, told
her of the establishment of the Louise
home" asked her opinion of it, and
finally invited her to become its most
honored guest. She demurred, ex-
pressing the belief that her strength
would be restored and that she would
be able to care for herself; but Mr.. Cor
,coran finally induced her to come to
Washington and enter the home, That
was nearly twenty years ago, and she
has lived there ever since. She is about
seventy-fve years of age, tall, slender
and unusually erect for a lady of her
age. She is thorough Tyler, with the
strongly Characteristic features of that
famous family. Her hair is silvery white,
and the brown eyes, pleasantly smiling
through the gold-rimmed glasses, CLEAN
with brightness. Her memory is un-
impaired, and she delights in recalling
the time when she was the recognized
leader in the society of the country
and queen of the American court.
For the past three years she has re-
ceived pension of eight dollars per
month, which, though small is yet an
addition to her slender income. In this
same city for many years her brother,
John Tyler, lived as an employe Of the
treasury department, and they often
saw each other and talked Of old times
when they were great and powerful.
But dnally John Tyler, who had been