Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-03-07
MRS. CLEvELAxDs onUMs.
She EnteTtains Them OnIy in the
Simplest way.

ely IN the White House, and those fortu-
nate enough to go there have had many
opportunities Of seeing Its ever fasclnat-
ing mistress They have seen her look
ing as well as she ever looked in her
life, and they have seen her wear some
charming costumes.
The gown in which she appeared at
the diplomatic dinner was the most be
coming and most chic that she has worn.
The rich brocade and the warm tinted
velvet with which 1t was combined were
suitable to the dignity that has been
added to Mrs. Cleveland's manner since
Mr.. CleveIand's first term. There will
be two more evening rece p lions this
season, one for the Army and Navy and
the public one.
1t Is always in the blue room that the
public sees Mrs. Cleveland. When she
receives her friends informally, as she
does those who have received cards or
who have been especially invited, on
Monday afternoons, from until 6
O'Clock, she stands sometimes in the red
room, and sometimes in the blue room.
Mrs. Cleveland always gives one large
card afternoon reception in the winter
She receives the guests In the east room
and as the guests are presented they pass
through other rooms into the dining
room where an elaborats lunch is
served, this being the only large affair
at which refreshments are served at the
White house.
Occasionally, as In the case of the
luncheon at the White House in honor
of Miss Woodward, Mrs. Cleveland en-
tertains in smaller way, but she is
leading a rather isolated life this Ad.
ministration, compared with her first
experience in the White House. She
has always had the good sense not to
live too much before the public. While
she is graciousness itself, che is always
the wife of the President Of the United
States. She goes about much less than
the Harrisons' did, and she is, perhaps
hOiS POPhi&t On lhdt uCCOunIs
There are no White House favorites
Mrs. Cleveland is good friend of Mrs
Lamont, but there is no trace Of such a
decided preference for her as would be
unpleasant for the other women in the
Cabinet circle.
Mrs. George Curzon, when she was
Miss Letter, was as intimate friend as
Mrs. Cleveland had. She lunehed at the
White House often, and Mrs. Cleveland
went several times to the Letter house
for luncheon. She was at the wedding
and went early to the reception This
is the only wedding which Mrs. Cleve-
and has attended.
She goes to see the families of the
Cabinet officers, but not on their reception
days. When she has had guests in the
house who have been eager to make the
round of Cabinet calls and see the inter
esting crowds at the reception, Mrs.
Cleveland hss driven with them to the
different houses and waited in the car
rage until the call was over. She is
fond of Harriet Lane Johnson whom
she visits, and who is often at the White
House Another intimate friend of Mrs.
Cleveland is Miss Elizabeth Lockwood
of Buffalo.
Although Mrs, Cleveland has never
posed as housekeeper, she is not with
out an interest in the decorations and
arrangements for the different White
House functions. One could wish,
though, that she would induce the per
soA who has charge Of the decoration of
the table FOR state dinners to forbear
from loading it with immense fruit
dishes. The gold service, the candelabra,
the Aowers and the other handsome fur
are enough without bananas,
oranges and grapes.
And there is never any trace of an
artist hand or fastidious feminine eve
in the ornamentation Of the different
rooms for big function" One can posi-
lively state that no other fashionable
hostess in Washington would be able to
endure the sight of mnntles ornamented
"for company as the White House
nantes are. 1t reminds one of nothing
SO much as the days when roses were
mounted on toothpicks and surrounded
with lace paper.
If all this could be changed and the
Executive family could be in possession
of smarter equipage, there would be
harmony between the hostess and sur
roundings.
Mrs. Cleveland is as enthusiastic an
alunnus of Wells College as ever. She
Is much interested in the meeting in
New York, and made visit to an at
tractive young Eatron in Washington to
induce her to go to New York for the
The comparatively quiet life that Mrs
Cleveland has led during the Admins
ration undoubtedly has been due to her
absorption in her children. She does
what few mothers, even outside of the |
set, who have three children
io-shs washes and dresses and un-
iresses them. Nothing interferes with
hat duty And as for the rumors of the
he children's sickness, they probably
rose from the fact that Mrs. Cleveland
kinks too much of their nerves to
'llow them to be shown off to any great
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