The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02

with the prettiest girl, and when you
drive along the road you are sure TO SEES
him with spanking team and some pref
" maid or matron beside him encour-
aging the horses to their best pace.
An interesting summer guest IS DR..
Bryant, whose visits always mean sOme-
thing IN the Cleveland family. The doc
tor fishes and shoots with the President
and drives with Mrs. Cleveland and the
babies. Marion is fun of pleasant sum-
mer rumors, and Mrs. Cleveland Is If pos
sl6le more adored than ever hereabouts
IL IS cool here, even cold, and at Crows
Nest on Mr.. Jefferson's private piazza,
there is a stir breeze always blowing
Mr.. Jefferson and the President fish on
rainy days and sit on the Gray Gables We
randa sunshiny ones. IL Is an odd init
macy that Of these two men, and when
you complete the group with ". c.. Ben
edlct the millionaire banker, and DR..
Bryan, you have one of the most inter-
esting intimacies In the world
Mrs. Cleveland drives from Gray Gables
70 Marion every day with a pretty girl
beside her. She handles the ribbons
smaftly over little russet-colored
horse. When she takes the victoria the
pretty girl sits alongside the Presidents
VIE and opposite are piled the little
Cleveland girls. They are all now full
ming a mothers dream, of infantile
smartness, being "on their feet" Marion
who was year old in July. stands alone
upon the carriage seat with q hand be-
hind her; and Esther, who will be three
years old in September, has good control
of herself. Ruth, Of five Is very mature
IN manner, betting the eldest daughter.
They are We'll brought up children, as
SHOWN by the hasty berrying trips they
take along the road. The carriage halts,
all are lifted out, and then Mrs. Cleve-
land, the pretty girl guest and Miss Ruth
minister to the babies, all of whom ap-
pear to come In for taste of whatever
plunder is going.
II is said that Sorrento would not be-
Sorrento wi And
claims that Marion would not be Marion
without the little colony up in Maine.
Anyway, about five hours further along
the coast dwell the remainder of the ca b.
met and official group. Here the Steven
sons live In a picturesque wooden house
close TO Chief-Justice Fuller and here
Secretary Lamont dwells in summer, a
neighbor to Gen Greedy, who prefers cold
attitudes since his trip to the coolest spot
Of all. All the Sorrento people come down
TO Marion to make their duty calls, just
as they go over to Bar Harbor to enjoy
themselves. And the Marion people go up
to Sorrento and return their visits.
The kodak people have been less trou-
blesome this year, but the pen and ink ar
fists have been positively annoying to the
family OF the President. A group OF girl
artists came up here and established them
selves at a farmhouse with the evident
intention Of sketching the Presidents
family. Day after day they walked the
highways. pencil in hand, and many were
the sketches they managed to get of the
cherished babies One of the artists sue
ceeded in getting very good sketch of
one of Mrs. Cleveland's girl friends as she
sat upon a bank along the roadside to
rest
When Mrs. Cleveland spied the artist
behind a cump of berry bushes industri-
ously plying her busy pencil she tried
to buy the sketch, but to no avail. The
girl would not sell. She would do a du-
plicate, but not give up the original
There are some very fine gowns seen
at Buzzard's Bay this year. The social
functions" are becoming more pretentious
and the goWning is superb. Mrs. Cleve-
lands chosen color this spring is lilac.
Gray Gables has a new name given To-
cally 1t is the Lighthouse by the Sea-
From the nearest gable there CLEANS
every night a bright light, like a star
1t burns till morning. As 1t goes out the
cocks crow, and a little later the nurse
comes out on the piazza with the chill
dren for their morning walk. An hour
later Mrs. Cleveland joins them. But 1t
is not until o'clock that the President
occupies his arm chair on the piazza.
Harry Germaine.