Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-04-08

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teeth. On the light brown hair 1aun
THY ~ . toQue Of dark blue velvet
trimmed with silver fur and the wing
OF . "a gull. Matching her hat Il
color was her tailor made suit OF cloth
trimmed with the same silver fox. AM
her hands nestled warmly in q NUT
Of blue velvet. silver fox. and violets
She looked dainty and sweet. and pleas
ing to the most critical eye. for you'll
and health beamed all over her.
you do look lovely, my dear" OK
claimed Mrs. Bob. "You have grea
tact about your dress. No one woult
imagine that you were working TO-
your living as a stenographer. All tn,
more credit to you and me, my dear
that we are taken for people who hav,
long purse at command. So yol
managed to get OF to-day?"
Yes, old TAFT was in one of his goot
humors yesterday. He got fifteer
thousand dollar claim through the
court. He was 5ubilant. and after
his jubilancy had subsidized sufficiently
for him to come down to earth.
got permission to attend Mrs. Cleve.
lands reception, as 1t would probably
be her last one." n
After lunch, Mrs. Bob Miller, attired
in her black satin and a seal plush
sack, with a dainty little bonnet perch
ed on her silver hair, and accompanied
NV ISthaJ (vIiNord uyao oopvavad doxy,,
town in one of the rumbling red her.
dies, drawn by two lean brown horses
whose shivering bones were covered
with faded gray cotton blankets. Truly
not fit equipage for these two lovely
women on the way to the reception OF
the first lady In the land! But as no
one Would be the wiser, what need they
care?
Though the noon hour was not yet
ended, line of people extended from
the white portico of the Presidential
mansion down to the north gates and
then for half a block away !. The newly
arrived callers were made to take their
proper places, as policemen we're sta
toned at close intervals to prevent late
corners getting ahead. Ethel was much
amused at a fat woman whom she
Mrs. Spangles." She tried
all sorts Of wiles to induce the
policeman to let her get far
ther up in the line; but as she was
fat, forty, and not at all fair, he was
callous to her charms. Had he sue
he would probably have
brought down on his helmet the right
eous wrath of a score Of angry females.
For nearly two hours Mrs. Miller and
her charge waited before they. could
plant their feet on the first stone step
of the portico, and during that time
Ethel good-naturedly amused herself
by watching her neighbors' faces and
to their talk. 1t was rather
chilly standing in the park, but her
pride made her swallow her discomfort
and she did not make any complaint.
Step by step the line lessened, and at
last they reached the door of the Red
Room, where the usher asks for callers
names.
miss Clifford murmurs Ethel.
miss Snifferd," calls the usher as
he presents her to Mrs. Cleveland. At
the misnomer poor Ethel becomes so
confused that she fails to receive a
definite impression of the first lady of
the land and her assistants. She sees
Il glimpse of a white dress, and then,
with the clasp of a warm hand, and the
touch of some cold, fishy ones, she
passes into the East Room.
Mrs. Bob recognizes in the receiving
line one of the ladies whom she had
met several times that winter, and she
hastens to impart the information to
Ethel.
ooh, don't tell me, Mrs. Miller.
nm SO disappointed. l don't know what
Mrs. Cleveland looks like. That man
Ealing me Miss Snifferd' quite finish
ID me. only remember that she gave
me warm clasp as though she had
not shaken hands with any one for a
week; that the others greeted me as IL
hey had hold of a wet dish rag, and
hen / landed in here"
Never mind, my DEAR" said Mrs.
Miller consolingly; well take walk
nto the conservatory, look at the peo-
Die, and try and slip into the line again.
we often done that. Have your senses
about you this time, and take good
ook."
Acting on Mrs. Miller's suggestion,
hey wandered as best they might
through the open rooms into the con-
looked out the big East
Room windows down toward the Mon
gazed at their full length fig
Tres in the pier mirrors, and then set
lbout falling in line again. They were
not discovered, but were again pre-
'ented to Mrs. Cleveland. Ethel took
! good look, and carried away pretty,
lever-to-be-forgotten picture in her
of the beautiful mistress of the
White House.
On coming out of the mansion they
encountered three young men, ac-
luaintances of Ethel. BY one Of these
/ fourth young man was introduced to
Ter as Mr.. Horace G.. Denison, of Vir-
yinia, the grandson Of former Presi-
lent. Ethel was much impressed with
10Th the lineage and lineaments of Mr..
Denison. He was about 26 years of
lge, we'll built, with clear cut, clean
,haven face, dark eyes, and rather long
black hair. He was politeness person
7ad-uof tho nolif an oea acurIired in a
short time and aired only on special
but the politeness that is in
late In q Southern gentleman. He fell