The Van Buren press., 1897-04-03
THE WHITE HOUSE.
of the Official Guar
fers of the Executive

Arrangements of the Official Guar
tiers of the Executive.
At ten o'clock hardly diseernible
sign against the glass of the barrier an
nounces to the citizen who has arrived
under the grand portal that the execu-
tive mansion is "open" to visitors; at
two o'clock the sign is changed to
CLOSED" The doorkeepers swing the
doors open to everybody. Within the
large vestibule nothing is seen which
indicates the arrangement and purposes
of the different parts of tine mansion.
1t was not always SO, for originally the
now concealed corridor, or middle hall,
with the staircase on the right, was o
part of the entrance hall; now the
spaces between the middle columns are
closed with colored-glass partitions, and
the vestibule is simply large square
room pleasant to get out Of No way
appears to open to the state apartments
in the center, or to the west wing, which
is devoted to the private apartments;
yet glass doors are there, though as
imperceptibletot the strangeras aswing-
ing panel. To the left there is door
which is always open. 1t admits to a
small hall across which q similar door
is the side entrance to the great east
room. About this splendid room, com
prising the whole east end of the man
sion, the visitor may wander at will be-
fore the portraits, or enjoy from the
windows the beauty Of the treasury
building to the east or the impressive
landscape to the south, including the
towering shaft of the Washington
monument, and, beyond, the ever
charming Potomac spreading with en-
larging curves toward Mount Vernon;
and in the private garden under the
windows he may chance to see a merry
band Of little ones, two of them the
presidents older daughters, with few
playmates belonging to u kindergarten
class.
From the small hall between the YES
Thule and the east room a stairway as
cends toward the medal line of the
building to a wide middle hall, on each
side of which are the offices of the
president. The arrangement is simple,
and in the floor-plan covers the space
occupied below by the east room and
| the green room, the latter being the
| counterpart of the small hall with the
public stairway, just mentioned. At
| the head Of these stairs, over the green
room, is the cabinet room, which is the
| first apartment in the south side of the
hall; jog of two steps, at the private
door into the presidents room, mark
ing the raised ceiling of the east room
| below. The president reaches his Of
flee through the cabinet room, entering
| the latter from the library, which corre-
| spends on the second floor with tho
blue room of the state apartments. Pres
| ident Arthur, indeed, used the library
as his Office and the cabinet chamber
for an anteroom, while his private sec
retary was domicilcd in the traditional
Office OF the president During his first
| term Mr. Cleveland preserved the same
arrangement; but Gen. Harrison went
back to the office hallowed by Lincoln's
occupancy, and Mr.. Cleveland, on his re-
turn, found the arrangement so salts
! factory that he continued it.-Century.
Employment of Wet Nurses.
IL is said that il mother is COM
| PEELED to allow another TO nurse her
child, if the nurse does NOT remain be-
vond the first year and the mother is
closely associated with and devoted
TO the child, its love is not appreciably
affected. But if the nurse is allowed to
| ,,.ootfooll, 4alre tho unother's Mace il