The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-14
LOVED BY THE PEOPLE.
WHY MRS. CLEVELAND HAS Al
WAYS BEEN 4 FAVORITE.

Worth Mentioning.
! Washington. Feb 13-Nowhere are the
caprices of tickle fortune so apparent as
in the Kaleidoscope society of the nations
! capital. Besides the ordinary chances
| and changes of life every fourth year,
| with the completed whirl Of her wheel,
| ali the familiar faces in the higher circle
! suddenly disappear. and new ones take
| their places. Therefore. "old Washing
| toEians" have adopted two rules of con-
! duct-first, TO form no special attachments
in official society, because their speedy
| severance is inevitable; and second,
never to slight or ignore anybody, for
! who can say what obscure individual may
be tossed on top by the next whrl of the
| wheel. As everybody knows, the high
est offices have frequently been filled by
rnen whom nobody had hitherto suspected
! Of latent greatness-shy NJ. C.'s, whose
voices were never heard in the House be-
yond an occasional aye or nay on strict
party lines, farmers, country merchants
who took their exalted positions as COM
/ pacently as If born to the purple; and
sorne OF the most conspicuous women of
the rltra-eXclusive set, whose functions"
and costumes are gushingly described by
the penny-a-liners, or ex-school ma ans,
| or treasury "countesses," or belong erst-
| while 10 that honorable class OF rural
| hosewives who do their own work" And
by the same token many who ride the
tOpmoSt wave to-day may tomorrow be
| lost in the level sea of common folk. The
| fact of having once held high office seems
| to spoil the average man Tor any useful
! occupation. When his turn comes to he
| laid on the political shelf, he finds ii inn
| possible to lear himself loose, but clings
! barnacle-wise, to the scenes of his former
| power, though for him their glory has de-
| parted Washington is fun of ex-ofiicials
| AMI their families, huttering like moths
| around The flame that singed their wings.
| Upheld by the hope that springs eter-
| nal for something in the way ol ponti-
| cal preferment to turn up in their favor,
! they lobby a little for their friends, or
| dabble temporarily in real estate, or turn
| pension attorneys; while their wives and
| daughters, padding lamely along the edge
| OF the swim" have many secret cross
| TO bear OF lost pristige and shortened m
! come. The wives of many deposed con-
| sressmen have Joined the army of board
| Ing house keepers with which Washing
ion is infested, preferrng to serve Tom,
DICK ana Harry in a mental capacity
rather than live anywhere else. the da-
partments are crowded with the widows
| ana daughters of former statesmen, Of
court Justices and others once high In po-
sition, and some find the road thorpy
enough, with calumny and Scorn, for their
| portion While eating the bread of depend-
dence. An example of this NAV he found
in the Louise Home for Aged Women,
endowed and named in honor of his wife
H..
W. W. Corcoran-where a white house
pride, once as beautiful and envied as
Mrs. Cleveland, Is ending her days in
poverty and loneliness
speaking OF the present first lady" no
mistress of the white house was ever less
spoiled by her social elevation, or retired
from the historic mansion more uniVer-
sally regretted. Mrs. Cleveland is so es-
Senually Womans woman that nothing
can ever destroy her place in their esti-
nation. Especially to young women she
is the perfect ideal and the first is vet
10 pc found who, favored with her ac-
guaintaInce' does not adore her. Though
occupying the very highest position in
tne iand,. with her an old friend is an
OLD friend still, and those of her mates
! VINO were chums at school are no less
| chums now. The fact that some of them
| have gone out into the world to earn
their own living has made no difference.
| There is Jane WEIGH the historical lee
| turer, who has received MANY courtesies
| from her old college friend Mrs Cleve-
land, whenever she has visited the CAPT.
| tai on professional tours. Miss WEIGH is
| always invited to the white house when
| here, and the lady thereof is a constant
| patron of her lectures. Miss Johnson, am
| other old friend and now a professional
| demonstration of good cookerM has also
| been treated with the same affectionate
considerations; So. too, has Miss Hud-
| cousin, to whom Mrs. Cleveland gave a
| coming-out tea in the white house and
| al the debutantes and younger set in
| Washington society who have been con-
| slant recipients of her favor. Even the
| gossips, who at first criticised a school,
! girls marriage to man old enough to be
| her father and attributed II to ambition
| alone, are silenced by the testimony of
| Mrs. CleVeland's bright and happy face
The most meddlesome must admit that
| there is no doubt of her happy mother
| hood-and more motherly mother was
| never seen. Not only does she give per-
sonal supervision to the education and
welfare of her trio of little girls in ev-
! cry particular, Notwithstanding nurses
and governesses and servants galore but
| she is interested in all children The
| white house kindergarten and similar in
| stitutions In this city and in New York
| testify enthusiastically to her intelligent
| interest i'm child life and happiness. In
| the white house kindergarten, where daily
| assembled the children from the cabinet
| and few other households, to take the
| first step in the path of learning with
Ruth and Esther, guided by a competent
| young woman instructor, who was also
a school friend of Mrs. Cleveland The
present administration, by the way, has
| been noted for the exceptional number
| of little people in its home circles-chil-
! dren or grandchildren in every house to
! keep their elders young and sweet 1t
| has made children in the house. a fash
| ionable fad in Washington society, which,
let us hope, will not die out with the
! coming almost childless administration.
! The Secretary of War had three little
! maids to send to the white house kim
dergarten the Secretary of the Navy, a
| small grandson; the Secretary of State.
| the acknowledged most beautiful child of
the circle; Private Secretary Thurber,
/ three rOl1cKlnS boys, ana so on TO the
number of twenty. One of the prettiest
| affairs which the stately old white house
| has ever Witnessed occurred the other
day, when the infant class of st. Mark
| church, forty-four of them, none over
| years of age, went in a body to call
upon Mrs. Cleveland. That lady was de-
| lighted, and Is never so charming as when
! with little folks. She won their hearts
in a minute, and told them that they were
| the very smallest visitors she ever had.
| Then she went and got Ruth and Esther
| to help in the entertainment, and caused
| Just the right sort of luncheon to be serv-
| ed, and presented each child with a tiny
| bouquet for a souvenir.
That Mrs. Cleveland favors woman's
work in all lines where woman's work is
| as good as mems, has been frequently
| shown. The last Photographic group OF
| the cabinet ladies made the other day,
pour prendre congo, which Will pass into
| history as the circle which existed at the
| close of the Cleveland administration,
was executed by a young lady-Mlss
Franklin Benjamin tombstone. The pic
| tlire is a beautiful one. The ladies, with
| Mrs. Clevland in the center. are grouped
| i'm one corner of Miss Johnstone's attrac-
| tive studio, in front of a large open fire
place, surrounded by bric-a-brac and art
| treasures. Afterwards Mrs Cleveland
| posed alone, for the first photographs of