The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-28

ISOLATION of marriage, birth and death.
Diversified as have been the origin, aims
and characteristics of its successive oc-
cupants, all have been honora-
BILE, high-minded men and wo-
men, true believers in religion and
in the sanctity of the marriage vow,
and no romantic intrigues nor guilty pas
sions have ever sullied it's records. How
different from the Tuilerles, Versailles,
Windsor, San Souls, the Escurial! Women
as fair as Marie Stuart as stately as Jo-
sephine, as vivacious as Marie Antoinette,
as devoted wives and mothers as Vic
toria, have ruled the white house and the
remembrance of their good, pure lives has
consecrated it as the model house in this
land of homes.
After an exceptionally brilliant social oc-
casiOn, the breakup has come with the
approach of Lent and the passing of the
present administration. The families of
the Cleveland cabinet will mostly remain
in town sometime after March and doubt
less there will be a little squirt of gaiety
after Easter. Generally the shorter sec
ond season" after Lent is as festive as
anything gone before; but it will not be
so this year with an invalid lady of the
white house and new faces everywhere,
even in congressional circles. Secretary
and Mrs. Olney have yet a lease of several
months on their handsome Washington
residence, but of course will go back to
Boston and baked beans in the near fu-
ture; and both the secretary and his wife
are confessing to their friends how glad
they will be to enjoy the quieter pleasures
of private station. Secretary and Mrs.
Lamont, who have entertained handsome
ly and continuously all winter will go
south as soon as they can get away, for
q month or two of needed rest, before Mr..
Lamont resumes his business in New
York city. Attorney General Harmon win
return to his extensive law practice in
Cincinnati and Mrs. Harmon, though pro-
Tossing herself in love with Washington,
the Paris of America" is supremacy
happy at the change. Secretary and Mrs.
Francis will also return to their large COM
mercial interests in st. Louis, having sue
ceeded in getting rid of a good many
thousands of dollars in lavish entertaining
during their brief taste of official life.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle are extremely
non-committal on the subject of their flu
ture residence. Maybe they don't know
themselves. Mr.. Carlisles son, who is in
business in Chicago, is endeavoring to in
duce his sire to embark in some enterprise
in that city. AS the Carlises own an ele-
giant home here, and plenty of wealth to
keep it up. they need be in no hurry to
decide a future residence elsewhere. AZ
ter twenty seasons in Washington Mrs
Carlisle declares that ii is the finest city
in the world in which to spend the winter,
but she wisely keeps silent about the
summers. Secretary Morton will return to
the delights of limitless cornhelds and
miles Of potato bugs in his Nebraska home
and his agreeable sister who has beeen
his social right hand, will go back to De-
troit. Secretary Herbert and his daugh-
tor, who own roomy old-fashioned house
in the army and navy quarters of the city,
will doubtless remain; and Postmaster Gen
eral Wilson is said to have his eye on
some deals in Washington real estate
which win make him fixture
in d. G. for years TO
come. Vice President Stevenson and
family will return to their pleasant home
in bloomington, ILL.,, where most of his
life has been spent. No Vice President
not even Levi =. Morton, was ever more
popular with senators Of all parties than
Is Mr.. Stevenson. As presiding officer he
has realized the ideal Of absolute Impair
uality and OF expeditions efficiency. While
on the other side Of the House complaints
are long and loud and almost universal
against Gear Reeds" rulings. one hears
only praises Of Mr. Stevenson's manage
ment OF the business before him. All his
official acts have been characterized by
dignihed courtesles and sound common
sense tincturcd by the hos
pitabie manner OF the born
kentuckian. People Of all kinds and con-
ditions are constantly paying their re-