Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-05

"{hE Annals Oh 'he WINE iouhe
make scant mention OF the
children who have enliyened It
u by their presence. for while
n used in It's dual capacity Of Of
fetal residence and domicile Of
he executive, It was more in evidence
Is the former than the latter.
With the advent Of President Roose-
Welt comes the first large family TO
take up It's residence there In many
gears. the last one approaching II IN
size being that Of President Garfield
.wenty years ago. and the last to ex-
coed 1t in number OF children that OF
President Tyler, sixty years ago.
1t isa pity, for sentiments sake, that
We cannot associate the White House
With the Gusts children, so beloved OF
Washington, but the truth Is that II
was first occupied by blum old John
Adams and his talented consort, Abb
gail, the Father OF His Country never
having resided within It's walls. one
hundred years have passed since Pres
dent Adams and his wife went TO dwell
N the White House, and at that time
hey had been thirty-three years mar
lied. while Mrs. Adams dwells feel
ngly In her letters upon the barren
aspect Of the palace" and mentions
hat she was won't 10 hang up the
weekly wash" In the great unfinished
.ast room, she is silent as TO any little
ones, in whom the public OF today
would be vastly more interested than
IN the domestic trials Of the presiden-
ial pair.
President Jefferson's wife had been
Head nineteen years when he flrst as
sumed the cares Of government, and
here was, strictly speaking, no lady
Of the White House. during his term
If office His daughter, Mrs. Randolph.
sho was the mother Of five children at
lhe time her father was elected presi-
lent, passed two SEASONS In the execu-
i've mansion and has the honor OF hay-
ing given birth to the first child born
within its walls. He was called James
Madison, after Jefferson's successor;
)ut President Madison had no children,
!hough the mansion was enlivened by
he presence Of his wife, the inmitoble
Dolly, without whom, indeed, its annals
would now seem incomplete. President
Monroe had two daughters when he
vas elected, one Of whom, Mrs. George
Hay, had attended Nine Campans IA
nous school In Paris, and as she had
been an intimate friend Of Hortense
Beauharnals named her only daughter
Hortensla. When President John
Quincy Adams succeeded, his youngest
,hild was eighteen years old, and II he
had had younger children or II grand
children had gathered about his board
there would not have been any great
show Of hilarity In his austere pres
.nce. His successor. General Jackson.
was n lover Of children, but unfortu-
nately he had none of his own, and, his
wife having died just before he came
10 the presidency, Mrs. A, ]. Donelson,
wife of his favorite protege, took charge
,f domestic affairs In the White House.
The general always called her my
laughter" was very fond Of her and
ner four children, who were all born al
The White House, ana stood godfather
% two OF them. A visitor to the pres
Dental mansion at that time wrote OF
/ scene he witnessed there;
AT the farther end Of the room sat
The president wearing long, loose coat
and smoking a long reed pipe with bowl
Of red clay combining the dignity of
The patriarch, monarch and Indian
chief. Just behind him was Edward Liv-
lngstone. the secretary of state, read
ing him dispatch from the French
minister Of foreign affairs. The ladies
glance admiringly now and then at the