The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-12
Another Great Bargain in New Spring VIZ,

Mich. Suburban homes about Washing
ton are being opened earlier than usual,
and already the fashionable West End,
with closed doors and boarded-up win
dows, is taking on the banquet hall E.
serted air of the summer solstice. Out
side the diplomat tic corps, whose members
are never satisfied without their annual
fitting across the sea, there are fewer
departures for Europe than during any
other season for many years. Probably
the death of the Queen, and the fact that
there will be no drewing-room functions
at the English court this year has some
thing to do with it.
The widow of President Garfield is MAX
ing her annual spring-time visit in Wash
ington, the guest of her only daughter,
Mrs. ]. Stanley-Brown. This. beloved
daughter of the martyred President-best
remembered as mobile Garfield" the lit
tie brown-eyed girl Of the White House,
who afterwards married her fathers pri-
vate secretary-has a pretty but unpre-
tentious home in Massachusetts avenue.
She is the proud mother of half a dozen
small sons and daughters and seems quite
happy with the tall blonde husband, who
parts his hair, as we'll as his name, in
the middle. Mrs. Garfield, always very
quiet and retiring, small of figure and
with bright black eyes, does not show
the fight of time as would more active
woman. She has a troop of grandchil-
dren and must be we'll on toward the
seventies, yet hardly looks a year older
than when she entered the White House.
Her home is still at the Mentor farm,
a few miles from Cleveland.
Mrs. Dewey, wife of the Admiral OF the
oil cnrfnU with
some sort of throat trouble. and, there
fore, has been obliged to deny herself all
social pleasures. She is now somewhat
improved, and purposes to spend the sum-
mer at "Beauvoir," her suburban resi-
dence, near Washington. Mrs. Richard
Hoxie. whom all the world will remem-
Der is "Vinnie Ream." the sculptress, has
been very i'll for many weeks, but Is
now, happily, on the road to recovery.
She has a beautiful home on Faragut
Square, in the ultra-fashionable quarter
of Washington, in full view of her statue
OF Admiral Faragut, for which she re-
ceived so large a sum of money while
vet a young girl. Her first work for the
government, a statue OF Lincoln, unveiled
before she was 90 yielded her $1,000. SO
the brave little country girl from the
West. who went to Europe TO pursue her
studies on borrowed capital became both
rich and famous In a remarkably short
time. The proud young army officer she
married strenuously objected to his wife
doing any work for the public; and so,
for twenty years, her artistic talent re-
NAMED wrapped in a napkin, so to cay.
But she has never been quite happy in
idleness, though the napkin" was silk
en- one. Within the past year, since her
only child has grown almost to manhood,
Mai. Hoxie reluctantly consented to her
opening studio. near their handsome
home, providing always that she does
nothing for pay. Like bird released
from its cage, she resumed her work Of
other days. and found with delight that
the long unused talent was vigorous as
ever Among several other studies she Is
engaged on statue OF Thaddeus Stevens,
which she intends to present 20 the city
OF Lancaster. his former home, In re-
membrance OF the aid he gave her in the