The age-herald., 1902-01-19
THE r1URr1UR OF THE WORLD.

monies, and immediately by his side Is the smiling President next the smiling First Lady, and then on the receiving line six or eight women who smile not at all, neither do they bow nor speak.
 The woman coming first, the tall mas ter of ceremonies in resplendent uniform bends down to hear her whispered name, and turning he presents her to the Presi- dent with a clear voice heard by all the receiving party; the President repeats the name distinctly extends his ungloved hand, grasps her hand cordially, and says almost laughingly "I am very happy to see you"-and clearly means 1t; the First Lady bows and smiles most gra- ciously, and then the woman received passes quickly along in front of the un- smiling ones, and on into the splendid East room, immediately followed by the man, whose reception has been identi- cally the same as hers.
 Once in the East room, the woman and man greet friends, or stroll about, into the wide corridor leading across the way they had come and out to the great con- servatory, or otherwise amuse themselves as they will. They may, and often do stand at a door between the reception room and the corridor and observe the President and the First Lady in the pleasing act of receiving the throng of guests who continue to arrive until after Il o'clock, although the reception had begun at g. By midnight the last guest has departed.
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 Thus you have the simplicity of the reception itself
 Granduer is found in mental reflection upon the vast power reposed in the one man who is first here and is the center of all life in .:.e republic; and splendor is seen in the decorations of the apartments and the jewels of the women. Enter any palace of the old world upon any occasion and you will not find any decora tions, floral or otherwise. more splendid or in more lofty good taste than those of the White House on a reception night, excepting always the frescoed ceilings by the old masters, particularly in Italy and Holland. As a matter of fact, there is more granduer of art in one NNS%AN'%N~ palace of the Vatican with it's thirteen thousand rooms, than there Is in all the art of painting in all America.
 But the great painters master art apart, the East room. of the White House, Is truly noble chamber, and when you see a thousand we'll dressed men and women within its four walls it presents in inspiring scene. It may well be doubted if in this country or any coun- try the floral decorations of the East room as they were Tuesday night for ex- ample, were ever equalled in wealth of volume and detail or in exquistely arr tistic arrangement.
 This Murmurer of the great world born lover of flowers, of romance, and song and art, who has journeyed over the richer half of the globe, never saw any deco rations comparable to those.
 Whosoever designed that marvellous ef- feet in flower and vine and plant was greater than he who painted any one of the half a hundred portraits of former masters and mistresses of the mansion, which adorn it's historic walls; for who- SOeNeT can ulSpldy cut anu potteu ho"- CTS perfectly is both artist and poet, and musician, too.
 And to those perfectly appointed cham bers and corridors of the White House was lent the virility of the most virile of the races of men.
 The beauty and vivacity of hundreds of fair women challenged the adoration and wit of hundreds of men, the names of many of whom are trumpet&l about the world by the announcing heralds of fame as makers of history.
 Many warrior who mounted upon slaughter to the throne has boasted that he founded a dynasty upon the obscurity of his own house: but we Americans have founded the greatest of all lne na- tions and in a sense have created race of our own.
 This thrilling and masterful condition