The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-24
TELLING BEAR STORIES


vorite color with Mrs. Cleveland. OF
decided and strong personality she
prefers strong and simple colors. She
has no liking for lifeless. neutral tints,
the negations of color, in either dress
or furnishings.
The bedrooms of the house are on
the second and third floors. Mrs.
| Cleveland's own room is in the delft
colors with blue and white paper blue
and white tiles about the CRATE, and a
| blue and white bathroom with a tiled
floor and a porcelain tub opens from
| it.
The bedroom has a genuine old
four-poster bed. canopy and all. in
mahogany. Another bedroom looks
like a fairy bower. brimful Of June.
Pink roses Chamber over the walls and
| lose themselves under the pinkS and
greens of the friezes. A green and
white bathroom belongs equally to
this dainty room and to another cham
| Der on whose walls yellow roses with
green leaves riot.
On the third floor is the largest
room in the house. 1t is the nursery,
and is papered in the jolliest nursery
paper that the eyes of even such for
tunate babies as the Cleveland girls
ever beheld. All the favorite heroes
| and heroines from nursery-rhymes ard
a, fairy tales hold carnival on the walls.
The rooms for the nurses are on the
third floor, near the nursery.
The four-poster bed in the blue and
white bedroom is by no means the
| only piece of old mahogany In the
! house. In fact all the furniture is
4 antique. Mrs. Cleveland is a good
lecting for years. She has picked
! up desirable pieces in Massachusetts
during her Gray Gables summers.
and has made many purchases in the
antique shops of New York, Phila-
delphia and Washington.
White House Furniture.
Some of her furniture was bought
| by her direction, at the auction sales
| by means of which old White House
| furniture is disposed Of so she has
| with her several souvenirs of her
| occupancy Of the executive mansion.
| Friends all over the country have
acted as her agents in buying inter
est1ng pieces of mahogany for her till
| she has one of the finest private col
lections of colonial furniture in the
country. She has beds and bureaus,
with rounding fronts, corner cup
| boards with latticed fronts, claw
footed tables. spindle-legged chairs
! and other pieces innumerable
Woodley, the Clevelands' country
house near Washington, was for the
most part furnished with old
mahogany pieces. These were all
taken to Princeton, and suit the
| decorations of the home admira BLY,
The curtains from the windows at
Woodley, also, do service in the
Princeton house.
or rugs, Mrs. Cleveland has a val
liable and artistic collection. Only a
few of the Princeton rooms are car
peted. Polished floors covered lavish
ly with rugs best accord with the walls
and furniture
l Around the mansions there are five
acres of ground inclosed on two sides
by hedge. The house is shaded by
J pines and big willow trees. There are
several big pines in the grounds and
/ dozen apple trees.
The barn is small and provides ac-
, commodations for not more than
:, four horses and three or four wagons.
Near by is little house for a coach
man ana gardener. and there is a stone
/. . laundry and little stone house intended
| TO keep edibles cool through the warm
$ weather. " O. "
il Fire Place i'm Each Room.
Inc house was altered considerably
= ~ Iiiee, lhe requirements of Mr.. and
MRS. cleveland. Each room has an
n open fireplace i'm it and there 10 az
Z White marble mantel handsopne1y
carved. There is no characterization ~
: any KIND about the house All the
:; heated by steam *
1t was built in 1854 by Comnodor<
% stockton, a direct descendant of Rich.
% ard Stockton. who purchased the LAM
from william Penn His grandson
Rlcnard stockton, was a signer of the
y Declaration of Independence Comun,
II dore stockton was the grandson Of thx
v second Richard Stockton. The com,
4 modore built the house for his daneb.
q ter, Mrs. Dodd. Mrs. SIidell purcha g.
e the property about twentysix year,
ago. and when she left for Eurone
month before the Clevelands hongh,
the place, she told her agents to Sci
the property IL they could get s4o mn
+ Tor II This is the price Mr.. Cleveland
e probably paid.
II MIS-. Cleveland's Daily Life.
q The daily life of Mrs. Cleveland Il
S ohe tnat rev women would care t.
n lead after having had a taste Of RI.
II life as mistress of the White House
4, put she seems very content and yer,
N happy. The care and solfcitude Of tn,
e children. the little social duties mad.
: necessary by her husbands position