The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-06
pREsDENTpoK INTRODUCES The PRESSURE GRIP.

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Here. as in the earlier case
Of Merry the bachelors had the best
Of It: they had no wives to whom they
had to explain their courtesy to a
woman the women disliked. So Van
Buren,. a widower, found 1t not un.
pleasant to carry out the presidential
command and be nice to Mrs. Eaton.
The Benediks had a harder time. The
wife Of thes Dutch minister left the
table one night. Mrs. Calhoun. wife
Of the Vice President, refused to call
on the bride.
Jackson's Ultimatum.
About this time Andrew Jackson
thundered his ultimatum-he proposed
to fashion a cabinet for q nation. not
for the ladies. And he ordered his
friend. Richard NJ. johnson, to order
the cabinet members to order their
wives to be courteous to Margaret
O'Neill Timberlake Eaton.
This put the cabinet ministers in
the middle, between wife and Presi.
dent. One. at least. Attorney General
John NJ. Berrien. took his stand and
declared that jackson might be Presi-
dent Of the United States and com.
mander Of the army and Of the navy.
but he was not the governor OF any
mans hearth and that he, Berrien.
was ready to turn in his portfolio.
but he was not ready to have another
To- - 20 mi q
The quarrel dragged along. but Its
back was broken when the cabinet
was disrupted in 1881. In 1884 1t was
found expedient to transfer Eaton and
his controversial lady to the Florida
t.Nritory. Of which he was made gov.
eEnor. She complained here: and she
anmplained two years later when her
husband went as minister to Spain.
Gen. Eaton died: his widow married
a youthful Italian dancing master and
returned to Washington. to live In
obscurity, and to die in meagerness.
The Scene Changes.
II is with a dranatist's flair for
contrasts that the Emily Posts ana
Lord Chesterfields Of early Washing
ton swung the curves from the wide
sweeps OF simplicity to the narrow
bands Of exclusiveness.
So the Jeffersonian sturdiness which
characterized Jackson's hospitality
ended, sharply. with the Inauguration
OF Martin Van Buren,. Van Burer
was the first President who had no.
been born British subject: yet the,
called him royal His son. JUS
home from Europe. they christenet
prince John" And when he bough
a few gold dessert spoons. and had ;
glass SCREEN erected in the Whit
House vestibule, as much to keep ora
the drafts as inquisitive visitors. the,
, proclaimed him a Vegetable monarch.
II you came a-calling too early Il
the morning. you couldn't get in. Thi
; particularly irked certain Pennsy
/. vauia congressman. who made In
passioned speeches against "th
!. court fashion Of sleeping out the da
and walking out the night"
When the New Years levee act'
ally omitted refreshments 1.-THE crowd
!. at Jenerson's receptions had groun
|. the food into the lawn and spille
!. wine over the best furniture]. Va
! Rureps enemies read over the De-
laration .Nof Independence and wol
dered what the. country was con
: ing to. z.
i. Back and forth the social pendulul
oscillated from for1nality to inforua
h ity, and back to Formally. Nor d
4 the pendulum swing quite clear eac
: time Each reign ,of Formally left
: deposit Of social silt which added
r the mound already there. and droppe
few, more rules in the book OF e'
!. quette.
{. There wasn't much. however. tn,
(. the social code acquired from the q
y ministration Of William Henry Ha
n rison. unless 1t be the trio Of mutual
70 antagonistic inaugural balls whit
q ushered in his reign. Harrison's ri
10 Of ceremony was simple and singula
. It was this: Whoever calls II ask
70 to stay to dinner.
White House Becomes . Home.
Washington was an expanding CT
y Of $4,000 when John Tyler brous
. his large family to the White Hou
. in April. 1s4l. ForeshadowinS Il
Roosevelt regime. the Tylers made
Il the mansion . home. with the ten
= President Of the United States stru
: ming the nddls. and the marine bal
I. playing updar the treae.
/. Important, tor this chronicle. II Z
tragic explosion Of = gun on the VI
ship Prinoeton Feb. Is. 1874. X
:. ing I'VE man. two Of than cabin
s. m4mhers. Their death focused e.
q. sreastonal attAntion on the hitheI
81 vague law Of presidential succassic
"a and latsr legislation had . corona
a. In the rules Of precedence. viii
s. rankAd each cabinet member IN ord
81 Of succaasion. NJ
W Following the death Of his nrst "
10. In 1852. Tyler married young Ju
70. Gardiner. Whose father had lost
he life in the Princeton disaster.
Julia made tho most Of her a
lst honors. Older matrons were furte
IN. when. upon calling At the VIII
he House. they were nassed In the dra
Nc ing room until, with q dramatic th
IL act entrance. the delighted girl. Z ID
'purpls train trailing In back OF |
10 and plumage bowling from her hl