Eh S—- COMING SOCIAL QUEENS. THE WIVES OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT, Mrs. Harsison Iutellectunl and Religions ‘Mrs. Morton, of New York Seclety-—1low They Are Likely to Affoct Social Life at the Capital, It is natural that at this time the nation should be thinking about the woman who is to be the next mistress of the White Hou, From the young Mrs. Cleveland, who has made so many friends, and who won the ad: miration of both Democrats and Republi cans, the nation’s eyes are to turn to Mra Harrison, a matron more thaw a quarter of a century vider, Both are marked women, however, of different styles and ages gh When Bejamin Harrison was n student at Oxford, O., he met Miss Beott, the daughter of the professor of chemistry at the uni versity. Professor Scott, who is now a very old man-—he is over S0-has a,position in the pension office at Washington, There was a love aair, with the inevitahle result in those davs in the west, when wealth was not a factor in such matters, and they were soon after married, In ber youth Mrs Harrison lived in an at- mosphere of study, and the influence then ex- perienced affected ber whole life, She isa wos MBS, HARRISOX man of rare culture. She has | prominent and ve member of the Ladies’ Literary society of Indianapolis; she is fond of the fine arts, especially painting, and has ng been a i club was organized. from other Boston clubs in this, that its pur THE ALGONQUIN CLUB. It Mas the Finest Habitation of Any Clab in Amerien, Boston is one of the most clubable cities in the United States, but all of the clubs—and there are many of them-—have a certain fixed purpose and represent a certain class or sect. There is a certain spirit of gravity pervading the clubs of Boston that cannot be found in ny other eity of the United States, | The clubs are all eminently intellectual, PRIVATE DINING ROOM. The members take off their hats, In New York and Chicago they don't, The clubs are profound, The Somerset is the club of those who have an genealogical tree, and the permeating at inosphere of deep solomnity which is notice able at this club is positively awe striking 1’he Union is the solid club of lawyers, doe tors and merchants; you can form a jdetare of its gloominess,. The St. Botolph is the literary and artistic club, where long hair aud Byronic collars are the proper thing. It is the same with all the clubs of Hoston, They all represent classes. Such a club as tie Knickerbocker or Racquet, of New York, where you can put your feet on the window sill and smoke (although the clubs named are very ultra) was, until a few years ago, al most unknown in Boston There years ago, however, the Algonquin The Algonquin differs liberal indeed, and that its membership is confined to no class or classes in the commuuity, as any man who is respon sible and honorable and acceptable in the best sense is welcome as x member, provid. ing, of course, there is a vacancy. Descent from colonial thoes, wealth or occupation have no bearing upon candidacy in this or poses are very i ganization, The club recently but a new club house | It is the largest and finest club building in | the United States. | Italiny done some dainty work herself on china. Bat | the influence of study is not only refining; | it stimulates the better feelings as well; and i Mrs. Harrison not only devotes herself to hes | {literary society and her painting, hut is an earnest laborer in the field of the poor. A dianapolis orphans’ home. The style is that of the renaissance. The building is six stories high, with a frontage of 52 feet and a depth of about 125 feet. The interior decora- tion is of an elegant order, although, while the effect is rich, the treatment is simple The main entrance is direct from the side and in the center of the building, One first passes a splendid pair of oroamental iron gates and then massive doors of English oak, and enters upon a long hall floored with marble and ornamented with dados and pil | lars of alabaster. The rooms sre magnifl- cently finished and furnished. Some of the walls are covered with painted French sills | in different colors, and others are covered by | great deol of ber attention is given to the In- | dedorated leather and velvets of various | i colors, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison were married when | very young. The husband was only 20 and the wife was younger. With only $200 on | which to begin the world, beside Harrison's | theoretic knowledge of the law, gained by a | study of his profession, the youthful couple went to Indianapolis. They settled in a one story frame cottage, and commenced a career that has never since known a cheek. | ing, dining, reception and toilet rooms. The | While Mrz. Harrison has never known great | wealth she has never known poverty. Her husband has been suili prominent to give ber a position socially to which she is In every way fitted by nature. Her polish is, pti y however, rather intellectual than that of the | woman of fashion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harriscu are also prom- inent in church circles. For years they bave i been in regular attendance at one of the | Presbyterian churches in Indianapolis, and active in the Bible classes and Sunday schools, | Doubtless this will havo its effect in Wash | ington society. The influence Houses is all power] rd social circles during the winter of 1880.90 nay, perhaps, wear a more subdued complexion than dar- it of the White | ing the social administration of Mra Cleve land. Mrs. Mort 1, Who is to be the second lady in the lind, partakes more of the type of | New York's more brillant social circles, | Mrs. Morten, as ber maiden name-—Anne Livingston Street —indicates, comes from amoung the aristocratic families of the Empire | state. Bbhe was born at Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson. a town as noted for its sducational tone in Kew York as Oxford is in Obio. It | is there that Vassar college flourishes, and as | Mrs. Morton is #t®l a young woman, | Vassar was founded not too late to bring to | bear upon her through the society of Pough- keepsie something of the same influence brought to bear by the atmosphere of learn- ng of Oxford upon Mrs. Harrison, Mra Morton has had other influences, Bhe passed some time in New York society, where she met Mr, Morton. Their i i i followed. He is very rich, and his wife had | always been acrustomed to wealth. She is described as a woman of medium height, with large bluish gray eyes, white com- plexion nnd gray . Bhe is the mother of ve daughters, the oldest of whom is 14, pw / i \ The most splendid apartment in the club house is the dining room, the largest room in the building. It is finished in mahogony of rich tone and high polish. It is lighted by a colossal chandelier, sn antique Dutch cande- labra dating from 1642, and ingeniously ar- | ranged for gas. It weighs nearly baif a ton There are apartments for ladies also~read- ! private dining rooms are gorgeously fur | nished. | One of the marvels of this building is the | woodwork. It is mainly of ocak and mabog- | any, and it everywhere affords delight to the | eye. It were a tedious task to deseribe in de | A + Be A. Lo op { John Charles Day and Sir Archibald Levie | { heart. This is somewhat inconsistent with IN THE READING ROOM. tail the multitudes of apartments in the new | club house; suffice it to say that nothing has been left undone that art could do to beautify | the building. DIED ON ELECTION DAY. i — Hi. Forster, the President of the New York Board of Aldermen. i George H. Forster, the president of the | New York board of aldermen, died on the | Mr. Forster has been prominent in New | | York city polities for a number of years, and i at the time of his death was one of the lead. | ing members of Tammany Hall. He was a | lawyer, BTA UNWTSEr. win bir 1 Charlestown, umm, | where his father, Houry Porster, was prom- | {inent merchant THE PARNELL COMMISSION. Sketches of Scenes In the Court Room, Taken on the Spot. The British are now enjoying (if it can be called enjoyment) one of thelr peculiar “state trials,” of the kind that make up so large a part of England's political history. The phrase ‘wate trial” does not necessarily wean that the government is the prosecutor, AMEXITIES OF OFPOSING COUNT for, as in this case, the suit may be nom between private parties, aud yet the ‘gov erument,” meaning the party in power in the house of commons, and from which the cabinet is selected, be the real party in inter In such cases, contrary to all American ideas of fair dealing, the attorney general often acts for the party who is on the ernment” side. The annexed engran resents the attorney general, Hir Webster, opening the case, ciate connsel and other around him, Bir Charjes Russell, leading Irish members, is one of th ost, counsel for ost suave « | gentiemen, and maintaios the most « personal relations with the opposing « but the American reader who passages between them in the © examination may t much like the quasi {riendly bandsh tween two pugilists just before to the serious business of mn other's countenances out of a humanity As all American readers know, the ques tion of home rule for Ireland has roused all the fury possible letween belligerent Celt and stubborn Saxon; and it was only natural that the organization of the Land League nnd the attempts of the British authorities in Ire land to suppress it should lead to what is called “agrarian outrages” And as there are always hotheaded and revingeful indi viduals, there Bave been some murders, of which the most noted was the msassination of Cavendish and Burke in Phamix Park, Dublin, Following this The Lofdon Times published a series of articles beaded “Par pellism and Crime,” charging the respomsi bility for these murders upon the Parneilites Finally, it published alleged letters of Mr Parnell justifying the murders. Messrs Parnell and Egan promptly denounced these letters as forgeries. Hewes the suit-nomi nally a civil auit, but really an attempt to determine judicially whether the Irish mem- tes the urse of tid incline y OOt bors of parlinment bave been inciting to out- | rage and murder. It is, therefore, a trial of the greatest po. litical importance-so important that the government consented to set aside the regu. lar judicial machinery and have the cue tried by a commission of sminent judges prion, ATIORNEY GENERAL WEBSTER SPRAKING Sir James Hannen presides over the com- mission with eminent dignity and impartial ity as far as Americans can judge. He is 67 {| years old amd a graduate of the far famed | Heidelberg university. | member of the commission that settled all In 1858-55 he was a matters then in jsue between the United States and England. He bas been judge of | one high court or another ever since 1868 His associates on the commission are Sir Smith, The most important witness so far is one Capt. O'Shea, formefly an intimate associate of Mr. Parnell, and if he is successfully im- peached, as the Irish members claim be can be, there is really no case against the Par nellites. The weight of testimony thus far certainly indicates that the letters are for geries; but the counsel for The Times are heaping up evidence of a general outbreak | of crime following the Parnell campaign. The trial has already resulted in some shook- ing revelations of and malignity on the part of pretended friends of the Irish cause, manufacturer, who died in New York city | the other day, was a striking instance of how & man may prosper by industry and atten. | tion to business, giziteily Gramm gem ini Lata: Fh A nl to 7 Bg i gn WL 4 MARY ANDERSON, THIS FOREMOST AMERICAN ACTRESS AT HOME AGAIN. At Least Amerien Was Once Her Home, and She Is SUH as Beautiful as She Ever Was~Some Stories of Her arly Life and Her Stage Sucoesses, Mary Anderson is again on her native soil. New Yorkers are now listening to ber nightly, and ber London trinmphs are to be repeated as usual on this side of the water, What a wonderful enreer this woman has had! No better evidence of the fact that Mary Anderson is o born actress is given than the following, related by her mother: A distressing and fatal accident bad oe. curred near their home one day to a builder or workman engaged on a house in the lm. mediate neighborhood; he bad fallen from | the roof the building to the pavement | and been killed. Mes. Griffin and Mary, bear ing the cries in the street, rushed fo the front ow window, and while the elder lady's Leart was | rent by the sight of the unfortunate man's wife hurrying by she was shocked to find that ber usunlly tender hearted daughter was | intent only upon catching and hnitath horror stricken expression on the [Oor wots. an's face, but 15 years of age. Louisville Bhe is a native of Cadiforoia and was born in Sacramento, July 28, IN, Bhe was taken to Louisville in 1800, 4 as reared in the Roman Catholic faith, and left school when she 14 years of age. Miss Whittier says of Mary Anderson's life in Louisville at this time “I was at the time a school girl aid Mary Anderson was 16 or 17 years of age tall, lithe, slender figure, lacking the round ness 10 make it was Miss Anderson was at that time | Bhortly after this she | made Ler first appsarance on She stage in | Her bemutiful, and earnest face | that wore an almost moody expression of i studious abstraction, impwessed me | when 1 first met ber, On this occasion Pro » 3 fessor Noble Butler had taken several of his pupils 10 ae bis protege, this young girl who from having been a stodent under bit bad: | gone to New York to beunder the instruction. | of Vaudenhoff Louisville for a brief interval pursuing ber studies further “She had amisbly siguified her willing mess to recite for us on any sven Professor Butler should select for the vies, and with a good deal of looked forward to hearing this phenomenon about whom he was always talking. The house which has since become historical, was an old tumble looking 3 which, notwith standing the erty of its furnish and now bad HR interest we pov returned to | of rest belore that } ings, had yet an air | of home like com fort in the small front bed room into which we were ush- ered. 1 remember there was an open piano at which Mary had been practicing, and something was said | about her possible intention of wuiti mately going on the | MARY ANDERSON at concert sage; for | : this time her | profession was not chosen, and the bud of ber genins which under pressure of circum | on the FPasioss' and Hunchback,” ber mother reading responding parts in the dialogue threw herself into ‘The Ode’ thoroughly, and I have never heard #£ so well rendered ; the graceful, boyish gure swayed with pas sion as ber genius flamed up features glowed and her eyes shot fire as she a a a pA Sh THE (TRE DEMOCRAT! ONEY EAR, For Sl. The Largest, Cheapest and Best ‘Paper in the County. Her clear cut | sounded, with ber deep rich voices, the gamut | of hatred, rage and despair fluished, her When she bad | little madience sat speechless | with an awe struck wonder, and 1 went | bore wild with enthusiass who had teen a sort of revelation to me for this girl ! Two weeks later she made ber debut before a | Louisville audience. She declared afterward that Homeo's hands were in such a cold perspiration that she bated to cateh bold of them, and that be breathed so hard in the more exciting pas sages that she was afraid he would Liow ber away. Mr. William Griffith was the Romeo, Mary Anderson's life in London is perhaps the most interesting part of her career as an actress. She likes London, but declares that she will always remain an American at the uncontradicted statetpent that she has been naturalised and is pow a British sub- ject. Bbo bas a private residence in South Hempstead, about five miles away from the in uorar vag {0 mn Ye = 3) The Democrat is bound to be abreat of the times and will constantly and con= sistently advocate what It believes to be in the inter= ests of the people. ol a a aa ae” | No man can afford to be with- out a county paper and at ONE DOLLOR The Democrat is plac- ed in reach of all. SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE!
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