SCENES AT THE WHITE HOUSE—MEN AND WOMEN OF NOTE.
Widows “at par”—Four Sonless Presidents—Supported by Flattery—A
Delicate Constitution—Living to a Respectable Age—Teaching Her
Grandson How to Fight—A Pathetic Reminiscence—A Perfect
Gentlewoman—Obeying St. Paul—A Woman Who “Kept Silence”—“Sarah
Knows Where It Is”—Three Queens in the Background—A Very
Handsome Woman—A Lady’s Heroism—A Man Who Kept to His Post—A
Life in the Savage Wilderness—A Life’s Devotion—The Colonel’s
Brave Wife—Objecting to the Presidency—An Inclination for
Retirement—The Penalty of Greatness—Death in the White House—A
Wife’s Prayers—A New _Regime_—The Clothier’s Apprentice and the
School Teacher—The Future President Builds His Own
House—Domestic Happiness—Twenty-seven Years of Married
Life—Home “Comforts” at the White House—The Memory of a Loving
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