RECEPTION DAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE—GLIMPSES OF LIFE.
Feeling Good-Natured—Looking After One’s Friends—Ready to
Forgive—Mr. Grant’s “Likeable Side”—Rags and Tatters
Departed—The Work of Relic-Hunters—Eight Presidents, All in a
Row—Shadows of the Departed—A Present from the Sultan of
Turkey—A List of Finery—A Scene Not Easily Forgotten—How They
Wept for Their Martyr—Tales which a Room Might Tell—Underneath
the Gold and Lace—The Census of Spittoons—“A Horror in Our
Land”—The Shadow of Human Nature—Two “Quizzing” Ladies—An
Illogical Dame—Her “Precarious Organ”—A Lady of Many Colors—“A
New Woman”—A Vegetable Comparison—The Lady of the Manor—Women
Who are Not Ashamed of Womanhood—Observed and Admired of
All—Sketch of a Perfect Woman—After the Lapse of
Generations—The “German”—The “Withering” of Many American
Women—Full Dress and No Dress—What the Princess Ghika Thinks—A
Young Girl’s Dress—“That Dreadful Woman”—The Resolution of a
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