. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ndings — Using theGreat East Room for a Childrens Play-Room — Mrs. John QuincyAdams — Long and Lonely Journeys—Life in Russia — The LadiesCostumes — Old-Time Beaux and Belles—Smiling for the Presi-dency — An Ascendant Star — A President Who Masked His Feel-ings— My Wife Combed Your Hea
. Thirty years in Washington; or, Life and scenes in our national capital. Portraying the wonderfuloperations in all the great departments, and describing every important function of our national go vernment ... With sketches of the presidents and their wives ... from Washington's to Roosevelt's administration . ndings — Using theGreat East Room for a Childrens Play-Room — Mrs. John QuincyAdams — Long and Lonely Journeys—Life in Russia — The LadiesCostumes — Old-Time Beaux and Belles—Smiling for the Presi-dency — An Ascendant Star — A President Who Masked His Feel-ings— My Wife Combed Your Head — Calling on an Iceberg. HE faint outline which we catch of Mrs. Monroe,wife of James Monroe, the fifth President of theUnited States, is that of a serene and aristocraticwoman, too well bred ever to be visibly movedby anything — at least in public. She was ElizabethKortright, of New York—the daughter of a retiredBritish officer, a belle who was ridiculed by her gay friendsfor having refused more brilliant adorers to accept a plainMember of Congress. During Mr. Monroes ministry to Paris, she was calledla telle Americaine and entertained the most statelysociety of the old regime with great elegance. The only in-dividual act which has survived her career as the wife of the (599;. 600 VISITING MADAME LAFAYETTE IN PRISON. American Minister to France, is her visit to Madame La-fayette in prison. The indignities heaped upon this grandand truly great woman, were hard to be borne by an Ameri-can, to whom the very name of Lafayette was carriage of the American Minister appeared at the Monroe was at last conducted to the cell of the ema-ciated, suffering prisoner. The Marchioness, beholding thesympathetic face of a woman, sank at her feet, too weak toutter her joy. That very afternoon she was to have beenbeheaded. Instead of the messenger commanding her toprepare for the guillotine, she beheld a woman and a friend!From the first moment o
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