Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . his gift. The brilliancy of the social life at the White House was unvariedthrough the time Mrs. Haves resided there. Its entertainments were allon a scale of magnificent elegance; its hospitality unstinted ; its courtesiesextended alike to all who came within its circle. No untoward event marredthe picture that is set for all coining generations to study of what thehighest home in the land can be when a woman who is the highest tvpe ofwomanhoo
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . his gift. The brilliancy of the social life at the White House was unvariedthrough the time Mrs. Haves resided there. Its entertainments were allon a scale of magnificent elegance; its hospitality unstinted ; its courtesiesextended alike to all who came within its circle. No untoward event marredthe picture that is set for all coining generations to study of what thehighest home in the land can be when a woman who is the highest tvpe ofwomanhood is its presiding genius. From the White House Mr. andMrs. Haves returned directly to their home in Fremont. Those who knewMrs. Haves in the years that followed know that they were the happiestyears of her lite. An ambition she had felt for the high position to whichshe had been called, but that ambition had been amply satisfied, and leftno desire for anything but the quiet life that followed it. To one whoasked her, while she was the presidents wife, if she did not sometimestire of the necessary accompanying round of duties toward the LOWElt , YELLOWSTONE VALLEY 4-28 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. Mrs. Hayes had answered: Oh, no, I am never tired of having a goodtime. But in resuming the private home life she found ju^t as manyopportunities for a good time. Her benefactions to the poor were un-ceasing; her care for the sick of their village was like tier care for thesoldiers in the; held; her children, her husband, her housewifely duties,her duties to her church and to her neighbors, tilled her hours with some-thing to do and to enjoy, an enjoyment as keen as had accompanied allher other stations. Suddenly this beautiful life was ended. Mrs. Hayes was stricken withparalysis, and after only a few days illness, during which husband and child-ren watched with agonized longing for one more word of love from thelips that had never uttered any But lovely and lovin
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