P A C I F IC r R I{ K AND \" I N E 



Household Expenses at the White 

 House. 



When Colonel Bingham told tongrt sa 

 that there was more entertaining than 

 usual in the White House, he spoke 

 what was true, though it did not ex- 

 plain the increase of $35,000 in the ap- 

 propriation asked for. That increase, 

 for maintenance of the White House, 

 seems to have been chiefly a conse- 

 quence of alterations and refurnishing'. 

 Presidents from New York have usual- 

 ly het a pace, in hospitality. Mr. Van 

 Buren entert.-iined generously and 

 handsomely; so did Mr. Arthui'; and 

 President Roo.^ev('lt has lived up to, 

 and somewhat beyond, their traditions. 

 There is every reason why a president 

 should keep a hospitable house if it ac- 

 cords with his taste. More people that 

 are worth seeing come to the White 

 House in a given season than come to 

 any other house in the country. They 

 make a society that is varied, distin- 

 guished, and prodigiously itneresting. 

 The temptation to seet a constant 

 of guests at the White House table is 

 quite comprehensible, and Mr. Roose- 

 velt, having a liking for company, has 

 yielded to it. Gut it is an expensixe 

 pleasure. Taken by Itself the presi- 

 dent's salary looks large; taken in con- 

 nection with such hospitalities as the 

 White House has seen this winter and 

 last winter, it looks small. The gov- 

 ernment by no means pays for the 

 president's hospitalities. It defr.ays 

 some expenses of maintenance and ser- 

 vice, but the wages of nearly all of his 

 household servants, and the checks for 

 the butcher, the baker, the grocer (wet 

 and dry), the caterer, the confectioner, 

 and the other purveyors of entertain- 

 ment, come out of the president's own 

 bank account. If a president is going 

 to save money he must restrict his 

 houserold expenses. That should not 

 be so. The way Mr. Roosevelt lives in 

 the. White House is a very good way 

 for a president to live if he likes it. 

 The president of the United States 

 should not have to economize. He 

 should be able to live generously and 

 without undue thought about the cost 

 of it. and at the same time to lay aside 

 a good part of his income. When the 

 present salary of the president has 

 been doubled, it will not be a bit too 

 large. Even then no president will be 

 able to save much out of it, even in 

 eight yeai's. — Harper's Weekly. 



American Wives for English Lords. 



Mrs. George Cornwallis-West, wht 

 was Miss Jennie Jeroms. and who tirsi 

 married Lord Randolph Churchill, di- 

 rects attention to the number of Amer- 

 ican women who have married in Eng- 

 land during the last thirty years. For 

 more than half of the nineteenth cen- 

 tury the record of the three Caton girls, 

 granddauglers ot Charles Carroll of 

 Carrollton, remained unapproached. It 

 will be remembered that those young 

 ladies married, respectively, the Duke 

 of Leeds, the Marquis Wellesley. and 

 Lord Stafford. Since then two Dukes 

 of Marlborough, two Dukes of Man- 

 chester, and the present Marquis of 

 Dufferln and Ava have married Amer- 

 ican women, to say nothing of earls. 



viscounts, and barons. Nor It it by 

 riches alone that coronets have been 

 acquired. The present Duchess of 

 Manchester had by no means a great 

 fortune. Lady Dufferin'.s dowry was 

 not large, and Lady Essex had scarcely 

 any money. It is largely, though, of 

 course, not wholly, by wit, attractive- 

 ness, and charm, that American wom- 

 en have challenged and accjuired the 

 influeirce which they now undoubtedly 

 possess in English smart society. At 

 least two American girls have married 

 French dukes, namely, the Due de la 

 Rochefoucauld and the Due Decazes. 

 From the view-i)oinl of the Almanach 

 de Gotha, however, none has made 

 quite so brilliant a match as Miss Lee, 

 the daughter of a New York grocer, 

 who married, first the Duke of Augus- 

 tenburg, and secondly, the Geenral 

 Count von Waldersee, who was the 

 Geenralissimo of the allied forces in 

 China during the Bo.xer rebellion. We 

 may mention, also, that a high place 

 in the Golden Book of the Roman and 

 Neapolitan aristocracies belongs to the 

 Prince Colonna. who married an adopt- 

 ed daughter of Mr. John W. Mackay. 

 Whether, as Mrs. Cornwallis-West 

 opines, such marriages have a ten- 

 dency to promote International friend- 

 ship may he doubted, for American 

 women married to foreign nobles are 

 apt to auopt in manners, sentiment. 



and sympathy the country of their hus- 

 bands. — Harper's Weekly. 



On account of the prolonged drouth 

 in New South Wales, statistics for 1902 

 show a shrinkage of sheep to have been 

 16,000,000 head, with such tremendous 

 loss In a single year it can readily be 

 feen how the prices of wool will be 

 affected. 



A moderate but nearly uniform milk 

 flow for ten months will aggregate 

 more than heavier milking for a shorter 

 period. 



The Cinciniti Price Current has re- 

 ports from all packing concerns show- 

 ing that over 1,000,000 less hoggs have 

 be>^n packed this year than last from 

 November to February. 



A tract of 20,000 acres In western 

 Kansas has been bought by Indiana 

 and Ohio capitalists for raising Polleii 

 Angus cattle. 



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