The Green Room 126 State and Private Dining Rooms 126 The Library 129 The Executive Office 129 OFFICIAL ETIQUETTE 135 ILLUSTRATIONS OPPOSITE PAGE EAST ENTRANCE OF EXECUTIVE MANSION _Frontispiece_ ADAMS, ABIGAIL 23 ADAMS, LOUISA CATHERINE 39 CLEVELAND, FRANCES FOLSOM 103 FILLMORE, ABIGAIL 67 GARFIELD, LUCRETIA RUDOLPH 95 GRANT, JULIA DENT 87 HARRISON, ANNA SYMMES 51 HARRISON, CAROLINE SCOTT 107 HAYES, LUCY WARE WEBB 91 JACKSON, RACHEL DONELSON 43 JOHNSON, ELIZA MCCARDLE 83 LANE, HARRIET 75 LINCOLN, MARY TODD 79 MADISON, DOROTHY PAINE 31 MCELROY, MARY ARTHUR 99 MCKINLEY, IDA SAXTON 111 MONROE, ELIZABETH KORTRIGHT 35 PIERCE, JANE APPLETON 71 POLK, SARAH CHILDRESS 59 RANDOLPH, MARTHA JEFFERSON 27 ROOSEVELT, EDITH KERMIT CAROW 115 TAYLOR, MARGARET SMITH 63 TYLER, LETITIA CHRISTIAN 55 VAN BUREN, ANGELICA 47 WASHINGTON, MARTHA 19 BLUE ROOM 125 EAST ROOM 121 THE LIBRARY 130 STATE DINING ROOM 126 INTRODUCTION America stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the law of nations from earliest times has been the decline and fall of one, as another rises to prëeminence, it would seem that this great land of ours is fast soaring towards the highest pinnacle of national attainment. If a nation is great, it is made so by the men who make and enforce its laws, who fill its positions of trust, who manipulate its finances, and who prove worthy citizens of the land of their birth or adoption. And who are responsible for the men? Are not the women, the wives and mothers of the nation, the bearers of this great burden of responsibility?