United States -- Description and travel; United States -- Social life and customs
President Cleveland's approaching marriage is now
regarded as a certainty. It is understood that the
engagement took place during Miss F.'s last visit
to Washington. If Mr. Cleveland is married at the
White House, in June, it will be the second
marriage of a President during his term of office.
Mr. Tyler was married while he was President, but
his marriage took place in New York. The best
portrait of Miss F. now in Washington is a large
one, which hangs in the President's bedroom. Miss
F. was very averse to giving a sitting to the
photographers when she was here, and has a great
horror of publicity. When she was in Washington
last, a number of paragraphs were printed about
her school life, which she traced to one or two of
her school friends. She quarrelled with them for
it. It is said that she went away to Europe so as
to be out of the range of possible gossip and
criticism during the engagement period. Miss F.'s
hair (says a correspondent) is soft and brown, of
a shade between light and dark. It is combed well
back from her full forehead and loose wave
tendrils fall away from their confinement against
the ivory whiteness of her face. She has violet
blue eyes, a well-shaped nose and mouth, and a
full, round chin. The warm pallor of her
complexion contrasts with the deep red of her full
lips, in which all her colour concentrates itself.
Her shoulders are broad, and her bust and waist of
classic proportions. She has finely moulded hands
and feet; not small, but well suited to her
height. With one other pupil at Aurora she shared
the palm of being "the beauty of the school," the
other being Miss Katherine Willard, of Illinois,
who was her intimate friend, though not a
fellow-senior, and she is now in Germany
cultivating her voice. Miss F. has been with her
there during much of the past winter. Many of the
young ladies have flowers pressed in their albums,
labelled "From the White House," these being
mementoes given by her from the boxes of flowers
weekly sent her by the President from his
conservatories here. For her graduation, last
June, he forwarded a particularly lavish supply.
On that occasion she wore white satin, and, as one
of her schoolmates describes her, "looked more
like a goddess than a woman." Her student life has
been marked by seriousness and deep religious
feeling. She is a member of the First Presbyterian
Church of Buffalo. She was deeply loved by her
teachers, more for her solidity of character and
amiability of disposition than for exceptionally
brilliant intellectual traits, though her average
of scholarship was good.
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