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a Secretary of State or of the Treasury?
Some of the greatest people had the humblest houses; even diplomatists lived over cooks' shops and gave dinners to the Cabinet on china that they saw every night in the week at each other's tables.
Women with names that will never die wore the plainest gowns, and breeding and wit and elegance went about on foot to parties that were finer in all the elements of real society than can be seen to-day in Washington or New York.
The life at the White House under Grant had something to do with this.
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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