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278 married in the presence of members of the Cabinet and a few friends. Every detail of the important event was characterized by refinement and dignity. After their marriage, the President and Mrs. Cleveland went to Deer Park, Maryland, where the cottage of ex-Senator Davis, of West Virginia, had been prepared for their reception. In a few days they returned to the White House and no mistress of that staid old mansion ever presided with more grace, dignity and genuine hospitality than did Mrs. Grover Cleveland. Tall and graceful with dark brown hair, worn loosely back from the forehead, the most distinguishing features of her face were her beautiful violet eyes and exquisitely mobile mouth, which imparted to the face a very sweet expression. As beauty ever paves a way for its possessor, Mrs. Cleveland was admired from the first as a woman of rare attractions. Her personality was exceedingly agreeable. She had by nature all acquirements and attained the art of pleasing in an eminent degree. Mrs. Cleveland displayed at all times wonderful tact and simplicity of manner. She was not in the least spoiled by the adulation she received. Ruth, President and Mrs. Cleveland's first child, was born in the White House. They retired at the end of Mr. Cleveland's first term, to be absent only four years, when she was again installed in the White House as its Mistress for the second time. It would be a very fault-finding person who could point out any act of Mrs. Cleveland's while she was the Mistress of the White House that could be criticised. When she took her departure for the second time she left behind her many devoted friends and admirers. No complaint was ever lodged against her as having extended scant courtesy to any visitor entitled to consideration at the National Executive Mansion.

In establishing their private home in Princeton, New Jersey, she at once became popular with the faculty, trustees and students of Princeton College. Entering at all times