Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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theclock. He rose at four in summer and at six in winter. After a coldbath he w^ould take a long walk, generally to the Capitol and aroundthe Capitol park and back, a distance of nearly four miles. Thenhe would read precisely two chapters in the Bible, and then look atthe new^spapers until breakfast, at nine. He went into the executiveoffice at ten, and remained there absorbed in work until four; thenwould come another walk, and then dinner, at six. In the evening heattended to public business, unless social duties intervened. He was
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THE FAMOUS ROOMS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. 10 B 154 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. an untiring worker, and was ever acquiring information from allsources, which he carefully stored away for future use. In person hewas short and inclined to corpulency ; his eyes were bright and ex-pressive ; he always had good health, and his face was full of whole-some color. At times, with those he dearly loved, he would display asurprising playfulness, laughing merrily, uttering odd jokes, and evensinging snatches of old songs learned in his youth ; but these sunnymoments were too infrequent. His manner of living was marked bya certain degree of elegance, but it was not ostentatious. In 1826his son, John Qidncy Adams, Jr., was married in the White Houseto his cousin, Miss Johnson. It has been declared that the fashionable circle Mrs. Louisa Kath-arine Adams drew around her was far superior in elegance, refine-ment, beauty, and worth to that which has appeared at any periodsince. She greatly aided her husband by

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