Identifier: picturesquewashi00moor (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: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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it isnecessary for him to continually review the work of the departmentofficials. Certainly a day of arduous toil at its best. And then there isthe pain of disappointing many whose desires cannot be gratified, andthere is the difficulty in arriving at the exact truth in order that justicemay be done, and withal the need of making momentous decisionswhich are likely to be criticised harshly in every section of the coun-try, howsoever they are made. This is the Presidents usual routineof life, commingled with incessant social duties, no portion of whichcan be remitted in any way. The regular dinner hour at the White House is seven oclock, andat this meal the President Usually has a few intimate friends at his table,and for a while banishes the cares of his position. He rarely acceptsinvitations to dinner, except with the members of his Cabinet, andnever makes ceremonious calls ; but he invites officials and friends todine with him, and visits in official circles without ceremony at his
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FAMOUS STATUES. I. Statue of General Rawlins. 2. Wards Statue of General Thomas. 3. Statue of Emancipation. 4. Statue of General McPherson. 5. Statue of /\dmirar- Farragut. 10 i46 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. pleasure. An imitation to dine with the President must be alwaysaccepted, unless illness compels declination. No previous engage-ment has precedence, and when it is absolutely necessary to declineit is customary to send a full explanation in writing. The etiquette regulating the social intercourse of the President andhis family with officials and the public has been in vogue since theadministration of Washington, modified more or less by the differentPresidents, but retaining its salient points to the present day. In theearly years of the White House there were many courtly ceremonials,but they have been long since laid away with the powdered wigs, thelace lulls, and all the ancient styles of dress, and the certain politeforms now prescribed, the careful observance of which is expecte

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