People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — IN THE WHITE HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Will Mrs. McKinley Have Some One to Assist Her In Her Duties? While the politicians are devoting themselves to a discussion of the probable composition of the next oabinet their wives are speculating with equal interest on the subjeot of the social and domestio administration of the White House. On .account of Mrs. McKinley’s invalidism it has been thought likely by many that she might be averse to un* dertaking the personal discharge of her duties as the president's wife and might call to her assistance some friend or relative. Those who anticipate anything of tho sort do not know Mrs. MoKiuley, whoso indomitably will, tact and capacity enable her to rise superior to the physical weakness to whioh she is subject. That she has gone through the late campaign, when there was barely a corner in her house to whioh the publio had not access, without breaking down is in itself a tribute to her powers of endurance. As for her present illness, it is probably due to oxposuro during the last trying weeks rather than anything else. At tho White House reoeptions Mrs. McKinley will be obliged to sit in a chair, but aside from this she will conduct the nffuirs of that institution with the same charming graoe that characterizes her administration of the smaller affairs in her present home. Mrs. McKinley is fortuuate in having the companionship of Mrs. Heistand, the wife of Captain H. O. S. Heistand, who has been assisting Major McKinley in a confidential capacity during the last few months. The Heistunds are regular army poople who met the MoKiuloys in Columbus five years ago. Captain Heistand was then the inspecting officer of the Ohio national guard. When Major McKinley retired from office, Captain Heistand seoured leave of absence and went to Canton, where he has remained ever since. His wife has relieved Mrs. McKinley somewhat of the labors imposod upou her by tho constant proseuce of thousands of visitors. It is shrewdly suspected that after the inauguration the Heistands will be located in Washington aud will be muoh at tho White House. Tho captain is an agreeable man of the world und his wife a talented aud attruotive woman.—Chioago Tribuno.