Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1881 — President Arthur at Home. [ARTICLE]

President Arthur at Home.

During the last canvass the late Dis trict Attorney Phelps thus wrote about his partner, the candidate for Vice President: "In person he is over six feet high, but he does not resemble overmuch the Statures the papers have published of im. In these, as in his lithographic likenesses, he is given an Arthur Sullivan chin, that is, double fold, English, beefy, and unpleasant. Gen. Arthur has not this actually. His face is full and fair. It is clean shaven, except for the thin gray whiskers. No one feature is more marked than another, and yet to look at his placid eyes it is natural and easy to believe tbat a greater intellectual force exists behind their somewhat listless gaze than is at first apparent. Being a lawyer, be bas tbat sense of judiciid fairness, that poise of manner and judgment that always combines to make a good presiding officer of any legislative body. There is nothing about him of the politician as so many might suppose from (he career he has led. He does not ialk in offensive accents; his voice is low and gentlemanly. He dresses in perfect good taste; at present entirely in black. He is fairly corpulent, as his pictures very well suggest. His hair is dark, bis eyes are brown. There

is little In Lexington avenue to distinguish one block from another.. No. 123 is just one of the dozen in its own block nCar Sixteenth street. Here Chester A. Arthur lives. Inside the house Is exactly what was to be expected. It bp a house m which gold and white was selected for the drawingroom. At present all tbe beauties o furnishing are beneath the homely ban Of furniture covers. The gilt gaseliers are swathed in mosquito net; so are the pictures. Enough of these can, however, be seen to testify that the dweller here ia a man oi correct taste. The cattle pieces are all good; he quaint bit of still life beside the mantel looks to be, from where you sit, a genuiue Teneirs. Its companion is, perhaps, an Ostade. Upon the low book cases that contain some handsome volumes, are some excellent bronzes; one. a spirited group Just over your host’s shoulder, seems to he Russian handiwork. It certainly is a Cossack horse. General Arthur undoubtedly has been a traveler in his fancies, and yet he is a man who cares for cushions and comfort. His parlor has no stiff furniture. The tete-a-tete is a very easy one; the' armchairs are generous in stuffing. Near the fireplace a handsome silk screen shows a monogram ia rainbow-colored silk, the work of deft filbgers. But it is impossible to take a mantel inventory and participate in your host’s conversation. Turn your attention to him rather than to his.”