Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — White House Hygienics. [ARTICLE]

White House Hygienics.

Boa ton Transcript. The White House is carefully attended to every year, and the filling up of the fiats at the back of the house has done away with the malarial influences from that quarter. It deserves now, just es much as it ever did, the encomiums that captious Tom Moore passed on it—almost the only thing he found in this country to praise; and the great country house upon which it is modelled —that of the Duke of Leinster—is considered one of the finest in Great Britain. When Munkacsy, the Hungarian painter, was hr Washington, hw wenvlnto raptures over the architectural beauty of the building, declaring the proportions were among the most .correct of any lie had ever seen. As for the cramped five bedrooms, there are in reality six, and they are all perfectly huge, with high ceilings, great mantels and heavy, old-fashioned windows, out of which the most charming views are visible. They all open on a large corridor, the size of the state corridor downa tai is, and on the whole it seems rather ridiculous that people who were yesterday plain American citizens, and tomorrow .will be plain American citizens, should not be able to make themselves comfortable in the house that Abigail Adams thought was palatial.