Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — President Garfield’s Daughter. [ARTICLE]

President Garfield’s Daughter.

Washington Letter in Boston Transcript. Mrs. Garfield has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Brown, this spring, but kept so quiet that few people knew she was in Washington. Mrs. Brown, who is quite young, not more than twenty-five, is scarcely known in Washington society. She lives very quietly with her husband and child, James Garfield Brown, in a small, plain home on Massachusetts avenue. Last winter she was someimes seen at the receptions at the Windoms’ house. Secretary Windom had been her father’s Secretary of the Treasury, and she had known the Windom girls a long time, bu| beyond that she was rarely seen anywhere. This was a queer instance of the ups and downs of politicallifje, and it also shows how completely the character of society has changed in Washington during the last ten years. Every year the political element has become of less and less consequence, and the people who come here merely because It is the winter Newport become of more and more oonsequence.

Notabilities are speedily sotight bu* in Washington aha captured for din ners with the enthusiasm of a nat uralist for a rare specimen, but thf daughter of a former President is ni longer a notability. who mighl have been the most prominent gir in the United States is simply Mrs. Brown. * V