Probably he has lived all his life on his plantation." It was a day reception of Mrs.Representative Schoonmaker, a sweet woman, of simple and sincere manners.

Her house was one of the most popular in Washington.

There was less ostentation there than in some others, and people liked to go where the atmosphere reminded them of the peace and purity of home.

Mrs.Schoonmaker was as natural and unaffected in Washington society as she was in her own New York house, and kept up the spirit of home-life there, with her husband and children.

And that was the reason, probably, why people of refinement liked to go there.
Washington is a microcosm, and one can suit himself with any sort of society within a radius of a mile.