WHEN MRS. HAYES WON THE POINT.
The following story was one of those told by the late William M. Evarts, who was Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Hayes:— "Speaking of diplomats reminds me that Mrs. Hayes, who was a staunch teetotaler, argued with me for an hour over the first dinner the President was to give to the foreign representatives. I tried to make her see that it would be no sacrifice of principle on her part to set wine on the table, but only the civility we always show to guests by recognizing their ways of living at home. "I'm afraid," she declared, "that the ministers will have to make up their minds to be sociable with water." "And I shocked her dreadfully by answering, 'Mrs. Hayes, I have never known people to be sociable with water except in a bath.'" "Did Mrs. Hayes carry her point?" he was asked. "Yes, indeed," he responded, with a dry chuckle. "She had the dinner as she wanted it, and the water flowed like champagne."— Ram's Horn.