Mrs. Cleveland, Where Are You?

For some people, like Mrs. Crumpet, the serial tabloid coverage of celebrity exploits is too much.

“It’s everywhere you look,” she sighs.

For others, like Orange Bear, news is news.

“I can’t look away,” he says (also sighing).

“What we need are more role models like Mrs. Grover Cleveland,” declares Mrs. Crumpet, who laments that the former First Lady has been reduced to a mere footnote in history.¹

“She was the Jackie Kennedy of her day, and she handled herself with style and grace.”

Orange Bear is not impressed. “She was married to a Muppet?”

1. France Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947) was the youngest First Lady to ever occupy the White House and the only one to marry a sitting American President. Mrs. Cleveland became tabloid fodder during the 1880s, but her popularity was so high that advertisers used her (unauthorized) endorsement to hawk everything from perfume to ashtrays.