Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-29
IN FAsHIoNABLELIFE

Mr.. n. +. Willis, in that most readable pa
per, the Home Journal, thus describes n christ
ening In the Fifth avenue, which he recently
attended
- was scarcely arrived in town, when nv
Drotner look me to gay party at that exquisite
Pe"t !r'dnon OF house, James E. Cooley's
Our friend the ex-publisher and politician had
invited three hundred of his friends 10 witness
the baptism OF his child-the ceremony at g,
followed by brilliant supper and soiree As
WOULD readily be supposed, i; was q gathering
OF the Intellectual Activities of New York, and
their wives and daughters. There were cler-
gymen and hnanciers, politicians and publish.
ers, lawyers and doctors, editors, authors and
artists The service was performed i'm the oc-
tagonai central room OF the principal suite of
apartments; and it was certainly O novel con-
trast, to see babe in arms and a rector in full
canonicals in the midst of so ayIy-dressed an
assemblage. And when the prayers came, and.
amid the brilliantly-lighted gildings and mir
rsrs, the ladies, in their jewels and plumes,
fell upon their knees at the embroidered otto
mans and bowed their shoulders to tho solemn
responses, 1t was the applying of u trying
touchstone to luxury and beauty. With the
second thought, of course, came the rational
remembrance that our splendor and mirtb NAV
as nightly feel the presence of God as our gloom
and sadness; and the child e DESTINY most 1ron.
erly receives its first conservation with the wit.
Messing Of joyous gathering of friends. Of the
6eilo"S Llsg1ra indeed-tho era of making the
world mirth and pleasure tributary also to
recognition Of the Great Giver Of all things-it
seemed progressing sign.
Among the celebrities were DR.. TAYLOR. the
patriclan pastor Of Grace Church. who per.
formed the service; Governor Hunt, with the
couchant lion behind his easy smile; the histo.
rian Bancroft, locomotively ahead of the train
oil thought with which you were trying to
come up with him; Count Gurowski, the exotic
American author Church, the Ossain-paiDter
VI Niagara, with face corroboratiyc of his
inspired picture; Professor Greene. 90 long our
scholarly Consul at Rome; Tiemann, the be-
lieVed-in- Mayor OF our cosmopolis; several of
the best known manufacturers of public op;n-
ion; and last, not least, the country's di.tin-
gulshed tree-champion, who has So happily
moderated the thoughtlessncss of the American
axe. ln the way Of bright particular stars, ,
the most admired shining for the evening was
done by 4 constellation from the North-a Bos-
ton mother and her two superbly beautiful
daughters 1t seemed but a day TO me, as |
looked upon them, since the mother herself
was a fair young school-girl-just those daugh-
ters ago.
For the rest of the evenings events-how
eharmlngly the band played as the supper
room was thrown Opsn how fetsS-a-tetcs went
on In the cosy library how Morris and Willis
renewed their VOWS of eternal fidelity over the
chicken salad; how Palmer's exquisite marble
bust OF Cooley daughter was admired; how it
waxed late; and how We wished the sweet in.
FAINT whose baptism we had witnessed all man.
ner OF warm blessings as Brown received Ms
under the cold starlight Of out doors, and called
our carriage with his pleasant fiction of good
night, though it was morning-for all this
please call on your memory, my dear Morris,
while We leave II 10 the readers accOmmoda-
ton