Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1872-10-18

Correspondence nt the Boston Post
The gayety Of Washington this coming season
will not depend on the result Of the election
An outgoing Administration always desires to
distinguish itself socially before it Is extingui-h-
ed politically j naturally wishes toleaye a plea
sant impression behind it that 1t may be regrett-
ed. Or If an Administration feels itself secure
for the next four years, It is sufficiently jublant
to treat itself and its friends to unbuunded hos
pitality. Eew if any, Administrations have enter
tanned more than the present incumbents. Mrs.
Grant has made the White House a weekly rer-
devious for the pleasantest people Washington
affords. She began brayely, the first winter, to
make all sorts Of occasions pleasant excuses for
more sociable style OF entertainment than the
formal afternoon receptions could be. She in
yited twenty ladies at a time to receive with
her, and lunched them first. She caused her
husband to invite a celebrated Indian delegation
TO spend the evening at the White House, and
the diplomatic corps, the Cabinet and a few
others we're invited to meet them. handsome
supper was provided in the State dining room
and the pleasant sight was seen Of Red Cloud
and Spotted Tail eating out Of golden spoons,
While the repre- 'entatiyes OF European monarchs
bedecked with orders, waited upon the barbar-
ians Of the American forests and prairies. There
we're state dinners every week that first wear ur-
I'll late in the spring but economy has been the
order Of the day since. No more lunch parties
no more Indian banquets, and very, very few
state dinners during the past two seasons For
TWO winters the Cabinet kept up an almost I'M
bounded hospitality, and last winter, though
Mrs. Fish was not here to take the lead, there
was little done. The Secretary of State and his
wife have great wealth, and no objection to
spend 1t on other people, They for two winters
gave two receptions and two dinner parties per
week for the space Of five months One Of
these winters ended in the Great High Commits
sion Spring when dinners we're eaten and suppers
deyoured to the tune Of the Alabama claims for
three months, and there was no thought of CON
sequential damages.
wonder ii the Slj 900 900 awardedEcould paw
Tor all the eatables and turntables and costly ac-
compartments Of the feasts. excursions and
balls which were provided to develop the Treaty
Of Wazhingtonl 1 verify believe the British
Government which openly paid for its Commits
sioners entertainments, spent as much a. the
sum awarded, and now, making this liberal de-
duction, offers us SO OO0O 900 for Earl de GRAY
board at the houses.of our officials, for whose
costly entertainments our Government did not
openly pay.
But We had the bliss of seeing the celebrated
garter and the intnitesimal though bloatedly
ariztocratlc limb it encircled Shall | ever for
get those knighty legs encased in black elk
stockings and the curtzeys they made revealing
IN open gaalsht the mechanism by which that
graceful movement is produced, No woman
who saw them could fail to be thankful for the
flowing drapery ia vogue with her sex.