Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-03-06
Life Mt Washington,

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THE SEASON.
The season has not been brilliant
one. in the matter of entertaining. The
young people have had their Germans
and there have been numerous gay par
ties. but the day receptions at the White
House have been missed, and the Thorn
tons. the Cooks, the Stewards, Mrs. WI
liams, and several of our private citizens
have failed to open their houses as usual.
The social problem is fast becoming a
vexed one; to invite all ones friends is
to crowd house to suffocation; to ex-
clude is to give offence. Official life is
but part of the social feature of Wash
ington. Wealthy people, men and wo-
men of elegant leisure, are congregatlng
here better than that, persons OF liter
AIRY tastes are coming to us; literary
parties are counted part of the entertain
ing, and bookish people are lionized.
Musicales are in high fashion. During
Lent, Mrs Dahlgren opens her house for
four entertainments, etc., with invitations
at SIS. 90 each, toward fund for the poor.
As the tickets are to be offered only to
the friends of the committee in charge,
the poor have the felicity of having
their bread passed to them through taper
fingers. Think how delicious
Human nature is droll enough. There
is grand chance to study it here, OF all
places. The old citizens look down in
supreme scorn upon the new corners, off,
cial or otherwise; the nouVeaalr riches
make vast display and think their in
difference sheer envy Gas doubtless tbs,
in part). The new fedged official, fresh
from the rural districts, doubts his senses,
when he discovers no soul here turns to
look after him. 1t is funny enough to
see these starchy men grow limp, as they
discover what atoms they are among the
vast crowd of Honorables. The house
is like town meeting no member CON-
mands much attention, unless he have
the roar of a taaero, the prestige OF an ex-
rebel, or perhaps a weakness for spoons
"a good many of them have that. In
the senate we look in vain for Webster
ian heads, though we see plenty of Clayey
faces among them we do not count
SENATORS EDMUNDs AND MORRILL,.
They are both scholarly-looking gentle
men, and compare favorably with any
statesmen of them all. Mr.. Edmunds,
particularly, ranks high as a logical ,
clear headed debater, while Mr.. Morrill,
is perhaps the best worker. Both are
gentlemen whose ermine is unstained,
and that is much in this degenerate age.
Vermont has always been specially hap
by in her representation, not only of men,
but of women as well. They are quiet,
refined, cultured ladies. Mrs. Morrill,
and Mrs. Edmunds are the only ones who
entertain at all, but they do it with a
charming grace. Only last week we at
tended small party at Senator Nor
rill's, and had fair chance of testing
this. Mrs. Edmunds secludts herself
this winter on account of the death Of
Mr. Edmund's father. We miss her
sweet, intellectual face, but feel sure ii
costs her no self.denial to give up that
for which she never had any taste-the
gay, fashionable society of Washington
NELLIE GRANTS ENGAGEMENT.
We cannot close this gossipy letter
without alluding to the announced en-
gagement of Miss Nellie Grant to Mr.
Sartorius, of England. He is one of {
family renowned for its wit and intellect
young man of wealth and fashion. l
seems Miss Nellie's intellectual grace
are too much for the brainy society owe
the water, and this family of poets, au
thors and statesmen, felt itself incom
plete without the addition of little
Dent blood to its blue veins. F. NV