Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-02
Society.


The gayest house i'm the city during the hoIi-
days has been the Executive Mansion. Ii will
he remembered that on Thursday afternoon
the yOung ladies f1cTe gave n five o'clock tea.
which is said to be the first of series OF SINH
ar entertainments To be given there. If So.
Mrs. Hayes i setting ;he example tor which -
many WOUld-be refOTnpTS have clamDTed. by
giving such entertainments as almISt any
hOu>ek|epeT can afford. The refreshments
We're ~ the simplest character. Tea. md
WicheS. ices and cake We're handed around,
and the dresses worn by the ladies of the
house were plain visiting costumes. OF course
without hats
TO resume the list of holiday festivities at
the White House: ON Sunday. the real ami
VeTSaTy 81 he President marriage. the chris
tPnihg dinner was given To family friends, as
previously mentioned in THE STAR. On Mon
day evening the silver wedding took place.
and on Tuesday the grand New Year Tecep-
ton OF both Of which The STAR has already
published accounts.
The testimonial presented by the Sd O. Y.
l. Ia Mrs. Hayes, on the twentyilfth anuiver
SaTy Oi her marriage. is very beautiful.
although still incomplete. As HOW seen it is q
tablet of silver 0na black back ground framed
iii ebony. nlaid with ivory. Ii has this in
>cTiptiCn on the silver:
"Iothc Mother of Ours from the I'D q
'. l. To thee. our mother on thy silver trO,i.
We bring this token Of our love. Thy bows give
greeting unto thee with burning hearts. Take
II. for il is made IF beaten coin drawn from
the boarded treasures of thy speech. kind
NbItN ana gentle NnfH u gentle word was
worth the surgery nt an hundred schools To
heat sick thought and make our bruises whole.
Take II. our mother, It's but some small part
OF Thy rare beauty We give back 10 thee, and
While love speaks IN silver from our hearts
we u bride Old Father Time to spare his gif,.
\ picture Of the lOg cabin at Gawley Bridge,
w. Va, where General Hayes had his head
quarters for more than a year. is to be en-
gTayed on the silver plate above the inScrip-
ton. There" one of the I'D q. Y. |. said to
me. Mrs. Hayes spent two summers and n
winter taking care of her husbands soldiers.
She had her SEWN" machine with her To sew
Tor us. She was indeed our mother, and We
always called her 50.
To those who thnk. aS | know MANY d..
that the praises EpW laVished on Mrs. Hayes
are paid 10 the President wife. and not To the
noble woman. Lucy Webb HAYES. would say.
that from what | know from those vino have
known her longest and best believe her To
have always been woman almost idOliZcd 10y
all admitted To hCriutimatc acquaintance. and
de>crNedlv 81. because each action has evil
IDENTIFY dS it, motive the highest Christian prin-
cipleS
The friends OF cX-Att0Tney General Taft's
wife will bo SOTry 10 hear that her father has
recently died. He lived in Massachusetts.
Mrs. skunk. who IS SOtavOrably known here.
i now visiting her friend Mrs. Thompson, the
postmaster al Louisville. H. hat city II will
he RENE inferred that Mrs. skunk was one OF the,
ladies who assisted Mrs. Thompson i'll her Ell
lori 10 CT the appointment; they are old
friends. The battle for the Louisville post
Office. 50 far a. the successful applicant was
concerned, wa, purely wOman'S fight-not Il
man had hand in il. EX-SecretaTy BriStOW,
in 4 letter which my informant saw, said he
dared not keep up his opposition, since SO
many ladies We're interested for Mrs. ThOmp-
son, lest he should in future be held up tO the
eNecraliOn 81 all chiyarOUS hentucklanS a q
man who commended against women. which is
enough - blast man in Kentucky, especially
If the women are kentUckanS.
one OF the fCtoS of New Years evening was
the dance given at her residence. No. 80 y st
street, 10y Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey and
her daughter. Miss johnson. The Young Ladies'
Who assisted them at their brilliant reception
during The day-MisS McCalliSter and Miss
Embiey of Washington. Miss Perkins of Rich
m0Hd. Miss Tempe and Miss ChU rchii OF Lou
iS,illc, and Miss Mitchell of Lexing1 IN. XIV.
remained for The dance. Alruf these ladies'
Ind their Possesses were elegantly dressed.
and dispensed their bDuniiiul hospitality with
much grace.
II i regretted that Sonora DardOn the wife
Of the minister from Guatemala, Honduras.
&c, l. detained in New York by Illness.
MISS GTH-NbY