The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-31
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CHAT.
Some Readable Remarks About Society
ht the Capital.

wAsH1xuroN, December S0.-A strange
fatality attends the young ladies who visit
the White House-the same as that which
has so depleted the ranks Of the original
"BeIles Of the Kitchen" as to eventually
dissolve the charmed circle. One by one
they inevitably drop out Of the ranks of
"sweet girl graduates" into the uncertain
sea Of matrimony. The winged god is
ubiquitous, but, like death, he loves q
shining mark. The pretty little Miss
Foote, Of Ohio, who helped brighten the
Executive Mansion during the first season
OF the Hayes regime,'is announced as the
latest victim about to follow the example
OF her friend, Miss Emily Platt, who was
also Mrs. Hayes guest at the came time,
aud whose brilliant nuptials we all re-
member. Miss FOote's home Is in Gin.
ciruati, and she is about to wed one OF
the prosperous young merchants OF Pork.
opolis.
The engagement is also announced OF
Miss Davenport, Mrs. Mafin's niece, 10
Mr.. Moss, OF Sandusky. This happy
couple met by chance, the usual way" at
Fremont, Ohio, while the charming bride.
elect was visiting Mrs. Hayes last sum.
mer.
Among many other good things which
Mrs. Jessie Fremont has done was the or
ganiz4tion OF several classes in history
among the grown-up SONS and daughters
OF poor settlers in Arizona, to whom the
usual school advantages OF the East are
denied. In many instances she has been
Obliged 10 furnish books as well, and has
ridden miles, by rail. stage and horseback,
to meet and encourage her classes.
The compulsory return oil calls by the
wives OF those in authority, which the
rigid etiquette OF Washington prescribes,
ia an evil which shoul1 be remedied.
Mrs. Fish, who was so scrupulous in the
discharge OF her social duties as to be for
ever siterward quoted as the criterion in
such matters, coDjlintly with Madame
DAhlgren, kept visiting book" as one
would ledger, in which, during her last
season here, were entered the names OF
over six hundred ladies' who had called
upon her and left cards, which courtesies
she felt it obligatory TO return. The reg.
ular reception days are among the
penalties of office, and ladies who meet
all these requirements thus vigorously no
doubt work Us hard as their honored hus-
bands. To be sure, 1t i9 pleasant to receive
and return the visits OF friends, but there
are crowds Of people, with their wives,
their sisters, their cousins, and their auuts,
and the visiting strangers within their
gates, who come also frsm q mere spirit OF
curiosity, as one would look at the lions in
a circus, whose calls must also be returned,
by card at least, providing they have left
cards with their addresses upon
them. This custom has given
rise to another fashion equally ab.
surd-which prevails to considerable
extent, especially among those fresh from
the rural tistric;s--that OF keeping scrap.
books, in which are carefully gummed
these paste board evidences OF acquaint-
ance with the upper ten. A few days
since the bEight-eyed daughter Of new
Congressman asked well.known engraver
on the Avenue II he could not get her
full set Of tho cards Of the foreign minis
ters, for which she would pay liberally.
She wanted to display them in her scrap
book as a Sioux brave does the scalps in
his girdle. .