Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-03-24
society Notes.

A number of the ladies who receive on Tues
days had largely attended and pleasant recep-
tfons yesterday.
On Monday evening Mrs. Lander took Miss
Eva Henderson to the White House, and the
bright little girl recited charming poem to the
great pleasure Of Mrs. Hayes and the large num-
Der of gentlemen and ladies present DIR. Lor-
ing, of Massachusetts, was there, with a large
excursion party from Salem.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pollok h,,d their customary re-
ception on Monday evening, but the Mexican
Minister and his wife omitted theirs on Tuesday
evening.
days past, is accompanied by his wife, two
daughters and son, and also by Prof. Vincenzo
Botta and wife. Mrs. Botta will be best remem-
bered by many readers by her maiden name Of
Anne c. Lynch, the well-known author and
poet. Owing to an affection which threatens
heart troubles unless quiet and repose are Sc
stay here to decline number of prof1ered social
attentions.
The Chilian minister's daughter Is visiting in
New York. Mrs Fitzpatrick and her sister, Miss
family and later were guests at the Ch1lian
legation, have left the city.--Mr. Healey, who
is with his son at the Riggs House, is the city
solicitor of Boston, and was Daniel Websters
law partner, for many before the death Of the
latter. He is here as counsel In case to which
the city Of Boston is party.-The japanese
next tweek.-EX-GOvernor Shepherd and fami-
ly will probably start for Mexico April 18th. He
has sent out furniture and other movables to
Boston paper says that Senator Blaines son,
Emmons, is very popular in society In that city.
The editor OF the Capital having in that pa
per on March 18th asserted that certain lady
correspondent was in error In attributing the
wellknown lines:
Compound for eins they are inclined to,
By daEniDg those they have no mind to-"
21st, undertakes to prove Byron their author by
quoting several lines from his memory OF the
latter's works, concluding with:
'she did compound with sins she was inclined to,
BY damning those, in wrath, she had no mind to-"
Bartlett, in his Familiar Quotations, which
is considered standard authority, quotes the
TWO lines used by the lady correspondent as oc-
curing In Buffers "Hudibras, part l, canto /,
fore Byron was born, the former having been
born in 1900, and died in 1880, while Byron lived
from 11sS to 1924. The presumption is, there
Byron, quoted with slight alteration. The ant ant
lines. 1t not infreQuently occurs that writer's
forget to use quotation marks, in consequence
of which readers who conf1ne themselves to one
newspaper for information, as D. P. appar-
betrayed into credit1ng the copyist with origin
ating that which he uses from the pen Of aa-
other. In this way, whole columns clipped
from THE STAR, are copied as originating in
other newspapers, because they appear without
credit over the signatures of Washington cor
respondents of journals published elsewhere,
these. same correspondents having had. in COM
pil1Dg the matter they sell as their 0,on, no
other trouble or expense than the cost of The
STAR for the week preceding the mailing of their
letters, or Of telegraph1ng, and the dexterous
use of scissors Yet these same correspondents
and the journals for which they write censure
the minister who breaches as his own the SER
mons prepared by another, the firm which copy
rights the opera whose authors have neglected
to avail themselves OF the protection Of copy
Fight, Of what no one denies is their own prop
erty, or the member of Congress who has his
speeches prepared for him by an ADLER pen than
his own.