Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-06-22
SOCIAL QUEENS.
haules fair or Three Different Types Who Have
Been Powers i'm Sociefv

Ladies Fair Of Three Different Types Who Have
Been Powers in Society.
Mrs. Sprague and her daughters re-
turned to their home in Edgewood some
weeks since, and have been spending the
spring weeks there quietly, writes q cor
respondent from Washington 10 the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. The last of Mrs
Sprague's personal effects have arrived
from Canonchet, Governor Sprague at
last consenting to their removal by her
trustee. In appearance that lady of I'M
dying fame and beauty has never been
so striking as now. The same grace and
loneliness that have ALWAYS distinguish
ed her still remain, and, with her pride
and spirit unbroken, she is as charming
as ever. At one time grief and sorrow
seemed to have left n visible impress on
her, but from that She has rallied and is
now more queenly beauty than when
she first ruled over Washington society,
and all the town rayed and ran after her
Whose who saw her in those days have
never forgotten the picture she made
before their eyes, and the longtime mem
bers Of society here ike to tell Of the one
particular spot IN the east room Of the
White House where Mrs. Sprague used
to hold her court Mrs. Langtry, under
her fayoritc oak tree in HYDE Park, had
not half such Il court about her as Mrs.
Spraguc IN the hey-dey Of her fortune.
Then she used often 10 stand near the
big chandelier in the East Room, and 1t
was there the world came and admired
her. Her social successor has never app
peared, and, though it has sometimes
been said OF some popular beauty, that
she had received the mantle Of Mrs.
Sprague, the assertion was merely an eX-
travagant compliment that nothing af-
forwards carried out.
New York paper says: Mrs. Ham
ilton Fish is having some very elegant
costumes made for summer. One is ivo-
~ satin, thick as a board, made quite
plainly, and entirely covered with drap-
cries OF black Spanish lace. A corsage
bouquet of pale pink fuschias and their
leaves 60 with this costume; also b. ,ck
lace fan, to which is fastened SIN liar
bouquet. Mrs. Fish has remarkably
small ard pretty feet, with high arching
insleps and very delicate hands, which
she never Oyerloads with rings" No wo-
man has ever filed the high position so
long occupied by Mrs. Fish in Washing
ton society in such Il thoroughly salts
factory manner. She was an elegant
woman Of society, acquainted with its
minutest demands and the woman of
conscience and heart who appreciated
all that was good and lovable in all with
whom She came in contact
A New York correspondent says of
Mrs. Grant. Mrs. Grant has a hearty,
bluif way, quite popular with social Gym
les who tire OF prim receptions, where
Mr.. Retired Grocer and Mrs Retired
Grocer receive visits in all the state of
baron and baroness, ana the chilling
atmosphere Of snobbish ignorance fills
the sttlfly drawing-roOm The EXPIRES
idcut's wife will smite gentleman over
the back with her fan and call him by
his first name if he is a familiar friend.
and viii send him on an errand
As quickly as She would one Of her
own sons. She puts II good heart and
kindly disposition up in Gotham against
all the learning, estheticism and English
opera eXtant, and with q snap of her fin
ger that Sounds like the crack of whip
She will tell you that she doesn't care
that for the social aristocracy that looks
1t her with a frigid dir. 'Ulyss, she
always calls the old warrior 'Ulyss'-has
more friends than any of EN-, and she
likes her friends and is content to have
them make her society. -