The Evening critic., 1882-03-03
SOCIETY,"
what is Going on In the social
World.

large company was gathered last night at
Mrs. Morvin's beautiful home in the North
End to spend one OF the literary and musical
evenings row so popular I'm Washington. The
hostess, assisted by n large corps OF friends,
received and seated the guests, aud about s
O'Clock the entertainment began with Miss
Gilburts piano solo. She has a nne touch and
her shading is exquisite; she plays with deep
feeling and lnterprcts with heart and soul, as
'tLovely Night and the gentlemen who sang
IL are evidently lovers OF music and we'll ac-
customed TO each others voices. Mr.. sporord's
paper" Epitaphs and Epigrams was the
received with manifest delight and
bosen Tns zig TrsncS were S psr
bearing on the palm for, as he quoted, "France
is dispotism limited by. epigrams, and tho
sentiment still holds good, although the Napo-
leon and the Empire that provoked tho saying
have slept, the one In "Les Invalides' and
the other in the Past, for these many years.
The epitaphs were technical, professional
grotesquc, and in some instances classical I'm
their beauty and elegance, but one OF the most
touching have ever read was wanting, and
would suggest its incorporation in this admir-
able lecture. IT Is the one Col Dom platt
wrote for his first wife (the sister OF the pres
ent Mrs. Piatp. II begins:
"'To thee, my darling and my own,
] Iiaise In grief this monumental stone.
All that IL tells of life In death Is thine;
All that IL tells OF death In life IL mine;
For the dread king that made thee blest
Has left me living In life's cursed unrest"
The concluding lines-and the best--I have
forgot. But to return TO the subject After the
paper an animated discussion followed, and
then more. music, so good that the guests
delayed thcir adieux until the last moment.
Among those present were Miss Spofrord, Mrs.
Lloyd Mr.. and Mrs. Bigelow, Mr. and Mrs.
mcfarland OF Kansas, Mrs. Anderson, also of
Kansas, Miss Williamson, Col Clarke, Miss
Osborne, Miss Lehman, who Is as fresh and
pretty as the flowers she wore, Mr.. Middleton,
and many others.
The many friends OF Miss Hurd and Miss
Jones regret to learn they Will leave town in a
few days. They have made many friends dur.
ing their stay with their fair relative, and 1t s
pity they go at the beginning of the only
season that Washington people can really de
vote TO each other. Winter has its rush OF
social duties: summer Its heat; autumn its
late returns from North and West and Europe
and spring-its friendships.
Tho President will inaugurate his series o.
formal dinners next Wednesday with one &c
his Cabinet and certain Senators, but his re
ceptions will not begin until after the Doth, OF
which date the six months OF mourning fol
Gen. Garfield expires.
The many friends OF Mrs. Elliott Cones will
| be grieved to learn of the serious illness sh,
| has just passed through; she is now conva
lescent.
Madame Zamacona and her amlabe famil,
| carry with them the friendship and regret o
| the foreign residents who have so identified
| themselves with the place and its people.
The Countess Maccetta Miss RooseyelO re
| turns next week from New York.
Mrs. Robeson, who left last Saturday 70
| chief object OF her visit was to hear Patti II
|