The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-19
SOCIETY.
SOCIETY
What fs Going On In tn O Social World.

Miss Minnie Harper, Mrs. Pascals beautiful
daughter, left yesterday for Fortress Monroe,
where she Will spend some weeks. She Is tho
belle Of tho North End, and Is as clever as she
is pretty. She is tall and slight, with great
luminous brown eyes finely cut features ,, and
brown, and her taste In matters OF tho toilet
is artistic and picturesque.
Among our society bellies at Narragansott is
Miss Anna Wilson, of Connecticut avenue.
Her bright coioring and piquancy OF style at.
tract much attention, and her merriness and
savoir fairo retain 1t.
Mrs. Lockwood and her bovy OF pretty daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Sigsbcc, Mrs. Peck, Mrs. Ritton-
house and bonnie "Mary Murray" have
taken house outside of Georgetown for the
summer. 1t is an old.fashionod Maryland
country scat, and the hospitality OF tho fair
residents keep II thronged with their friends.
Mrs. Carroll and nor daughter are at Allan
tic City, whoro they Will spend the summer.
As announced some weeks since in our notes,
Management. She left for tho Pier some days
since, and is pleasantly placed In tho midst Of
friends. Mr.. Howe Will Join her as soon as
Congress adjourns.
General Corse, whose brilliant wedding In
Boston was noticed in our columns last month,
has taken his beautiful bride to Europe. They
will travel until fall, when his business Will
oblige their return.
Admiral Porter has tho Northern whaley
Cottage for the summer, and all that Is pleas
ATTEST OF tho Narragansett society obbs and
flows through Its rooms, for Mrs. Porter Is do
cidedly the belle Of the Pier, 20 far as receiving
the greatest amount OF attention, the loveliest
fruits and flowers and tho most touching evil
dences OF affection Ia concerned. Her Illness
neutrality-suspicious. hcr from taking an
| active pnrt I'm tho gaietlcs, and the gaioties
| aro all brought to her rs much as possible.
| Senator Hill, whose long fight for life has
| been watched with an interest and affection
| second only TO that which gathered about tho
| death.bed of General Garfield, has at last sue.
| cumbed to his terrible malady. But he meets
the inevitable with such calmness and cour.
| age that his death Is n victory over Death and
his manner OF suffering a triumph over pain.
| The wife of tho Hon. Mr.. Turner sends him
| charming accounts OF her summer nest on tho
| Maine coast. He Will Join her as soon rs tho
| key is found which will open up tho dead
| lock and set the Congressional prisoners froe.
Miss Proudfoot, thelpretty Chicago 'damosel"
| who visited Mrs. Laughton at Mount Vernon
| during the ''days of the regency" has dropped
| anchor at Nantucket after n brilliant season in
Baltimore, Delaware and New York. She VIII
| predict a belloship for the little lady.
The brother officers and old Washington
| friends OF Lieutenant "Dick' Davenport, u. $.
A., are coneratuiating him on his approaching
marriage with charming New York belle
| Miss Gilman.
In tho notices Of the monument recently
raised to Rhinchart the sculptor, by MIR. Wal
tiers, OF Baltimore, the statement Is mado that
the "Endymion' is tho best work left by tho
dead artist. Can the writer ever have seen his
"Latona and Her Childrenp' II stood In the
| Fourteenth.street Museum In New York fol
some time, and was tho vis.a-vis OF the dead
Napoleon, which now graces our art gallery
| opposed TO tho gloom, despair and death Of
tho dlscrowned Emperor, IT was marvel Of
soft curves and rounded loneliness The loob
of tender love that was bent upon the dimpled
babies laying In the circle OF her arm has never
to my thinking-been surpassed In marble.
Mrs. Frances II. Burnett and her bonnie
boys will spend the summer at swampscott
They Will have quarters near Mrs. Lander, ant
the young authoress Will have n chance for
short rest, and timo to systematize tho worl
that is pouring In upon her like an avalanche
The success of ''Esmeralda" has opened up
new field, and tho managers over tho country
| are "trumpeting" for plays. She herself In
clines kindly TO tho writing of thom, and hei
friends IRE much concerned lest tho summer
rest should resolve Itself into harder wori
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