Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-07-22
LETTER FROM THE WHITE SULPHUR.
The Coming Garden Party-Dress Hops
-Ihe isinuet-I'he Midsummer Col.
Ors-Prornincnt &snesfS-The New I'm
proyements-Ehe Hate Mrs. Lincoln
Personal Mention, Etc.

Personal Mention. Etc.
Special Correspondence of THE EvENrNG STAR.
| WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
1 GREENBRIER Co., W. VA, July 2lSt, 1882
The first grand arden party to occur here Is
| now definitely fixed for August sth and prepare
tons are being made to insure its success. The
dancing floor is to be laid under the large forest
trees the fat terrace opposite the parlor bal
| cony, which last viii be trimmed with colored
bunting for'tle occasion. The spot selected is
| always shady in the afternoon, ana the children
Will have exclusive possession of the dancing floor
from to z, while their elders viii dance from to
IL, when the grounds VIII be lighted with cleo
| tTicity and hundreds OF colored lanterns The
spectacle is sure TO be particularly fine one-the
| grounds here are so spacious and display such
variety, with their many terraces and 1ower-beds
and the white cottages encircling the Enclosure,
! showing against a background Of thicky- wooded
mountains, forming amphitheater about the
big hotel Colonel PeytOn'5 spirit OF enterprise Is
aroused, and he is determined the affair shall be
success, the more so that nothing OF the kind has
ever been attempted before at southern watering
| place.
| DRESS HoP5
| The hops which occur here every evening lex
| cept Sunday, OF courSe,l become on Wednesdays
and Fridays full dress balls, though there Is hand
some dressing enough at all times here. 1t sls-
tains this year the reputation of previous
In rivaling Saratoga as very 'dressy" watering
place. The grand fancy dress and masquerade
! ball, which is always q feature OF the season at
! the White sulphur, will come Off in August and
Sgnor HaZAzor, the teacher OF ''etiQuette dancing
and department." who Is here for the summer, has
made special preparations for this ball. He teaches
| the fancy dances Of all nations and has given
great and much needed variety to the evening
! amusenent5 by introducing the mIuet and waltz
quaariile. Such variety is neeiei at all dancing
Tor lancers ana round dances have known so little
change In many years Morning germans"
not begun yet; but VIII in August, OF course,
when tue season, as at all other watering places,
! Will be at its height.
THE MINUET.
would commend to the many young gentle
men in Washington who ''lead in the german"
when the winter festivities are in progress, that
they turn their attention to the mnuet the stately
dance OF one hundred years ago, and Introduce its
: figures into the german. 1t Is danced here now
| every evening, and Is as graceful as the music
| which accompanies 1t Is alluring. In several OF
the figures the gentleman places one hand on his
! hip and holds his arm akimho, which the dancing
master tells me IS yeritable imitation OF the old
style when this was danced at courts. Regular
| steps but very simple ones, are taken, in which
| the toes are much pointed, and digni1led SILVER
| peryaGes the person except when, with an air of
calm repose at certain points, the gentleman bows
low to his partner, while She courteSes with equal
dignity 10 him; The lady In this last act to be
perfect should assume an expression OF arch CO.
qnetry and use her fan gracefully. Signor Ha-
zazer, who is Spaniard by birth, says he can
uet with their feet and bodies, but finds it difficult
to induce them to, as he expresses it, "dance with
| their faces and hands"
| THE MIDSUMMER coLoRs.
| AS wrote from Long Branch that red was the
prevailing hue there, here it is green and white.
The hotel is pale grey and all the cottages are
pure white, with green blinds. and so are
| all the numerous other buildings, while the
lawns and the great variety of forest trees in
the enclosure and on the hills around-cedars,
shades OF vivid green. Then, too, more white
dresses are worn here than any other kind. Red
are almost unknown here, and red parasol5 are
| rare. l have fairly longed to see some warmth of
Fed WarS re e
There Is not even flag here, and there has never
been one since the war. Fancy watering-place
hotel without flag. Col. PeytOn promises TO have
! one this summer, and OF course proper festivities
will attend the first fag-raising witnessed here
since the war. During the war the flags of the
opposing armies atern3tely fioated over this hotel
which was captured and recapturei several times.
General Il. b. Hayes and his command occupied
this place at one time So he makes one OF the
very long list Of Presidents who have visited the
White sulphur, although be did not come here
! his term. and so were all the other Presidents,
| except Lincoln, johnson, Hayes and Garfield
FUTURE GUESTS.
tits still hoped that President Arthur is coming,
and that Generals Grant and Hancock, who hear
have accepted invitations. will also be here before
the season is over. Oscar Wilde is also mentioned
as pr0ba BILE guest The company has greatly
augmented since last / wrote, and Washington
people are frequent visitors Some who have en-
gaGcInentS elsewhere make sure OF spending some
portion or their time here. Mr. and Mrs. j. w.
Starr were here last week on their way to the Red
sulphur Springs, and were so delighted that they
say they viii certainly return here They were
amazed TO see such large hotel and such fine
accommodations. The furniture OF the bed rooms
IS now as handsome as that at the best northern
summer hotels and better than 1T some Of them
which are considered Every Swall' 1t seems
strange to ind marble top walnut bureaus and
waSh-5tandS, AMI belsteadS and bedding OF CORE
spending quality at so rustic place as this.
Among the most appreciated improvements are
the spacious Office travellers reception room, and
dining room for children and nurses In the new
building. All these fully equal to those at the
most fashionable and best equipped summer no.
rooms to be used first in a few days as a restsu-
rant for ladies, or for gentlemen accompanying
ladies' IN they are iittsd up n very handsome
one OF the best patents and give great satisfaction.
| THE LATE MRS. LINCOLN.
The news OF the death OF Mrs Abraham Lincoln
recalls to me a conversation had last spring with
her sons wife, Mrs. Robert Lincoln, who spoke In
most afrectionate terms of her, and said how often
she had urged her mother-E-law to make her
home with her. She said that her mother-in-la laws
love for herself had never changed Even after
Mrs Abraham Lincoln became estrangei, through
her own misconceptions, from her son. she still
loved his wife, who went to see her last winter,
and did SO every year when the elder lady was In
! This country. MIS- Abraham Lincoln picked out
| Miss Mary Harlan, the daughter OF the Iowa Sena-
tor, for her son, not knowing that he had met the
young lady at hop at the National hotel, and
from that time had begun to show her marked at
tenti01. The only time Mrs. Lincoln senior has
visited Washington since she moved from there,
| after her husbands assassination, was when her
son WIS married, in the autumn OF 1867 or 1863 Il
think the latter date Is the correct One) when she
| attended the wedding, and showed great SatiSfac-
ton in the result OF her effort at matchmaking
| for her son. Her choice for him has received the
cordial approval OF others Also 1t is said on good
authority, that President Lincoln, who was also
| much attracted by Senator Harlan,s daughter
| when she accompanied the party on their trip to
| Richmond, just after the capture OF that city in
April, 1865, then first thought OF making Mr. Har-
Ian Secretary OF the Interior, and had before his
murder made up his mind to do so.
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Matthews, of West Virginia, and
his family occupy one of the colonnade cot.
tages, one of a brick row from which magnificen,
views are obtained They have fitted 1t up In ele-
CANT style, and brought pictures and bric-a-brac
from their former home in Wheeling. They now
spend their winters in Baltimore, but are here
several months every year.
Ex-senator Stevenson and his wife and daughter
are now here. and also Gen. Roger A. Pryor. Nine
q Ia ROchefoucOuld. OF France; VIM Conkling, Lon.
don, England; and H. II. Dodge, Of Washington,