The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-03
SOCIETY,".
what is Going On in the Social world.

Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine, whose departure for
their northern homo we announced last week,
have reached Augusta, after quick and
pleasant journey. Miss Dodge Will not spend
tho summer with them, being already settled
in her attractive nest ut Hamilton, Mass. She
will, however, go with them TO Mt. Desert for
few weeks.
Mrs. Polouse left yesterday for the West, to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Collins, at her pretty
summer s, -, home In 0atlands. Their many
in quite ill-health, but he is travelling in Colo
RADIO now, and his physicians hope much from
the high latitude and pure air.
Senator and Mrs. Logan will spend few
weeks at Absecom Beach, with their daughter,
Mrs. Tucker, who has chosen this beautiful
stretch OF sand for her summer "tenting."
General Schcnck and his daughters have
left their home on Massachusetts avenue and
have gone TO Vermont for the season. Among
the clever people in Washington, mono can
carry on tho palm for wit better than Miss
Schenck. She talks delightfully."-, and her
"reminiscences of her English days amount to
almost epigrams. Their friends abroad were
largely among the literatl, and the character
"best and brightest made mo better &C.
quainted with their individuality than half
the biographies printed.
Captain and Mrs. Johnson, with their
daughter, Miss Virginia, will summer In the
shadow of the White Hills-Conway being
their place OF residence.
The President Is still wayy about his fitting,
and, aaI said the other day, the correspondent
who chooses his summer resort for him is like
trout nshed, whose catches" never Will DO
landed where he wishes and intends. Tho
cottage at Long Branch is complete, the Sol,
from altar, but the third place-where the oflce.
seeker ceases from troubling and ho can be at
rest-is the bourne he has cho~ and tho
name Of tho spot Is EchO's 49, answer
"Where"
Dear little Mrs. Hon, than whom no one is
more popular in our society, has gone with her
babies to Connecticut for the season. She has
n a WaahtnptDnana.
frot's."
Judge and Mrs. shellabarger, with their chill
drep, will spend August at Asbury Park.
Mrs. Farley left on Saturday for the North,
where she will remain till after tho session
Is ended, and then she and the Senator Will go
TO their homo on the beautiful Pacific slope.
MIR. and Mrs. Merrick, with their flock of
for "Linwood," their country seat, In Howard
County.
Among the students at Georgetown College
Is q young man from Georgia who has already
attained distinguished place among the In.
yentors of agricultural implements" His
latest patented invention Is an Improvement
in Horse Rakes," which nets him the tidy
royalty OF twonty.ono hundred dollars year.
He has not yet attained his majority, and is as
modest as he is clever.
Mrs. General Bingham, so pleasantly no.
membered here, will be among the Washing
| tonians at Cape May this summer. I call her
washingtonian although she is n Florldlan,
and au army officers wife besides,) because
| she lived so long among us and was so much
| loved that we will not give up our claim on
her. She has been spending q few days with
Mrs. General Paul, en- route to Now Jersey.
Pretty Mrs Goldsborough (nee Coyle) is
summering in Loudoun County, near Lees
burg.
Commander Graham's fair bride will not DO.
gin her formal receptions until the fall, but
they are both at home to their friends whom
ever they call.
Colonel Corkhill's visit to Cape May Will be
| O very short one. Ho is expected In n few
| days.
Tho two new houses on street, between
| Eighteenth and Nineteenth, are being bull
| by Admiral Murray, U. g.. N. They attrac
| much attention, and combine In themselves
three good enthusiastically, taste and com
| fort.
The Hon. Mr.. and Mrs. Robson hope to oc
| cupy their new home on Sixteenth and {
| streets by next fall, but as builders bricki
| and weather are uncertain, they may not NOV,
| Into II until December.
| Apropos to new houses, Major Elliott
| friends arc pleased to learn that no is taking
| out his naturalization papers In tho shap'
of a very pretty house on o street, between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
Justice and Mrs. Drake move Into their ney
| home In the North End In October. The strik
| ing feature Of this house is It's extreme depth
and 1t is to be filed with all sorts OF comfort
| and luxuries.
The use OF rustics is being revived IN tn
| aesthetic parts of England mot loose on tn
| floors, as In madi@yal days., but as dados
| hangings and mats.