The Evening critic., 1882-06-13
SOCIETY.
what is q Ding On I'm the social world.

Mrs. McCeney and her pretty daughters Will
take q cottage at New London for the summer,
that is, unless they change their plans, which,
ut present. arc all laid In and about the charm
Ing resort named.
Mr.. and Mrs Brown, OF Boston, arc visiting
tae Misses Gouveneur, at their residence In
tho North End. Mr.. Brown is q grandson of
Mrs. Maynadior and.a nephew OF Mrs. Phelps
and Mrs. william Baldwin. He is here on his
wedding trip, and his. bride Is MS attractive
and winning as even lovor could desire.
The Secretary OF the Navy left yesterday
with his family for the North. Mrs. Kinsley,
who has won 30 many friends, left at the same
time.
There will be n large gathering of friends
and "friends friends" In Mrs. Merrlcks par
lors Friday evening to witness the little French
Rays wncn Maaam gurf puP,s ~ wa sIgs,
story, written by an Albany lady. Miss Burr
has translated It and dramatized 1t. She calls
IL "Thc Land OF Stories," and In II figure Cin-
derella, Red Riding Hood, Goody Two Shoes,
Little Bo-Peep, and others, all In costume, OF
course The second eco play s, Is THE Young Young
WILL" Among those who will take part are
Miss Window, Miss Cameron, Miss Ramsdell,
Miss Card, Miss Paul, the Misses Merrick, Miss
Semmes, little Miss Craigie, Miss McElhoue,
and others.
Mrs. Drum and her pretty Blossom have
been at West Point during the closing exer-
cises and the attendant gay eties. They left
the Point on Monday for their home near
philadelphia, where the General Joined them
yesterday.
VI all the DelIeS tho south mas lent us this
season Miss Florida Yulce is perhaps the
most brilliantly handsome. She is with her
parents at the Portland, where they have q
stat" She is a flne type of Southern beauty,
and almost merits tho glowing description
given of her by n compatriot In a poem he has
written her.
Miss Chalmers and the bevy of other pretty
girls that went 10 Annapolis, under the
chaperonage of Mrs. General Poo and Mrs.
Ferris, have returned, and they declare the
| bail the loveliest they ever attended, sand
| the middies were lovelier STILL"
Doctor Johnson, of Frederick, Nd, has been
spending a few days In the city. II is this
| gentleman who Is about to take from us one OF
our sweetest and fairest girls, Miss Ruth
Gouveneur.
Lieutenant Mason and his wifo have taken
| quarters at wormley's. He has been ordered
| here on special duty, and, although 1t is
| this city, he finds many old and warm friends
TO welcome him back. Mrs. Mason was Miss
Phelps, tho daughter of Captain Phelps, U. s
NJ, and Lieutenant Mason is the son of Mrs
Theodorus Bailey, of New York, a woman sc
charming and lovely that she still shares 0
| belleship with her daughter, Mrs. James, IL
| the most exigeant society OF New York.
The Hon. Randall and Mrs. Gibson have
| been invited by Mrs. Dahlgren to visit her a.
| her home on South Mountain. Their move
| ments, however, are so dependent on Mr.
| Gibson's Congressional duties that thoy have
been unable thus far TO accept
| The friends and relatives of Mrs. Anna Han
| son4eorsey are much gratined by the compli
ment paid her last story, which is nothing
fact that Mrs. Dorsey has written almost ex
| clusively for the Catholic press has prevented
| the widespread recognition of her talent IL
this country that has been accorded abroad.