Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-29
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
What Society at the Capital is Doing
and win Do.
AN ADMINISTRATION oFPRETTY GIRLS
The Danger to the Presidents Heart in
Ambush Everywhere at the
Capital.
RECEPTIONS, MOVEMENTS AND NOTES
Special 70 he Re0ista.

the busiest weeks society Will nave before
the opening Of the season of 1886. In a
few days the President and his sister will re-
move to the soldiers home and the daily re-
cepions which Miss Cleveland has been
holding in the early Fart of the week viii
end. Not that she expects to live the life
Of recluse at the home, but her conven-
fences for receiving large numbers Of people
will not be such as she enjoys at the White
House, and beside she will be rather glad to
take little rest The result is that she is
unusually busy this week. Monday, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday are giving,
in part, to his duty, and the large number
Of people who avail themselves Of the priv
lege Of these informal calls is quite sur
prising. Then, too, there is feeling that
the end of all things social, so far as Wash
ington is concerned, is at hands. The Su-
preme Court is to adjourn pretty soon, aud
the receptions of these ladies which always
start of the week in very delightful way
viii soon be no more until their return in
the autumn. The cabinet ladies are, how
ever, settling down for a summer Off
They see that there is little hope for their
husbands to get away from their duties
very much, this season, for their work is
very con6ning, causing them long hours of
overwork, and while their families will Of
course leave the city when the weather be-
comes unendurably warm there is dispo-
sition on their part to stay as long as they
can.
Busy Society.
So every day is busy one with the
social world this week. On Monday there
we're informal receptions by the wives of
the Supreme Court Justices, and Miss Cleve-
lands informal reception between II and
o'clock. II having been announced that
this would be her last week to receive in
this informal way, the attendance was very
large. 1t was day of regrets, too, for the
friends Of Col. and Madame Jerome Bona
parte, for on that day the Col and his fam
lily sailed for France, to remain until Sep
tember when they will return to this country
and spend the remainder Of the season at
Newport Their house on X street will be
closed. as the fomily will take abroad with
them the entire retinne Of servants, whom
they brought over with them on their last
trip to France.
To-day Miss Cleveland was kept busy
again with her callers, and in the afternoon
the drives in and about the city were well
well filed with people enjoying the delights
of spring which have come almost month
late for this climate.
The Presidents Danger.
To-day is busy day. The Cabinet Ia
dies who are in t. city are holding their
customary Tuesday receptions, and their
parlors are full Of people who are anxious
| to pay regards to the powers that be. The
king is dead, long live the king. The peo-
pie who focked to the receptions of the
cabinet ladies of the old administration are
there to day, paying court to the new. Some
| of the Cabinet ladies have their daughters
with them to-day, al very pretty ones they
are, too. This seems to be an administrs'
ton rich in pretty young ladies, and 1t will
| be an obdurate old bachelor heart that Mr..
| Cleveland carries if it does not yield to some
| Of the charms which surround it before the
end of the four years just begun. Miss
Endicott, now here with her parents, is tall
| blonde. She has the fairness Of the English
| girl, with lovely natural roses in her cheeks,
and her figure has the tender grace Of an
American. There will be two younger
/ daughters Of the Secretary of State, the
Misses Florence and Mamie Bsyard. They
are bright, clever girls ofpronounced origi.
nality. The Postmaster General has a
beautiful daughter about Is years old. Miss
Lamar is an attractive girl, and the Secre
tary Of the Treasury has daughter nos ye
formally outin society, out who will proba
bly, be at he Capital next year.
An Oporatc Evs-t.
Thursday the social event of the wesl
comes in the presentation at Folds Opero
House Of the opera Of The ksttledrum,
or The Debutsute," to be given for the
benefit If the Central Dispensary aud En-
ergency Hospital Mr.. Soesa for the pas
week has been drilling the caste aud choru
until they are nearly perfect in their parts
and there can be no hesitation in saying
that for originality, fun and good music
this performance is unsurpassed. Messrs.
Smith and Riddle, the composers, have
labored earnestly to make this (rhe initial)
performance of their opera a successful aud
memorable occasion. The indefatigsble
efforts of Miss Waite to assist in this good
work in aid of the Dispensary
will be fully appreciated By an
oyerGowing house, as, judging from the box
sheet, the seats are nearly all taken. 1t is
to be full dress affair, and is expected to
be one Of the most brilliant events Of the
post Lenten season.
Notes.
The Russian Minister and Madame de
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summer resorts, as they did last year. They
have decided to leave this country early in
June for q visit OF FIVE or six months to rels-
tiVes In Russia.
Secretary and Mrs. Endicott will move
into the Pendleton House on the lst of May.
They have also secured the Pendleton psw
in st. Johns Church, where they have been
regular attendants since first coming to
Washington.
Mrs. Hornsby still has her niece, Miss
Black, with her, and Miss Neyins, the sculp-
tor of the marble statue Of Gen. Muhlenberg
in the Capitol, is also her guest now.
Mrs. Levey, of Australia, formerly Mrs.
Bouhgny, Of this city, has been in Paris dur
ing the month OF April, but will soon Join
her husband in London, where he is in
charge ofthe exposition which opens on the
3lst inst
MIR. Robert MeLane, our new Minister to
France, as he stood in the Blue Psrlor
while the President was receiving recently,
said that he remembered the room when q
President used to sit in q corner of it aud
smoke white clay pipe, which servant
would bring him regularly after dinner.
That was Andrew Jackson, whom Mr.. Me-
Lane said be remembered perfectly.
Miss Kate Ssnborn, late professo. of lit
ersture at Smith College, is here on visit
to her father and mother, Professor aud
Mrs. Ssnborn, who have been spending The
winter at the Hamilton. Miss Sauborn is
in deep mourning tor her 6aRce, Me-. Barn.
ham, Of New York, who died about month
..nno and vas hnriai On the Anr nnna;ntad