The Evening critic., 1885-01-24
SOCIETY MATTERS.

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has re-
turned to Boston to undergo medical troat-
ment 1874
Mrs. Hitchcock who has been visiting
Mrs. Ricketts, for some weeks, returned to
New York to-day.
Mrs. Keifer will remain with her hus-
band, tho ex-Speaker, at tho Ebbitt until
the close Of Congress.
Mrs. Blatchford closed her house on Mon
day out Of respect to Mrs. Stanley Mat
tbews, whose death was expected hourly
all of that day.
Mrs. McElroy's regular weekly reception
occurred at the White House this afternoon.
AS usual, IL was largely attended, and was
brilliant in details.
Mrs. Anastasia Patten will erect beau
tiful residence at the corner of Massachu-
setts avenue and Twenty second street
northwest, where she has purchased lots.
Justice and Mrs. Bradley win hold the
last of their Tuesday evening receptions
next week. and General and Mrs. Sheridan
will conclude their series of receptions on
next Friday.
Judge David Davis and wife, of Illinois,
are expected TO arrive here next week, aud
will be the guests of Colonel Wharton
Green and daughter, Mrs. Pembroke Jones,
Sixteenth street.
Another reception was given at the Rus
sian Legation last night by the Minister
and Nine. De Struve. Nine. Ristori aud
her son were among the guests There
was dancing and tea.
Mrs. ex-senator John II. Mitchell, of
Oregon, is at the Riggs, with her husband,
for the winter. Her handsome and accom-
plished maiden daughter, Matte, is with
her, and adds lustre to society.
Miss West gave an informal musicale at
her home yesterday afternoon. Dancing
followed vocal and instrumental solos and
Tecitations.
1t was largely musical company, and
the feature of tho musical entertainment
was the piano and violin playing of the
Wetzler children and singing by the little
Linda da Costa. Baron Won Schaeffer, the
Austrian Minister, first became interested
| in the Wetzler children, whose father, for
merly a resident of Chicago, at present
staying in New York, is a countryman of
his, by hearing them play at Mr.. Have
meyers house in Now York. Through
him the other members Of the diplomatic
corps became interested in them, and Miss
| West arranged for private concert at the
British Legation, and invited the leading
society people and musicians Of the city to
be present. The guests began to arrive
soon after o'clock, and were received by
Mr.. West and his daughters, assisted by
their guest, Miss Heard and by Mrs. Horace
Helyar and Miss Sallie Loring. At 5
o'clock the ballroom was thrown open, aud
the company was seated on chairs that
| filed nearly the whole of the apartment.
The grand Steinway piano, which was
kindly loaned by Mr.. Edward f. Droop,
| was placed at the end of the room, and
Herbert and Minnie Wetzler opened the
concert with rendition of one of Schu-
bert's variations for four hands. The pro-
gramme presented consisted of vocal and
instrumental music and delighted the cul-
tivated and distinguished audience present
These young people are preparing for an
extended course of musical instruction
under the leading masters of Europe
| Among those present were the British
French Spanish, Italian, Russian and Aus.
trian ministers and their families, besides
many well-known Washington society
| people.