The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-09
SOCIETY.

Mrs. Secretary Whitney hopes tO. occupy her
new residence In a couple Of weeks and will
give large party for children on Christmas
evening
RearAdmral simpson. U. s. n. aud family
have given M their house on NJ street aud will
pass the winter at the Gramercy, ON Vermont
avenue.
MIR Mortimer Weldon Of Bristol Conn, and
lis bride have been stopping with their cousin,
Miss Abby y, Hopkins, at O35 Massachusetts
avenue northeast
senator Austin +. pike OF New Hampshire,
who has taken quarters nv the Hamilton
House for the winter, has with him his wife
and daughter, who will remain until the close
of the session
Hammered pewter" IL the latest craze in
aesthetic art; II must be old to be valuable.
A pair of candle-sticks, over two hundred
years Of age. were recently received In this
city from the wife of one of our Ministers
abroad.
Nine. Becerra, wife Of the Colombian Min
ister, who recently received news of the death
Of her sister In Colombia, has met with
another sad loss In the death Of her niece,
who died In south America of ofdiphtheria, only
surviving her mother by afew days.
MIR. scovcl, or Edwardo scoyello his nom u
gu0tt-who married Miss Marcia Roosevelt
while he was the tenor at st. Thomas Church,
New York. has been singing with great sue
cess at musiCulCs I'm London. Miss Roosevelt
was engaged to the Marquis Spinosa at the
time of her mothers death I'm Paris, but upon
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silycr.yoiced young man and married him.
The kcttle-drum To be given December t5i6
In the interest Of the Garfield Hospital, Will
be social event OF much interest. Among
the ladies Conspcuously interesting them
solves in the affair are Mrs. Logan, president
of the hoard; Mrs. Senator nolph, Mrs. llazen,
wife Of the Chief Signal officer Mrs Daniel
Porter Heap, Mrs Henry willard, Mrs. Tul-
lock, Mrs. Or. Carroll, Mrs. II. C.. Crawford,
Miss Belle Nedder, Miss Katie Scott, Miss Fox
and Miss Merrill
Says the IrOtid's washington correspondent:
The Shermaus live I'm a very comfortable
plainly and substantially, without any at
tempt at decorative display. Upon the walls
are number Of pictures painted by Mrs.
sherman, who has had fairly good training
as an artist. Mrs. Sherman is tall, precise in
her manners, plain In her looks, but thor
ouphly experienced In Washington social
ways. Miss Lizzie Sherman their niece and
the daughter of Judge Sherman of Ohio, was
nearly adopted by the Senator. After she
became young lady she spent all of her
winters with the Senator and his wife. Don
Cameron, who subsequently married her, met
her at the Senator's house They have an
other niece now living with them who, ii Is
understood, they have formally adopted.
Senator Palmer OF Michigan has no children
and both he and his wife are devoted to pets
Their house Is said to resemble q small me
rgCCric, The Senator was seen recently on
Connecticut avenue and thus described by u
correspondent: stout gentleman, dressed In
down upon the right aide of his head, was
walking along In an easy, independent way.
His pudgy right hand was showed down deep
into the pocket of his Oyercoat. In his left
hand he twlred a little light brown stick, the
head Of which was n carved gobiin's heal.
just above the top button Of his oycrcoat,
right in the centre of his snowy white shirt
bosom, rested the live black head of a toy
terrier dog. This unique style of breastpn
attracted the attention of every one.
A pleasant reception and hop was given by
the Ladies' Social Circle a young ladies' club
of limited membership, TO their gentlemen
| friends, at Cosmopolitan Hall, last evening.
| II was well managed by the following com
| mitteos: Executive Committee Emma Her
| mann (chairman), Annie Miller, Annie Vol
| land, Maggie WalZ, Lizzie Trip, Augusta
| Strebb and jamie Maxwell. Floor Commit
| tCC-JuliG KGttlcinann (chairman), Agnes
| Kcttlor, Mamie NCumoyer, Barbara steiner,
| Lille Banf May Wonzel Maggie Donohue.
The way the report started that Minister
| and Mrs. PCndeton were dissatisfied with the
| German court was through letters written by
| the Misses Pendleton to several of their young
| lady friends. 1t was soon after their arrival
| in Berlin, and as they had few acqualntances
| most all Of the society people being out OF
| town fer the summer, they naturally folt
| rather lonesome, and so wrote their friends
| here, who misunderstood the real reason, and
| reported the whole family as discontentet, On
| the contrary, says u relative in the city, the
| fendletons are thoroughly happy and content
| All the diplomats are now In Berlin, and the
season promises to be charming one.