St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-27

ngureS cQIWlutu Ill uOWcIS. LILO walls
from the frieze to the dado will be hung
with a rich red silk fabric. The dado is
Lincrusta Walton in cream and gold. At
of musicians, and the front will be massed
with foliage plants. Seats will run all
all around the room.
COVERED WITH RED.
At the further end of the room is mag
nificent fireplace and mantel. The mantel
is of wood, finely carved and finished in
cream and gold. 1t is thirteen feet wide
and sixteen feet high. At the top wreath
mirror. and is fine specimen of the wood
carver's art. The fireplace is six feet long,
four feet high and three feet deep, and on
each side are wooden seats. About the
fireplace is thing of Sienna marble, and the
hearth is laid with Sienna and Grotte
marble. A sky-light in the roof, with ar
rangements for ventilation at the sides is
the only means of lighting the room during
the day. At night the light is furnished
from the sides of the roof, and the effect will
be very striking, the rich gold ceiling and
the red walls blending and showing a
wealth of coloring under the gas light. The
floor will be laid in oak, in herring-bOne
design. The ball room in all its details
will be fine example of the Louis XVI.
style of decoration. The entrance to the
ballroom is through recess from the par
lors, and the walls and ceiling will be
hung in rich green hangings. The
dining-room, which has been enlarged by
a recessed window looking out in the
garden in the rear, will have ebonized
wood work, and the hail will be hung with
a maroon fabric. The French style of dec
Grafton will prevail in the decoration of the
other rooms. The wide entrance hall will
have flock paper for the dado, and the rest
of the walls will be covered with paper of
reddish tone. The decoration of the recep-
ton room will be peculiar combination of
blue and green. The parlors will have
yellow walls, the wood work being a rich
brown and the carpets blue. All the dec
orations and furniture are being furnished
from New York.
NOTES.
Senator Stanford's wife receives very in
formally at their residence on K street.
The presidents niece, Miss Hastings, and
Miss Foster. daughter of Gen. Foster, are
here from Smith college, Massachusetts,.
Miss Scidmore has returned from sum-
mer spent in China and Japan, and will
spend the winter with Mrs. II. f. Page of
street.
One of the many beautiful and curious
things in Mrs. Logan's house is rug COM
posed of nine ostrich skins.
The winter is looked forward to as likely
to be an exceptionally gay one even outside
of official circles.
Mr.. James F. Rule and his bride, nee
Tristal, have returned from an extended
visit to relatives in Knoxville, Tenn.
Mrs. Senator Cockrell has had her three
little children enrolled as members Of the
Children's Christmas club.
The marriage of Mr.. William Miller of
Canada to Miss Della Barrick will take
place on Wednesday, Dec. 80. The cere-
mony will take place at the parsonage of
Foundry NJ. E. church.
Senator Planners elegant new house on K
street rapidly approaches completion. When
entirely furnished it will be one of the most
commodious and best appointed residences
here.
The Juvenile Minstrel club that bore so
happy part in the amusements of the
younger portion of the West End society
has dissolved. simply because its members
are so widely scattered.
MI. IulllcI, t1C COLliulSSiOuCI VI IlItCIudl
revenue, resides on Rhode Island avenue,
near Iowa circle, Mrs. Miller will receive
on Wednesday after the New Year.
Miss Cleveland has privately mentioned
that as the mourning will be taken off of
the White house only few days before
New Years. she will not have the reception
at the executive mansion as gay one as it
might otherwise be, so will only invite the
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net to receive with her at the presidents
reception on January first, and no other
ladies.
Miss Rosebud Jonas, niece of Senator
Jonas, is visiting friends in Boston with
her mother.
Mr.. Randall of Augusta, Ca, author of
Maryland, My Maryland" is in the city,
and will pass the winter at the Metropolitan
hotel.
Miss Tillinghast, who so beautifully dec
Grated Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Morgan's house
on Scott Circle, has been for several weeks
engaged in painting the walls and ceilings
OF Mr.. Graham Bells house, which is now
nearly completed. and has been much
praised by those who have had the oppor-
tunitY to see it.
Mr.. Cheng Tsao Ju, the Chinese minis
ter, was presented to the president on
Wednesday for the first time since his re-
turn from Peru, some five months since.
While in Peru, the minister was stricken
with paralysis, from which he has now al
most entirely recovered.
Every year the young matrons are be-
coming more and more prominent. The
beauty and attractions of stylish young
married ladies are now the object of special
attention. and little IN comparison is said of
young girls in society.
Gen. Sheridan, the British minister, Mr..
Frank Riggs, Marshal A. A. Wilson, Hon.
P. A. Collins, the French minister and Col.
Bonaparte are few of the prominent gen.
tlemen whose pews are in close proximity
in st. Matthew's church.
One hundred and twenty visitors shook
hands with the president to-day. Nearly
every one wished him 2 Merry Christmas"
and but few were given chance to say
anything more.
Lieut.. Allen of the Second cavalry is at
1910 81 street. He has been with an ex-
ploring party in Alaska and is engaged in
preparing a report with maps for the gov
eminent.
Mrs. Henderson, wife of the senator from
Nebraska, will return to the city ON Mon
day from visit to friends in New York
and Philadelphia.
Assistant Attorney General Maury re-
vived an old Washington custom of having
a number or friends in to drink egg-nog with
him after church services on Christmas day.
Among the gentlemen who partook of the
spicy draught were Chief Justice Waite.
Admiral Welles, Admiral Rowan, Justice
Miller, Justice Woods, Capt. Tanner and
Judge Cox.
Miss Cleveland was accompanied by Miss
Endicott in her Thursday morning drive.
Cards are out for the wedding of Miss
Edith Foster, daughter of the ex-minister