St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-08
THE WEEK REVIEWED.
A Dull Time Outside of the Festivities At
tending the Inauguration


tending the Inauguration.
Correspondence of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-Of course the in
auguration and the inaugural ball and the
new administration generally are the most
important features of the social world this
week. 1t is little odd, to say the least. that
the first social entertainment of the new
Democratic administration should have been
given at the Blaine mansion. How little
did he think when he was planning this
magnificent residence, four years ago, that
in it would be given the first entertainment
OF the Democratic administration which
should succeed through his own defeat.
''The irony of fate" the National
Republican called it, and so it was. The
Blaine mansion, as everybody knows, is
leased for term of years by Mr.. Letter of
Chicago and occupied by him. When Mr..
Villas of Wisconsin came here to be ready
for stroke of cabinet lightning, he was in
vited to be the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Letter.
Mrs. Tyler, the widow of ex-President Tyler,
who was the ''bride of the White house" and
is still well-preserved matron, was also
Mrs. Letters guest.
1T WAS IN THEIR HONOR
that the entertainment was given. There
was dinner party on Monday evening
and large reception on Tuesday
afternoon. Mrs. Letter received in a hand
some black satin, ''shot'' with fine gold
threads, Mrs. Tyler in black satin with the
lace at the neck held by a pin containing
miniature portrait of President Tyler and Mrs.
Villas in black silk with front of jetted lace
Mrs. Tyler it is expected will prove quite
figure in social events here during the
coming administration. She lives at Rich
mond, which has been her home since the
death of the ex-president and as she is I'M
derstood to be possessed Of u comfortable
fortune she will not have any hesitancy in
coming to the surface here again. 1t is odd
tn see, now at this early day, how many
people prominent here twenty-four years
ago are already resuming
THEIR OLD-TIME INTEREST
in social affairs. 1t is expected that Mrs.
Harriet Lane johnson of Baltimore niece of
President Buchanan, who was mistress of the
White house during his term, will be here
good deal in the next four years. She is a
close personal friend of Mrs. Hornsby, a daugh-
ter Of the late Judge Jere Black, who resides
here, and whose guest she was not long since.
They were great friends in their earlier years,
IL,
the present day.
There is good deal of curiosity in social
circles to see what the new administration is
to be in society way. OF one thing it can
rest assured, that IL the voice of its ac-
knowledged social head is recognized there
will be toning down of some of the fea-
lures that have marked the past four years.
Mrs. Hendricks is accredited with having re-
marked since her arrival here that she hoped
there would be an upward growth in the tops
of the evening dresses If what she had
heard about the decolletteness Of Wash
ington society dressing Of late was at all true.
She said this in good hard earnest, too, and
it is understood that SO far as her influence
goes 1t will be for reform in this particular,
not necessarily a radical reform which shall
demand dresses closing at the throat, but a
reform.
An INTERESTING EVENT
in the past week has been the arrest Of
couple Of society dudes for street fight over
social event. The general facts have
been published already how a young
nephew of ex-Postmaster General
Gresham thrashed son Of Medical Inspe ctor
Gihon on the street because the Gihon afore-
said had made an impertinent remark about
a lady whom Mr.. Gresham accompanied to
the thcater. The facts seem TO be that Gihon
is an impairment sort Of a fellow, without
breeding or sense, who is perpetualy getting
himself into hot water by his freshness in
social way. Happily for him his paternal
relative seems to have much better judgment
than his boy, and il the lash well laid on will
have any effect probably the young man will
come 10 his senses, for 1t is said that not
only is lie the victim Of the public
whipping for his remark about Mr..
Gresham's lady companion, but that he
got good thrashing from his enraged pa be-
cause Of his too notorious connection with
the talk row between young Holman and
the diplomat over the Stewart castle bali
affair. Gibon it is asserted came near hav-
ing another thrashiDg for his impertinence
to lady at the Stewart mansion
or THAT EyESTFUL NIGHT.
OF course the ball was the great event Of the
week It was a grand affair, in
certain sense, but it was observed
that there were not 50 many people Of
prominence there as was supposed by some
would attend. The fact is that inaugural
balls are not so extremely popular with the
bers here as is supposed. Whether it 10 be-
caIIse Of the cost Of admission or because
they are not sufficiently exclusive, at least It Ia
fact that there was not so much Of the
creme de IN creme Of "society'' present as many
people had expected to see. Yet 1t was q
great event. Any event in such a magni-
feent room would have been great one.