Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-31
WOMAN's RECEPTION.
Famous Men and Beautiful Women al Madame Adam's Levee.

 Madame Adam,s Levee.
 Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.l
 Mime. Adam, one of the greatest women in France to-day, both politically and socially, is giving this season series of Tuesday ev- ening reunions for contributors of the Re- view only and their wives, ,and another series of Friday evening receptions for the cosmopoli- tan crowd of her friends and admirers, cele- brities and belles of fashion that are accus- toned to gather in her salon. At the last of these receptions the three long parlors, as we'll as the diping-room of her spacious apartments, were filled.
 Mime. Adam herself, although already a grandmother, is a well preserved beauty af Grecian type in the full bloom of her woman hood and intellectual powers. Her powdered hair was gracefully arranged in massive puffs on her head, and rolled on the queenly fore head, cluster of pink roses on the left side and a string of pearls interwoven in the puffs. She was richly and simply ettircd in 8 plain white satin robe laid in transverse plaits across the front, with long, full train, and low cut waist with white satin straps across the shoulders. A garland of pink roses extended from the left shoulder tu the right side. She wore no necklace or
  tish pride of French belles, and even those who do not consider nature unadorned the truest style of beauty, and so the richest and most beautiful women wear the least jewelry and ornaments.
 Long tan gloves, plain satin Louis XIV slippers, and point lace and mother-of pearl fan completed the charming costume of the hostess of the evening. Among the guests were Baroness de St., fine pianiste, whose bewitching air and manner excited general admiration. She was dressed in air pale green gauge over satin of the same color, a low-necked satin waist, but with gauge covering her entire neck, giving her 8 fairy-like appearance
 NJ. and Mime Ney, the former the grandson of the celebrated French marshal, the latter thorough Parisian, looked like a superb Amazon-tall stately, dashing. She wore 8 white satin skirt, trimmed with hounces of real lace, very low cut ruby velvet bodice, and red flowers in her hair.
 Countess M., gay, brilliant Parisian widow who receives people of distinction in her own salon. was attired in a rich, plain robe of crushed strawberry velvet, slashed open on the left side, and revealing a skirt of the finest real lace, a low necked waist, 8 spray of pink blossoms and diamonds in her hair, slippers and fan to match and the long mousquetaire gloves.
 The Baron and Baroness de L., from Vienna, noted for their aristoeracy and se- clusion. The baroness, in spite of her 35 years, looked like young girlin plain but rich toilet of light blue satin, falling in matchless folds from her waist, with light blue tulle edging the neck and sleeves; her blonde hair, doubled in braid and inter woven with pearls, hung carelessly on her white neck, and the small feet were dressed in blue silk stockings and Louis XIV slippers to match. Gounod, Alexandre Dumas, Al phonse Daudet, Carolus Duran, Princess Marie Troubetskoi, General and Mme. Pittie, General Billet, newly appointed ambassador from Paris to St. Petersburg, and General Boulanger-who was 8 delegate from the French republic to the United States at the celebration of the battle of Yorktown, and now minister of war-were also guests, and rising men of letters, artists, ministers, ladies of aristocracy and note filed the salons form erly frequented by Gambetta and Victor Hugo.
 At 10:30 a comedy entitled "Coupable'' ("Guilty''), and composed by Mime. Adam herself, was performed by distinguished French actors, among whom was Mile Marie Weber, rising star in the world of art a few of the younger ladies wore ball costumes, which are greatly in vogue now. A full, short, untrimmed skirt of satiu, blue pink, green, white, yellow, or even red, covered with several plain skirts of tulle of the same color, one shorter than the other; plain low-cut satin waist, bordered with tulle and laced behind, slippers, stockings and fan to match, spray of flowers or loops of ribbon high on the head.