St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-31
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Society SObered for the Season by the
Death of Several Prominent
Members.
A KafTee KaIatsche and Yum Yum
Tea Figuring as the Latest
Social Sensation,
All for Sweet Charity's Sake
Lunches at the White House,
Chit Chat.

Correspondence of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-What a merci-
less fellow is Death. To those who court
his embrace he comes tardiiy, to those who
plan for enjoyment he appears suddenly
and without warning. Congressman Rankin
who had been expected to die for year or
two fingered until last Sunday. suffering
untold agonies for months. while on the
same day, within a few steps of Mr..
Rankin's death bed, died a man who had
just expended round hundred thousand
dollars in Washington with the expectation
of a decade of enjoyment in social life here
both for himself and for his family. The
residence of Mr.. ID. P. Morgan, late a
banker of New York, which he had pur-
chased of Don Cameron at S95, 900 and
fitted up at much additional cost, was to
have been one of the gayest and most bril-
liant in Washington this winter Last
Sunday he died and 1t is closed, probably
never to be opened to the social world again
by his family. The Bayard mansion, a
few doors farther up, which was to have
been the center about which the social sys-
TEN would revOlve this winter, is also closed
to society the entire season. The shadow
of these two events has cast a shadow over
all Washington society from which it will
scarcely recover during the season which
promised to be the most brilliant ever
known here.
A "KAFFEE KALATsCHE."
The latest social racket" is a ''Kaffee
Kalatsche and Yum Yum tea" It is in
tended to catch money for charitable OBJ
jects, and is nothing more than fair with
its leading actors and features japanese in
appearance. 1t was a sort of fair given in
aid of the homeopathic hospital under the
special charge of the noble band of lady
philanthropists. whose herOism, self-sacri-
fee and practical sense have secured for
Washington the fine institution known as
the National Homeopathic hospital. 1t had
its booths and pretty things to sell, but the
most interesting feature of the whole was
the appearance of ladies of prominence in
japanese costume. Madame Kuki had
offered complete japanese costumes for
some of the ladies in charge of the yum
yum booth. She also invited Mrs. Gen.
Dunn of Arkansas to come TO her residence
and be dressed for the occasion, that the
representation might be perfect. The Jap
anese minister requested Mrs. Dunn to Sc
lect appropriate articles from his residence
to decorate the yum yum booth. Mr.. John
Bigelow of New York, an ardent homeO-
pathist, has joined the National Homeo-
pathic association, and attended. President
Cleveland has had so many demands for
flowers that he has been compelled some
times to buy them for large entertainments,
yet when the lady managers of the homeo-
pathic hospital asked him for bouquet for
their festival at the opening of the hospital
he replied that he would not only send a
boquet. but would furnish flowers for both
evenings. and he did so. The Chinese min
lister sent a donation of tea for the yum
yum booth. Cheng Hansenvery kindly per-
mtted some of the ladies to use hand
some Chinese costume as model i'm pre-
pairing dresses, explaining to them how
Chinese ladies OF rank have their dresses
made and adorned. The following ladies
formed the corner committees, whose duties
were to search out wall flowers at the Kaffee
Kalatsche and see that they were entertained.
Antwerp Peasant Costumes-Mrs. Frank
Couger, Mrs. briggs. Miss Conger, Miss
Riddle, Miss Eark, Miss Buker. Swiss
costumes: Mrs. William Springer, Miss
Blount and Miss johnson of Georgia. Miss
Cannon of Illinois, Miss Tiffany of New
York, Misses Dufour and Nesbt, Mrs.
Penny, the Misses Mott and Smith of Wash
1ngton. Mrs. Warner Miller. assisted by
Miss May McCulloch in Black Forest cos
tune. and Miss Nordhoff. Miss Evelyn
Nordhotf, Miss Churchill, Miss IddIngs OF
New York. Miss Van Santvoord and Miss
Nellie Painter in German costume.
Yum Yum BoOth-Mrs. Blanchard, as
sisted by Mrs. Gen. Dunn OF Arkansas,