New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-07

THE WEEK IN SOCIETY.
A GAYER TINE THAN USUAL.

COLD WEATHER ONLY MAKES LIFE MERgIER.
Owing to the hardness of Ash Wednesday,
which does not arrive his year unit sometime IL March
fashionable people have shown much disposition 70
crowd the flying weeks with gayety They have taken
life more easily than permits them to do.
Amusement has therefore. beon less business than
pleasure which accounts perhaps for the unusual enjoy
ment that social world seems to have extracted from
the winters festivities Nobody has become satiated
with the brightness OF !ife
Last week compared with its predecessors, was
decidedly gay There Mrs. Ogden Coolers
ane ball on Monday the second cOtillOn ball
at Demonico's Thursday, tho fray between Two
college presidents at the Nineteenth Century Club on
Tuesday several germans, two or thres formal dinners
aud endless receptions not to mention new operas AZ
both Metropolitan End the Academy Surely all TINS
MADE the whirl Of fashionable life move faster
In ADDITION ether Incidents the storm OF wednesday
be mentioned, for much as 1t aided 10 the UNI
cu.es OF ordinary mOals IN getting rbout yet me nne
seghing afforded Friday and yesterday was perhaps
compensation for necessity OF wearing warm cloth
ing TO be- 40 hateful fashionable ladies' For two
afternoons ut Fifth and the Park crowded
with slegns OF all kinds or couise the snow storm dd
not prevent fashionable people from going out when
they waited TO; but it apparently Kept good many
box owners away the metropolitan Opera House on
Wednesday evening A number OF boxes were empty
and the occupants Of the others dressed" Ia
one sense and less another than usual This detracfed
from the brilanoy OF the assenblys appearance Dns
proaby they were more comfortable than fner dress
wou Id ha We them. Other boxes, which were hed,
were evidently not occupied by their owners o. every
seat in them would not have been used Temporary
occupants Of boxes always make the most OF tue occa
sion themselves and their friends Toward midnight
however some well known fashionable people appeared,
evidently determined to catch the prize song OF SIR
Waiter toward tile OF die Meisters niger" which
admirers OF italian music say Is about the only Dit OK
melody in the whole performance.
As nearly everybody who Is anybody expected MIS-.
Ogden GJelets ball Monday evening was success,
being more perfect in way, il that lie possible than
Mrs. Gerry's Mrs Galatin's. The GOelrt hOl,e q
No. 605 Fthaye., Is particularly hne withn and 50
arranged be especially veil ADAPTED OI large enter
t,inrnts Tue Interior Always beautiuUn Mond yeyrn-
ing further rmOellsned by tasteful lions 0t
Gowers in tue parIOr winch Is furnished IN tue
style OF unhappy Of French m0nlrchs; whose
unhappnrss. howe YER did NOT have any Dad elect on
embrodors tapestries furniture. Tue wide hail. tao
LARGE dining room, drawing rooms, tue library,
and the RECEPTION. rooms were mica WIN gent ei
crush" Ten musicians in tue hall behind screen OF
ENGLISH holly sent forth captivating str ns for those VINO
aS~tae with Mss Belle Wison Mr GoeeTs sister,
L fayOrs mainly flowers. NatuFa ~ the toilets
superb. and tue display OF Jewels was dazzling.
with Few exception, all fashion .hs Now Workers.
were there; out tue mionatic ienpe Wh is ~
expected guests, did not appear owing 10 the death Oh
Less preentious, but perhaps equally pleasant,
the dance at Mrs; Van Dnzer Reeds MOI Nashin;.on
SOU ,e, Tuesday mig IT, III. La Grand Cannon 10 to
ctillon with Mss Marie Reed. whose yOuas friend, 10
tne number ~ 100, perhaps. came fo0"lng after Ihe
cred pleasant company about them 1t rheir musicale at
No ~ West Fttv slxt-st. Tie TUESDAY evening 'ano-
class ais! trpped lavly ut tue Asse nDy room, at
Fifth ave aud Forty sevenIh-st ITS members STAYED
later naturally than "a" guests VINO dnei At Mr., Cs
Mrs John II. Ii lls, or a. MIS-. sydney Wel,ters.
his day It also proved that staten Island not
inaccessible in the winter, for numOer OF people from
tIs city able To get thilher 10 attend the weias
Mis-, Annie Sturges AID the Rev. Tho Boone in st.
10 MS Church at Clifton
In tue rooms OF the American Art Association the next
evsning, n Lager number than usual OF memhers aud
attra,ted by advertised debate betwesn President
Eliot. Of Harvard and Dr. McCosh rne Place 10 lgon
mid hsXe i'm C,ilp
Was manifested in the discussion The ciuo Is still
divided In opinion on two ponts-wether Tue arr roons
are Pleasant place of meeting as Mr.. pa.ner's
house ant whether It exactly goot taste Ia President
Eliot To So personal 10 liz wOut not want 10
trust a son OF Dr. McCOshs Isg aus training. ON
the afternoon OF THIS day despite Tue sow srnl plenty
OF fashionable people odnd their w"y TO NJ reception In
Mrs Mains handsome mouse AT No 6o6 III "a ave TIE
Bowling Club dinrd at Mrs. shrTmans No TO- Last
Twenty second-st on that evening anu the rrnds OK
Company OF tine 7th Regiment nal concert, reeep-
The second Co, ilion bali az Delmoncos Thursday
night voted rather more brilliant IT anythlnS than
Demonlcos are all alike. That may be; but u is
noticeable that nobody seems inclined TO nave nas .,
cold without added 10 the enjoyment WITHIN on thursday
night: all events the affair moved on gayy anu
brl,kly and was NOT over 3 IN the morning. The
decorations handsome. and the supper attracted
OF the AFFAIR however was the tJlrtes OF some OF tho
ladies. Mrs James Brown Potter's costume vas psrtio-
ularly Ioiceabie. The cors'se was OF undessed tam
criOrsI xiii CAN'T de suede. ami It tttei the hslre
closely. The neck cut IN shape and was finished
with rows Of sienna heads in lops. From back
shoulder extended bows OF chocolate velvet
Cold iGs and tan KID slippers completed this
singular outfit segelal toilets approaching Il have
been with startling effect before this winner at the
Metropolitan Opera House Mrs }; Van d. Reed Mrs
Chaes Pos and Mrs joseph ari no also MORE aTe
Midnight r"omts Howard led tue cotlo9 with Mr.:
j. Coleman DrayI0n. Mrs. William jay, MTs. Elliott
Roosevelt and Mrs. Oliver Norhcote received tho
guests , - -, - -,
was for eighteen guests: among taem eN-Plesdent
Arthur. whose health. every one Is glad TO- know lows
him to 80 about rhere WAS SIR " AZ the dinner
also. as well as Bishop. Tue Thursday Evening club
listening singing of Mr. Apthorp ut Boston, who
sang his Operotta Tte," the members d'no,d until
reception the same evening at So 426 West Twenty
third ST. and they gathered shout thsn many o. tine
hundred Te5rie wero there ON Friday evening large
dirners wee given hyMrs I. swain; MIS- W. II:
he: trients to Waiack's.
pleasant mus Gale was given Saturday af,eruOOnby
Mrs. Colonel May at the wel:known residence OF
her father, the late George Law. IA
for the enterain, NJ of Mrs Mays guests Madame
Furscn-Madi. Henry II. Huss Mics Maud Powell. Mr.
made beautiful IN every part with he richest
flowers. and was crowded throughout with del GIFTED
Workers. however, did not mOnopollEe all the
tun that going. Brooklyn mad her share On
Tuesday night that city was especially gay oyer Tue
Ihpetonss ball. which was given IN tue Assembly, homns
who arrange il aud it the Indian name for Brook
Ign Heights intended that this bail should rival tue Ole
called ihs Parlarca' Ia this city Co nparS,ns, ho"
ever are always unpleasant; none need lie made on
this 10 mt; but the f"Pconsa was certainly ereat Sue
members Mes-Is. Hatch Sanger, Dickernan. Carbart,
Bill and Benson WHO had charge OF the arrangements
may well congratulate themselves ON their success mo
clrsts were received by MIS-. Watson b. DckerIntn,
Mrs f. Cromwell and Mrs. II. NJ. STUART the patroneSses
OF tho ball Every member ut tie association had asked
our guests ana naturally telt great so,lde f'r t'
comfort Everything possible therefore to make tns
people happy was done Tue rooms were huriy *, OL
aei with towers and hangngs had 0een arranged Win
good eject. There we're panels OF PINK ana yeuo"
tulips. llios pink roses aul crocuses-al gy'hgr h
suggestion spI ng which Is not 50 lar away Ihe
nnrlur commonly knO rs the water color iooh Wns
furnished fr this occasion with rugs easy cnss a rs
sl. lea lamps. n offered excellent opportunities os
quiet rtatiOns BY IL o'clock tue dancing began, da.
ar ninighi Supper was served by PInard. The dancing
ai., general and the c0ullon Informal 1t was oeloek
when the gayety began tn wane -, -. ,o,i.
The Sttts CAPITAL Lused itself 10 pitch OK amlapio
exctement on "Wednesday over the MARI ige OK NUS
Eny Weed Rarnss granddaughter of Thurlow Weed, 10
Euiny Nt"" ID" rba Ray