The Washington critic., 1888-02-13
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
NOics and Gossip of the Season Now
Closing.
IANTE-LENTEN ENTERTAINMENTS
A Number of Pleasant Affairs to
Take Place Tonight.

Ms. Justicc Field will give card re- |
Ncepti, u to-day, to Z, to meet Mr. and |
MFRS. David Dudley Field. Mr.. David |
'udley Field celebrates his SD birthday |
a )day.
n Secretary and Mrs. Fnrchild gave
bother of their pleasant conversazioncs
ID fturday night. Mrs. Fairchid received
IL guests, wearing an apple.green faille
eth vest of white crepe. Among those
\ ksent We're Miss Folsom, Mr.. and Mrs.
4Tlox, Mayor and Mrs. Grace and others
Ol distinction now visiting Washington,
J b. well rs large company Of official and
Yfcsident society people.
III Mr.. and Mrs. G.. b. Loring were also mt
" omc to an invited company, who weekly
IN Rave met under their hospitable roof
Y fring the gay season.
The Secretary of War and Mrs Endi-
4 colt have cards out for reception on
\ Thursday evening.
Mrs. Hicks.Lord will come OH from
New York to attend Mrs. Dahlyreen's
dinner in honor of Cardinal Gibbons.
4 OTHER guests invited to meet His Emf.
nence at dinner tonight are Lieutenant
General and Mrs. Sheridan, Senator and
n Mrs. Stanford Senator and Mrs. Farwell
Senator Allison Prof. Langley. Mrs.
Laughton, and MIR. and Mrs. b. II.
hhihtls " ItNtItloll, W Wnltn UDDWI
/ two hundred guests are invited, will fol-
low the dinner.
N Mrs John i. Mulan and Miss Mullan
Y gave largely.attonded tea ON saturday.
~ Shcy were assisted in receiving by Mrs.
( Langhone, Miss Mary Wilson, Miss
NJ Booth, Miss Deering, Miss Sorrano Miss
Condit Smith and Miss Mullan.
Mrs and Miss Tiffany, Mrs. and Miss
Darlington who have the residence of eX-
Snmntnr Van WygL ~ Mnsgo at - ,,t
nue., and Mrs. Ohauncey Black gave teas
ON Saturday afternoon.
Mrs and the Misses Pattcn were nj
II home to callers and Mrs. John NJ Wilson,
II Mrs. Crosby, Mrs. McCaulcy and other
ladies' residing on Connecticut avenue
and streets adjacent had numerous vlsi-
Il tors on Saturday.
N Mrs. Whitney will spend the most of
N Lent travelling in the South. She goes
y first for week in New York and then
starts for Florida. Secretary and Mrs.
NJ Whitney and Miss Thompson, their
NJ guest, had Il box at the opera Saturday
II night.
II Miss Van Vcchten, who was to have
Il been Mr.. Corcorans 5 guest and has been
n prevented by his continued Illness, arrived
n on Saturday, and is with with Mrs. Ed
4 mund Goldsborough, who gives a ten in
lhcr honor tomorrow, from to I.
ystrsary to.S,S by an afternoon reception
n aBd dance aEtle Marine Barracks.
4 Mrs. John lssS over gives dinnerto-
XRnight iii hOnorNof Mrs. Scanan of St.
TX Louis.
H Secretary aud Mrs Whitney and Mrs
'ruyn give dinner parties tonight.
Mrs. y. ii Wardcr entertained sixteen
aides at II lunch to-day, The table had
superb chandelier from which radiated
caris of flowers, formed of the corsage
bouquets OF roses and other flowers.
K Representative Scott and Mrs Town
85send gave dinner party last night.
Mrs. Townsend gives AN evening re-
3cptiOn tomorrow night.
Senator and Mrs. Mcpherson had
,iends in for AN early supper.
Mrs, William Walter Phelps is among
she newcomers ut the Laurel House
Lakewood, n j, She is accompanied by
her sister. Miss Bodrdman, Of Cleveland,
Il Ohio.
Cards from Mr. ana Mrs. John l..
McElroy announcing the marriage of
their daughter Miss May, to Mr.. Charles
llervey Jackson Of Brooklyn on Thurs
day, Feb. $, at - Clinton avenue, Albany,
have been received here. Miss McElroy
is q niece Of the late President Arthur.
Mrs. George Graham Vest has entirely
recovered from her recent illness.
AL Mrs. G. X Garrison aud Miss Randcl
lpf St. Louis are at the Arlington.
Mr.. John NJ. Dixon and his bride, nee
Mary Adams, have returned to St. Louis.
Representative Jchu Baker and wife
"a are housekeeping at l:i33 q street north
NJ west. Mrs. Baker held he: last formal re-
ccption at the Metropolitan last Monday.
HlShe has visiting her her sister, Miss Nellie
4 West of St. Louis
N Mrs Wheeler and the Misses Wheeler
8fof Alabama will be assisted Mt their usual
a &fTuesday reception by Mrs Blanchard of
N jerks Of Pennsyl vania, Miss Christmas,
~ Miss Morgan of this city, Miss Boughton
and Miss Smith Of Brooklyn.
8 Secretary and Mrs Endicott give re
ccptiOn on Thursday evening in honor of
president Eliot Of Harvard College, TO
which the alumni in this city are invited.
General James d. McBrides wife and
children left for New Mexico Saturday.
n The healthful atmosphere of that Terri
tory is recommended by her physician as
II cure for asthma, which she is suffering
with. While at Santa Fee she will be the
guest of the family of Governor Ross.
The General will join his wife in the
Inspiring.
X Miss Kate Sanborn of New York is In
g% ibe city a guest at the residence of Mr..
1sSiilson Hutchins
q Mrs. senator Palmer will be at home
M omorrow afternoon after 3 clock.
An enjoyable affair was the literary and
musicale given by Mr.. and Mrs. w. d.
tahell, Saturday evening. a large
audience gave delighted attention TO the
rectations of Mr.. Tweedale and the solos
OF Miss Lincoln. Messrs. Rakeman and
Kcu2sch rendered several selections on
IA LLp piano. An encore was called for on
the quartet sung by Ncssrs. Icalman,
o. KOhr, ChandIee and Pearson. The
ID guests were received by Mr.. and Mrs.
CHbcll and the Misses Phelps, Napton,
H Sands, Jones, Watkins, Hopkins, Mills,
Barry, Parker and lridgeforlh. Refresh
mcnts were served after the cntertau-
.Wment and the young people cleared the
NK parors aud danced the remainder Of the
W evening.
" Numerous Temperance Meetings.
The temperance people are wagng
@1jFirong fight Some eight temperance
& meetings at various points in The District
IA yesterday attcsted the activity of the re-
~ form advocates. Congregations gathered
ri nt the Congregational Church, Hamline
M Church, Lincoln Memorial Church,
En- North Presbyterian Church. Mcl'ord
M llnll, llaydcn's Hall and at the Market
y Hall IN Georgetown,
j 'Iler face so tar, rs flesh it seemed not,
But heavenly portrait of bright angels
M hue,
IN Cloar as tie sky, without a blame or blot,
AL Through goodly mixture of comple
W due
8 And in her cheeks the yermeil red did
show