Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-12
SOCIAL MATTERS.
What Well-Known People are Doing
Personal Notes,

MrA Cleveland has donned new cloak and
hat. The ulster is . long, tight-ftting gar
@ent OF terra-cotta colored broadcloth. edged
81 the bottom with band Of black lambs WOOL
short double capes edged with black cords
drape the shoulders. The hat is square-cor-
nered felt in the same shade as the long ulster,
and il trimmed with black ribbon and long,
gracefully curling black feather. Over her face,
onSber drive yesterday, she wore one OF the
new dotted net wells, put on with fullness In
mont, and the whole effect was extremely be-
coming. Mrs. Folsom, who accompanied Mrs.
Cleveland wore toilet Of black.
Secretary and Mrs. Endicott entertained
company at a dinner of fourteen covers last
evening. The center-piece OF the table was an
oval basket Of La France roses. The guests
were Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs.
X. r. Hit. Count Sala, Mrs. Carrie May Wright,
Madame Podesta, Miss Thoron, Miss Payson,
Mr.. Geo. L. Rives, Mr.. Sigourney Butler, and
Mr.. VIM. c. Endicott, jr.
Mrs. Whitney has sent out cards Of invita-
ton for o'clock on Saturday, December Is,
when Mr.. H. A. Clapp. of Boston, will read Q
lecture on Romeo and Juliet"
Mr.. Clayton Johns and Mr.. Eliot Hubbard,
Of Boston, will be the guests Of Mrs. Henry
Cabot Lodge and Mrs. John Chandler Bancroft
while they are in the city next week.
Mrs. Dickinson will have with her to-day at
her reception Mrs. Elliot T. Slocum, Of Detroit,
who is her guest.
Mrs. Starring has sent out cards for an at
home on the evening Of Tuesday, December
Is, from to 9 o'clock.
Mrs. John p. Jackson, Of New York, has
ing the British legation. Mrs Jackson Is
sister of the artist, 1Ir. Elliott Gregory, who
has made so much Of q name in Paris. Mrs.
N. 8. Lincoln has asked few friends, verbally,
to meet Mrs. Jackson at her house at 5 O'Clock
tea on Monday afternoon.
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and Mrs. VIM. A. Hammond at dinner this
evening.
Mrs. J. Walter Robertson, Of Chicago, is VS.
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ". d. wyvilie,
20O3 D street northwest. and with Mira Wyville
will be at home on Saturdays.
Ex-Surgeon-General Hammond tripped over
Q rug in the hall Of his residence late Monday
evening and fell, breaking his arm at about
the middle of the bone. DR.. Lincoln adjusted
the fracture, and the patient is doing SO well
that he did not think it necessary to postpone
q dinner that he gave at his house, on Connec-
ticut avenue, last night. The guests were Adj
mirals Porter, Rodgers, and Ammen, Surgeon
Generals Browne Of the navy and Moore Of the
army, Gen. Van vliet, Gen. Sawtelle, Gen.
Beale, and Mr.. Seaton Monroe. Mrs. Ham,
mond presided at the dinner table. This was
the first Of a series Of dinners it is the inten-
ton of DR.. and Mrs. Hammond to give during
the present season.
LIE Misses dlllnOr, Oh DaltllnOre, uauSntersOI
Judge Robert Gimor, are visiting Mrs. T. T.
Knox, 1924 street.
The Misses Fenwick gave a supper party at
the Highlands last night. Among those pres
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. Frego and daughter,
Misses Annie and Alice Lovejoy, Fuller, Duffy,
Mcfarland. Messrs. Watson, Holden, Lipscomb,
Fuller, Joyce, and Niles.
Mrs. Butterworth has returned to Cincinnati
from her visit to Mrs. Harrison, and anticipates
starting for Washington in a few days, accom-
panied by Miss Butterworth.
Mr.. Edward McCauley entertained large
company yesterday afternoon in the drawing
rooms of her sumptuous new house, No. 1719
Rhode Island avenue, at tea. Mrs. Mc-Cau-
ley received her guests in a matinee
costume Of heliotrope and pink brocade worn
over a front Of blue silk with full jabot Of
point desprit. Mrs. Jno. F. Rodgers, Miss
Marie Howard, Mrs. Geo. Wheeler, and Miss
and Mrs Jas. Johnston and Miss Sallie
Schenck presided in the dining room. Among
those present were Mrs. Folsom, DIR. and Mrs.
W. A Leonard Mrs. Aulick Palmer,
Maj and Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Bugher,
Mr.. Clifford Richardson, Mrs. and Miss
Woodruff, Gen. and Mrs. McKeever, Col.
Carpenter, Miss Biddle, Mrs. Stanton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sydney Everett. Mrs. Field. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hubley Ashton. Mrs. Chas. Glover. Commodore
Walker. Mrs. and Miss Brooke, Admiral Almy,
Anderson, Gen. N. l.. Anderson. Commodore
and Mrs. Schley, Miss Schley and Gen. Berdan.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett in blue dress
and black veil. polka dotted. and a furred
coat. arrived in the city from New York this