The Washington critic., 1889-03-15
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

DR.. and Mrs. Loring gave handsome
dinner Of eight covers yesterday.
Mrs. George lTusscy Wilson and the
Misses Wilson are at home to-day.
Judge and Mrs. Bradley have issued in
vitations for dinner tomorrow.
A meeting Of the Classical Society will be
held this evening at Miss Ransom's studio.
Mre. Charles DAWSON is visiting her hus-
bands relatives in Illinois aud Will join her
husband at Omaha
Miss Ida Thompson will give large re-
ception next Thursday evening in honor of
Postmaster-Gencral WanauIaker.
Mrs. s. VI. Fassctt is at home on Satur-
days at the apartments OF her daughter,
Mrs. +. r. Hodge, 1401l Fourteenth street.
The beautiful Miss Shirley OF Kentucky,
who is the guest Of Miss Butterwortb, lie
Droit Park, is TO be married in June to a
wealthy and prominent Boston newspaper
man. II is said there is a charming bit Of
romance attaching to the engagement.
Mr.. Preston Sands gave dinner last
evening to Secretary of the Navy Tracy
Among those present were: Senator Hale,
Judge McCuc, General Nicholas Anderson,
Admiral Franklin, Hon. Bancroft Davis,
Commodore Walker Commodore Schley,
Judge McCammap, Lieutenant II. p.
Rogers, and Lieutenant Mason,
Referee L., w. Andrews, who was APP
pointed by Judge O'Bricn Of the Supreme
Court of New York, in the suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. Washington Irving
Bishop, submitted his report on Wednes-
day, In which he finds the plaintiff entitled
to a separation on the grounds OF inildclity.
The mind-reader has been travelling
through the South and West with a pretty
woman, TO whom he claims to have been
married in Honolulu.
There was pleasant little levee In the
! Red Room of the. White House yesterday
afternoon between and o'clock. Mrs.
Harrison, assisted by her sister, Mrs. Lord,
Mrs. Mckee, Mrs. Russell Harrison and
Mrs. Beryland received large number Of
callers. Among the visitors was Miss
Kathleen Scott, niece OF General Black;
Mrs. Orange Ferris, Mrs. Oliver-Sumner
Teele, Mrs.. General Black, Mrs, Febiger,
Mis- Leila Johnston, Mrs. Parker, Mrs.
Worthington, the Misses Worthington al d
Miss Clark.
The teas held every afternoon by the
ladies Of the Garfield Hospital Association
continue to be very popular. Mrs. Will
lard was the hostess yesterday and was as
sisted by Mrs. r. L.. Fleming Mrs. Ross
Perry, Miss Colt and the Misses Noyes.
The three tables were tastefully decorated,
the centre-piece, of the larger one being a
magnificent mound of yellow striped tulips
IN a bed OF smilax. Mrs. Endicott did not
assist yesterday, but was present. She will
aid Mrs. Alex. Graham Bell to dispense the
hospitalities Of to-day's tea.
|. Ethel Chase Sprague was one of the
Argive maidens in the chorus of the Greek
play, ELECTRA" at the Lyceum. The
spectators were not so rapt in their regard
for the piece as to forget to look for the
daughter of Ex-Governor Sprag,ie, whose
name they read in the programme, but
whom few were able to identify. 1t was
impossible to pick out Miss Sprague
among the fifteen who posed and exclaimed,
writhed and moaned,, as the Greek chorus.
They were much alike in their costumes,
the light was rather dimly thrown upon
them, and II was not even easy to determine
which were the six young men, CARRIED In
feminine draperies, and which were the
nine entitled by sex to be thus attired.
"Electrap is considered quite sufficient
success TO be repeated several times at the
Lycenm.--EN. Y. Sun. ~