The Washington critic., 1889-03-11
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

this afternoon.
Mrs Logan and the Misses Pullman have
left Berlin for Italy.
Ex-Secretary and Mrs Whitney sail for
Europe the 27th of next month.
Mrs. and Miss Van Buren receive on
Tuesday at the Richmond for the last time.
Mrs. Senator Ingalls, has discontinued
her regular Monday receptions for the
present
Representative and Mrs. Dockery OF
Missouri will leave tonight for their home
! at Gallatin.
Hon. William Walter Phelps and Repre-
| sentative Hit and their families are going
| to Old Point this week,
Mrs. Harbaugh and her Sister, Mrs Hen
derson, Mr.. and Mrs Soules guests, went
to Fortress Monroe yesterday.
Miss Jessie McDermott leaves for her
home in New York Wednesday, after spend
ing the season with her mother.
Mr.. w. +. OBrien OF the United Press,
who Is dangerously nj with pneumonia, is
reported as showing no Improvement since
Saturday. p.
| Mr.. Hiram Mitchell, son Of Senator
Mitchell of Oregon, who has been III with
| typhoid fever for three weeks, is Improving
| very slowly,
Mrs, Cannon and the Misses Cannon left
this morning for Danville, Ill. Represent
alive Cannon will remain In Washington
some days yet.
Mrs. Senator Hearst, with her guests,
Miss Moore and Nine. Bareda and
daughter, left to-day for Florida, to be
gone ten days.
Ex-Sccretary and Mrs. Endicott will re-
main here until the 2Tth of April, when
they sail for England to- visit their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Chamberlain. a'
The Misses Powell of New York and
Miss Post Of New Jersey, who have been
visiting Miss Ada Corwin of Q street, have
returned to their homes.
Colonel o. o. Stealey Of the Courier
JO,rnq', has gone to Jeffersonville, Ind, to
attend the funeral Of his uncle, who died
suddenly in that town last week.
Representative and Mrs. McCreary of
Kentucky have been to New York for q
few days, but are back at Wizards for a
brief stay, when they will depart for Rich
mond, Ky.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. X. Hickey and Miss
Abby Hickey of Missouri and Miss Streeker
of Chicago, who has been their guest at
Willard's, went to New York a few days
ago and are now on their way to the West.
General John B. Henderson has left for
st. Louis on legal business. Mrs, Hender-
son, who is at the Richmond, will leave fer
New York this week They will return in
about two weeks. Their new house in this
city will be finished In about six weeks.
Mrs. Albert A. Wilson, assisted by Mrs.
IIaskins, gave an informal reception Friday
afternoon. In her parlor Mrs. Wilson has
bust of Mrs. Cleveland which the Presi-
DENTS wife sent there for safe keeping until
her future residence is put in order.
Miss Maria Virginia Harding of Brook
lyn, the author Of new novel, "The Soul
Of Lady Agnes" is well-known here, hay
ing spent the winter before last with Min
lister Preston's family. Her folks contem-
plate making this city their winter home.
Quite number of Congressman and
their families left the city Saturday even
ing and yesterday for their respective
homes. Among those who have departed
are Colonel Hatch, Mrs. Hatch, Miss Hatch
and Miss Hawkins, a sister Of Mrs. Hatch,
who have gone directly to Hannibal, Mo-;
Representative, Clardy to Pennington,
Mo-; Representative and Mrs. Bland and
their children to Lebanon, Mo.
Mr. G. G. Gron of Denmark, representing
the Berlingske Tidende Of Copenhagen In
Washington for several months, leaves to-
nigh. for New York, and viii sail for Paris
Saturday, to take care Of. the exposition
for number of American and, European
newspapers. Mr.. Gron 10 an accomplished
linguist, a Journalist well posted in the af-
fairs of both continents, and an entertain
ing writer.
FLIPPANT SOCIETY TALK.
That exceedingly lively journal, -Toua
Topics, thus comments on the inaugural
ball:
:. The ball inaugural may be described as a
: bowling success. Nothing like It has ever
been seen in this country, and nothing like
1t is likely to be seen here again. The order
of the Harrison Court In favor OF high
necked dresses could not have been pro.
mulgated, II, indeed, 1t was ever intended
to be issued, for such bareback display
7 has not been heheld outside of circus
ring for many and many a day. There
were foreign ministers and diplomatic at.
{, tachcs, resplendent in the court costumes
Of their respective, countries, and army ant
: navy officers In gold lace enough for tn,
0 average admiral, some Of them guiding
9 their pretty wives through the crush. Tn,
+ johnnie O'Briens and the Barne,
Q O'Rourkes were there, too, apparently un
= faxed by the magnitceuce of the surround
}. ings. A pound of the best mixed cand.
n could not have contained more infinit.
, variety Of separate particles of mora or les
refined sweetness than was included II
the general makeup Of the as
n semblage. Owing to the recent death o
70 his brother, Berry Wall was not spresent
l. but / am told he had arranged to wear
Is new full-dress suit that would have beet
l. adopted on sight by the new administration
is 1t was TO be similar to the dancing sui
IN worn by the men at Mrs. Sloane's bal
% recently, save that the vest was to hav
Is been OF black satin picked out with smal
lie silver figures, and the coat Of wateret
black molre-antque silk and cut almost II
a frock shape, high in the waist, tight II
II the sleeves and with ruffs at the neck an
n cuffs. AS 1t was, however, John Jaco
J. Astor, jr,, appeared in his knee-breeche
i dancing suit and was ordered in bad broke
d English by swarthy Portuguese noblema
late In the evening TO summon his carriage
y Mr.. Astor rather complicated matters whe
& he retorted Indignantly, $50 fetch min
O. you impudent black rascal" But this
ID one Of those contretemps which grow out {
u a cosmopolitan atmosphere.