The Washington critic., 1889-03-09
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Representative ana MIS-, Blancnaru anu
family left yesterday for their home in
| Louisiana.
Representative c. h. Kilgore Of Texas
left for his home at Wills Point, Texas,
| last evening.
The new secretary to the Russian Lega-
| tlon is stopping for the present at the
Arlington.
| Mrs. William IIeisley and Miss May X
White OF Cleveland, Ohio, are in the city
visiting friends.
Miss Hattie Marshall of Tennessee is q
| fair blonde with a voice of remarkable soft
ness, charming the listener insensibly.
Professor Mertz, superintendent of public
schools of steubenville, Ohio, after few
| days visit, returned home last night
| Mr.. Max Winkler, who has been the guest
| Of Mr.. Herman Baumgarten for the past
two weeks, has returned to Cincinnati.
Mrs. and Miss Kellog, who have been
| stopping at the Grammercy during the sea
| son, has returned to their home IN Rock
| vile.
Mrs Judge Rucker, who has been spend
ing the season here with her daughter, re-
turned to her home in Kansas ON Welnes-
| day.
Surgeon G eneral aud Mrs. Moore have as
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Mahoney and
! daughter of New York and Mrs. Randall OF
Boston.
A party of friends were entertained at
dinner yesterday by Professor and Mrs.
Alexander Graham Bell. Covers were laid
for twenty.
Miss Katherine Yates, who has been vlsi-
ting friends in the city the past month, re-
turned to her home In New York the early
part Of this week.
Mrs. Lula Fairfax Crockett, one of Phil
adelphia's most charming women, is visit
ing her father, c. W. Morgan, on First
street northwest.
Mrs. Elijah Halford and daughter, Miss
jeanette 1Talford, left yesterday for Or
landa, Fla. They will not return to this
city until the autumn.
Mr.. w. L. O'Brien of the United Press,
who is dangerously i'll with pneumonia is
somewhat better to-day. No visitors are
permitted to see him.
Mrs Noble, wife Of the Secretary of the
Interior, comes from Northampton, Mass,
where her father was for twenty-five years
proprietor of large sanitarium.
! Representative and Mrs. Dalzell will
leave for their home in Pittsburg on
Wednesday. Their daughter will probably
return in time for the Easter gaieties.
Miss Louise Dunn is a brunette with large
brown eyes that are always full of express
sion. She plays and sings admirably, is Of
medium heigth and dresses most tastefully.
Miss Edith Soule and her friend, Miss
Dahlmann, will leave for Fortress Monroe
the early part of next week. They will not
return before the Easter holidays.
Miss Annie Peachy of Washington is a
perfect blonde, with soft, dreamy, blue
eyes an an enchanting smile. She has n
pleasing figure; her manners are delight
fully simple and gracious.
| Colonel John Hager Of Ashland, KY, aud
Il railroad commissioner for that State, after
luxuriating in Washington for week, goes
home to-day. The Colonel bears striking
likeness to General U. s. Grant.
Mrs. McMullen, Miss Perrin and Miss
Wallace of San Francisco, who have been
at the Ebbitt for several weeks, left this
morning for New York and two weeks later
| will return home via of the Canadian Pa
| cifc.
Miss Alice Henning is q petite blonde
with hair that looks as II it was made of
''cobwebs of gold" She is exceptionally
bright and her piano playing is something
remarkable. She Is tall and has very
graceful carriage.
Mrs. Bishop, who has been living quietly
at the Ebbitt during the season, is charm
ing New York woman, with speaking
| face, handsome eyes and winning cor
diality Of manner notalways characterizing
the women Of the North.
| Miss Ruth Baker is neither blonde nor
brunette, but that charming medium that
is envied by both SO much; and her eyes
"borrow from the azure skies the light they
wear" She is a little below the medium
height, and dresses exquisitely with remark
able taste.
Mrs. Harrison yesterday gave her second
| pleasant inaugural reception, and like the
previous one 1t was largely attended by the
leaders in the social world. To-day she
will hold another reception which will be
the last until her plans are more definitely
| settled.
Miss Maude Edwards is one of the most
charming young ladies in Washington this
season. She is a brunette, with coal-black
hair, and eyes that sparkle as though they
were black diamonds. She is of medium
height, rather slender, and has that stately
manner not always seen in American girls,
Mrs. Blackburn, the wife of the Senator
from Kentucky, is a familiar figure about
the parlors of the Ebbitt, and her gentle
| ness of manner is always noticeable. Her