Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-02-20
SOCIAL MATTERS.
Mrs. Hearst's Colonial Cotillion-Other
Fashionable Entertainments.

NIXON. mrs. anu tle Misses BLACKBURN,
q. the Ebbitt; Miss Voorhees,, Mrs. and
Miss Sherman, Mrs. Hoer, Mrs. Nor
rill and Miss Swan, Mrs. and Miss Evarts,
Mrs. J. ID. Cameron, Mrs. Hale, Mrs.
and Miss Dawes, Mrs. Payne, at the Portland.
Others who will receive are Mrs. Quay, Mrs.
Reagan, Mrs. Hearst, Mrs. Teller, Mrs
Wslthall, Mrs. Daniel, 100 18th street: Mrs.
Stanford Mrs. Pomeroy, Mrs. J. II. Soule,
1882 NJ street; Mrs. Monroe, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs
jeremiah Wilson, Mrs. and the Misses Huyck
CAST reception. Mrs. Pollok, 1920 street; Mrs
Saunders Garland, 1909 Corcoran street; Mrs
Neil Belt. Mrs. Faulkner, assisted by her sister,
Miss Warren, and a number Of young ladies;
Mrs. Clagett. the Misses Duhamel. the Misses
Butler the Misses Blackford, Mrs. Parker Mann,
Kal,rama avenue; Mrs. NJ. F. Finley, 1928
street; Mrs. g. Wythe Cook and Miss Lloyd, 8
Thomas circle.
The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Villas
entertained the President and Mrs. Cleveland
and the members of his official family and a
few invited guests at dinner last evening. The
table was laid for eighteen guests; the center
piece was an oval of Puritan roses in smiax,
nanked by bowls of pink roses and tall silver
candelsbra with white tapers, and at each cover
was card on which we're reprint photographs
OF all the members of the cabinet and their
wives, the President and Mrs Cleveland's being
In the center. Mrs. Villas wore Paris gown OF
pink faille embroidered in gold, the square
opening at the neck being edged with point
lace. Mrs. Cleveland was alfred in princesse
gown Of ruby plush. the half-high square
bodice being edged with plated frills of red
crepe. Mrs. Folsom's dress had skirts of white
lace and train of plum-colored velvet. Mrs.
whitney was in a trained princesSe dress of
blue brocade. Mrs. Dickinson, white satin and
pearl passementeries, and Mrs. Carlisle
wore a superb gown of cream white
faille embroidered in autumn brown silk Other
guests present were Speaker Carlisle Postmas-
ter-General Dickinson, Secretary Whitney, JUS
tice Lamar, Secretary and Miss Bayard, Secre-
tary and Mrs Endcott, and the Secretary of
Agriculture and Mrs. Colman The BOYS of
the northern portion of the city were fully
alive to the dignity conferred upon the neigh
borhood, of having the lady of the White
House in their midst lady, leaving the
house after O'Clock, was accosted by two gal
LIANT young guards with: ''Say, miss won't you
please tell Us if Mrs. Cleveland has gone into
the Secretarys yetY On being assured that
she had not arrived. they avowed their inten-
ton Of waiting to see her if it took all night.
The colonial fancy-dress cotillion given by
Mrs. Hearst last night was brilliant spectacu-
lar and social success. About eighty young
people danced the german, and there were over
a hundred on-lookers. The drawing room was
tastefully decked with cut flowers, asparagus
vines, and draperies of bright India silk. and
in the second drawing room were banks of vel
low cowslips. a canopy of California-spun silk,
and gilded cones and thistles from the Pacific
coast were artistically arranged about the
room. Hot suppers were served below stairs
at IL and at midnight. The musicians were
posted n the tower room, where Mrs. Head
kept the supply of favors. Mrs. Hearst was
attired In az eighteenth-century gown with a
petticoat of white satin festooned with roses,
and an overdress of old rose satin brocade
made with short bodice. the square opening
being edged with a standing collar of guipure
lace; the long sleeves had full puffs at the top
and the cuffs were buttOned at the wrists with
diamonds. About her neck were two
superb diamond necklaces, and she
wore powdered couture that was
very becoming. The favors were the
handsomest ever seen in this citv. They were
collected during the past six months in San
Francisco and New York city. They were pin
cushion buckets. made of CALIFORNIA; red wood
and filed with the bark from the big trees;
solid silver paper-cutters. pen-holders. knives
Key rings. stamp holders. and rulers. white kid
pen-wipers, embroidered in gold. and the SOU
yenir favors we're antique silver medalions
upon broad blue ribbons bearing the date
These for the men. The girls received beauti-
full fans of white silk. hand-painted in designs
OF flowers and fans of ostrich feathers; Prin-
cess of Wales plumes for the hair mounted
upon long shell pins and tied with bows of rib
bon matching the dainty blue, pink. white. or
yellow of the feathers; tortoise shell and amber
combs for the hair, and beautiful work-bags
made in the New York art exchange All the
favors were most deliberately ribboned with gay
silk The dance was led by DIR. Ruth and Miss
Head. of California. Miss Head wore a petit
coat of white satin, with blue overdress and
panniers, powdered couture and patches. Miss
Ada Butterfield wore Puritan do ess of gray
cashmere. with cap and apron Of white null:
Miss San1erson, of Paris. Louis XVI dress of
white and blue brocade; Miss Bareda
of New York. yellow satin, draped
in yellow tulle, vatican train of brocade;
Madame Barreda, sapphire velvet and point
lace; Mrs Head. white satin; Miss Follansbee
white corded silk. with silver girde and lace:
Miss Moore, of San Jose. Cal. white silk bro
caded in blue and pink. pleated petticoat, open
cOrsage filled with silk null and pearls, and a
Vatican train. These ladies are all guests of
the house. Senator Hearst Mr.. A. E Head of
California, and Mr.. Vim. Hearst. who is Just
back from trip to Europe, were onlookers at
the gay picture Of the german. The young la
dies were III exquisitely attired, many of the
gentlemen were IN fancy dress and others
departed only from their usual custom in the
wearing Of aour in their hair. Miss Florence
Bayard wore white silk draped in exquisite
lace; Miss Louise Bayard. lemon crepe tied
with broad sash; Miss Ellen Bayard rose-pink
India silk; Miss Nellie Biddle, white null, fchu
OF lace; Miss Rebecca Dodge. pearl lowered
brocade In panniers and petticoat; Miss Villas,
yellow lowered silk bodice and pam
niers over buttercup satin petticoat.
Mr.. Richard Porter. Louis XVI jabot
and frills of lace; Mr. Jack Webb appeared to
advantage in silken hose: Miss Audenreid
looked like Marie Antoinnette in pearl lavendar
yelled in silk null. Other dancers were Count
and Countess Bentigvogho, the Misses Trow-
bridge, Miss Mary Wilson. in white lowered
brocade; Miss ingalls,. IN gray silk loye-sick-
maiden dress; Miss Horsey, Miss Quay. Miss
Elsie Bliss, in blue silk and lace; Miss Ban
croft, Miss Brooke, the Misses Hunt, Senior
Galva, MIR. James Morrell, Lieut.. Morreu.
Lieut.. Barrette, Mr.. Arthur Goldsborough,
Mr.. Pickering Dodge. Mr.. William c. En-
dicott. jr., Mr.. Arthur Herbert. of the
British legation. in the dress Of a Continental
soldier; Senior Galva, Count de Chambrun, Mr.
Geo. Barclay. Mr.. Lee Phillips Mr. Jack
Biddle, Maj. Post. Mr.. McRoberts, Mr.. NJ. b.
Kerr, Miss Condit Smith. Lieut. and Mrs
Fremont, Miss L. Taylor. Lieut. Pitcher Miss
Nordhof, Miss Howard and Miss Mary Sher-
man. in white silk gauze with chaplet of grasses.
Among those who enjoyed the specta-
Gle were Mrs. Cleveland, Secretary and Mrs.
Whitney, the Postmaster-General and Mrs.
Dickinson, Ex-Minister and Mrs. Phelps,
Justice and Mrs. Field, Gen. and Mrs. J. c.
Black. Justice and Mrs. Blatchford. the Mexi-
can minister and Mrs. Romero, Minister and
Mrs Hurtado, Minister and Mrs. Guzman. Mrs
Folsom, Mrs. Lamont, Mrs. Nordhof, Lieut.
Rodgers, the Spanish minister, the French
minister. Mrs. Audenreid, Gen. Greelv, and
Judge Macarthur, Count d'Arco Valley, MIR. Won
Mumm. and Mr.. Theodore Wores At mid
night the dancing party was photographed
with the assistance OF fash light.
The japanese minister and Madame Mutsu
held one of the most brilliant receptions last
evening ever seen at the capital, in celebration
of the PRONUNCIATION of the constitution of the
empire of Japan, February IL. 1889 The
spacious parlors Of the legation were adorned
with flowers and growing plants and the