The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-11-23
GOSSIP OF THE GIRLS
Alice Confides to Dear Louise the
Goings-On in Washington.

DEAR LOUISE: Our wedding llst continues
heavy. These interesting events are of all
sorts-quiet house ceremonies, and what may
be most truly called Spectacular weddings
And what crowds of people flock to the
churches to see the binding OF "the knot there's
no untying." We are all regretting that Mad
anne Bonaparte has elected to reside in Paris
just now. Two such interesting events are
about to happen in the American branch of the
Napoleon family. Mr.. Newbod LIE Roy Ed.
gar, Madame Bonaparte's son by her first hus-
band, Mr. Edgar, of New York. will be married
in New York on Wednesday to Miss Manice.
1t is to be quiet home ceremony, and in the
spring the young couple will sail for Paris to
visit MIR. Edgar's parents. Now, were Colonel
aud Madame Bonaparte in occupancy of their
K-street residence, imagine the festivities for
the elect this marriage would occasion! Mr..
Newbold lie Roy Edgar is great-grandson of
Daniel Webster, and is a great-nephew
of Mrs. Justice Blatchford. We all
have delightful recollections of Miss Con-
stance Edgar, Madame Bonaparte's eldest
daughter who blossomed out few years ago
for short season, and then, Mary-like, as
some think, ''chose the better part.'' She is
now Visitation nun. Miss Bonaparte, daugh-
ter of Colonel and Madame Bonaparte, will
make her debut in Paris this winter. She will
have dot of at least million dollars. In ad-
diton to her gold galore, Miss Bonaparte is
beautiful, accomplished, and Of supreme ee-
gance of manner. VIII such gifts of the gods
be vouchsafed to plain American? l think
not Although the return of the Bonaparte
family to this country is fixed for May, mar
rage will probably be arranged for Miss Bona
parte with some titled European before she
sails Newportward ''o'er the ocean blue"
There is pleasing rumor to the effect that
Miss Marie Howard, grand daughter of the late
George w. Riggs, is to marry Lieut.. Bucking
ham, our naval attach6 at London. The Riggs
family has been for years one of the most promi-
nent in this city, and here Miss Marie Howa
was born. Her father was one of the secretaries
of the British Legation in the time of Sir Fred
erick Bruce. Mr.. Howard's marriage to Miss
Cecilia Riggs took place about twenty-five
years ago in the Chapel of st. Cecilia, on the
Riggs estate, near this city.
Sackville to mind. The George w. Childs
fountain episode brought the late British Minis
ter again prominently before the American pub
lie. Now the art world of London is con-
sideraby excited over the fact that Lord Sack
vile has obtained permission to dispose of
some of the treasures of art belonging to Knole.
The furniture and pictures are wonderfully in
teresting and valuable, and for their sale,
strange as it may seem, Lord Sackville Barkis-
like, sis willin'."
Painting is the "fad" among the girls here
not the face, for the "panted lady'' of ten years
ago has disappeared in the athletic young wo'
man of to-day, but water-color sketches. Mrs.
Harrison sets the example of great devotion to
this particular branch of painting, and last
summer, under the instruction of Mr.. Nose r,
she gave several hours of the day to her brush
and easel.
Mrs Harrison is going soon to indianapolis
to bring back the Mckee family, and when the
babes are once more established at the White
House she will be a contented woman. have
sometimes wondered why little Marthena Har-
rison is not on the same pedestal with the Nc
Kee infants. Possibly the old saw
"A son is son till he gets him wife,
But daughter is n daughter all the days of her
life -
may make the explanation-not only in this
case, but in many others that have come under
my observation.
Breast-pins are coming in fashion and ear
rings are going out. Moonstones are all the
rage, and, set with turquoise or pearls, make
particularly beautiful breast-pins. The fashion
of wearing miniatures set as brooches has taken
considerable hold. In the absence of ancestors
tits consoling to know that it is fashionable to
wear the portraits of historical characters The
miniature of the beautiful Duchess of Devon
shire greatly admired recently on young
beauty of the present day.
l wish you could have been at the
chrysanthemum show at Smalls. 1t is
something marvellous to see the eyolu-
tion of the lovely old-fashioned Artemesia
heavy balls of golden yellow and dazzling white
to which the art of the florist has "improyed'
the plant. But, to my thinking, nothing is
prettier than the flower in its natural condition,
and we owe a debt to Japan in making us see
the ornamental qualities of the chrysanthe-
num- The present and the last administration
were complmented at Small's show by the
prominent position given the big towering
bushes of chrysanthemums called respectively
"Miss Minnie Wanamaker' and "Mrs. Cleye-
land'
We are now nearing the season of fashionable
entertainments. Just at present family re-
unions and small parties have the call. One of
the changes of the season that do not admire
is the giving of dinner parties before the visit to
the theatre, instead of the supper afterthe play.
There is so much sociability and enjoyment in
the late supper
Writing of the theatre reminds me of the dis
courtesy shown the Washingtonians at the
Booth performances in Baltimore. Over five
hundred made the trip nearly every "Washing-
ton night" and yet the curtain went up before
the Washingtonians arrived On the first night
of the ''Merchant of Venicen half the first act
was over when the large delegation from this
city reached the theatre.
/ have seen one of the new Paris bonnets
with crown of chamois. 1t is very unique, and
the chamois seems just to suit as a material to
combine with velvet But truly the milliners
are at their wits end for novelties. Have you
noticed the decline of Recamier cream? l
think it is due to the new fad of facial massage
1t is now an essential part of a woman's groom
ing, and there is reason in it, for it preserves
the contours of the muscles by hardening them
through manipulation All the tiny blood YES
sells in the face are stimulated, to the great im-
proYement of the complexion. Experiment
my dear, and write the result to ALICE.