The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-03-23
SOCIETY NEWS AND CHAT.
Continued from third page.

Madame Mendonca, wife of the Brazilian
Special Envoy, held her weekly reception, as
sisted by her charming daughters, Friday
Madame MendonGa wore an elegant gown Of
embroidered crepe and silk, with bouquet of
mayfiowers on her corsage. Miss Mendonca
wore blue silk with scarf drapery of mousseline
de sole. Miss Helena Mendonca was in butter
cup silk, with white carnations. Miss Amalia,
in turquoise blue These young ladies were as
sisted by Miss Wren, of Chicago, in green
cloth walking dress, with white crepe lisse vest
and corsage bouquet of pink roses; Miss Bige-
low, in fiowered India silk, and Miss Trescott
callers were Mr.. and Mrs. Treat, Mrs. Snider
Mrs Speaker Reed, Mrs. Miller and Miss
Corkhill, Mrs. Attorney General Miller and
daughter, Madame and Miss Preston, Madame
wing, Mrs. Tice, Mrs: Boughton,. of Boston;
Gen. Patterson and daughter, Mrs. and Miss
Studebaker, the Misses Williamson, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Andrews, Mr. Paul An
IS dreWs and son, IN Mr. Lee Lee Phillips, Mr. Mr.
Mr.. Shepherd, Mr.. William j. Connell, Lieu,
tenant Colonel and Mrs. Elliot, Miss Elliot,
Miss Condit-Smith, Mr.. s. A. Robinson, Mr..
Abbott, DR.. Oscar Menocal, Mrs. and Miss Nc
Donald, Mr.. Bosch, Mr. Pineddo, Captain and
Mrs Burk, Major and Mrs. Clley, Mrs. Justice
Field, Commodore Greer, Mrs. Robert Christy,
Madam Varras, and many others.
st. Joseph's Day is the great fete of the year
for the dwellers in the Home OF the Little Sis
ters of the Poor The annual dinner to the two
hundred inmates is an event in which people
prominent socially as well as the charitably in
clined take the greatest interest In contributing
to the qualification and amusement of the aged
poor sheltered and cared for in this home. On
Wednesday the bountiful dinner was served by
the Count de Chambrun, Count Sala, NJ. Rou-
stan, Miss Dahlgren, Mrs. Macias, Mrs. Seek
endorff, the Misses Riggs, Mrs. Justice Gray,
Miss Elliott, Mrs, Tracey, Miss Thyson, Miss
RnsanranG Thnrbar Snnirn
Daingerfeld, and others. After dinner there
was an exhibition of real old-time plantation
dancing by Aunt Nancy, ninety-eight years of
age, in double-shuffie, and Uncle Reuben in a
Virginia breakdown. Generous contributions
were received from Mrs, James F. Barbour, Mr..
Phillips, Mrs. Leland Stanford, and Herman,
of the Shoreham Among the guests were Sen
ator and Mrs. Sherman, Secretary and Mrs.
Rusk, Senator and Mrs Dolph, Senator and
Mrs. Spooner, Senator and Mrs. Stewart, Miss
Aldrich, Judge and Mrs. Field, the Misses Con-
dit-Smith Miss Emily Thorn, Secretary and
Mrs. Noble, the Misses Halstead, Senator and
and Mrs. Chandler, Miss Grace Dawes, Miss
Matte Mitchell, Miss Lucy Corkhill, Sen
ator and Mrs. Davis, Senator and Mrs. Mander-
son, and Mrs. Handy.
Mrs. Dahlgren gave her last authors reading
reception on Wednesday evening. A brilliant
and appreciative company gathered in her ele-
giant parlOrs and library to listen to Capt.
Bourk's lecture on Life Among the Indians
Miss Dorsey followed with an interesting paper
in the nature of reminiscence of her school
days, entitled an "Echo From Waterloo" Col.
]. Edwards Clark read fine paper on the
poet Browning, while Gen. Greedy gave a very
realistic account of his recent trip to Paris
After this hghly-spiced intellectu, symposium
refreshments were served in the elegant manner
which characterizes Madame Dahlgren's hos
pitality Among the guests present were Gen
eral and Mrs. Greely, Captain and Mrs Bourk,
Miss Dorsey, Miss Ransom, the artist; Mrs,
Cultivate, General and Mrs. Hooker, Mrs.