Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

being answered in the negative, he
turned to his secretary who was seated
at his desk, and requested him to fill out
check for $500 for Mrs. Morton, and
he went on: I'm case she requires more
for her shopping this morning she will
let you know The secretary obeyed
his instructions, and a moment later the
servant departed with the check.
SOME WASHINGTON ExrRAvAGANCEs.
1t is almost impossible to estimate the
cost of keeping up house like
that of the Mortons. He gives
Arthur, and MIR. Arthur's dinners
that it costs him $50 200 a year for his
Washington entertainments, and the
same may be said of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, though his expenses are
materially cut down by his not using
wines. an tod that Mr.. Wanamaker
finds it very awkward to give dinner in
Washington without wines. hut his Sun
day-school principles will not permit
him to serve them. He spends
great amount in flowers, and the
flower bills of the capital are by no means
a small item. Madame Romero, the
wife of the Mexican minister, spent
$500 in the flowers she used at one OF her
receptions. She turned the whole lega-
ton building into q bower of fragrance
and beauty, and She, for the time, trans
formed winter into summer. The flow
ers of many dinner cost more than the
dinner itself, and Washington is fast be-
coming one of the great flower markets
of the United States. Nearly all the
flowers used in Baltimore are supplied
from our greenhouses, and flowers are
shipped from here all over the South and
North. One of the biggest florists of the
capital tells me that Postmaster General
Wannamaker spends from $4,000 to Sl0,-
600 year in flowers. and Wee President
Morton buys the choicest and rarest of
flowers ard ferns for his house decora-
tions. Mrs. Morton personally superin-
tends the arrangement of her floral dec
Orations. She is practical business
woman and good housewife, and she
understands just what things ought to
cost and knows how to make bargain.
Mrs. Whitney spent an immense amount
of money on flowers. She always gave
her florist carte blanch and let him bring
the best he had. Mrs. Hearst and Mrs.
Stanford invest fortunes in flowers every
year, and Mrs. Hearst arranges with her
own hands the elaborate decorations of
her reception rooms. Many of the SEN
ators' wives and also the wives of the
congressman get flowers from the gov
eminent greenhouses. These they do
not pay for, but the supply is by no
means equal to their social necessity.
SOCIAL NOTES.
The house of Secretary Tracy on Far
ragut square, which, after its fire, was
sold to Mr.. Augustus Tyler, is being re-
modelled and rebuilt. lie will be one of
the finest in the city, and it is probable
that Mrs. Tyler will resume her Sunday
afternoon receptions in it.
understand that Miss Mary Butter
worth, the daughter of Maj. Butter
worth, and the unhappy widowed bride
of few hours, had prepared trosseau
of unusual elegance for her married life.
She had no less than twenty five mag
nificent new gowns. These were packed
away in readiness for the foreign tour
which she and her husband expected to
take. just as the marriage was about to
be celebrated, her Alliance was attacked
with fatal sickness, which consum-
mated in his death few DAYS later. He
was married on his death-bed
Miss Mildred Fuller, this fourth daugh-
ter of Chief Justice Fuller will soon be
married to MIR. Wallace Of Tacoma. The