Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
marriage will probably take place during

| marriage will probably take place during
the early winter.
1 hear nothing more about the per-
spective marriage OF DR.. Ruth of the
navy and Miss Wanamaker. DR.. Ruth
Is one of the most popular beaus of
Washington society, and Miss Wanama-
ker is probably the best catch here. She
has fortune in her own right, and is
one of the most charming girls of the
capital.
Speaking of the expenses of Washing
ton society, one of our leading caterers
tells me that the bills of Mrs. Hearst and
Mrs. Stamford, for their ordinary
Thursday afternoon receptions, amounted
to between 5000 and $500 a day. OF
course their dinner and card receptions
cost at least ten times this amount. Mrs.
Stamford, by the wav, has quite re-
covered her health, and she will come
back to Washington prepared to give
many brilliant entertainments during
the coming season.
| understand that Mrs. John A. Logan
has been making some extensive pur-
chsses ut Glen Echo, on the Potomac.
This, is the suburb where Mrs. Harrison
bought last summer and where she in
tends to build, it is said, her summer
home.
MRS. HARRISON IS PAINTING.
Mrs. Harrison will shortly take up her
art studies. She has improved greatly
during the past summer. and at Caps
May Point she spent on an average from
four to five hours day before the easel.
She does wonderfully clever work in
water color5, and she had Washington
artist, Mr.. Moser, with her during her
whole stay at Cape May. MIR. Moser
tells me that she possesses considerable
artistic ability, and he SAYS that she is
the most industrious worker he has ever
known. The fad in painting here seems
to be all in water colors just now, and a
number of the young ladies of Washing
ton are making good progress in handling
the paint brush.
WHAT FLOWERS COST IN WASHINGTON.
Speaking of Mrs. Morton IS flower bills
it will be interesting to know just what
flowers cost here. You can find the
finest roses at the capital, and during
the season the buds will cost you from
fifty cents to 81. 80 apiece. Jacquemiuot
roses always sell for about 81 at Christ
mas time. Marchal Niels bring fifty
cents a bud, and La France roses are
about the same. Lilies of the valley are
about 81 dozen. Tea roses bring about
twenty-five cents puu, ana Vloiets
bring from s. to 81 per 100. Pinks are
worth fifty cents dozen, and smilax
sells for twenty-five cents a yard. You
can get very pretty basket of flowers
for So; bur if you want something very
fine 1t may cost you as high as SIS. 1t Is
very poor bouquet which is not worth
81, and 1 have seen single bouquets which
sold as high as $50.
ROSES AND PINKs BY THE THOUSANDS.
l looked over the books of big florist
last night, man who does perhaps one
fifth the business Of the city. During
one month of last year he sold 10 200
roses, 100. 200 carnation pinks, IS 600
violets, $500 strings of smilax and 5000
sprays of lily of the valley. This man
did large funeral business, and got
the prices of some of his decorations for
this purpose. He makes broken wheel
Of roses camellias and lilies of the
valley for $50, and it was he who
made for the Queen of England a
floral Offering which she sent to Car
field 8 funeral. This cost Victoria $50
and the English minister paid the bill.
He makes a heart for $50; broken col
umn of flowers for $40 and beautiful
piece known as "Gates Ajar' for $50
OF course the florists of Washington are
among the money making men Of the