Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-26

coming season, and she would decide upon this
when she returned. Senator Carlisle is very
well. life like porcelain brooch of the ex-
speaker has just been completed by Miss Will
son of Cincin natl, and Mrs. Carlisle bad this
Set so that ii can be worn either as & brooch or
as iocket. The picture OF the senator is good
one and Mrs. Carlisle prizes it highly.
The annual ptions and handsome dinners
given by Senator and Mrs. Dolph are among the
conspicuous features OF every Washington sea
son. called upon Mrs. Dolph yesterday and
asked her what plans she had for the winter.
She replied: Just at present my plans are con-
fined exclusively to the selections of schools and
masters for my children. After that all-import-
ant question is satisfactorily settled. can afford
to take thought for my own pleasure Mrs.
Dolph is devoted mother, and she curtails her
summer pleasure trip to her home in Vineyard
Haven in order to return to Washington in time
for the opening of school She is very practi-
cal woman, and she is of the handsome
women of the senatorial circle.
Senator Eugene Hale has not perfected his
plans for the winter. He has given I'M his
house on Vermont avenue, which he has leased
for several years from Senator Mcpherson
Mrs. Hale will come to Washington some time
in advance OF the season In order to get another
house, and she will not be able to get into her
new mansion before perhaps a year to come.
Mrs. Hale is as you know the daughter of Mrs.
Zach Chandler. Her mother is very rich, and
she is building by all odds the finest house in
Washington This house Is big enough for 3
state insane asylum. 1t is made o. buff colored
brick snd it stands on the corner of and Six
tie nth streets, within three blocks OF the White
House. 1t will cost several hundred thousand
dollars, and Senator and Mrs. Hale will prob
ably entertain in it when it is completed.
drove past Senator Stanford's home yester-
day. The curtains were down and there was no
sign of life about it. The senator is now in
California. Politics hurried him home from
Europe and he went directly across the conri-
nent. Mrs. Stanford will open their house in
San Francisco and Will then go out to Palo Alto,
whers the senator is building his big uniyer-
sity. Both Mrs. Stanford and the senator are
well and were benefited greatly by the time
spent Carlsbad.
fat when he left here. The waters reduced his
averdupois and he feels, am told, much better
the contrary, gained weight at the springs and
she is looking exceedingly well.
Mrs. Senator ~pooner's home on Capitol hill
is in order for the winter. She will probably
entertain considerably during the winter, and
her musical talent viii be brought in as one OF
the attractions OF her receptions it has in the
past. She is a sweet singer and she has many
social traits. Mrs Spooner's house has many
beautiful pieces of antique furniture. She was
visiting at Nantucket a year so ago and she
come across BY. chance number of quaint old
bureaus. She bought five of these and sent them
home. At about this time Mrs. Harrison then
on visit to her sister, Mrs. Lord. bought
t bureau IN THIS same neig9oorhood which 81 ma
tor Spooker's wife had not seen. The two have
compared their purchases and it ia q question as
to which has done the better.
By the way, speaking OF Mrs. Spooner.
heard good joke on the Rev. DR.. John Hall,
the Presbyterian preacher of New York in con-
nection with Mrs. Spooner Gay or so ago It
happened during the senator's last trip to Eu-
ropa. He and Mrs. Spooner were taxing in Swift
Zerland, and they had been worried to death by
guides OF all shapes, sizes and languages. Just
after ono such encounter DR.. Hall came up and
addressed himself to the senator who was at
the time little distance apart from his wife,
whereupon Mrs. Spooner mistook him for
guide and conveyed by glance of her eye the
intimation that she did not think ne would make
a good one. and that he must not employ him
1t is my remembrance that she made some re-
mark to him to this effect, which the noted
divine, however, did not understand. and abe
is considerably taken aoack when her husband
introduced MIN as the no ted preacher.
Mrs. Chief Justice Fuller returned with her
husband TO Washington. The two Will this fall
celebrate their silver wedding, and at this their
daughters will Of course be present. They are
now widely scattered. Miss Grace and VI iss
Mildred are visiting at married sister, in Illi-
nois. Maude is with her relatives In Denver.
while Mary. the invalid of year since is en-
pursuing her musical studies in
Germany. Mrs. Fuller tells me that she hopes
to have large portion of her family here early
in November. At present she has only her
youngest daughter and her boy. Mrs. JustSlo]
Field has returned to the city, and her hon s<bps]
Capitol Hill is open. She has been travelling q 4
Europe, accompanied BY her nieces the III fSes
Condit Smith, the elder of whom will be soon
married to DR.. Wood of the army The wedding
will take place at Judge Field mansion, and il
will be grand affair.
Surgeon eneral Moore Is in his new house,
on Sixteenth street, opposite the Arno. Thf5|
house is beautifully furnished and 1t will be Z -
of the social centers during the coming seas
Mrs. Senator Henderson still occupies her nd -
nifcent mans ion near Scott's circle. Senator
where Perry Belmont lived some years ago, and
Gen. Arson G.. McCook has the same house he
had last winter on Massachusetts avenue. All
told. the prospects seem good for plenty Of fun
MISS GRuNDY. Jz.s