Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-24
THE SOCIAL WORLD.
Making Ready for the Opening Of
the Season.
A WEEK OF WEDDINGS.
The Problem OF Giving Large Entertain
ments-Should They Be Held In Assembly
Rooms:-The Whereabouts Of Wsil-known
Pespls-Personai Notes

pleasantly enough during the present week by
adinner party and musicale Wednesday
evening and the reception to the Presbyterian
synod on the following night The President
fellow-worshipers tried his patience just a
bit that evening for the synod held its usual
session and did not reach the Executive Man.
sion until nearly 10 o'clock The President
and Mrs. Harrison usually expect gatherings
of this kind to arrive at Q. and they had long
time to wait before these guests came. but not
having set a precise hour. there was absolutely
nobody &c blame, and the reception lost moth
ing il pleasure to any one.
At the dinner party on Wednesday evening
the President and Mrs. Harrison had the
pleasure of having Mrs. WIlmercling dine with
them IL was her first appearance at any social
occasion since she went into mourning
Miss Hattie Blaine came on in advance Of her
parents arrival so to get the house in perfect
order. She brought her little nephews. the
CoppInger boys. with her and the temperance
OF these happy little fellows and their com
panion. Miss Hatties big mastiff, made the
front door OF the Elaine residence look US of
old yesterday.
The giving of large entertainments is each
year becoming more systematized and little con-
feTouees are already being held by the ladies
holding that balance of power to how and
WINCH ID ss.aEt TIE jail BOlIl again IL las DCtit
suggested by one prominent lady, who has q
home at present only half as big as her hos
pitable desires. that it would he much
wiser if the bosiesses of the usual half dozen
private balls would agree 70 give them in a
public ball instead of at home. She suggests
that they have a meeting and settle upon the
place and he Gates most convenient to them
selves, then let each quietly intimate to their
friends what they expect to 10 and :he whole
matter will DO settled without any confusion.
So Jew people after all have houses large
enough TO ask 80 or 800 people to reception
OF one-half either number To n dance that the
scheme commends itself in every way. West
Ind houses nowadays are too handsome to tear
them al apart 10 accommodate one of these
Immense :hrongs, and the guests are not half
as comfortable after II Is done as they would be
In public hail SO even if the occasion might
be dlveste.i OF some OF the sentiment Iat must
inevitably accompany an entertainment under
ones own roof mach can be said in !avor o.
big balls IN public assembly rooms.
II can no longer be said of this city that il
lacks eligible men. The number of weddings
during the past year las given strong evidence
10 the contrary and the epidemic o. nuptial
events is just now at It's height For Tuesday
next there three announced and Wednes-
,lay keeps up Its usual significance 1.-THE
best day Of all. as no less than SIX prominent
weddings will take place that afternoon and
evening. The Tuesday brides and grooms are
Miss Ellen Louise spottswood and Mr.. John
Francis White at 81. AlOysius Church at
p NJ; Miss Minnie Sehafer and Mr.. A. Geary
johnson at Epiphany, 7:30 pm, aud Miss
Mamie Byram and Mr.. Otis kepier at the West
ern Presbyterian at 3 O'Clock.
On Wednesday at 4:30 Miss Blanche Louise
Parker aud Mir. George Seitz viii lie united al
St Patrick at ) . clock. at ST. Matthews Miss
Eugenia Davis and Mr.. Otto de keiffcr. at st.
Johns 1T O'Clock Miss Virginia Williamson
and Mr. Frank WoVdson Hancock, at s clock
OF Hsnlline Miss Elizabeth keithley Martin and
Mr.. Walter Raleigh Johns, jr., at the same hour
at the Epiphany Miss Albertine Odell and Mr..
W. kesley Schoepf and at $50 Miss Elizabeth
D. Rock and Mr.. George Fred Bracket at
Trinity Church. Now that is just about the
hveliest day that wedding goers viii lind Tor u
long time.
Other weddings in the near future are those
Of Miss Meade and Mr. Breedon already an
nounced for November 8; that of Miss Kate
Billings and Mr.. William W. Wilson of Seattle
Washington; Miss 1ilton and Mr.. remnant,
whose wedding will. however, be a quiet one
owing TO recent family bereavement; Miss Hunt
and Mr. Slater, whose wedding day is fixed for
December; Miss Hutchinson and Mr.. Chauncey
Depew; Miss Fanny Rice and Mr.. Charles c.
Bassett, and Miss Pendleton and Mr. Arthur
Bryce. All these and several more will enter
tain the social world and provide all the oppor-
tunities IL needs for frequent meetings until
the regular season commences.
Chief Justice Fuller, it ia now expected, will
be able to come here in a few days. Mrs. Ar
chibald Brown, his daughter who has been so
seriously i'll for the past month has commenced
TO show signs OF Improvement and the physi-
clans are sanguine of her spec iy recovery. Miss
Mary Fuller. who came on from Chicago a week
ago, Is making her preparations to sail next
week for Germany. and will again resume her
musical study In Berlin One of her younger
sisters. it is expected, will accompany her and
enter school there. Miss Fuller has not been
well. but is much improved As a student of
her beloved art she is a model of industry, as
she thinks nothing of spending six Or seven
hours day In practice a. the piano.
Among the debutantes of the coming season
will be Miss Mitchell, daughter o. NJ. and Mrs.
James Hoban, Miss Steele, Miss Hutchinson.
Miss Hopkins, daughter of ex-Congressman
Hopkins; Miss Catherine Fuller, daughter of
the chief justice; Miss Bonaparte . daughter of
Colonel and Mrs. Bonaparte and Miss Nav
Iullan- There are many others in the OIL
eial circle who viii make their initial bows to
the world OF fashion at a variety OF small and
large entertainments, which the custom of the
last few years has ordained shall take place inst
before the Christmas festivities. The approved
mode OF introducing a bud has not vet got be-
yond An afternoon tes,and there is no real good
reason why II should II one mas 4 long visit
Ing list, II may be safer TO give two teas then
everybody who is body will have an oppor-
tuIiiy 10 wish the dubante all happiness ere
she is fully launched Most of those who can
erord 10 do so accent debut by comlnc-out
bell a little later on in the season. This is al
ways good advice to give any one who ia hesl-
taf.ng as 10 plans, and the more the merrier
The Washington Club has resumed its use
fulness, or rather it has never ceased to offer
its alluriEg quiet or its ehatty associations to
its members- The threshold OF the club rooms
has not been dsrkened very often duaing the
Summer months by the ladies' but since people
began to return home things have livened up a
little or course, it need not be considered in
full activity for another month yet until its
most enthusiastic supporters are back In tow.
The club may Learn much from similar organi-
nations in Chicago and San Francisco. in each
OF these instances the strong intellectual bent
Of the organization is considered its source of
lie. and in fact the sole reason of its existence
Society here expects a great deal from the
appointed
Miss Emma Mullan is N Philadelphia visiting
e the Drexel homestead. ySsrse 7
new German and a new French minister
will be Interesting additions to the dipiomatic
corps this winter.
One thread in the web and woof that our So
eiety ladies are weaving in their every tlay
busy lives II arranging the details for various
charitable entertainments During the next two
months several events are promised which will
NO: only be most tastefulIy and beautifully de-
vsed, but will also be entirely novel The
ladies interested in the different hospitals and
asylums have various events planned and the
earliest IN the series will be given in aid Of the