The Critic and record., 1891-04-21
ON DIT.


Mr. and Mrs Henry +. Pclew win probably
spend the summer nt their country scat on the
hudson. @
MIR. and Mrs. Charles II. Poor and family
leave tomorrow for their summer residence vt
Skcucatcles, N. y.
gaat dinner Of twelve covers last night In
honor OF Mr.. aud Mrs. Nathan Appleton Of
Boston.
Senator Butler is so much pleased with the
scenery and society about Ch0rlostown, ".
Va, that 1t Is iutimatcd that he may buy
pretty little summer place there.
The Coroau Minister now wears In every
day, outdoor life the garb Of the American
Derby hat, black trousers and vest, finished on
with "yallcrN summer shoes, hardly 50 pic
turcsquc Us the black silk palama and Cylin-
drical fy-trap hat of state worn In Corca
Miss Johns Of No 2Ol5 q street, who was the
guest last summer OF Mr.. and Mrs. DNlngcr-
dcld Lewis OF Audlcy, Clarke County, Va, VIII
he looked for again this summer by her friends
there Miss Lewis, who was her guest here
this winter, II the daughter OF the late Minis
ter 10 Portugal, and lives Ot stevens Castle
HOhOkcn, New ok.
People with money and nothing else arc
generally crazy about foreigners OF rank,
They are simply possessed with the idea that
the more Of the Diplomatic Corps they know,
entertain and ape, and tho less they have to do
with Americans the greater their chances for
social distinction, he location of the British
Legation, for instance, has enhanced the value
of the property all around II. What has been
done by ono can he utilized by the scgrc CATION
OF them ull. I'm the language OF tho immortal
Colonel sellers there Is millions In the
scheme suggested.
II s.a wonder that some bold and entorprls.
ing real estate operator has not thought or buy
ing up some Of the beautiful building sites on
Capitol llill or Georgetown ana building for
the Diplomatic Corps around fine square,
handsome houses to be occupied az legations.
The operator aforesaid should buy mp all the
surrounding lots of course. Now here Il Just
where he would get his money back hundred
fold. All the CYLINDERS would want TO be as
near the foreign legations as possible, and
there will always be enough Of them coming
TO Washington TO keep up the demand for lots
near the legations.
The young ladies whose views on the sort OF
husbands they would prefer were voiced
through syndicate letter from Washington
are said 10 be more or less indignant over the
giving out to the press OF private cOnyersa-
lions, In which they, OF course, expressed
themselves with the freedom justified in the
privacy of ones own home. The moral Of the
thing Is that young ladies who do not thirst
for nOtOriety OF an undesirable nature, and
who shrink from being advertised or placed on
exhibition in thq show windows of Vanity
Fair, should remember the old adage, to mind
when, whore and to whom they talk and try to
cultivate the golden virtue OF silence.
The craving for outdoor sports among 'the
upper ten thousand' begins TO find cXpressi IN
in not u few lawn tennis courts in the fashion
able quarter OF the town. A vacant lot, q
smooth spot innocent Of grass, an impromptu
wire fence, glaring court of bare earth, a
score OF pGrspiring youths in llannes and
maids In blazers, q very warm and bored chap
crOno and few lockers on constitute the
characters and stage setting for the production
of the screaming farce OF Lawn Tennis as
One Finds IT. in town. Compared to q court
out under broad spreading elms with tnrf OF
velvet, beautifully laid out grounds with june
roses blooming, the vacant lot brick-yard game
Is depressing II not absurd.