Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-03
The whirl Will Begin in Earnest Next Week
Personal Mention.
SOCIAL MATTERS.

earnest the coming week. All the festivities of
the past month have simply led up to the
rush and hurry of what has now begun the
short official season Of 1891. Every dayof the
coming week is crowded with events Of inter-
est. Some of them are:
Monday. January 5. Mrs. NJ. '. Dahlgren
will give dinner in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eric Dahlgren, Senior and Nine. Romero din
ner and the Fuller-Wallace wedding takes place
at st. Johns Church in the evening. recep-
ton follows the ceremony at the residence Of
the chief Justice.
On Tuesday President and Mrs. Harrison will
give the first state dinner of the winter. which
is TO be in honor of the cabinet; Mrs. VIM. r.
Riley, No. Iowa circle. gives tea from to 4;
the Misses Merrick, tea; Miss Breckenridge,
daughter OF Representative Breckenridge, tea
for young people; Nine. Romero will commence
her Tuesday receptions.
On Wednesday Mrs. Andrews will give a
luncheon in honor of Mrs. Mckee; Mrs. Thos
Riggs, tea from to 6, to introduce Miss Riggs,
and Miss Patten dinner party. In the even
ing MIR. John W. Thompson and Miss Thomp-
son will give a reception from 8 to II o'clock
and DR.. and Mrs. Hammond ball in honor of
the Bowling Club.
Among the events Of Thursday are Mrs.
Dahlgren's tea to meet the Bowling Club.
On Friday next the Vice President and Mrs.
Morton will give dinner to the President and
cabinet and their wives, and small after-din-
ner company is invited to meet these notable
guests of the occasion.
On next Saturday Mrs. Harrison will hold her
first public reception, from IS.
The wedding of Miss Mildred Fuller and Mr..
Hugh Campbell Wallace next Monday evening
at st. Johns will be a brilliant event The
high official position Of the brides parents the
affection with which the bride is regarded by a
large circle of friends are some of the reasons
why it will be so. The bridesmaids.
Miss Eva Flanagan and Miss Fisk of
New York, Miss Moore of Orange, n. j., Miss
Alice Woodruff of Auburn, NY, Miss Eliza
beth Weber of Brooklyn and Miss Swinton Of
Port Jarvis. NY, were all friends of the bride
at Wells College. The best man will ',e the
groom's brother, Mr.. Thomas b. Wallace, a
banker of Tacoma The ushers will be Senator
Dubois of Idaho, Gov: West Of Utah. Mr.. J. G..
Zachry, Mr.. John c. Lewis, Mr.. John H.
Mitchell, jr., of Tacoma and Mr.. Archibald
Brown of Chicago. The latter gentleman will
wed Miss Grace Fuller in the spring Mr..
Mitchell is son of Senator Mitchell and is an
attorney in the employ Of the Northern Pacific,
where Mr. Wallace takes his bride.
The clergyman who is to perform the
marriage ceremony is DIR. Daniel Weston of
New York, an uncle of the chief justice. who
about quarter of century ago did the same
service for himself and the mother of the bride
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bride. Just about year ago she entered So
ciety and was given brilliant coming out
party by her parents. She is as clever as her
sisters, which is saying great deal, for each of
the grown daughters of the chief justice has
talent and industry to make the most of her
gifts. Miss Mildred has decided literary bent
and is said in this to more closely follow the
studous inclnations of her father than any
of her sisters. The girls in this notable family
are, by the way, pretty widely scattered Just at
wi
Catherine of the older growth, with little Miss
Jane, are at home. Miss Mary is in Berlin as
enthusiastically devoted to her musical studies
as ever, and Miss Maud is wintering in Denver
after having remained quite while in Chicago
with the married sister. who was Miss Pauline
Miss Catherine Fuller, while she has vet some
time to spend at school. will be maid of honor
at the wedding. She will wear white and the
bridesmaids are to be in pale yellow gowns
Invitations for the church ceremony have been
sent out by the hundreds. but for the recep-
ton the capacity of the house, and not Mrs.
Fuller's hospitable intentions, had to be con-
suited.
Last night Mrs. Fuller entertained the entire
bridal party with few other friends at din
ner of twenty -six covers. The guests outside
of those already named were Mrs. d. NJ Fiske
who is also guest at the house, Miss Wallace,
Justice Lamar and Judge Bond of Baltimore
Tonight Mr.. Wallace will dine the men Of the
party at his hotel.
Mrs. Fuller will not receive on next Monday
afternoon. The other Supreme Court families
will commence their formal receptions on that
day.
Mrs. and Miss Harlan will receive and be as
sisted by large house party. Mrs. Blatchford
has her usual winter guest Mrs. Cummins, and
Mrs. Appleton Blatchford of New York city
with her at present. Mrs. Gray, who presides
SO gracefully over her street home. has also
commenced to see callers on Mondays and will
continue to do SO during the season. Her sis
ter. Miss Matthews. is at Oxford England with
her brother. Mrs. Matthews, the widow of
Justice Matthews, is spending the winter at the
Arlington Hotel.
Mrs. Brewer is not here yet. though she is
expected shortly.
Mrs. Lamar is out of town, but will return
before the season wSnes.
Mrs. and Miss Bradley are in mourning and
will not keep the day this winter.
Mrs. Field always receives on Mondays when
in town.
Justice-elect Brown and his wife have many
acquaintance here who met them q few
winters ago as the guests of Senator and Mrs
Palmer The Browns are people of MEANS and
their future home here will be the center of
refined hospitality. Mrs. Brown is very
pretty woman and dresses with great elegance
and taste.
The cabinet families will all begin to receive
callers next Wednesday. Only few in the
number have been observing their day at all
throughout the fall and last month owing to a
multiplicity OF other occupations as well as alb
sence from the city. For the benefit of visiting
strangers and for the hundreds Of others in So
ciety who did not make these rounds Of calls
last winter. The STAR prints the following:
The residence OF the Secretary of State II
Madison place, will not be generally open to
callers this season, owing to the mourning which
the family Is still wearing. 1t is expected, how
ever, that Miss Blaine and Mrs Walter Dam
rOsch. with other ladies, Mrs. Emmons Blaine
for one, who IL expected on from the west very
shortly, will receive on Wednesdays from to
s. This program may be changed and no pub
lie receptions held ct all this winter, the ladies
instead seeing their friends after o'clock
every gay, as they are not accepting other in
vitations outside.
Mrs. Window will receive next and the fol-
lowing Wednesdays Of the season from to sat
her residence, 1922 Massachusetts avenue
Mrs Proctor will also receive callers from 8
to at her home, 1901 Massachusetts avenue,
that of next Wednesday being her first recep-
ton save on New Year day.
There will be no receptions this winter at the
home Of Secretary Tracy, 1409 K street.
Mrs. and Miss Wanamaker will commence to
see callers next Wednesday at o'clock at 1871
I street. They will have large contingent Of
assistants.
Mrs. Noble, assisted by her sisters ttthe Misses
Halsted, viii begin next Wednesday ct their
home, 1911 X street.
Mrs. and Miss Rusk have been seeing callers
informally during the entire fall on their day,
and will commence their regular receptions on
next Wednesday.