The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-13
IN THE SWIM.


General and Mrs. j. w. Foster threw
open their hospitable doors yesterday
from 4 to s p. IN. to about two hundred of
their friends, principally young people,
whom they had invited to meet their
guests, the pretty Misses Orr from Evans
vile, Ind. Tho Misses Lacy assisted in
receiving the guests. and there was de-
liCious collation. served in the dining
room. The General and Mrs. Foster re-
ccivcd all with that kindly and hearty
warmth peculiar to them, and were the
most thoughtful of hosts. The affair was
IN every way charmingin the cordially of
the reception extended and the delightful
hospitality go lavishly shown. For two
hours there was scene of brilliant ami
nation and conversation. The lovely
Miss Cameron was there, radiant and clas-
sic IN hcrnoble beauty. Miss Condit Smith,
another acknowledged belle, all pretti-
ness, smiles and fascination; Miss Knox,
the handsome and gifted daughter of
Hon. John Jay Knox of New York; Miss
Harlan, the intellectual and accomplished
daughter of Mr.. Justice Harlan; the
stately and gracious Miss Brecknridgc
the daughter of General Breckinridgc
and who, by the way, resembles Miss
Cameron in marked degree; Miss Dixie
of Brooklyn, u brunette beauty visiting
senator and Mrs. Mandcrson; Miss Spof-
ford, the piquant and clever daughter of
the Librarian of Congress; Miss Pullman,
the daughter of the Chicago railway mag
nate; Miss Brewster, as pretty rs II La
France rose, who is visiting Mrs. Pollock;
Miss Miller, the interesting daughter of
the Attorney-Gcncral; Mr. and Mrs.
Romero, Mr.. Hansen of the Russian Lega-
ton, the tall and fair Miss Moore, an ex-
tremely attractive girl, and many Others
were there. About twenty of the guests
were invited to stay and dine after the
reception and had lovely evening.
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The Spanish Minister will give grand
ball on the 23d Of January in honor Of the
birthday of the King Of Spain. This will
probably he q magnificent affair as all
the Diplomatic Corps, the officers of the
Army and the Navy will possibly be in full
uniform as II Is to be state occasion.
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The tea given yesterday by senator and
Mrs. Faulkner TO introduce their daughter,
Miss Jane Faulkner, was attended by u
large number of people who are promi-
nent IN official and social life, aud was
one of the principal events of the day.
There were fifteen on twenty Senators,
number of Representatives and their
wives, Mrs. and Miss Rusk, Secretary and
ton and his wife, Secretary Proctor and
Miss Proctor, the Chinese Minister, Gen
eral and Mrs. Greedy, Justice aud Mrs.
Harlan and Miss Harlan, Mr.. and Mrs.
Kent, Mrs, General Miles, and several
hundred others, all more or less well
known.
Miss Condit Smith, whose charm of
manner and attractive personality .omi-
nently fitted her for the delicate and dig
niiied task Of receiving Mrs. Justice Fields
host of callers yesterday, acquitted herself
with considerable grace and ease. There
are few young ladies who could have sus-
tanned themselves with more credit.
Mrs. Moore the wife of ex-Surgeon-
General Moore has taken possession of
her handsome new house, No. 9O6 Six
tcenth street, and will receive to-day.
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Mrs. Senator Saunders will receive on
Thursday, January 90, in her suite of
apartments at the Elsmcrc.
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Mrs. General w. II. +. Lee, the wife Of
the distinguished Representative from
Virginia, will receive to-day and on every
Tuesday during the season at the Ebbitt.
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The 8 o'clock tea young man as he ap-
pears on view in the gilded salons of the
upper circles does not impress the cold
professional eye of the mamma with
daughters to marry off as being particu-
larly available as matrimonial timber.
He wears an exhausted and world-weary
air, and seems to be generally low in his
mind and tottering on the verge Of nerv-
Gus prostration. His pale, inanc, vacuous
countenance, the small chasms in his head
doing duty as eyes, his aifectation of being
utterly blase, his ridiculous little outfit of
conversation, his feeble, anglomanical
smile, his rooted aversion to making the
slightest effort to earn his tea by doing
the agreeable, the ornamental or the USE
ful, are enough to make q row of merry
girls go into convulsions of laughter If
the solemn farce of receiving them did
not have to be enacted decorously.
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What contrast to this Dlighted Being
the girls one meets at a tea present! They
are smiling, chatty, rosy and sympathetic.
They exhaust every vile to extort some
thing in the way Of conversation, some
thing like an idea, from the silent, posing
young dudelets, but in vain. In the eyes
of this Blighted Being, who is longing for
a surreptitious cigarette, their beauty,
kindness, sweetness and gracious ways, all
are as dust beneath his feet. The gloom
born of an empty head, late hours, poker,
and innumerable brandies and sodas and
a deep-seated and iirmly-rooted convic-
tiop that every girl in, society is pining
and languishing miscrably. for them, will
wax works.