Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-13
PLEASANT VACATIONS
Where Well-Known People Are
Spending the Summer.
MRS. HARRIsON'S HEALTH.
Her Improved Condition-The Height Of the
Social Season ut Newport and Bar Harbor-
washingtonians Who Are Summering in
Various Localities.

As predicted, the Presidents arrival at Loon
Lake has had beneficial effect on Mrs. Harri-
sons health and spirits. and che has spent COM
paratively good week. Mrs. Dimmick and
! Mrs. Parker left the President as their substi-
tute at the invalid's bedside one evening while
they attended german given by some of the
guests at the hotel near by.
The past few days witnessed the preparations
| Tor the cleaning up and repairing process
through which the White House will pass this
and next month. The workmen will soon COM
mence to put up the scaffolding in the hall and
red parlor. where, as previously stated. the work
OF decoration will be entirely confined this sum-
mer.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Foster left
this morning for Deer Park, intending however.
only to remain there over Sunday Next
month they hope to spend a few weeks with
their daughters in northern New York. Mrs.
Lansing, who has been with her parents for
several months, went home last week. Secre-
| tary and Mrs. Foster spent last Sunday az the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Uriah Painter at their
cottage at Long Branch. Mrs. Foster makes
time pass profitably as well as pleasantly. and
on the whole, has had q very delightful sum-
! mer. The answering of congratulatory letters
from their friends all over the world seemed a
formidable task though an appreciative one,
| but Mrs. Foster STAYED at 1t nearly all of the
| early July days until it was accomplished. Not
only herself. but the family and their intimate
| friends are getting great deal of amusement
out of the album, which Mrs. Foster has made
| OF the newspaper cuts Of the Secretary. She
has now about sixty of them in the collection
| good, bad and Indifferent hkenesses and some
| bearing his name, but certainly never intended
| for him.
There will be another international wedding
| in the autumn and the groom will be legation
| man, which is, by the way, quite an ordinary oc
currence now. The happy man is Mr.. Alan john
| stone OF the British legation. who is a son of
4 II nrlh L.
ciety. His bride to be is Miss Antoinette
| Pinchot, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Pinchot of New York. The marriage day is
| set for date very near '93 and the event will
| probably take place in New York. Miss Pinchot
has spent the season in London, where she has
| met her future relatives. She visited here last
| winter.
| from n visit to the Maine resorts. Boston and
more latterly to Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Sands
villa on Long Island.
Mr.. John W. Thompson and Miss Ida Thomp-
son. who went to Long Branch for last Sunday.
| have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Bateman since
at Newport.
Representative and Mrs. Hit will spend the
rest of the summer at their country place at
Mount Morris. LII.
1t is high tide at Newport so far as social en-
gagements are concerned. The entertainers
have marked out a diversified program and are
hard at it. Mrs. Whitnev's interchangeable dispo-
sition keeps her well to the front and lately she
has given dance, coaching party, a tea and
has now cards out for a musicale at which pro-
fessional artists will perform. Her eldest son
| is now one Of the beaux and is quite an expert
polo player and an excellent whip.
Mrs. Slater is also playing hostess frequently
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Herbert. Mr.. and Mrs. s.
s. Rowland, Mrs. Julien James, Mrs. Wallach
nra nrouninopf in tho r,la
Mrs. Morton is entertaining quietly at her
cottage, "Abendruh," at Bar Harbor, while the
Vice President and two of his daughters are
travelling in Canada. Baron de Struve is still
the bright particular star of the Inequalities
and will certainly carry away agreeable memo
ries of America.
Mrs. Russell Harrison led german down at
Cape May last Friday night and is having q
pleasant, restful summer of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Z. Hamilton left today for
Linwood. the country seat of the Misses Mer-
rick. where they will remain the next ten days
and after that go to the seaside.
The times seem bristling with little diplo-
matte episodes and just at the moment when
there is nothing too good on land or sea for the
visiting foreigners at Bar Harbor or Newport
all sorts Of tantalizing difficulties coming
to the surface. Everybody breathed easier
when the assurance came that the Swiss govern
ment had accepted our explanation in the case
Of MIR. Georg, who will probably remember his
stay by tho sad sea waves longer than the
amount Of pleasure he had there would
really justify-and now, just as the feelings of
Switzerland and its ag1 eeable young representa-
tive have been Gained down. we have to con-
front another small tangle but with the re-
public Of France. The occurrence seems
trlf1ing, but Mr.. Patenotre. the French minis
ter, has had twice to turn his back on the CAV
doings of Newport and come here to seek that
NJ - l.
try demand. 1t Is all about fiag-little bits
OF flags. TO be sure, but quite big enough to ex-
cite a country's ire. The story, Invested of all
diplomatic encumbrances. runs this way:
The good citizens in Pennsylvania town
celebrated the Fourth of July with liberal dis
play OF bunting and fireworks. French resi-
dent felt his patriotism stirred with q similar
impulse. He ran up the stars and stripes from
the flag staff of his factory, but remembering
the land of hin birth let the tri-coor wave to
the breeze on top of it. 1t did not wave long,
as some of his neighbors, overburdel0 with
loyalty, pulled down the flag of Franc, Id be-
fore they got through with it there, not
anything left to fight over, as its last its
were trampled upon in the streets byt L.
dren in their play. The Frenchmf ad
another flag waving, though, on the ri c's
fete day. the 14th of July and a better fs4ling
having been established no one disturbed it.
The July incident. however, has been absorb
ing the time and attention Of the French min
lister ever since. He has had imperative orders
to demand not only explanations. but satisfac-
ton, and very likely the end of it will be the
discharge of some of the town officials who
did not punish these offenders in the first
instance. Accusing one neighbor of stealing your
pocket book and tramping the flag of another
are not very good samples of international man
ners, but it has been hot summer and slight
lapses are pardonable. While very sorry for in
dividual sights, Independent Americans, re-
Numbering with great vividness the annoy
ances they have suffered in other lands begin to
feel that all things even up if you can Just wait
long enough. The ladies, for instance, whose
gowns are Paris made have many tale to un-
fold OF what they have had to endure from dress
makers, and we have not yet cooled down from
the last fragrant wrong perpetrated upon two Of
our countrywomen, who were imprisoned for
not paying the extortionate bills Of their man
tuamaker.
Senator and Mrs. Stanford have been lately
at Interlacken, Switzerland Both are in ex-
cellent health and have been since they left
this country. The Senator took the course of
baths, &C., at Aix-les- Bains, where 80 many
Americans were stopping during the early part
Of July. Mrs. Stanford's only sister. Mrs.
David Hewes Of San Francisco, died at her
home in that city fortnight ago after long
illness. 1t will be remembered that Mrs. STAN
ford made trip to California Just before leav-
ing for Europe, and during the month she
spent there the invalid greatly improved Zen.