Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-16
SOCIAL MATTERS.
What IL Going on Among Fashionable Peo-
pIe-Persopai Notes Of Interest.

sentative Warner of New York. and Mrs. Jessie
Palmer Weber. daughter of Senator Palmer of
Illinois. we're the hos.esses of tea on Satur-
day afternoon in the parlors at the Elsmere. A
large number OF their friends were present.
! Musicians played during the reception, and the
Z rooms were elegantly decorated with palms and
La France roses. Mrs. Warner wore gown of
| silver gray brocaded satin, trimmed with
duchess lace, and Mrs. Weber wore n toilette of
pink satin. trimmed with duchess lace and
| pearl pa'sementeries and high puff I'll sleeve OF
pink velvet. The ladies' were assisted BY Mrs.
Harold RAYMOND of New York. a sister of Mrs.
Warner. and Miss Lucy Matthews of Carlins-
vile. ILL.,, the eldest granddaughter of Senator
Palmer; Miss Flora Sprague, Miss Cora Perkins,
Miss Townsend. Miss Herbert, Miss Scott Miss
! Brickner. Miss Brosius and Miss Horton. The
refreshment table was artisticaly decorated
4 with La France roses and maiden hair fern. The
| younger ladies in the receiving party saw that
ali the guests tasted Of the good things so
abundantly provided.
Among those present were Mrs J. W. Foster.
| Mrs. Lansing. Senator Hiscock Senator and
| Mrs. Mills, Representative and Mrs Gable. Rep
resentGtive and Mrs. Fithian, Representative
and Mrs. McCreary. Representative Brosius,
| Representative Herbert, Senator and Mrs. Per-
kins, Representative and Mrs. Wheeler. Repre-
sentative Wadsworth and Representative and
Mrs. Springer.
Mrs. Dahlgren has cards ont for Wednesday,
l
! Satolii.
Mrs. H. NJ. Hutchinson and Mrs. Ball gave a
dinner party on Saturday night in honor Of
Miss Houston of New York.
| Mrs. and Miss Houston of New York are visit
ing Mrs. L. b. Webb.
Mr.. Louis II. Wine of this city and Miss
| Elizabeth Buehler will be married on the after
| noon of the 25th instant at Gettysburg Pa, at
Trinity Reformed Church.
Mrs. Jno. A. Logan will give a luncheon of
eighteen covers on Wednesday in honor Of
Prince Leopold Won Ipenburg
The West End Eucher Club was handsomely
| enterta ned at the home of Mrs. Williams Fri
| dav evening. Among those present were Miss
Robertson. Mr.. Collady, Lieut.. Cook, Miss
Leary. Miss Burnham. DIR. Fisher. Miss Baker,
Mr.. NEEDING, Miss Williams, DR. Morriss. Miss
Ihrall. Mr.. Newman, Miss Widdecom, Mr..
Color, DIR. Kern. The prizes were won by
Miss Baker, DIR. Morriss. Miss Robinson and Mr..
Newman. After refreshments dancing was
kept up until a late hour.
Miss Blanche Busey will entertain the Nomads
on Wednesday by progressive eucher party.
At the tea gwen by Mrs. George D. Brooks
and Miss Irwin on FRIDAY afternoon the decora-
tons were all in pink Those who assisted in
receiving we're: Mrs. Richard Goldsborough,
Mrs. Arthur PAYNE, Miss Virginia Payne, Miss
Macdonald. Miss Thornburgh. Miss Bond, Mrs.
Griffith Atkinson and Miss Rebecca Irwin of
Baltimore. Among those present were Gen.
and Mrs. William Payne. Mrs. Jennings. Mr..
John Goode, Mrs. Richard Goode, Mrs. Robert
Hayall. Mrs. Hampden Zane, Mrs. Blackburn,
Mrs. John Howard White. Mrs. William d..
Baldwin, Miss Albert the Misses Hendling Miss
Denser. Miss Fairfax, Miss Johnston. Mrs.
Marshall Macdonald, Mr.. Robert Lewis. the
Misses Wheeler. the Misses German. Mrs.
William Orr Cunningham. Mrs. Fabius Stanly,
Miss Carr and Maj and Mrs. George n. Mayo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Graves opened their new
home to their friends last Friday evening by a
party for their three little Constellation,
Huntley and Dorothy.
The little receiving party met the guests in
the drawing room. The music room, which
artful hands had changed into fairyland. was
with the children the favored room. Here
games were played. The children danced a
cotillon. Before supper the twenty-five little
couples, led by Huntley Graves and Aida Sea,
marched to the dining room.
Afterward Mr.. and Mrs. Graves entertained
the parents Mt supper.
Some of the guests we're Miss My Blossom
Boley. Aida Seal. Mabel Lyman, Helen Giffrey,
Mildred Towles. Edna Kngman, May and Mar
jory Barr, Marion. Nellie and Gertrude LutZ.
Mary and Louise Howard. Mildred. Mary and
Marjory Duvall. Masters Noble Larner, jr., Wal
colt Bartlett, Val Holman, Lewis Adams, Weston
Flint, Hugh and Albert Howard, Walter and
Fred Harvey, Kenneth Birbank, Walter and
Frank Parker.
Mrs. DIR. Henry A. Robbins will be at home
on Tuesdays at her residence, 1850 NJ st.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zenas C. Robbins expect to
spend the months of February and March at
Hot Springs, n. c. For the present Mrs. Rob-
bins will receive with her daughter on Tuesdays
at 1850 VI street.
The meeting Of the Literary Society at the
residence of Col. Nicolay on Saturday evening
la1 out tha ~
members and goodly number of invited guests
: despite the forbidding weather. and proved to
be. as those occasions invariably do, a most
/ enjoyable event in both an intellectual and
| social point of view. The chair occupied
/ by Mr.. J. W. Foster. Secretary Of State, who
is president OF the society for the current
| The essayist of the evening was Mr.. W. IL.
| Holmes. who read an erudite and interesting
paper on the Evolution of Esihetics, which
ELECTED some comment from Messrs. Powell and
I like. This was followed bya character sketch,
i'll dialect. BY Miss Johnston, who, under the
title OF AT de Conf nce." portrayed in admir-
able style certain phases of life in Kentucky.
During the evening the company were further
entertained by Miss like in solo on the piano,
and by songs by Mrs. Perkins and Mr.. Crosby,
! together with a suitable repast. Before ad-
| lournment the president announced the cleo
| ton of Mr.. Richard Hovey to membership in
/ the society.
| Mrs. Joseph Johnston Crawford will not be
at home Tuesday. but will receive Wednesday
at her mothers, Mrs. Joseph Tyssowski, 1431
Rhode Island avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. +. Raif of New Philadelphia,
Ohio. arrived In the city Friday to spend a
month or two. At present they visiting
their daughter, Mrs. EnOch Fribley, 1l65 10Th
street northwest.
Mrs. VIM. Stone Albert and Mrs. J. c. Nc
Guire received the sad announcement yester-
day OF the sudden death Of their brother, Mr..
James II. Hamilton of Louisville. Ky.
Miss Grace Gilmor Of 10Th street Is confined
to her home with a severe attack of rheuma-
tism.
Miss Stephanie Marx of Rochester, n y. is
spending few weeks the guest of Mrs. w. w.
Curtis, 3Ois y street. Georgetown.
Baroness Fava. wife of the minister for Italy.
who is stopping at Wormley's, has been ill
| since Monday last.
THE CHENILLE LIMIT.
The Prosecution of Henry Jaeger Not Yet