The Washington times., 1894-04-22
WEST END GOSSIP.

The fastidious and extravagant maidens
who distain to wear the sumo dress more than
once at dinner, tea, or reception for fear IL
VIII be recognized by their acquaintance
should know that Mrs. Cleveland has set
them an example of good sense in this partic-
ular, by wearing the same gown.repeatedly at
different functions. The gown Of moire, avery
striking one OF red, the color of an American
beauty rose was worn by her at the New
i Years reception, when ali Washington, II
they wiiied, had an opportunity Of seeing her
| In 1t, being an expensive and conspicuous
| garment. and withal a becoming one. Mrs.
| Cleveland very sensibly wore It at another
and less crowded reception, and also at one
| OF Mrs. Lamont's teas
OF all sycophantic and servile nonsense.
commend me to the fashion that is obtaining
Of late in the papers of putting certain people
and things under the patronage Of Mrs.
Cleveland and the Cabinet ladies. We have
read in the papers the past week that certain
fashionable young men and women are to
dance the minuet in order that Jackson's
home may be preserved in statu quo. SO to
speak. OF course, it is all going to be very
| picturesque and very enhancing and all that
sort of thing, and eminently praiseworthy is
the motive that prompts these men and
maidens to give their valuable time to the
enterprise. We are told 1t Is under the
patronage Of Mrs. Carlisle. We ask what?
The men or the maidens, or the Hermitage.
The former are at liberty to consent to
patronage. If they wish, but they should avoid
| getting things mixed in this way. The pub
lie, who will be asked to pay the 81, %, or IS
to witness this gorgeous spectacle, are the
real patrons and patronesses.
We are told that Miss Pollard is affected.
And this reminds me that all Kentucky girls
are generally affected; languishing and
lackadaisical manner is as natural to the
Kentucky girl as primness and polysyllabic
| expression is to the Boston girl. Even the
| older women who come from that state have
an e1asperatinS puny and prismy way OF
talking that spoils every statement they make.
| There Is Kentucky girl who is spending the
season in Washington. This young lady
would be attrac..ve II she could be convinced
that affectation would spoil an angel. This
young lady essays to recite, and is frequently
heard at the West End Club in the innocent
but inspired effusions that charm Washington
! audiences and 90 by the misnomer Of elocu-
t1on. l often wish some real stage manager
could get hold OF these misguided young
women who think they can recite think
they would quickly consign them to oblivion
and crocheting.
Apropos Of the Boston girl, II she does ex-
press herself in polysylables, she knows the
genuine baked beans of Boston from the
spurious imitation we get up here "when-
ever am invited out to dine,'' says Boston
girl, who has been spending the Winter here,
.the lady Of the house puts baked beans on
the table and says: Now, as you are from
Boston, thought I'd have some baked beans
for you
''The fact is she added. "the people in
this city don't know how to bake beans. In
Boston we parboil them after soaking them
over night. By parboiling / mean part boil
ing. We don't let the skins crack, for then
they get mushy. After parboilIng they are
put in slow oven with piece of fresh pork,
where they bake all day long. and when they
come out they are as nutty and nice
and the Boston girl came as near smacking
her lips as a Boston girl with her inborn
sense Of propriety ever could.
Buffalo papers are quite set up Of late over
the distinction that some of their representa-
tfves have gained in society here. There is
Mrs. Cleveland to begin with, OF course, Mrs.
Bissell with her lovely voice. and Mrs. Secard,
Mrs. Bissells friend, who plays so beautifully,
and Miss Jane Meade WEIGH, who has created
such an agreeable impression by her colonial
talks. Speaking of these ladies, Mrs. Harriet
Lane Johnston, she wishes she was from
Buffalo, too.
When Patti was here this Winter Mr.. West
inghouse gave her an elegant dinner in her
apartments at the Arlington, TO which eight
OF ten ladies were invited. but as Patti never
dined she sat with the ladies and entertained
them for time, after which she went to her
Own apartments and senr each of the ladies
her autograph by her maid. 1t was written
on her own dainty stationery and read, as
PATHS autographs always read: "a beautiful
voice is the gift OF God. Adelina Patti
young lady here is collecting autographs
in a rather novel manner. She has them on
a table cover OF white linen that is finished
with drawn work and plain hem. Grover
Cleveland's is in the center. and almost every
body she has met Of any prominence during
the Winter has put their autograph upon the
cover. These are worked in different colored
silks, generally in the favorite color Of the
writer. The cover is thus rendered of great
interest, and she values it very highly. Mem
bers of the japanese and Chinese legation
have the most artistic and ornamental auto
graphs when they write in their own char
acters.