The Washington times., 1894-04-08
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| The bang curly or the bang straight Is no
longer in favor. Society girls now wear
their hair combed back smoothly from their
forehead. At least those who can stand 1t
do, for 1t is undeniably most trying fashion.
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Bissell seem to have
set the fashion here. During the early part
Of the season an enterprising press woman
called at the White House and made Study
Of the way Mrs. Cleveland arranged her hair.
| After this she arranged her own In the same
way and had picture taken. It was pub
| lished under the heading MRS. Cleveland's
| Present Style" Everybody wondered how
| any paper could produce such wretched at
| tempt at likeness, and criticised the paper
accordingly for poor cut
| Mrs. Bissell's singing was heard for the
| first time in public here on Tuesday after
noon at Senator Hale's residence. Her voice
| Is rare and beautiful mezzo soprano. very
equal in quality and faultless in culture.
There is an unusual depth OF tone In the lower
| register that stirs the listener with q certain
intensity, Mrs Bissell's specially is the senti-
mental song, intellectual as to music, like
| those OF Schubert and Schumann great
| relief after those light ballads in which sing
ers of to-day beg some indefinable somebody
! to '.kiss them quick and let them CO." or
| warble sweetly about mo, sir; no, sir, no,
no, no, no, sir" or yocalize in operatic
pyrotechnics, ending with squirt upward
ike water spout on the high c's, a crescendo
shrek, and all the dreadful sounds that are
called cultivated singing.
First Young Girl-Tm so glad Marie Stirling
is to be married at last.
Second young girl-Why?
First Y. Go, I'm SO dreadfully tired Of
nh know al har
engagement was announced last year the
papers have periodical spells of saying the
same old things about her once every seven
days or every fourteen days or so, like
malaria, you know.
Washington. brother-in-law Of Senator,
who enjoys the proud distinction of being able
to say that he danced with Mrs. Cleveland at
one of Mrs. Whitney's balls.
1t happened In this way: He escorted his
wife and her sister to the ball and communi-
Gated to them his ambition, namely, that of
dancing with the Presidents wife, never
dreaming that such thing would be possi-
BILE. When he found himself face to face with
the President and his lovely bride, this
brother-in-law Of Senator asked Mrs Cleve-
land for dance, respectfully deferring to the
Chief Executive.
ats just as Mrs. Cleveland decides" said
the President.
Mrs Cleveland, with her usual tact, de-
cided that while she would be glad to grant
the request it would never do as so many
others would ask for dance and there
would be no end of dancing for her.
Just then Mrs. Whitney came up and her
aid was enlisted.
.'Wen manage it. said Mrs. Whitney. and
letting down the portiere that screened the |
alcove where they we're standing from the |
ball room she gave her sanction as hostess |
of the dance. "And danced with her for at |
least five minutes said the delighted man. |
The Woman's National Press Association is !
looking up. We don't mean by this that it is |
so fiat on its back that it can't look any other |
way. but the ladies are arranging a trip to |
the Winter Fair in California. They |
have bureau OF publication, which is send |
ing of the productions OF its writers like hot |
cakes.
A story Of one OF their members, Mrs. Dora |
7. Voorhis, Of 1928 Q street, will soon ap- |
pear in the Cosmopolitan. This story is |
called "a Romance OF the Midway"
1t is astonishing how many widows there
are in Washington. A bright young girl says |
that, next to the monument, the widows are
the most noticeable thing about the place.
A Congressman was telling some ladies |
touching story Of a widow the other day. He |
was single and wealthy and she was a single |
widow and O poor one, and, OF course, she |
naturally came to him for aid and government |
place. She was on the verge of starvation. |
had broken her last S5 note to pay car fare |
to the Capitol. She owed a weeks board at
one of the most expensive hotels in town.
The widow wept tears that destroyed the
freshness OF her scented black-embroidered
handkerchief.
Not being proof against widows tears, the
Congressman indited note to his friend, the
Secretary of -, and told him he must give
this poor widow place in his department.
Handing her the note he directed her where
to go, and told her what to say. and" he
added, "if you have any more tears on tap
just turn them on" but the last state of that
widow was worse than the first.
Thinking he would call to see her one day
about month afterward, the Congressman
started out and inquired OF his friend, the
Secretary. where she was?
so. she's married." said the Secretary, ''and
has gone to New York"
First Maiden-'Isn't this Breckinridge trial
disgusting? / never read such things myself
and nothing in this world could induce me to
read it; but / think it's shameful for the
papers to publish those shocking details about
their relations and how he wrote her such
dreadful notes and how he kissed her and
Second Maiden-"Dear mel how came you
to know all that If you haven't read it?'
Rev. Clarence Bispham, who was married
to Miss Elizabeth Gray Casey in st. Johns
church recently, is a prince of good fellows.
clergyman though he ls, but everybody knows
the clergy are jolly lot when they are oil
duty so to speak.
Mr.. Bispham can tell as good joke and
laugh as heartily at one as any other fellow.
Like all persons possessing lively sense OF
humor, he just as quick to see the solemn or
pathetic as he goes on his rounds among his
people.
One night he was walking down Pennsyl-
vania avenue 1t was late. and he was
accosted by man who asked:
Are you a clergyman"
"Yes,'' he replied.
"weil, will you come with me? I have just
arrived in the city and want to be married
AS they walked along Mr.. Bispham's new
acquaintance conf1ded to him the fact that he
was an actor and manager of a large COM
pany that had just come to town and he
wanted to marry his leading lady.
The ceremony was performed according to
the prayer hook and the next dgy Mr.,