The morning times., 1895-12-09
AS TO SOFA CUSHIONS
And TOILET SLIPPERS
Masculine denominations and Valu-
able Aids to Doctors.
Schedule of Social Events Set for the
:. Coming week-Society Notes
4a,lt,. and Personals.

And now the mathematical cynic con-
fronts woman with the number of sofs
cushions she makes in year. He de-
| clares there are 7h,Cu0, 600 stuffed atroci-
| tieslumbering up the houses of this country.
and that The majority of them are SO un-
| comfortably beribboned a nd chiffonned and
| gold wired as TO ruin the usefulness OF
, countless louages and chairs.
He claims that The sofa cushion is a
wO.nan's conception or Christmas. He
| is wrong. IL isn't sofa cushions. IL is
| dressing slippers. Ii is needless 10 specify
| the exact sort of dressing slipper. for the
| chances are that every other woman n in the
| city has pair in her work basket this
1 very minute as a gift for some cherished
| fitend. It is the opinion of a certain
! fashionable physician of Washington thai
one might as well surprise cherished
friend with a dose of poison or lead.
| He adults the merit OF the dressing
slipper when limited TO the mission for
which il was created. but holds its I'M
wise abuse as responsible for the unac-
countable colds that women catch. and
their attendant Ills. A woman comes in
tagged from calls or shopping, and If she
has an hour for neglige. the first thing
| she does is tosthrusi her feet into the de-
liriouSly fluffy depths OF her lambs wool
slippers. and there they stay long enough
10 give her all the cold pneumonia wants
for a Start. She may have suede mulls.
swansdown sabots, and gold and flowered
Turkish slippers. with tassels on their toes,
hut none OF them attract like her sandals
of lambs wool and zephyr. possibly be-
cause the wearing of them is just enough
out of form to share the charms of for
hidden fruit.
The average society woman is capable
of vast eXtremse in the matter ur feet.
When the hour comes for the dressing sd ndal
TO give way to the demands of dress, she
can shoe horn herself i'll the tight boots as
stoically as an od-tiiie knight bIckled
on his arniur for tourney or a savage
painted his body for war.
And when the promised flesll-pink ballet
slipper with box fronts for professional toe
dancing makes its debut in society bathrooms
she will take TO conventional Fanny EiisleT
whirls aud Tagiioni pirnuettes as naturally
as she touk to modified gyrations OF the skirt
dance.
Not ST. long ago a Washington woman had
the temerity TO repruach a member OF the
Chinese embassy with the mltilation uf his
countryw,imen's feet. She was so palpa-
bly, bent on making him acknowledge the
superiority of the American foot generally
and her own especially, that with a suave
bow and yellow smile the oriental said
with an eye to her waspIIke structure:
Il admit, madame, that the crusheI
IeeG Oh Int tiililtSt Wtiiltll Is dS lOCliSl4.
though not so criminal, the crushed waisi
of her critic"-and after that the subject
seemed to pan.
When it was known that Miss Vanderbilt'S
trousscau included forty pairs of shoes anl
slippers it was astonishing tu hear really
intelligent busy bodies comment over her
eXtrayI ganCe. as though il were the wnrs;
case of the kind. What abut the jewel
crusted slippers found in the lava az
pnD,npii he Gid p.nprl Id -hpnGai
sandals of Scmirams, and how comes II
that they have forgotten the extravaganza
of pretty Queen Hatasu, WIN exhausted the
resources of Lake Moerie on her shoe
strings when she had her day in Egypt,
5000 years ago? ~
The following is d chronicle of events to
occur during the coming weeks, and to
which daily additions VIII OF course be
made:
Thursday, 12-Miss Hichborn, lunch
con.
Mrs. McCammon, a luncheon
Mrs. Hoidsworth Gordon and Miss Cor
don, tea.
Mrs. b. F. Rittenhouse and Miss Ritten-
Mrs. George whitfield Brown and Miss
Cuthbcrt, tea.
Nine. Romero, q dinner.
Cincinnati. the marriage of Miss Nichols
TO Marquis de CEanbrun-
Friday, 13-Mrs. BurchiD. wife of Capt.
BurchiD, a tea. Miss Kennedy will assist.
Saturday, 14-Mrs. Fuller and Miss Jane
Fuller, tea
Mrs. woodville Rockhin and Miss Rock
hill, tea.
Mrs. Charles Irving Wilson and Mrs.
Mrs Robert Catiin and Miss May Cat
lin, tea.
Mr. and Mrs j. L. NJ. Curry, a dinner.
Monday, I6-Mrs. Beriah wilkins, a
tea
Miss May Eeyworth Barbour will enter
tain members of the Princeton Glee Club.
a stag supper at the University Club to
the visiting Princetonians.
Brazilian minister's Talk on Art"
at the Washington Club, in the evening.
Tuesday. 17-Miss Mary McCeney, a
tea at the Washington Ciub for the Misses |
Dodge.
Mrs. MCMILLAN, a tea.
The Children's Hospital benefit matinee !
at the National Theatcr.
The Brazilian minister and Mrs. Men |
1onca, dinner.
The marriage of Miss Belle C. BemIss |
to George Holoombe BARRIER, u. S. N,
at the nome OF Mrs. wight, No. 1622
Nineteenth street, al $50 p. m.
Wednesday, 1S-Mrs. Sternberg, lunch
con, to meet Mrs. L. s. Grant.
Mrs. Audenreid, a luncheon.
Mrs. John Il. Lanehorne and Miss Lang
horne, tea.
Mrs. Charles r. Collins and Miss Riley,
a tea.
Mrs. Frances Cotton, a tea.
A reception TO Gen, and Mrs. Miles, at
Barracks.
Today-Mrs. and Miss Hitchcock tea,
4 to 6.
Mrs. and Miss Letter a tea, Z.
Mrs. Condit Smith and Miss Smith,
ca, 4 to z.
The ladies of the Supreme Court receive
Mondays.
The reading of Thomas Nelson Page and
:. HopkinSon Smith, at which Secretary
md Mrs. lamont will entertain party.
Mrs. Cleveland is expected to be present,
md both diplomatic and official circles
will be largely represented.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page will
few friends TO meet III r. Hopkin-
on Smith.
Tuesday, 10.-Mrs. Emmons will entertain |
a dinner for bar tr,tacf Mics uapry n.y;c |