Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-16
The Weddings and Other Events Of
Gotham and Home.
ECHOES OF A BUSY WEEK
Forecast Of Days and Nights to
Come.
THE PRESIDENTS SQUIRRELS

There was friendly sociable air about the
Whitney-Paget nuptials that seemed so indi-
cative of the character of the ex-Secretary
of the Navy, that the Washingtonians pres
emit could not fail to be impressed with it at
every turn. The elegant simplicity of all the
details was in refreshing contrast to the
wonderful features of the union of the
Marlborough and Vanderbilt houses. st.
Thomas Church is small, dark, indeed, al
most dingy, and New York decorators are
liable to pile more palms and flowers in 1t
than 1t can stand. Every one was naturally
so hungry for glimpse of the bride and the
fortunate man, who had won her, that they
felt an especial grudge against each of the
enormous palms, which nearly hid the beau
ty Of the chancel and the grouping OF the
bridal party there The guests comfortably
filed the church at IL o'clock, and after
that the rest of the hundreds who came had
some trouble getting good locations. An
hour of exquisite music by the best artists
was enjoyed before the bride came, although
1. only seemed few minutes.
The ushers-the most prominent of New
York club men-did their work with the
g1ace and ease of veterans. All the guests
were not of the upper crust by any means.
Mr. Whitney is not the man to forget MS
humber friends. There were numbers OF
plainly dressed ladies who held the coveted
card of admission to ST. Thomas portals,
and they received just as polite attention
if there Is one subject of which the aver
age New Yorker is profoundly ignorant 1t
is in relation to Washington officialdom.
The persorages who go to make up official
and even resident society here might be
jewellers in air castles for all it seems to
interest them. 1t was rather funny at this
wedding to see how perfectly the diplomatic
WashngtonianS understood this. All the
New York grandees were escorted up the
middle aisle, but when the Turkish min
lister, Mavroyeni Bey, came in he was al
loved to stroll up the side aisle. Knowing,
however, what an important feature he was
to the spectacle, the sultan's little man
kept right along till he reached the place
reserved for him in the front pews. The
Eelsian minister. Mr.. LIE CHAT. did the
same thing, but he followed Mrs. Scott
Townsend, who was bound in that direc-
ton. and ancf ored in the right spot.
Mr.. and Mrs. Almeric Paget make most
interesting couple. He has more the face
of a student than business man, and on
every side there were heard most favorable
comments. His family were extremely in
terested in his marriage. His younger sis
ter has been here since last summer visit
ing the Whitneys, and his brother, who was
his best man, just arrived in time for the
wedding. Lady Colebrooke, another sister,
was also present and at the wedding, as
well as at the horse show and all the other
social functions al which they have as
sisted have been most elegantly gowned.
Mr. Whitney has aged somewhat in his
appearance since he was last seen in this
his eyes have lost none of their kindly
CLEAN, nor has his manner lost any of it's
friendliness. Despite all the rumors to the
contrary, it is said by those who are most
closely attached to him and are best able
10 form an opinion. that Mr.. Whitney will
not marry again. The high esteem in which
he is held by all who know him, and the
memory of his wife. gave to the marriage
of their daughter, on the part of his friends.
an affectionate personal interest, than which
no finer tribute can be shown.
The horse show attracted pretty good
sized Washington audience, although many
of those who were announced as would-be
attendants were met on the streets here
all week. But, as Miss Tillie Frelinghuy-
sen used to say, You would save yourself
a lot of wear and tear II your name only
There was a good dollars worth Of enter
tainment, though, in the admission ticket,
which allowed you to join the promenading
throng and the privilege of gazing up at
the fashionable set in the boxes. There
are two upper galleries in the Madison
Square Garden in which the seats are free.
and heaven knows they ought to be, to any
one with courage to climb that near the
roof Twelve and fifteen thousand people
damned the garden every night this week.
Some part of these multitudes saw the
performances in the ring, but the majority
did not care for anything going on IN the
tan bark when the chance was so good to
see the SWEETEST New York set in finest
feather and in full war paint-war paint
is used advisedly. There are SO few women
in good society here who go in for cos
metics to any great degree that to see the
painted beauties in the boxes, like wax
figures in a show window, was startling, to
say the least. The only thing that can
possibly be said in favor of these frescoed
grand danes, old and young, was that very
few had committed the more objectionable
crime of blondined hair. Ladies who want
new tint for fall and winter wear must
please take notice. The swell thing in
a
in unknd minds ana old-fashioned visions
might really be called red.
One of the most successful costumes worn
with this hair was on a leader just back
from Paris. 1t was black the waist of net
striped with turquoise and jet passemen-
terie. Sleeves, judging from the examples
worn. are not phenomenal in size, and are
all inclined to droop toward the elbow.
Elizabethan rufus in lace, chiffon or tulle
are the latest neck trimmings. Miss Whit
ney's bridesmaids wore them made Of tulle
in glowing colors. Their dresses were dark
and trimmed with sable.
1t seemed an homogeneous condition of
things to meet a young lady arrayed in
all the dairtiness of pearl white bengaline
and silvered. spangled chiffon, quite ele-
giant enough for wedding dress, down
among the stalls with the horses. Yet it
was a common, every evening scene.
The Howlands, the Townsends and the
Brices were the Washingtonians most in
evidence in the boxes. The unattached
members of the diplomatic corps, Navy
Bey, NJ LIE CHAT, Baron Won Ketteler and
a few Others were like bees, slipping the
sweets from one box to another, and hav-
ing no end of good time.
There are two great principles back Of
the horse show, or it could not keep to the
front as it does in the public favor. One is
the improvement of the horse and the other
is the opportunities it gives the rich people,
plainly ticketed, to show themselves and
their fine clothes to the world at large.
This latter is evidently the stronger feel
ing, but why the nabobs would not select
some other way or some other place, where
the air could be better and purer, is
conundrum time alone can answer.
One couple who seemed to attract great
deal of attention whenever they stirred from
their box at the show was Mr.. and Mrs. De
Lamar Mr. De Lamar will be readily re-
membered as the mining prince, whom an
other prince of that period Prince Russell
Harrison, introduced to Washington society.
Mr.. De Lamar's debut was an expensive ex-
perience, but it was probably worth all it
cost, and has saved him money since. He
was top of the heap here while he lasted,
and he went away all too soon. The more
so, too, as there was a reasonable expecta-
ton that he wanted wife, and was not par
ticuar whether she was rich or not We
had some very nice girls on hand just then,
but while he showered fifty-dollar bouquets
opd twenty-5o1lar nhODniereS on them II