The Washington times., 1895-01-07
SOCIAL SAYINGS AND DOINGS

marks are MADE IN The VI peCu4oSl cefulean
strata of society, quite as much as elsewhere.
Very decidedly 10 this class belong those of
the woman who at fashionable luncheon,
last season, while occupying the place Of
honor at the right of the hostess, took advan-
tage OF her opportunity to inquire in very
audible voice the price OF each course as it
was served, and waxed eloquent as TO the ex-
travagance OF her entertainer i'll purchas NJ
quailS at that especial season.
In this connection it will not be inapropos
to mention :unnv little incident of the long
ago that will be remembered by the old res;-
dent set III Washington. II was in the days
when Mrs VIII am Harrison Smith drove in
daily from her country lace outside OF
Washington before the streets had been
asphaited and when the sidewalks that were
paved could almost be counted upon the En-
gers of one hand. She had not any very
great surplus in the home treasury but bt
hind her was a race of ancestors long rs
the immoral law. which is far longer, il will
be understood, than that OF the moral law.
Mindful OF many things Mrs. Smith wrote a
little book that at that time had quite fash
ionable circulation and social reputation. Il
was called ''What Is GentilitY?'
One day while the author was enjoying the
she drove into the city rs usual. AMI the roads
being in an unusually bad State on account OF
recent heavy rains, her oid-tashioned. cum
bersome, stately, but decidedly dilapidated
family coach presented the sorriest appear
ance imaginable. From end TO end ii was
spattered with mud, while tho wheels gave
the idea of being done up as models in clay.
When the old lady had alighted and gone into
| shop for some purchase that kept her some
little time wag passing looked at the turn
out, and recognizing to whom it belonged,
whipped out handkerchief, cleaned of one
of the large side panels on the body of the
coach, and thereon in large chalk letters in
scribed: "This is gentility."
Miss Sara Kobbe is visiting Gen. and Mrs
Ordway.
The Travel Club will not meet tonight.
There will be no more meetings until after
Mrs. Lockwood's return from Chicago.
Gen Nelson A. Miles and family have re-
| turned to Governor IS Island from the Holland
House, New York.
Mrs. Stanley. wife of Gen. David S. Stan
ley, is slowly recovering from her recent at
tack of heart trouble, from which she was so
dangerously ill.
| Mrs. Pendleton, of this city, went to the
Naval Academy last week for a visit to her
| parents, Prof and Mrs. Fay.
| Mrs. G. n. Lieber has been the recipient of
! general congratulations for number of days
past upon the promotion of her husband to
| the promotion of Judge Advocate General OF
| the Army. Mrs. Leber will not join her
| daughters abroad until March or April.
Gen. Alexander Med. McCook, with Mrs.
McCook. has been spending several days in
the city with Col. Corbin at the latter's home
on De Sales street.
Mrs. Switzerland, wife of Lieut.. Souther-
lard, q. S. N, has returned from kentucky,
where she was called by the illness of her
mother.
Mr.. Harry Hughes, son of Rear Admiral
| Hughes, has been rendered and has accepted
the position of bookkeeper and cashier in the
Office of the New York Mutual Life Insurance
| Company in Wheeling, w. Va.
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood leaves for Chicago
| Tuesday to meet the committee on woman e
work at the Worli's Exposition, which con.
venes the 10th of January.
Mrs. Madison A. BaIlinger and Miss Bal.
| linger will be at home at their new residence
1903 Clifton street northwest, to day.
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