The Washington times., 1895-02-13
SOCIAL SAYINGS AND D0INGs.

The President and Mrs. Cleveland were the
guests at dinner last night of the Secretary
Of the Treasury and Mrs. Carlisle. The occa-
sion was marked by a departure from the
usual order of precedence observed in guests
entering the dining-room. This was done
with the expressed wishes of Mrs. Cleveland
as proper mark ofrespect to the President of
the United States.
1t has been customary heretofore at Cabi-
net dinners for the host of the evening, when
dinner is announced, to lead the way with
Mrs. Cleveland into the dinipg-room. BY
this arrangement the President and the
hostess. following in the lead of the COM
pany, always entered the room last. In point
OF fact the President should always enter the
room in the lead OF the company, and there
fore, at the request OF Mrs. Cleveland last
night, the Chief Executive and the hostess
lead the way, with the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Cleveland bringing up
the rear OF the company. The Secretary of
the Navy aud Mrs. Daniel Manning walked
together, Miss Herbert being escorted by
Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury Hamlin.
The decorations of the table were in white
and green and looked especially elegant with
center-pieee of lilies of the valley and
Puritan roses set in ferns, resting on a piece
OF exquisite Brussel's lace. The white can
delabra were capped with open work silver
shades.
The guests at dinner were the President
and Mrs. Cleveland, the Secretary of State
and Mrs. Gresham, the Secretary of Argri-
culture and Miss Morton, toe Secretary of
War and Mrs. Lamont. the Attorney General
and Mrs. OlDey, the Secretary OF the Navy
and Miss Herbert, the Postmaster General
and Mrs. Bissell. the Secretary of Interior,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin,
Mrs. Henry Perrine, and Mrs. Daniel Man
ming.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle have recently
received most magnificent white bear skin
measuring over nine feet in length. This
Was brought them as present from Alaska
by Assistant Secretary Hamlin and is now
one OF the conspicuous furnishings of their
first drawiDg-room.
Senator Hill made his debut in Washing
ton society last night as a dancing man. His
reputation as n diner-out having been so sue
cessfully established at the outset of the
present season, he has essayed 10 extend the
field of his social victories and last night, in
all the glory OF dancing pumps and full eve
ming regata, he took part in one OF the hand
soonest cotillioDs given this winter.
The host and hostessecn this auspieious oc-
easion were Senator and Mrs. Murphy, who
gave 10 the young people Of society a eotil-
lion in honor OF their daughter, Miss Muir
ply. The most elaborate floral decorations
prevailed throughout the house. with palms
and roses of every variety in profusion The
entrance hallway had the appearance of a
palm grove, while in the drawing rooms the
mantes were heaped with roses that also
stood about In tail crystal vases in every nook
and corner
Mrs. Murphy received in a gown OF silver
gray brocade. Miss Murphy's gown was of
white silk trimmed with forget -me-nots.
Miss DeFresst, of Troy. the gUast of the hos
tess. wore gown of light green silk trimmed
with sable. The cotillion was danced in the
white and gold room, Lieut.. Gilmore leading
with Miss Murphy.
The favors were unusually handsome and
presented fine appearance arranged at one
end of the room. These included bows and
arrows for the girls with heart-shaped shields
for the men, parasols for the girls with canes
for the men, silver boxes, FOR the girls with
jaunty sailor hats Tor the men, banners as
souvenirs for the girls stamped with the date
with flags similarly stamped for the men.
bouquets and bonttOnnieres of Parma yiolets
and last of all valentines of the most glowing
description for each and all OF the dancers.
Among the guests were: Miss Herbert, the
Misses Pauncefote, Miss Mcpherson the
a.
Miss Won Saurma. the Misses Harlan. the
Misses Patten. the Misses Gray. Miss Deer
ing, Miss Condit Smith, Miss Ruggles, Miss
Ramsay, Miss Rochester, the Misses Blice
Miss Aline Wilcox. Miss Steward. Miss Ham
lin, Miss Tardy. Miss Pitts, Miss Gilmore,
Miss Bugher, Senator Hill. Mr.. T. Sanford
Beatty, Mr.. Bugher. Mr.. Kellogg. Mr.. John
son, Mr.. Curtis. Mr.. Barnett, Mr.. Browne,
Mr. Fenton, Mr.. Redfern, Mr.. Kellogg. Mr..
Lansdale Mr. Wallace Mr. Perkins, Mr..
Hamlin, Mr.. Fenton, Mr.. May, Mr.. Halstead.
Mr.. Cosby, Mr.. lie CHAT. Baron Won FIotow,
Miss Edes, Secretary OF War and Mrs. La
mont.
Mrs White, the wife of the Representative
from Ohio. gave q splendid tea yesterday
afternoon in the banquet hall of the Shore
ham where the decorations were on q scale
to correspond with the other details of the
entertainment. The music balcony was cov-
cred across the front with veritabe rose trees
of the American Beauty variety. Festoons
of smilax were about the walls and at the
rear OF the room. on either side OF the wide
open fireplace, there were tall lattices COW
cred with the same long-stemmed variety of
roses.
The table was one of the most elaborate of
the season. In the center. from tall cut
glass vase, were American Beauty roses that
extended two or three feet above the heads
were large clusters of pink orchids tied with
wide sash ribbon OF the same shade. SINH
lar arrangement of orchids and ribbon ex-
tended around the sides of the table. making
it almost a solid mass OF flowers from the
floor.
Grouped about the centerpiece OF roses
were ornamental forms of pate de foie gras
and ices. The former were heaped in a
large white sleigh drawn by snowy team
the reins to which were handled by an ebony
Jehu. Boned ham was in the form of a
mandolin tied with bright hued ribbons aud
Lillian Russell hat of spun sugar held con.
fections. The trimmings of the hat were of
candied cherries tied in clusters with rose
color ribbon In the hallway leading to the
banquet hall sat the Hungarian band
which played in the most delightful manner
throughout the course of the tea.
The hostess received in an imported gown
of lemon color satin brocaded in chrysanthe-
NUNS in natural lints. The bodice was of
gold-spangled chiffon, with collar and grde
of lemon color velvet. Miss Gloria White,
who is still schoolgirl, assisted her mother
in receiving and wore gown OF violet and
white striped silk, with corsage bouquet of
Parma roses.
Among the other ladies of the receiving
party were Miss Kate Field. Mrs. Joseph
O'Neil. of Boston; Miss Wolverton. Miss
Lillian Smith Miss Sarah Townsend, OF Mis-
sissippi, Miss Cecilia SibIey. of Franklin,
Pa; Miss Fletcher, of Minnesota, and Mrs.
Edg1ngton, of Kentucky.
Among those in attendance were Senator
Gibson. Mrs. Joseph NJ. Carey, Mrs. Aldrieh,
Mrs. Gresham, Mrs. and Miss Bynum, Mrs.
George w. Westinghouse. Mrs. William Chan
der Miss Chandler, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Waggaman, Madam ee Mendonca, the Japan
ese minister. Mr.. Cropper, Miss Deenng, Mr..
Walter Paris, Miss McCeney, Miss Lee, of