Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-27
THE SOCIAL WORLD
What Society is Doing at Bar Har-
Dor and Newport.
DEADLY DULL Is TIE CRY
At All the Summer Cities by
Mountain, Lake or Sea.
SOME HOME EVENTS

some HOME EVEN T S
The Newporters are complaining that
| everything they do is SO ragnified and ex-
aggerated in the reports that are sent out
| broadcast over the country that they are
beginning to fight shy of any mention at
| all. There Is good deal Of truth in the
| complaint, but there does not seem to be
any feasible way of doing away with the
| trouble. In spite of all statements to the
| contrary, only the simplest form of enter
| tanning has gene on up to this date, and
| the real events of the season will not be-
gin till the first week in August. Then
| there will be almost a month of gayety
without break. so far as indications point
While the wheel is uppermost now as rec
reation, the completion of the Golf Club
aud it's opening with the amateur contests
| will divert the fashionable mind for little
while. A series of dances will also be given
at the new club house. A rumor also pre-
| walls that an amateur circus performance
Is to be feature of the coming month
with Mr.. Oliver Belmonts private menag-
erie Of wild animals. in addition to the
other talent which may be found amongst
the agreeable and available men taking
their August vacation at some OF the pal
aces by the sea. Men are, however. the
only luxury not attainable in Newport. any
more than at less favored spots. If one
strays over to Narragansett bellman. fig
uratively speaking. is sent out to look him
Up, and at the Pier such an arrival, If he
really be an eligible. creates f1utter which
is almost hysterical in its Intensity. Truly.
matches are not likely to be made at these
earthly paradises, except for very few.
The er gagement of Miss Whitney to Mr..
Almeric Paget has been one of the most
interesting announcements Of the week.
The young lady must certainly be wise,
discreet friend, for she has shown her
ability to keep her own secrets. Without
being a beauty, she has good face. in
dicative Of strength of character and the
wish to please even in little things. which
is such ar attribute i'll her fathers dis
position. The young Engl;shman who has
been so fortunate seems to have the right
stuff in his makeup. A younger son In
family Of fourteen, he realized at sixteen
years that the family acres as extensive
as they are. would never get around. Com
ing to this country. he found work on a
ranch, and, If success has come to him, the
family influence does, not seem to have had
much to do with 1t. Another feature of the
engagement of this young couple Is that 1T
will not take another great American for
tune abroad. and this seems to please
have married American girls. and the pre-
cedent Is therefore, well established
among them.
A rumor is spread about that. Mr.. James
G. Blaine is soon to be married again, but.
with tantalizing brevity CT detail. the name
Of the other partner to the contract Is not
given. This naturally relieves Mr. Blaine
of any annoyance in the matter. since the
same thing is said every day of other we'll
known men, and he has grown used to read
ing smart things about himself. Just at
present Mr.. Blaine is with his mother and
Mr.. and Mrs. Damrosch at Stanwooi, Bar
Harbor Mr. and Mrs. Truxton Beale are
at Newport with Mrs. f. F. Beale and
D0dpo Is a he In
Salem. where she Is slowly improving in
health. amid familiar surroundings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Grant will soon re-
turn from Europe. and spend the rest of
the summer with Senator and Mrs. Murphy
at Saratoga.
The Casino dance last night al Newport
was a great success. Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt
and Miss Consuslo Vanderbilt were con-
spicuous figures on the foor it being their
first dance of the season. Mrs. Vanderbilt
wore Nile green satin. with waist of drab
embroidered silk, cut low, with black steel
embroidered bretelles and nile green puff
sleeves Over her ieft shoulder AMI under
Ter right arm was string Of large hand
was diamond star. Miss Vanderbilt wore
Powered brocaded silk with waist of rich
Spanish lace. trimmed with pink satin
She wore large diamond pendant.
Among those present were the Brices,
Camerons Capt. and Mrs. Ludlow, H. o.
Bax-Ironsidcs AMI Lord Westmeath
AT Bar Harbor Mavroyeni Bey, the Turk
ish minister. gave a yachting party yester-
day After the party had spent several
West Gouldsborough, where they partook
of a delicious luncheon. Among those pres
emit were Alfred lie CHAT. the Belgian min
Count Szechnyi. S. Vogel of the Swedish
embassy. John Ford of the British legation,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Townsend and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Payson.
The engagement of Marquis Pierre de
Chambrun and Miss Margaret Nichols,
of Ohio, is announced. The marquis is
counselor of the French embassy. is a
Granddaughter of Lafayette and a man Of
some property.
Mrs K. A. Donovan sailed for Europe
today.
Mrs. Harry W. Sessford left on Monday
for few weeks visit with her parents at
Madison. Wis. Col. VIM. Helm former as
s:stant general superintendent of the free
delivery service Post Office Department.
father of Mrs Sessford is now teller of the
Capital City Bank at Madison.
Mrs. S. Moore Sites and daughter Elsie
are sojourning at Mountain Lake Park,
and will remain there till September 1.
Mrs. Washington A. Young. Miss Triplett
and Mrs. C. II. Marshall are among the
Westinghouse at Atlantic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexandria Giles leave to-
day for Atlantic City.
Mr. George Morrison. with his daughter
Mrs. Laura Jock and Mrs. George H. Giles,
Miss Marguerite Jock and Miss Clara Jock
of Wilmington. DEL are at Colonial Beach,
and will be home August l.
Miss Emma E. Snowden Of Capitol Hill,
who has been very ill since last March, is
now spending several weeks in the vicinity
of the Blue Ridge
Mrs. and Miss Wyville are spending the |
summer at Capon Springs. W. Va.
On Sunday last a party consisting of |
twenty-five young ladies and gentlemen |
drove in a six-horse bus to Great Falls |
leaving at I'm. and arriving at the Falls |
at am. where hammocks were swung |
and pleasant time spent by all. In the |
party were Messrs. Eugene Porter, William |
Morris, Geo. Whitesel, William Nelliyan, |
VIII Hopkins, Will Martin. Dany McIntee,
William Fleming, Paul Muril. Joseph Ham |
mer. Johnnie Baily. James O'Brien. Ross |
Hefiefnger and Harry Dugan, and the |
Misses Lulie Hopkins, Carrie Garfield Ella |
Quill, Jessie Holmes, Nellie Burke, Agnes |
Fitzgerald, Lizzie, Nan and Eva Father. |
Katie Fitzgerald and lille O,r