Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Where President and Cabinet Will
Spend Thanksgiving.
MRS. LAMONT GUEST OF HONOR
Mrs, Stsrnberg's Tea a Brilliant
Occasion.
SOME GOSSIP TOPICS

President and Mrs. Cleveland will spend
Thanksgiving at Woodley, according to
their present program, as it is their inten-
ton to remain in the country until after the
| reassembling of Congress. 1t is also pos
s:be that a friend or two may eat their
Thanksgiving turkey with them.
The Vice President and Mrs. s. eyenson
will spend the day of national thanksgiving
at their home, in Bloomington, and then
come on here.
The cabinet families will have their usual
happy circles about them in their homes
here. The Secretary of State and Mrs. Olney
will eat their Thanksgiving dinner and WILL
as usual, have a friend or two to enjoy it
with them.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle anticipate a
home dinner with few friends. Secretary
| and Mrs. Lamont the same pleasure with
their bright young daughters. Secretary
| and Mrs. Hoke Smith have an additional
member this year to their family gathering
in the person Of their baby daughter. With
this merry household, their Thanksgiving
ill be an ideal one
Postmaster General and Mrs. Wilson and
Attorney General and Mrs. Harmon will
eat their first Thanksgiving dinners as
members of the cabinet circle. Both house
| holds look forward to their usual happy
observance of the festival.
Secratary's Herberts household has also
DSel increased since IdSC THANKSGIVING Dy
| another grandchild. and while that will not
make another cover necessary at the
Thanksgiving dinner, it adds another CLEAN
of brightness to the happiest of households
Secretary and Miss Morton will celebrate
| the day in their apartments at the Port
| land, though they may accept an invitation
| out to dinner.
This has been the liveliest week, matri-
Inonially, of the whole year. We have SIM
ply lived in an atmosphere fragrant with
there were Clouds they were chiefly of tulle
and other transparent fabrics. Brisk rs
the market has been, it has had the SUI
perlatiVe degree of comfort i'll the charac-
ter of the alliances for only one Washing
tonian went elsewhere to seek bride.
Eligible men are SO scarce that an an
nouncement of the marriage of Washing
toniaE to 'ady residing elsewhere Is not
received with spasnlS of delight, although
| the fair bride will certainly got the warm
est welcome herself when she appears on
the scene This may be extraordinarily sell
| fish, but that does not affect it's being very
true. The yards and yards OF white satin
and tulle in which blushing brides nave
looked their prettiest this week must have
assisted nightly il the success of the fall
trade-anl as for chrysanthemums, they
We're thick the leaves on the country
paths.
The day of the debutanta is close at
hand. Next month will be filed with bud
| teas and kindred festivities, so that the
every moment of the real season. The
proba. bilities are that the buds will be as
numerous last winter. that this par
ticular branch OF the society ranks will he
as imposing a factor the coming season
as it was last. With these new corners and
the absence of so many girls, who have
married and gone to other places since last
spring. youthful society ought really take
on quite a new lock. The list of the buds
increases as the weeks roll on. The Misses
Dodge. daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Dodge, Miss Benham, daughter of Admiral
Benham: Miss Hughes daughter of Admiral
Hughes; Miss Julia Scott, daughter of Capt.
and Mrs. Douglass Scott; Miss Blanchard.
daughter of Senator Blanchard, and the
two daughters and niece of the Vice Presi-
dent, the Misses Julia and Leritia Steven
son and Miss Julia Scott, are recent addi-
tiors.
They are excessively kind In New York
to any society folks who degenerate from
their high estate of doing nothing and go
into trade and 50 only a few of the So
cial-elect have failed in financial way.
Everything they touch turns to gold. Eng
lSh aristocrats. men and women, who have
felt the necessity of increasing their in
comes by the exercise of whatever talent or
tact they may have happeaed to possess
have been very successful in almost every
line they have attempted. The women have
turned somewha, naturally 10 millinery and
have amassed fortunes. The New Workers
have had pretty much the same success.
Two OF the smartest women in the millinery
line were former society girls, whose ac-
QuaintanceS stood by them in their venture
until they could stand by themselves. One
has recently married, and is back in her
| own set again. Her brothers have gone
into haberdashery now, and it looks if
they would get on just as wefi. Two young
sweils have helped to lessen materially the
flo rists' receipts. They are in business for
| a year or and have caught much of the
cream of the trade.
At the Marlborough wedding breakfast
florist wbDSp hai fe1
the Vanderbilt house was guest at the
ducal table But that little elevation to the
business did not piacate the old-time
florists, however, who have given years of
study and hard work to their calling. All
this, however gives a point to a story of
Washington life and social reverses. The
widow of 4 foreign minister who lived here
not SO many years ago, has been compelled
by reverses of fortune to make a livelihood
| for herself and family She has tried a
good many ways, but now has opened a
| training school for servants, which bids fair
to be successful. If she succeeds it will
| point another moral. She and her sons and
daughters had all the ordinary accomplish
ments, were musical and spoke several
languages. Yet, no matter how they tried,
they found 1t impossible to turn these ad-
vantages to any material profit, and there
was nothing left but for the mother to put
to use her domestic abilities in the training
of servants.
1t is to be regretted that ex-Gov. John
house here this winter. but will spend the
time at Dongheran Manor, their country
seat. The family is in mourning, however.
Miss Helen Carroll Will be here the early
part of the week on little visit to friends.
Surgeon General and Mrs. Sternberg well
coined several hundred more of their friends
yesterday afternoon from to 9, who were
most delightfully."- entertained. The usual at
Effectiveness of the house was heightened
by the exquisite roses and chrysanthemums
which filled the vases on the mantels and
| cabinets. In the dining room the dainty
appon tments of the table We're in yellow.
The hostess had assisting her in her
pleasing duties Mrs. Hemphill, Miss Nor
ton. Miss Alden, Miss Condit Smith. Miss
Nina Cabell, Miss Newcomb and Miss Da-
Wis.
Among the guests were Postmaster Gen.
eral and Mrs. Wilson, Miss Wilson, Secre-
tary Herbert, Mrs. Micou, Mrs. Lamont,
Mrs. and Miss Harmon, Chief Justice
Fuller. Mrs. Aubrey. Mrs. Yang and her
little son, with Mr.. SEE of the Chinese le-
cation; Minister Kurino, Mrs. Miles,, Mrs.
Field, Justice and Mrs. Brown. Miss Cock
rell, Mr. Gardiner Hubbard, Mrs. ]. J.
Woodward. Miss Woodward, Mrs. JOS
! eph Breckenridge. Miss Breckenridge
Miss German, DR.. and Mrs. Nash,
Commander Miyaoka, Mrs. Leonard
Wood, Mrs. w. Orr Cunningham, Mr. and