Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-02-28

Washington, Feb. 24-President
and Mrs. Cleveland have,
it is said, had under consideration for
some time the idea of making a change
in the church they attend. Numerous
reasons have been given, but a little
incident just made public enables one
to guess one Of them. Dr.. Sunderland,
who has been the Cleveland's pastor
since they first came to Washington,
except during the four years they re-
sided in New York, and a personal
friend of both sides Of the family for
many years before, is getting along
in years and his congregation not long
ago employed an assistant TO relieve
him of the active work and a part of
the preaching. This assistant-Rev.
Adolos Allen-doubtless means well
enough, but he lacks judgment. Only
the other day he wrote a ~communica-
ton to Senator Call, signing himself
as Pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, the church attended by
President and Mrs. Cleveland. Now if
there is any one particular thing that
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland despise it is
snobbery. Their feelings may be i'm
agined when that communication was
printed in the daily papers. 1t is not
to be wondered at that they should
think of changing their church. 1t will
be a severe blow for the church if
their thinking results in a change, as
"the Presidents church" always fares
we'll in Washington.
The $4,000 0 French beauty, other
wise known as Count de Castellane,
the man who will on March 4th be-
stow his name upon Miss Anna Gould
In exchange for the above mentioned
sum cash down and an implied claim
upon all the rest of Miss Annals share
Of the Gould money, is in Washington.
He says he came away from New
York to escape the newspaper re-
porters, who would neither let him eat
sleep, walk or make love to his girl
in any peace. He is in appearance
just what the average person would
expect a wealthy Frenchman of %
to be; we'll built, good carriage, Pari-
sian dressed, and hammered. He is a
blonde with hair curly enough to
please the most Economically inclined
school girl. He speaks English with
just accent enough to indicate his
birthplace.
Senator and Mrs. Brice gave another
musicale. this week, the principal
artists being members of the Grand
Opera company which played an en-
gagement here this week. AS a special
compliment to the Rouge ct Blanc
club, of Baltimore, which gave a per-
Torrance of the opera Midas for
charity the same evening, the time
for the beginning of the Brice musi-
Gale was set for 10 80 O'Clock.
Speaking of musica1es, there is a
bit of interesting gossip concerning
one given last night by a very wealthy
; widow who spends most of her winters
in Washington. When the invitations
were sent GU it was informally wills
pered around that M of the principal
primal! dOnnas of the grand opera COM
pany would take part in the musicale.
This came directly from the wealthy
widow, who fully intended to secure
chC Ii1iIitb III " liz bul
had neglected to do so before allowing
her friends to make the announcement.
Now everybody knows that opera
prima donnaS are never modest in
charging for their voices and this one
didn't break the rule; neither did she
sing. She found out that her ap-
pearance at this musicale had been an
n01nan1 0n1 Thnn nnuntiot ~ NC u-o,,o
opened with her she named a price
that was probably larger than was
ever paid in the United States for a
similar service, and said she would
not sing for less. The wealthy widow
declined to be imposed upon; she had
courage enough to tell her friends
that the prima donna would not sing
number of her millions would prevent
any open sneering and that her eX-
p%enditures in other directions were so
large that she would not ever secretly
be charged with parsfmony.
The series of cabinet dinners closed
with the one given by Secretary and
Miss Morton, last night, to President
and Mrs. Cleveland and the cabinet !,
families.
This weeks public reception at the
White House was the last Of the
season.
The women reformers captured
Washington this week, and the meet
ings of the representatives of numer-
u organizations with long names-by
the way, why do women's ~organiza-
tons almost always have long names?
have been talking to their hearts
content about the good times accom-
ing, when the reform of the horrid
men shall have been accomplished.
The woman reformer is we'll known In
Washington, which has always been
her ~favorite stumping ground, but the
average reformer of today is a very
different individual from the originals,
who generally wore il-fittiug gowns
n unbecoming bonnets and some
times carried cotton umbrellas, and
mostly carried very sour faces around
with them. Your modern reformer is
or at any rate looks young, is
handsome, stylishly and ta%stefully
dressed, and knows enough about the
rules of ~elocution to make a speech
on any subject without Earring your
nerves, although she will still occasion
ally tackle a subject about which she
knows little or nothing.