The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-26
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES
HOW YESTERDAY WAS OBSERVED
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Many Parties by the Royalty and No
Quiet Day at the White House.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press,

Copyright 1897 by the Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 25.-The temperature is
seasonable, the yellow fogs in the middle of
the week having given way to compara-
tive brightness. The week has been the
coldest of the season. 10 to 20 degrees of
frost being registered and skating has
commenced. All who could do so have gone
to the country, where Christmas house par
ties are more numerous than usual. OF the
United States embassy, the United States
ambassador, Colonel John Hay, and Mrs.
Hay, alone remain in town. Mr.. Henry
White, secretary of the United States en-
bassy, and Mrs. White spent the first part
of the week at Hatfield, where the Marquis
Of Salisbury has been entertaining large
shooting party. Thence Mr.. and Mrs. White
went to Blenheim. where they participated
III the Christmas rejoicings which included
two balls and the presentation of two play
lets. in which the Duke and Duchess OF
Marlborough and Lady Randolph Churchill
had parts. Mr.. James r. Carter, second
secretary Of the United States embassy,
and Mrs. Carter having gone to Biarritz,
and Lieutenant ]. c. Colwell, the naval at
tache of the United States embassy, and
Mrs. Colwel are in Paris.
Queen Victoria has merry party at Os-
borne. There was a grand Christmas tree
loaded with presents for the royal chill
dren, the members of the households and
servants. The party includes the Batten-
bergs, the Connaughts, the Lornes and the
Albanys A royal baron of beef cut from
a Devon OK, fed the royal farm at
Windsor and roasted at Windsor by cooks
sent by London caterer was forwarded to
Osborne on Friday, with the boar's head
and woodcock pie which additionally oc-
cupy the Queens sideboard at Christmas.
This years boars head is a genuine hure
de sanglier from the Coburgs preserves in
the Thuringian forest.
The Prince and Princess of Wales early
in the week purchased presents, as Gus
tomary, from the royal tradesmen, who
displayed the wares in an apartment of
Marlborough House, which the royalties Sc
lected. The Prince and Princess of Wales,
Princess Victoria of Wales, the Duke and
Duchess of York, Prince and Princess
Charles of Denmark and the Duke and
Duchess of Fife all assembled at Sandring-
ham for Christmas, where the usual fes-
tivities took place.
merly Miss Corneia Martin, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Martini are enter
tanning a house party at Combe Abbey.
They gave their tenants ball on Christ
LADY Lad Beresford formerly Mrs Louis
Han1mersley, of New York, and later wife
of the eighth Duke of Marlborough, who
died in 1922 are also entertaining at Deep
dene.
Lord Alfred Rothschild made his usual
distribution of six thousand pheasants TO
the omnibus drivers and conductors, every
'busman getting brace of birds.
According to the newspapers, the ladies
of uppertendom, married and single, are
tired of the hackneyed Christmas cards,
and are sending their favorite friends pho
tographs of themselves as attired for bed.
The Chronicle thinks that, although such
nighf-dress pictures are less iynproper than
presentments of the same figures in ball
dress.