The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-10

speciality, with no fixed places of abode.
/ They rent cheap rooms somewhere (and
| frequently find it convenient to make a
change just before payday, and forage
for subsistence upon the world at large.
The feminine contingent take in all the
receptions where refreshments are served,
While the men haunt those other free
| lunch establishments where a square meal
is thrown in with a scent drink. Every
day in the week there is a reception
somewhere to which these parasites can
go. Ihey pay their respects to the host
ess-V no, Of course doesn't know them
and couldn't protect herself against them
II she did; and presently they wander to
the lunch-table. Thank you, l do not
care for refreshments, but l will take
cup OF chocolate or bit of salad'-they
invariably murmur to the ladies who pre-
side over that branch of the entertain
ment; but after several of the modest
creatures have taken their bit and cup,
the table looks as if a cyclone had pass
ed over. The only remedy for this impo-
sltion is the sensible resolution before
mentioned, which nowadays in many
houses does away with the refreshment
table altogether, except for specially in
v4ted guests
Former Presidents have given at least
three evening receptions every winter,
duly announced before hand in the news
papers, to which all the world was in
number of public evening receptions at
the white house to one a year. But
there are several annual official functions
which no President can forego. The list
of them for the last few months of the
present administration is as follows; Cab
met dinner, Jan. Z; diplomatic reception.
D. m. to II p. M, Jan. IA; diplomatic
dinner, Jan. 81; congressional and judi
cial reception, p. m. to II p. M, Jan. S;
supreme court dinner, Feb. 4; Mrs. Cleve-
lands reception, 3 p. m. to p. m, Feb.
6; army, navy and marine corps recep
ton, p. m. to II p. m, Feb. IL; public
reception, p. m. to II p. m, Feb. Is. An
invitation to a state dinner at the white
house overrules all the engagements. 1t
is always sent ten days in advance, and
nothing short of death or serious illness
Will excuse one from attending. For cab
| met and other official dinners eight days
is considered ample time in which to pre-
pare ones gaud and gear. Another point
upon which the bug-bear of etiquette
bears heavily is the proper application of
titles. In conversation with the execu-
| tive, he is always addressed as Mr.. Pres
ldent;" a member of the cabinet, as MIR.
| Secretary" with two exceptions those
of Mr. Attorney General" and Mr..
Postmaster General" To Mr.. Stevenson
you must say Mr. Vice President" and
to the speaker of the House, Mr.. Speak
err" whether in official or unofficial ca
pacity Mr.. Melville Weston Fuller must
be spoken to as MIR. Chief Justice" and
each of his associates on the supreme
bench as MIR. Justice" A member of the
Senate is always introduced as
Senator so and so; a representative
as the Honorable Mir. this and that-as if
the honor Of congress was confined to the
lower house. The fashion of writing Mrs.
Secretary Smith and Mrs. Justice Brown
and Mrs. Senator Jones still obtains to
some extent, because of it's convenience,
but the line of the ludicrous is dangerously
near In the writing of formal notes, even
more ceremony must be observed All
civic, military and naval titles must be
written out in full, as Mr.. President of
the United States" "The Honorable Sec
rotary of Agriculture" and so on down.
In long diplomatic titles that spread over
half a sheet of paper-such, for example,
as THE Right Honorable Sir Julian
Pauncefote, G. c. B. G. c. M. G., Ambas-
sador Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary, British Embassy" it is al
lowable to curtail a portion of the al
phabet on minor occasions. Perhaps my
readers may like to hear of some of the
costumes which graCed the opening re-
ception of the season at the white house.
Mrs Cleveland, whose figure never was
trimmer than at present, wore the SIM
plest and yet the most becoming gown
she has ever appeared in on a similar oc-
casion. 1t was of silver gray wooden cloth,
made with plain, faring skirt, and guam
tity of silver passamenterie, set with
rhinestones on the bodice, producing a.
bolero jacket effect. Around the throat
was high stock of silver-gray silk, with
a guard of diamonds fastened beneath the
chin to one side of the jacket, big bunch
of Parma violets in her belt, and her thick,
bright hair brushed plainly back, with dia-
mond-studded side-combs in the natural
waves Mrs. Stevenson appeared in
rich costume of black velvet, skirt and
bodice handsomely trimmed with jet and
steel, a vest of white satin yelled with
mousseline de sole. Mrs. Olney wore a
superb gown of black velvet, high velvet
ruff. with exquisite old point-lace and
handsome jewels. Mrs. Carlisle, dark
heliotrope satin, with vest of pink and
reveres Of purple velvet; Mrs. Lamont
black and white striped silk, the bodice
of white, yelled in Brussels net, embroid-
cred in steel and silver; Mrs. Francis, who
made her first appearance in the cabinet
circle wore youthful and very becom-
ing toilette of pink MORE antique, the
waist with a round yoke of white satin UNI
dears pears passamenteries and pearl or
naments; Mrs. Harmon, Paris creation
| of leaf-green velvet with a bodice of pale
blue covered with cream lace, stock and
belt of pale blue velvet; Miss Herbert
white MORE; Miss Morton, black silk, bro
caded with gold. So much for the caoi-
net. The diplomatic iduleS were all al SlS-
CANT visiting toilettes and tiny bonnets-
with the sole exception of the Chinese min
lister s wife, Mrs. Yang Yu, who is con-
sidered by many to be the prettiest woman
in Washington. She is certainly the
oua;ntest when arranged in all her fnery
her little painted face like doll-babys
with its glittering black eyes set in slight
Nv on the bias, nosegay of artificial
flowers stuck behind either ear and pro-
truding in front She wore straight, stiff
gown of sapphire-bue satin, deliberately
embroidered in gold and crimson, pink and
white. and in it her plump body looked
like a gorgeous sofa pillow. Her tiny feet
we're encased in scarlet-satin shoes set
M on two nigh stills. The wife of the
Japanese minister, Mrs. Toru Hoshi, is
much less picturesque, gowned like Amer
lean ladies', but is a prime favorite in
Washington. The spacious ana handsome
Tapanese legation is the scene of many
brilliant festivities, and always a crush
on reception days. brlsndm'
The Paris correspondent of Brussels
paper, in giving an account of his recent