The times., 1898-09-11

lawn, and at T.30 the entertainment COM
menced. Music. vocal and instrumental,
was furnished by Mrs. Kennedy and
Mrs. William F. Thomas, of Washington,
and by Mrs. John c. Bentley. Mrs. +. r.
NJ Thorn. Miss katherine Brooke. John
c. Bentley, and Edward 1ddings, of Sandy
Spring, and Edward N. Bentley gave
three very amusing character sketches
OF odd customers he had met. Mrs. VIII
liam Iddings took the principal part in
play. Miss Slimmen's Boarding House.,
which she had cleverly adapted from an
old magazine article. Mrs. Edward N.
Bentley and partially borrowed family
were tremendously applauded, as Mrs.
Ruggles training her nine children in
manners for the dinner party In The
Rirds Christmas Carol and Miss Alice
Farquhar was leader and speaker for the
eleven "Psake Sisters" who drilled, sang,
danced, recited, and got off witticisms. TO
the amusement of highly appreciative
audience of about 200 relatives. friends
and neighbors. The gross receipts of the
evening were nearly $40. Although most
of those present We're from the vicinity.
New York. Philadelphia. Wilmington.
Baltimore, and Washington were repre-
sented
Mr. and Mrs j. S. Fitzhugh and fam
lily have returned from a pleasant season
spent at Colton's Point, on the Potomac.
Mrs. George Iseman and son will return
to the city on September IA, after hav-
ing spent ten weeks at the Glenbourne,
Round Hill, Va.
The terrible tragedy that ended the life
OF the Austrian empress yesterday after
noon recalls pathetically her remark of
a year ago. that she dreaded death, but
even that seemed less terrible than to
live and grow repulsively old. She had
been so admired all her life for her
handsome face and classic form that 1t
is said she resented bitterly her first
wrinkle, and wept outright when time
touched with his relentless finger her
wealth of wonderful hair. The like of
the empresss hair was not to be seen in
all Europe on either peasant or fine dame.
II was the sole duty of carefully drilled
attendant to brush. braid and anoint the
Empress Elizabeth's locks, and to prepare
the wash of twenty ingredients that was
secret known only to her majesty, and
which she never revealed. magazine
article, written years ago, told num-
Der of anecdotes of the empress during
her visit once to some health resort on
the Mediterranean seacoast. She went
| there for the benefit of the baths, but
her aiesty did not go in the water. She
| just watched the waves day after day
| and decided that did exactly the same
amount of good. Then she fancied that
she would like to nibble the distilled salt
| of that sapphire sea, and the hotel keeper
| had to send a couple of boatmen way,
way out to where the waves were high
| and foam-capped, and there they would
| fill a cask and row back again, so that
! the royal guest might have her daily
| lozenges of salt. 1t was not a simple
| task because the empress superintendent
| the voyage with a spy glass, and her or
| ders were that the boatmen should row
| beyond its range, her theory being prob
! ably that the farther out they got the
brinier the salt would be-and when the
waves were particularly turbulent. as
| they sometimes get. even in the idyllic
Mediterranean, the voyage wasn't always
safe But Empress Elizabeth had her
daily salt lozenge and when she went
away the hotel man called the boatmen
| TO help him rejoice There never was
such a horsewoman as the Empress Eliz-
abeth. always excepting Diana. Of course
She was always indulgently kind to her
mettlesome steeds and to the men who
had their care. Indeed, she had only tc
| be convinced of the loyalty of a SUBJ
| ject. exalted or lowly, and she was never
! else than kind and helpful, especially to
| the young.
And now death has come to her without
| the dread that she anticipated, and she
| will never need to undergo the terror oi
| growing repulsively old.