Evening star., 1898-08-06
Events Of the Week Passed in Re-
view.
One DAYS FUN AT NEWPORT
The Marriage Monday Night of Miss
Hills and Mr.. O'NeiII.
9TH E r TIMELY TOPICS

Washington weather for the last two
days has justified all the good things which
| it has hitherto been possible to say about
| it. The Santiago scorching through which
| this city has passed during the month of
| July has been in line with the phenomenal
| incidents which have characterized the
| year thus far. With the dawning of peace
| and the coming of the familiar darkest
hour of gloom and doubt which precedes it
| always, there has also come the word of
the near return of our soldier boys to our
own shores, and the filling up in home cir
| ces of places now vacant. The week has
been such an interesting one In great
topics, that small details have passed un-
noticed. Here the week started with the
funeral of the late Mrs. Romero, and of
the hundreds of admirers and friends who
We're able to be present at this last tribute
of respect in this community. where the
most important period of her life was
passed, there were thousands at distant
points who sincerely mourn loving friend
and who would have given much to have
been permitted this final satisfaction. The
same note of sorrow has touched all hearts
and her memory will last long in the So
cety of this capital which she so greatly
adorned.
The absence of any desire for formal
events of the usual magnificent character
of this season of the year at Newport has
held it's prominent leaders to the simple
forms of good comradeship and sociabiiity.
Mr. and Mrs. Belmont commenced it one
day by a troiiey-car picnic with a dinner
at a road restaurant The idea grew until
now even if the dinners are house affairs
full dress is not considered at al ncces-
sary and rather mistaken notion The
hot weather may have something to do
with this state of affairs. but just "a the
moment it is the popular fad. Social
chroniclers are rather inclined to call it
dreary season, but why it should be so,
with such comfortable views as these pre-
vailing seems rather strange TO the every
day idea of having good time. But MIR.
and Mrs. Reimont made up for any SIM
plicity in the first hospitality by the event
to which their friends We're hidden yeSter-
day a. Grey Craig Park, their country
place at Middletown. The cards OF invita-
ton were to a dinner picnic, but 1t turned
out to be a fete, dinner, vaudeville show,
country fair and fireworks display. Para
disc avenue, the first approach to the park,
was blaze of light from end to end and
the park itself was gorgeously festooned
with hundreds of japanese lanterns. Mrs.
Belmont, Mrs. Oelrchs and Mrs. Fish re-
ceived their guests in bower built of Ian
terms while the Fort Adams Band gave q
concert One of the most striking features
of the decorations was an American flag
planted on the highest elevation in the
park with changing calcium lights playing
upon it. Dinner was served early in the
evening. under red marquee, lighted with
iiuiHeiOuS dtuDer electric lamps, and at 10
o'clock the beginning of the fete proper
was announced by the explosion o. a large
pomp, followed Immediately by an elabo-
rate display of fireworks from a grove on
| an island in the lake.
vaudeville show gave two or .braa
| turns. and when the guests tired of that
| they stroiled through the grounds and took
| in the cCGtinuouS performances given hv
lugglers. cowboy and cowgirl riders shoot
ing galleries, fortune tellers and h,lrdv
gurdles; Mr.. Iruxton Beale. Mrs. John
DAVIS, Miss Bessie Davis Mr.. T. Sanford
Beatty, Mr.. and Mrs Paul Andrews Mrs
and Miss Brice were some of the guests
best known here.
AT Bar Harbor a certain amount of exer-
else. and that of lively description is alb
solutely necessary to keep the blood in cir
culation Dinners and dances thrive and
nature sends balmy sleep under double
blankets, the North Atlantic tui ming its
| codest shoulder to the mainland at pres
ent, while down on the Jersey coast they
have been sweltering the past three weeks
al Lenox it has been delightfully."- COOL but
the fashionable colonies of the Berkshires
Will not stir themselves much socially till
the first days of the autumn.
The remnant of society still in town is
discussing with much ayidity an interesting
physiological question. 1t is whether or not
person can prove mental competency and
cite nothing better to support their position
than continuous participation in social life
\ young woman well known in Washing
ton. who recently married without the con-
Sent ana against the WISHES OF ner mother,
who excuses her daughters action by rea-
son of unusual mental strain says that this
statement does her great injustice, and has
injured her credit. She proves entirely to
her own satisfaction. at least, that the win
ter she made her debut in Washington she
attended fewer than forty-four dinner
parties, at which she met the leading resi-
dents to say nothing of the balls. the
luncheons and other diversions in which
she participated. She says she never heard
that any of these people considered her ua-
usual or different from others at that time
This history of d first season certainly re-
vea ais an excellent physical condition, or she
would not have lived to start the second
ard from the standpoint of health and en-
durance, anybody capable of this amount of
hard work ought to do better things for
humanity thai to reyel in such small
achievements
An interesting event to a large number
of friends will be the marriage Monday
evening of Miss Pauline Hills. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hills, to Mr.. Arthur
A. O'Neill of this city. The ceremony,
which will take place at the residence of
Mr.. L. c. Hills, 800 street, brother of the
bride, will occur at 8 O'Clock, and be fol-
lowed by a reception, to which a large
company has been hidden. Mr.. John
o Neii will attend his brother as best man.
and the bride will wear a handsome travel.
ing dress of brown grenadine over pink silk.
The house will be prettily decorated with
palms and flags, and Miss Pearl Fischell
will play the wedding march. After the
reception the couple will depart for trip
to the seaside. and Will be away from town
a week or so. They will then go to house
keeping at the Trotwood flats on NJ be-
tween 9th and 10th streets. Mr.. O'Neill.
who is the acting secretary of the board of
trade has wide acquaintance among busi-
ness men in this city and enjoys great
popularity among them, he also does In
educational circles. He was recently the
secretary of the National Educational As
ISOLATION and the members of the COM
mittee upon which he served have pre-
seEted his bride as a wedding gift with a
handsome clock. The bride has received a
number of other elegant gifts also.
Miss Mary Sullivan, with party of
friends. is enjoying the mountain breezes
at Aurora, W. Va.
Mrs George J. Easterday and family. ac-
companied by her brother, Mr.. Robert
Leetch, have gone up to Aurora, W. Va.
for the month of August.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred. Piling and family of
this city registered at the Paris Office of
the New York Herald yesterday.
MIR. and Mrs. D. A. Chambers have gone