The times., 1898-11-25
SOCIAL and PER SONAL
Washington Society 'sBrilliant
Array at the Alibi Tea.
PRETTY BUDS PRESENT
senator aud Mrs. Fairbanks 0bserv-
ed the Holiday With Their Usual
Thanksgiving Dinner-The Joint
High Commissioners Spent the
Day in Quiet Manner.

The social honors of Thanksgiving Day
belong by right OF custom TO the MEM
bers of the Alibi Club who observed their
unwritten laws of chivalry and good
! cheer by celebrating the holiday with
/ their annual tea.
Their unique and altogether attractive
| club house was the center of attraction
! throughout the receiving hours by dplo-
mats. distinguished officials, and repre-
sentatives of old residential families
| social combination that can be duplicated
nowhere else i'll this country, and which
! serves to make the National Capital one
of the most captivating cities in the
world. The guests were received by dain-
| ty. gracious Mrs. Loring. wife of DIR. f.
3. Loring. proctor of the club, assisted
| by a number of attractive maidens in
! pretty gowns, the daughters of its mem
bers Among them were Miss Poor, Miss
| Glover. Miss Seckendorf, Miss Warder,
| Miss Emery and Miss Harriet Wads-
worth.
The clubhouse is so original in its APP
pointments that floral decorations would
! lose their charm in contrast and for that
reason no flowers were in evidence, other
| than vases of yellow chrysanthemums on
I the table that stood in the Mexican card
J room and which was presided over by
| Mrs. John Poor.
The walls of the card room are en-
| bellished with the polished horns of cat
tie, draperies in vivid gold and scarlet,
and queer curios that have been collected
by travellers throughout the land of Mon
teZuma; and indeed every nook and cor
ner of the wonderful realm of Alibi land
suggests the fancy that its wprld-trav
eled members have picked up the most
curious souvenirs they could find in their
wanderings and brought them home in
the same spirit that II magpie decorates
its nest. From the card room the guests
wandered into the adjoining farm
which was shaded by trees and made
realistic by a rustic well, clothes line
with remarkable display of washing,
and stuffed goat browsing under u
palm.
In the kitchen huge bowl of blue and
gray china was filled with claret punch.
II was a wonderful kitchen, with every
sign about it of prosperity and good
cheer
\ ham covered with yellow canvas hung
from the rafters near a string of slvery
skinned onions and bunch of bananas
Was suspended before dresser. in which
blue and white platters were ranged in Il
polished row. Shining tankards of pew
ter. tin plates, saucepans and comforta-
ble fat jugs We're placed on the chimney
piece and about the shelves that lined
the walls and nothing could have been
cheerier than the big black stove.
Throughout the various rooms and in the
narrow halls were photographs Of the ia
nous men who have been guests of the
club. quaint Dutch pitchers of colored
china, tablets, antlers. poster pictures
and bric-a-brac without name The
study of the wonderful tumble of things
beautiful, rare. costly and ridiculous, was
so interesting that the dial hand on the
kitchen frying pan pointed to before
the last guests had said good bye.
Among those who left cards were:
Paymaster General of the Navy and Mrs.
Steward, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Nelson
Page. the Misses Pauneefote, Mrs. Rich
ardson Clover, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Worthington and the Misses Worthington,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Edgar Reyburn. Mrs
Charles r. Collins, Mr.. and Mrs. William
+. MattineIy and Miss Mattingly, Mrs.
Elizabeth w Trescot. Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Moss. Mrs. John L. Blair, Mrs.
G. l.. Magruder, Chief Constructor and
Mrs Philip Hichborn and Miss Hichborn,
DIR. and Mrs. James Kerr and Miss Kerr
Mrs. j. Dexter Adams and Miss Adams
Capt. and Mrs. Theodore Mosher, DIR.
and Mrs. j.. z. Sewers and Miss Sewers.
Mrs. Nathaniel Wilson, Miss Wilson, Miss
Daisy Wilson. Mrs. Brinton Stone, Miss
Clayton. Mrs. Thomas Ward, Miss Ward
the Misses Howard. Mrs William Orr
Cunningham. Mr.. and Mrs. c. Peyton
Russell, DR.. and Mrs. ]. Y. Taylor and