The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-04-10
SOCIAL WASHING TON
Many Easter Entertainments Ar
ranged for the Younger Set.
4 Husy Week Ahead for Wagner and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MorriIl 10
Celebrate His SSth birthday.

The iron hand of war has already put
a meddlesome finger in the affairs of the
social world and is upsetting its calcu-
lations right and left
True, ii heightens the romance of
wedding to have it hastened for military
reasons. 1t is conclusive evidence of the
bravery and Importance of the groom and
of the patriotic spirit of the young wife
who holds herself ready at any moment
during the honeymoon to give him up at
duty's call; but up to date nobody seems
to have discovered hidden blessing of
any sort in the abandoning or postponing
on account of the national outlook of the
several pleasant entertainments which
had been arranged for the coming week.
However, the Easter social calendar
makes delightful reading despite these
Enthusiastically for the students
home from college, whose holidays will be
merry junket from beginning to end.
The first, and one of the prettiest affairs
OF the week will be the dance to be given
at Rauscher's tomorrow night by Miss
Tyler. and which Will be followed during
the week by others at which the hostesses
Will be Miss Katherine EllSins. Miss Jean
Crosby Miss Gwendolen Ffoulke and Miss
Esther Dodge.
The Art Loan exhibition will open to-
morrow evening at o'clock at the old
Corcoran Gallery of Art, when ii is ex-
pected that the President and Mrs. Nc
kinney will be among those to review the
magnificent collection of paintings, his
toric hangings, embroideries, laceS and
| fans, which have been loaned by their
owners in this and other cities, and which
collection Will form the finest private
exhibition of such works of art ever dis
played in this city.
On Tuesday Mrs. Richard Wayne Par
ker will give an Easter picnic for her
| grandson, Master Kuhn. and his little
| friends at the Chevy Chase Club.
On Tuesday, also, will occur the mar
| rage Of Miss Addie Augusta Klein
| schmidt, the daughter of DR.. and Mrs
| c. H A. Kleinschmidt, to MIR. Bland
| Payne @The ceremony viii take place
at noon at Christ Church. Georgetown.
| At $50 o'clock the same evening, al
the Church of the Epiphany Miss Marghe-
| rita Williams, the sister of Mr.. H. Ed
| win Rainals kondrup, will be married tc
| Mr. William Moore Stillwel. Jr., and q
| third wedding of the same date will be
| that of Miss Marie Genevieve Storch and
Mr.. William Edward Wood.
Brides are still too superstitlously shy
| of the number thirteen 10 choose II fol
| their nuptial date even when 1t falls or
so suspicious a day as Wednesday-and
| so THE best day of ALL will be skipped
this Easter and Thursday will figure as
| Hymens busy day.
The first wedding of the day, and one
of the most notable of the season, will bt
that OF Miss May Keyworth, the hand
some young daughter of Mrs. James F
Barbour, and Mr.. George c. Broome, OF
New York which viii be solemnized a
noon by Rev. DR.. Stafford at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Z. Barbour OF
Rhode Island Avenue.
/ Miss Elizabeth Waddington Robinson
and Mr.. Arcalous yelling Wyckoff vii
be married at Epiphany Church at
o'clock in the evening, the wedding t
be of an deliberately elegant characte
with a score or more of pretty maids an
, cavaliers as attendants-all of them from
out of town. These young ladies VIII
have been for some days the guests o
the young bride-elect are Miss Louis
Ward and Miss Rosalind Smith of Ale
, gheny; Miss Louise Gilkin and Mis-
Laura Clinghaff Of Philadelphia: Mis-
MCGEE and Miss Stolhof Of Watkins. \
Y. and Miss Walls and Miss Slice o
Elnira. Miss Helen Robinson, who is still
! a school girl, will attend her sister a
maid OF honor and the ushers selecte
| are: Messrs. George Wyckoff. Jurvi
] / Langdon, and DR.. Booth of Elmira: MI
J. W. Beacham Of Ithaca; Messrs. Nathal
B. Payne and Nichols Gushing Of NeV
| 1 York; c L. Gilpin, L. $. N, Lieut.. l. J
| McGill and ]. F. Middledeath of Penn
sylvania The church service will be fol
lowed by q reception at the Washington
! residence Of Mr.. Robinson on Rhode Is
land Avenue for which large number 0
invitations have been issued.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Grayson Dulh
will entertain at progressive euchre OF
the evening of April IS
The minister from Switzerland and Mrs
Pioda have issued dinner invitations 70
April II and April IS.
On Thursday next Senator Morrill, viii
have attained his eighty-eighth birthda!
and in the evening of that day will give
reception TO celebrate the event.
Mrs Paternotre sailed yesterday t
! Join the ambassador at Madrid.
The little ones Of St. AIMS will give
! donation party at the asylum, corner 0
X and Twenty-fourth Streets, tomorrow
ister Monday. at o'clock. Those VIII
cept their invitations are expected I
Ike with them q donation of dry good
provisions. The children anticipate
ppy time.