The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-08
GIRL

when truck load of trunks arrives
anywhere in the White Mountains the
people say, 1.-The Hays mu~' be COM
ing" The summer home e Hays
IS magnificent affair. wit sreat We
randas leading out from French plate
windows, which iQuEnine spacious lv-
ing rooms, such as one never sees out
side a city except in the homes of mill
ionaires. Miss Hay writes poetry and
plays golf, and it is said that the Sec
rotary is learning it. He drives great
deal, and for two months lives the life
of a country gentleman. It is doubtful
if anything short of a Presidential COM
mand would induce the Secretary OF
State to forsake this beautiful noun
famous country in summer.
Secretary Alger has a fondneSs for
Western life, and at this time finds his
way home, with Mrs. Alger, to Mich1-
gan. There he is ever enthusias ticalIy
received, and there is almost an <Alger
day when the Secretary of War ar
riVeS.
Mrs. Blaine is not at present Gin the
Cabinet" yet she is always treated as
if she were still the wife of the reign
ing Secretary of State. There is in
Washington what is known as capl-
net etiquette" 1t is different from any
thing else. Mrs. Blaine has gone back
to her old summer home, Bar Harbor,
although she has leased her large YllIa-
She occupies, with Mrs. Waiter Dam
rOsch a small cottage on the bay, ana
is enjoying herself immensely.
Mrs. Logan, on-the other hand, has
forsaken the East for Chicago, and IS
stopping with her daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, of Calumet avenue Mrs.
Logan has planned a long tour
through Europe beginning in Septem-
Der. Her Washington season begins
the first of January, and for three
months she is a social and political
power.
Speaking of the old-timers in Wash
ingtOn life one must not forget Mrs.
Julia Dent Grant, the oldest official
widow in Washington. With her inter-
esting granddaughter, she has been
drinking the waters at Saratoga, and IS
now alternating between Newport and
New York, the latter city being her
favorite even in summer.
To the North go as many Washing
tonians as possible. The Clevelands
stili 20 to Billiards. Bay, and are in
stalled there now for the eighth sum-
mer, and the Lannon'S, still reckoned
with the District of Columbians, are at
Sorrento, part of the Judges colony
Justice Harlan has taken a step fur
ther into the cold lands, and is at Muir
ray Bay, the most beautiful spot along
the coast of Quebec, cool, breezy and
picturesque.
An interesting group at Bar Harbor
IS formed by William G. Whitney, with
his children, two little girls OF bout
twelve. One is Miss Dorothy Whitney,
the little girl born to the hrst Mrs
Whitney during the first Cleveland adj
ministratiOn; the other is Miss AIDE
laide Randolph, the daughter of the
iale MIS- w nlIney- Inc tWo cnlloiSil
are inseparable, and their father is
much with them. He had them at Man
haitian Beach, then at Bar Harbor, and
it is said that he will take them, with
the boy Arthur, to Europe in the fall.
The Duque and Duchess de ARGOS are
at Manchester by-the-Sea, where they
will remain until fall. Then they will
return and take up their residence in
the former Spanish Legation. At Man
chester the Duchess meets many of her
former acquaintance, who think of her
now always as a Spanish woman, not
withstanding her Americanism.