The times., 1899-03-05

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Curzon, who is like A diamond set in gold
or full moon in a clear autumnal sky"
| The paper adds: Her color is like mol
| ten gold, its whiteneSs already having as
| sumed tinge OF redIin the warm climate
| of this country. Her teeth are like a set
OF pearls, her waist Is beautifully slender,
| and her raven tressess setting off her white
| complexion. make her look like, We imag
| inc. the Goddess Safaswati Her we'll
shaped head is beautifully poised on a
swan like neck; her eyes, handsomely pur-
pie, are ever restless and beaming with in
telligence. Her forehead is small and mar
row, her neck is like the neck of a swan,
and her voice resembles the voice OF a
cuckoo" The Oriental interviewer cli-
makes his raphsody with an adjectively
| eloquent assertion that the lady's intellect
exceeds her looks.
Mrs. A. A. Thomas of this city, Mrs
Helen Parks Graves of Philadelphia, and
Miss Julia Macmillan. Assistant Botanist
to Prof. wilkins, have taken an Atlantic
Coast trip for Jacksonville, Fla. They will
be located at the Ponce Hotel during the
spring.
Mr. and Mrs. Holman Andrews have gone
to Asheville for the remainder of the win
ter. They will spend March at Palm
Beach, Fla.
The porch of Mrs Cages granite resi-
dence In Massachusetts, Avenue has made
pretty picture for the passer-by during
the last week of blue skies and spring-like
sunshine. The wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury believes that palms are all
the better for a Whit of fresh air, and as
her potted plants were out on the front
steps on the first mild day after blizzard
Monday, the sudden changes of our climate
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jungle of tropical foliage on the sheltered
porch and a heap of snow as high as a
hay stack by the curbstono Immediately
in front of the door. Palms are such a
necessary adjunct to the decoration OF a
house for any and all occasions that many
hostesses make point of collecting them,
though they may own no conservatory in
which to keep them. 1t was doctrine once
that eXotics could not live in this climate
under glass, but experience has taught
their owners that, with ordinary care, they
can be distributed throughout the house
and thrive as healthily as the traditional
green bay tree. One young matron, whose
collection of palms and crotons is worth
good big fortune, declares that her plants
are as conscious of admiration as her pet
kitten, and that when her friends praise
them she knows just how they feel.
The most popular of all foliage plants
seen last winter in the homes of the rich
were the queer dwarfed japanese cedars,
which were sold at auction late in the
fall and were worth a fortune each. One
of them. 1t was said, was older than Amer
ican independence, and all of them were
hoary and gnarled with age, though
scarcely more than two feet high and with
roots SO tiny as to be potted in jars
of old blue. Among the prominent pur-
chasers in whose homes the plants are
now distributed are Lady Pauncefote. Mrs.
Utcr MPc
Henderson, Of Boundary Castle, and Mrs.
Barber, of Belmont.
Blizzard Monday promises to make
fame for itself as the Black Friday of the
social world. Here is, what a writer in
''Harper's Bazar' has to say of the panic
like ending of the capitals gay season..
and the disastrous fate of its crowning
ball:
Washington non cornmttal climate for
got itself during the recent blizzard That
| interesting bit of weather played havoc
with the whole country, but nowhere did
it carry things with a. higher hand than
in the nations capital, There it simply
revised programmes TO suit its own caprice
Consider. for instance, the sad tale of the
Assembly ball, function which had been
fondly anticipated as the crowning event
OF the season. Five hundred guests eagerly
awaited it, and five hundred hearts sank
Wnen the DllZZar0 swept INTO Town WIN
out so much as saying, BY your leave
THE number of guests expected dwindled
to fifty who were actually present. there
being the unusual proportions of twice as
many men as women. OF the fifteen wo-
men present all but three lived at the
Arlington, where the ball was given. The
Marine Band had been engaged for the
occasion, but only seven OF the twenty
one members succeeded In reaching the
hotel. That exploit ought to enttle them
to be joyfully included in future Arctic
expeditions, for they walked more than two
miles. Just what this involved may be
guessed from the experience of Mrs. Hay,
who was TO receive the guests. Secretary
| Hay lives only Il block from the hotel,
| and yet his wife did not succeed in reach
| ing the dance. The Secretary telephoned
! first to his own carriage house, from which
/ came the information that the entrance
was concealed somewhere behind drift
| fifteen feet deep. He then called UP the
| livery stables. but nobody could be in
duced TO send a carriage to the rescue, so
| Mrs. Hay had to stay at home. Only one
| feature of the affair was as it had been
planned. Refreshments were provided for
the five hundred expected guests. The
! fifty who came were decidedly hungry after
struggling through the drifts, but even the
| keenest appetites quailed before such ex-
| cessive commissary supplies.