The times., 1899-06-11

"SuuiHSs anu uIplOIndtlc dinners divided
the social laurels of last week-and if
there was any way of getting at the in
most thoughts of everybody concerned in
those events it would doubtless be found
that unanimous sigh of thankfulaess
went up when they were well over and
done with, the weather was so exasper-
atingly hot. 1t is all very beautiful to
read about rare days in June but suffer-
Ing them in town is quite another matter,
and what sensible girls want to get mar
rfed for anyhow, with the thermometer
up in the nineties when they might have
fixed nice date in April, or a nicer one
in October-however, that's their own
affairs. The dinners were quite another
matter. Naturally the Secretary of State
and diplomatic dignitaries wanted to ex-
tend social welcome to the Duke and
Duchess d'Arcos before scattering for the
summer. and the discomfort of the weather
was forgotten in the pleasure of the hos
pitalities given and received. One Am
bassador, who has large, leafy garden,
was bent upon having his dinner table
set under the stars, but the Weather
Bureau predicted rain, and he needed the
prophecy. much to his chagrin when the
moon sailed in royal splendor across the
cloudless sky. But, after all, as he sensi-
bly, concluded later. If he had followed his
fancy and prepared an al fresco banquet for
his guests there would undoubtedly have
come deluge-it always happens that way.
The Spanish Minister and his American
wife can now feel entirely at home with
the diplomatic circle. for they met them
almost every evening last week at the
various dinners to which they were in
vited, and to several of which they had the
honor of being the especial guests.
Last Wednesday figured as the climax OF
fha Trpa waddtDp apaSnn Even the preSi-
dent slipped away from his official cares
long enough to see Mr.. Mcmillan and Miss
Anderson married. Such a pretty wedding
it was, too, and oh, the diamonds, the
diamonds, OF course, there will be bride
bells ringing of and on throughout these
next two weeks, but the busy times are
over for Hymen and Mendelssohn for this
summer, at least.
Washington, socially considered, will
soon be in as deep slumber as the sleep
ing beauty in the fairy tale. Boarded
houses, bearing the warning legend,
Electric Alarm" in big, staring letters on
their barred fronts, are becoming mon
otonously numerous, and half the people
who inhabit the social submits of Wash
ington society are either in Europe or are
futtering around the country with butter
fly lightness before settling down for
summer of cottage life at, say, Vanity-Fair-
by-the-Sea. OF course, the city as yet is
by no means entirely bereft of its official
and social lights, but there will scarcely
be twinkle in the fashionable armament
by this time next week. Equally of
course, there will be other people here all
summer through, but according to the
rule of Dame Fashion they really don't
count. They are good people, OF course,
and they will go to heaven when they die,
but-no, they don't count!
The marriage of Miss Susie Redempta
McKenny, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
McKenny, and Mr.. Thomas A Sullivan
will take place June 12, at o'clock, at
the Church Of the Immaculate Conception.
Rev. F. X. McKenny will officiate.
Mrs Arthur Grant Skerrett has left
for the Blue Ridge Mountains near Cum
berland, Nd, where she will spend the
summer with her mother, Mrs. James c.
Barnes.
Former President Harrison, who has
gone TO Europe to attend the Venezuela
arbitration. is making his first trip abroad |
He and Mrs. Harrison do not expect to
return to America for two years or more.
They will spend the first winter in Egypt |
and Palestine.
The Sisters of ST. Cecilias Academy
have issued invitations for their thIrty-