The times., 1899-03-08

Lent will be half over tomorrow. and as
society has accustomed itself to festive
manifestations i'll the way OF M-careme
teas and dances. this years mid-Lent day
will be marked by several gay affairs The
notable event OF the fashionable world will
be the cotillion which Will take place at
Masonic Temple at 1890 o'clock. The Ia
dies of the reception committee are Mrs.
Miles, Mrs. j. C. Poor Mrs. Crowninshield.
Mrs. 4. D. Addison. Miss Myer, Miss
Miles, and Miss Rodgers, and they will be
assisted in their gracious duties of the
evening by MIR. j. C. Poor Mr. a. ID. Ad-
olson, and Mr.. C. II. Campbell The cotii-
lion which will be danced by sixty couples.
will be led by Colonel Michler. U. S. A.
The distinguished Englishmen and Eng
iish women who dined at the White House
during the past season were probably Kept
mentally busy comparing the difference
between the flower -decked table of which
the President and Mrs Mckinley were
host and hostess and that presided over by
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. The White
House china is conventionally neat and
nice and no doubt cost a pretty penny,
but it is only china at best-and the
Queens service is of solid gold
King George ~ ordered over a thou
sand pieces. each embossed and carved in
es, which are double, square. and very
heavy are kept warm by tiny gold lamps
between the outer and inner dishes in
which taper burns in white wax.
What it all cost in pounds. shillings, and
pence, probably nobody ever knew but
King Georges Minister of Finance, but it
must have struck even Ambassador Choate
as being distinctly grand. Somebody said
somewhere that the Queen does not care
for nE-rnl a,al
eye, that is where the banquet table of the
Executive Mansion comes out even. for
all the gold that ever was mined and
turned out by an engraver's magic would
fail in a beauty contest with the superb
flowers that bloom on the White House
table when Mrs. Mckinley entertains Still.
gold dishes are very fine, and it does seem
that Columbia ought to have them.
Announcement has been made in Maine
that Mr.. James Cecil Hooe, of Washing
ton, and Miss Edith Dingley, only daugh-
ter of the late Hon. and Mrs. Dingley,
will be married at Lewiston on Saturday
Because of the recent death of Mr.. Ding
ley the wedding will be very quiet one,
and the ceremony will be performed at
the family residence at noon. Rev. Mr..
Howe. pastor of the Congregational
Church. where the Dingleys have wor-
SHIPPED for many years, will oficiate No
invitations have been issued, except 10
the immediate families of the bride and
groom. Hon. John Wesley Gaines. of Ten
nessee. will accompany Mr. Hooe to Lewis
ton, and will act as best man. The day
for the wedding was fixed for March II
quite long time before Mr.. Dingley's
death. and. as he had planned that the
happy event should occur then, it was de-
cided TO carry out his wish Mr.. Hooe
viii return at once to Washington with
his bride saving a stay OF few days IN
New York. They will reside at 1908
Twenty first Street, but expect to make
a long trip 10 California later in the sea-
son.
Mrs. Anderson. of New York. who has
been spending the winter in Sixteenth
Street. entertained at a luncheon yester-
day in honor of her niece, Miss Eleanor
Davis.
Mr.. and Mrs Outcalt have returned from
their wedding trip and will be pleased to
see their friends at their home. 1918 Elev-
enth Street northwest, Tuesday and Friday
of March.
Miss Sara X Lippincott has returned
from Cincinnati, where she went to attend
the International kindergarten Conven-
tion.
Mrs Julia B. Banks announces the en-
gagement of her daughter, Katherine
Hawes to Mr.. James z. Todd of New Ha-
ven, Conn. The marriage will take place
at noon April at St. Andrews Church
Fourteenth and Corcoran Streets.
The Army and Navy Relief Society will
meet at Mrs. Crosby P. Miller's, 1923 R
Street, this morning at 10 o'clock.