The age-herald., 1899-01-01

the fifteenth. This gives only month and a half in which to crowd all the official en- tertainments.
 Chef Will be Busy
 The chef at the White House will be kept busy in this time. There are to be four or five public receptions, many state dn- ners in the executive mansion, and then each cabinet officer has to give one dinner to the president and his fellow-c abnet off cers. The reception on New Years Day. or rather on the Monday following, will begin the festivities, and from then for forty-five days Washington, as Max O'Reil puts it, will be deIirious. Nearly every day from now until Ash Wednesday is booked for something.
 The reception Wednesday will be headed by the diplomatic corps, with Sir Julian Pauncefote at the head, with the represent ative of the French government next to him. Behind the dip p-omatic corps will come the supreme court, and after that the sen- ators and representatives. Next in line will be the representatives of the press, after which the army and navy officers who are stationed here with the officers of the Dis trict militia. The procession will form in front of the White House and will extend lOul Oi AfS biOShS up SiiAi'J t'oHA~ ~A >-->'~'
 Win Hold Receptions
 In the afternoon the members of the cabinet will hold receptions at their homes, as will many of the senators and represen- tatives and other official folk There will be few private receptions, but the young ladies or the city will be well distributed throughout the homes of the official people.
 From then on there will not be day in which there will not be plenty for the Ic..,, lr to. d. nto wives of the representatives in congress have Tuesdays for their reception days, and these are very much after the order of conventional receptions, though there are no cards sent out
 Wednesday is known cabinet day, and Thursday belongs almost exclusively to the senatorial set Most of the fashionable residents of Washington have either Friday or Saturday. Monday has for years been pre-empted by the wives of the supreme court.
 Innumerable Teas
 This is merely the official side. As run ming accompaniment to all this there will be innumerable teas, dinners, receptions and theater parties, with germans and dances galore. There are as many sets in Washington as there are sharks teeth, and each will whir in it's own little and con tracted center. The leaders in society are not always the official people. There the Pages, Thomas Nelson, the author, and their head the Condit-Smiths. the Boardmans, the Davidges, the Letters, the Poors, the Sheridans, the Phipps and a score of others who wield as much power socially as the multi-millionaire families of New York.
 Speaking of the Pages, MT. Page has made colonial architecture the rage in Washington. There is scarcely a new house in Washington which does not show the influence of the home of Tom Page. which is reproduction of the old Page mansion in Virginia. It is built of dirty-looking brick, with white stone over the windows and doors, carved in the quaint old colonial fashion The porch is rounded and very small, merely stoop, in fact, on which the front door, framed in little, old-styled glass panes, opens It has its prototype in hundred houses on the thoroughfares of the southern towns. It is palatial inside and cost over a hundred thousand dollars to erect. 1t might be mentioned for those who value homes in proportion to the amount 1t costs to build them