Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
BEll[S OF Wash
\ IAGI0N SOCIETY.
NEVER WAS 1T so GAY AMONG THE
YOUNG PEOPLE AT THE
CAPITAL.

mere Will be q great deal more of en-
s.rtaining during the few. days that
will elapse between now and Lent;
then there will be lull. Ash We'd
nesday will mark the beginning OF
the social festivities for this season,
Tor society in the Capital is devout
and the forty days of Lent will be peni-
tentially observed
AT present, however, gaiety is at its
height. The unfortunate illness Of
many of the wives OF prominent d.
plomats turns attention to the charm
Ing daughters and relatives who are
filing the vacancies so capably. A de-
bltante toward whom there has been
attracted much attention is Miss Grace
mckinley, niece of the President, who
makes her home at the Executive Man
sion and is of so much assistance to
Mrs. Mckinley in the performance of
the social duties of that distinguished
hostess
Miss Grace is the only child of Pres
ident McKinley's dead brother and is
graduate Of Holyoke College. Mass
achusetts, from which institution she
came forth with high honors. She is
wlnsome without being strikingly
beautiful. with brown hair and eyes
and a very musical voice Miss Nc
Kinley lost her father and mother
when quite child and from that time
until the death Of the mother OF Presi-
dent Mckinley her home was in Can
ton, in the old Mckinley homestead.
Since her graduation she has been a
member OF the family circle of the
White House. Miss Grace is the first
young woman since the days OF Miss
Nellie Arthur to add the charm of her
presence to the rather gloomy quarters
Of the Executive Mansion and is there
fore the recipient of much social at
teltion.
OF late she has been devoting a
great deal Of her time to the enter
tatnment Of her cousin, Miss Sara Dun
can, who also is niece of President
Mckinley. The luncheon given to
these young ladies by Mrs. Charles G. |
Dawes early in January was one Of the
most brilliant small affairs of the
season, among the younger contingent
OF society.
1t is rumored that reception will
shortly be given for Miss Mckinley by
Senator and Mrs. Hanna The Han
mas have established themselves in the
magnificent Don Cameron house, I'M
til recently occupied by the late Vice
President and Mrs. Hobart, and enter
tain lavishly. Senator Hanna has
taken Mrs. Hobart's lease, which does
not expire until March, 1901, and it is
said that at that time he will renew
the lease until the end of his senator
ial term. There is also a daughter in
the Hanna household Miss Hanna
and Miss Mckinley are very good
friends and are often seen together
in society. Miss Hanna has only been
in Washington a few weeks
The eldest daughter of Secretary of
State Hay, also an intimate friend of
Miss Mckinley, is favorite in the
Capitals beau monde. Miss Hay is a
handsome young woman and her moth |
er's almost constant companion at the
dinners and receptions given at the |
Secretary or States palatial home on |
Sixteenth and HI streets. The Hay
Mansion overlooks Lafayette Square,
which is the only property that inter |
venes between it and the Presidents |
house. The library, Miss Hays IA !
vorite spot. is one of the finest in |
Washington. 1t is upholstered in |
plush and there is beauty in the soft |
hangings at the windows, the rare
pictures and everywhere. The ceiling
is of panelled oak with deep caissons,
in the squares of which are golden |
discs.
1t is here that Miss Hay spends the |
most of her time for she has inherited
her fathers predictions for litera-
ture and has gained quite reputa-
ton as writer of verse. Her short
poem entitled IAN Evening in Wash |
ington,' is specially clever, and has
won for its author the favorable COM
ment of the best literary critics of the
day. Miss Hay is of a musical turn of
mind also. She was partly educated
in Europe, is a devotee of art and
linguist of no mean ability. She is
said to be whole hearted and fancy
free" although while in London,
where her father was Ambassador at
the Curt of st. James, it was known
that many duke and lord would
have gladly laid his heart and fortune
at her feet. Miss Hay is of attrac-
tive appearance. graceful, tasteful in
dress, and in short, the possessor of
all of those talents and requirements
which gain for a young woman the en-
viable title of belle in a circle of all
beautiful and accomplished young wo-
men.
In Secretary of the Navy Longs