The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-13

Christ Church repair fund, on next
Wednesday evening at $50 O'Clock, in the
Sunday school room Of the church, Thirty
first and o Streets. Mrs. John r. Nc
Mclean, Mrs. Hitchcock, and the NJ sses
Kean are among the prominent ladies who
are actively interested in the affair.
The American girl like the house fly,
is to be found in all inhabtable parts of
the world. She has ransacked the globe
in her travels. and in her trail have fol-
lowed praise and criticism, each due to
her Municipalities in person and dress.
Serene in the consciousness that pa has
money and that she is the very sort OF
girl to spend 1t, the American young per
son enjoys her foreign meanderings i'm
mensely, and having paid for it and come
home naturally considers the incident
closed Praise and blame commingled are
enough to keep her memory in lively
state of verdancy on the side, however,
and so persistently have her foreign
brethren kept fresh the recollection of her
good and bad points that out of it has
been evolved the European problem, How
does the American girl show up as a
type"
Is she worthy of mans noblest aspira-
tons or is she merely what dear old Jane
Austin used to call toy? Is her face
strong and her mind forcefully intel
lectual. or is she but superficial refec-
ton of the shrewdness which characterizes
American men?
These would be very serious questions
for the average mind TO butt against had
not Mother Goose settled the matter long
and merry ago by her diagnosis of girls,
regardless of geographical limitations.
Girls" declared that revered and all
knowing authority, ARE made of sugar
and spice and everything nice"-and ac-
cording TO that recipe the American girl
is made up of the same ingredients as her
sisters over the water. Possibly no better
and certainly no worse.
Mrs. Andrews. 2iOO Columbia Road. has
discontinued her Saturdays at home for
the season.
The Society for the Preservation of Vr-
ginia Antiquities held reception yester-
day at the Conway Robinson mansion, near
the Soldiers Home.
The members of the Academy of Sciences
were entertained AT tea by Mrs Gardiner
Hubbard Friday evening at Twin Oaks,
her country home.
At the reception given by Mrs. Cowles
in honor of her brother. the, Governor of
New York. Miss Cassini was girlishly
lovely in a coquettsh fiat, that was almost
a poke bonnet-a yeilow-white straw,
trimmed with spears of wheat, and with
black velvet ribbons tied under the chin.
The back rested against The coil of hair,
which was worn low, and the. brm fiared
over the pompadour of dark hair. With
this charmngly quaint hat Miss Cassini
wore blue and white issilk gown that
fitted her slim, graceful young figure like
a sheath. The Russian Ambassador and
Miss Cassini will sail for, their. usual sum-
June ).
Miss Sarah Willard Howe, one of the
gifted young daughters OF Dr. and Mrs.
Frank T. Howe, is achieving distinction as
a song writer. Her latest work, Little
Sunshine" the music by Mr.. w. G. Collins.
has just been published and is an at
tIactive addition to the ballads of the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Mclean will give
luncheon at Friendship their out-of-
town home, today.
Baroness Won Orendorff held a reception
last night at her residence. 1000 Street.
She was assisted by her guests. Princess
Auersperg and Mrs Hazard, who accom-
panied her from New York.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles c. Milburn are at
the Portland.
The French Club gave a clever produc-
ton of Maurice Ordonneaus three-act