The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-18
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.
TT IS WADE UP OF FAIR-sKINNED,
T&INKY-HAIRED, SADDLE-HUED
PEOPLE.

Those That Are Attracting Partic-
uIar AttentfOn-The DipIOmatists
and Their FamiIies-Other Matters
OF General Interest.
Washington, Feb. 16.-Nowhere in the
United States can more varied types of
feminine beauty be found than in the best
society Of the nations capital where ev-
cry winter are gathered representative
families from all parts of the word. Here
the copper-colored, the saddle-hued, the
biss-eye and even the kinky-haired diplo-
MAT hob-nobs on equal footing with the
la.r-skinned Anglo-SaXon. and the wives
and daughters of one are as good, Off
cally speaking, as another's At a presi-
Genital reception, for example, the COM
minglng Of races presents a singular pic
ture such as can be seen nowhere else but
in foreign courts. Stately Lady Paunce-
fote, regal in trailing velvet robes, the ex-
ponent of all that is proudest and most
exclusive in the realm of the Queen, up
on whose possession the sun never sets;
tiny, saffroh-hued Mrs. WI, in grotesque
Oriental attire; French couptesses in Won
derful creations OF satin and lace; COM
fortable-looking, sausage-fed frous from
the German lega tons; the dark-tinted wife
of the colored minister from Hayti, and
darker East Indians; wives of Dutch and
Danish, Swedish and Russian, Turkish
and Japanese diplomats-each "a type" in
her own peculiar way, and well worth
studying as representing the best that her
country affords. And then the great
riety of religions represented-Cathollc
and Protestant, CHRISTIAN and infidel,
equally devout believers in Buddah, and
followers of Mahomet. and disciples of
COnfucious-each pursuing the route TO
heaven in which environment happened to
set her feet. Happily, i'm society there IS
nothing whatever on the surface to indi-
cate the gods TO which they pray.
Nor do we need to turn to the diplomats
for varying types of feminine beauty.
Perhaps we are prejudice6, but it seems to
as that for genuine, true-b.ue loveliness,
sin the altogether" whether of blonde or
brunette. the North-American race bears
off the palm. The young official circle
of Washington is a fair example of this.
There have been more young ladies in It
in previous seasons, but never handSomer.
Beginning with the three Mckinley nieces,
who are spending the winter in the White
I1ouse-Miss Duncan, Miss Barker and
Miss McKinley-sweeter, better bred, bet
Ter educated, and better dressed young la
dies never adorned capital society.
The daughters of Secretary Hitchcock
are both strikingly handsome girls, with
regular features, clear, rosy, complexion,
soft brown hair and stylish figures. They
also inherit the gentle, quiet manner
which makes their mother so universally
popular and that excellent thing in wo-
men," musical. distinct but low pitched
voices.
Miss Helen Hay, daughter of the Secre-
tary of State. is as much admired for
beauty as for intellect, and her younger
sisters not yet "out," bid fair to more
than keep UP the family reputation for
beauty of the blonde order In the Su-
preme Court clique there are number Of
lovely girls. All of the eight daughters
of the Chief Justice have been remarka-
bly, handsome, some of them very Junos
in their blonde, statuesque attractions;
and while most of them wore some time
ago borne off as matrimonial prizes, two
young girls yet remain a home who have
an ample share of the family's good looks.
Justice Mokenna has two very pretty
daughters in society, and a third, Miss
Hildegarde is yet in a convent school, but
will make her debut next year. Miss
Brewer is much admired brunette. Miss
Long and Miss Wilson, the two cabinet
girls, who fill their mothers places, have
been too often described and photograph
ed to need another word here. They are
universal favortes, end the intimate
friends of each feel, as George Elliott wrote
of another ITO have loved her is a lib
eral education" Mrs. Stanley-Brown, nee
Garfield, the last young girl who lived
in the White House. resides in Washing
ton, and is frequently met in the highest
circles of society. She resembles her slen~
der dark-eyed mother, rather than her
tall, blonde father; and, though herself
nearing 30 and the mother of several chill
dren, she looks like a last seasons bud"
Co.
granddaughters of Gen. u S. Grant, have
their mothers brown eyes and their faith
er 3 yellow hair, and the most charming
manners ina ginabie. Perhaps the pretti-
est girl in the diplomatic circle is Miss
Marguerite de Cassini, grand-niece of
count Cassini, the ambassador from Rus
sla- She Is very young, hardly more than
a school girl, but with a repose of man
ner That a dowager might envy She has
we tiower-lfke complexion peculiar to
Russian beauties, delicate features, dark
eyes and hair of the same nut-brown tint.
she speaks several languages fuently, has
been presented at every court in Europe,
and Travelled in nearly every corner of the
world, not excepting the wilds of Mon
goid. With a considerable fortune in her
own right, she is the heiress as well as
me Idol, Of her grand-uncle and is no
douot destined to make some way-up
match among the Russian nobility.
congressman, there is such an "embarrass-
fnent OF riches in the way of pretty girls
mat it is impossible to enmerate one
twentieth of them. Senator Caffery of
louisiana has two handsome girls one a
deputante not long ago Her name is a
singular one, Bethia, the same as that of
her fathers plantation, and is derived
rom Huguenot ancestors. She is fragile
ana graceful blonde, while her elder sis
Ter Is a most striking looking girl, dark,
with full, fine figure. Senators Pritch-
ard and Perkins are both blessed with
pretty daughters. Miss Cockrell daugh-
yer or the Missouri Senator is q lovely
blonde of the most arstocratic type. Sen
a'or Hawley's daughter is artistic and
"eVotes most of her time to the study of
Idlnting In the Corcoran School of Art.
sAe is very young and made her debut
only year ago
senator Foraker's girls are known as
he Three Graces." Miss Julia, the old
-, Is yet under 20, and has been in So
clety only a year, but is very much adj
hlred. The other two, not yet "out," have