Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-29

Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal.
Washington, March 23.-At last
have time to write you the long
promised letter about my winter in
Washington. | have SO much to tell
you il is hard to know where TO begin.
The advent of Ash Wednesday has put
a stop for a time to the great gayeties
Of the season, tut don't for moment
think we are negotiating here, or that
all society 10 in sackcloth and ashes
and fasting and prayer the only order
of the day, for you must know Wash
ippton is not noted for keeping Lent IN
the strictest way, and although dances
and receptions have ceased, dinners
still go on. For Washington's fouf
hundred must dine, and what is
dining at home to the fashionable |
woman, only an evening wasted the
inner man, or woman, is satisfied. |
But, VOLTA tout.
Apropos of dinners, they have been |
more a la mode than ever this winter,
which is saying great deal, fol
Washington hostesses have always been
known as great dinner-givers. l think
partly owing to the fact that available
men are very scarce and one has to
limit the size of their entertainments
to the small number OF society men.
want to tell you in this letter all the
latest on dts in the social world, so
suppose / had letter begin with the
Bromley Pauncefote wedding, as the
most important person here always
takes precedence, and that event
really turned this small town end
for end. This great capital is small
town, you know, after all, and our
neighbors' affairs interest us more
than anything else, not even excepting
the Boer war, the Quay case and the
Clark Investigating committee. The
all-important question several weeks
ago was, would | be invited to the
swell function at the English embassy,
when the third and most attractive
daughter of Sir Julian Pauncefote
would be married to Robert Bromley.
The many heart burnings and iealousies
that that event caused and brought to
light would be too numerous to
mention. Those that are not invited
thought they above all Others should
have been, for they had entertained
the Ambassadors family, and Mrs.
So and So, who was invited, had not.
Alas alas! the old Biblical rule fol-
lowed, and some were chosen and some
we're left! Poor Lady Pauneefote had
to receive the wedding guests seated,
being too i'll to stand from the effect of
severe cold, and disappeared before
.he breakfast was over Even the
,olored population was excited over
the event, and / overheard two old
darkies talking on the street just before
the mystic hour of noon on the great
day. One called to the other, as be
was going along, "Say, Jim, are you
eoin' to dis here weddin' today?''
what weddin'?'' "Why, you OLE
fool, Preacher Pauncefote's gal goin
to marry Mistah Bromley
Historic old st. Johns was crowded
to the utmost, but unlike the othe
two swell weddings that have takel
place there during the past year.
refer to Miss Jane Fuller's, the daugh
Miles, the daughter of Gen. Nelsol
A. Miles. it was not over-crowded, AM
those holding the precious cards coul,
get in. The crowd outside, however
was very great, and enterprising wome
had early secured good places and som
in their enthusiasm had the courage
kneel down and peep under the awning
SO they at least could see the hem c
her garment.
The last great ball of the season Wa
the Assembly, held in the beautifr
ball room of the Arlington Hotel, an
which Small, the florist, made like
loiIy oSUno WIN ShmbIiSal pDauplc'
palms and orchids. Of course | sa
every one there who was any one, br
let me whisper and don't breathe it, I
say | told you, | also saw many other
! heard all around me from Mrs. UltI
Ultra and Mrs. Millionaire: "Who ca
that be, and there's some one else
never saw before. How did such poop
get mere? Who asked them?" Wht
That's the question. The almigh
dollar which reigns supreme he
admits all.
At swell ladies' luncheon, fe
weeks ago, heard we'll -known al
say in reply to a question: "Ye
eight dinners will do itr' Eight di
ners will do what? asked in astonis
ment. Open the fast-closed doors
society to one who has before knock
in vain by other methods And so
is. and has been especially so ii
winter. By eight we'll arranged a
judicious dinners several aspiri
matrons have found the open sesal
to Washington's -four hundred" L
cave jewellers, or, in other words, I
old residents, as they are So oft
called, have been forced to take a ba
seat in the city of their birth, and I
new and aggressive Wcsterners wi
their millions are gradually pushi
them out of the social world altogeth
The old fashioned simplicity and b
pitality for which Washington v
once so Justly famed, is now almos
thing of the PAST, and few hostes
have the courage to entertain With
the adiunots of champagne 6
terrapin, and the only aristocracy Il
exists here today is the arstocraey
money, even political position, uni
accompanied byswealth is not much
factor In Washington's social VOL
think we have quite gotten used
having the Admiral of the Navy
Mrs. Dewey in our midst, and "
the exception of few strangers t
cease to attract any great attention
their goings and comings. Mrs. De-
Is entirely different in manner fl
her charming and atfable brother, j
TX. Mclean, who always has ST
and nod for every Que. Perhap:
wants much and she having sect
the great admiral wants nothing. So
times such worldly considerations {
alter ones manner in greeting Il
acquaintances and also their friend
l see by the New York ''yel
journals that our morals have
attacked by our patronage of {
Nethersole in her disgusting and
moral play, "Sapho. 2" l really d
know how to defend our reputation,
j must admit she played to crow