The evening times., 1900-01-04
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

| SCUlAL AND fEhSUNAL.
President and Mrs. Mckinley gave the
| first state dinner of the official season of
| 1900 last night when their guests were the
members of the Cabinet and other dstin-
| guished persons.
| The table was laid in the main corridor,
| which was embowered in foliage and fe5-
tooned with smiax about the ceiling and
chandeliers. The mirror rests were
banked with ferns and Mexican moss,
| from which bloomed bridesmaid roses and
| white hyacinths that contrasted artistical-
iy with the scented border of poinsetta
leaves. The floral colorS of the table were
pink and green, and the candles clustered
in the massive gilt candelabra burned
under rose pink shades. The circular
mound before the Presidents plate was
composed of delicate pink begonia, the
waX-like blossoms glowing amid luxurious
fronds of maiden hair fern On either side
of the mass of bloom were long stemmed
bridesmaid roses in crystal vases that rose
from a. base of green. Alternately down
the tables snowy length were plats OF
ferns and primulas, whose tiny pink flow
ers suggested the ld-fashioned primrose.
| The color scheme was carried out in the
varying shades of pink, each tiny dish laid
on spray Of delicate fern.
The East Room was tropical with palms.
The window recesses were filled with eXo-
tic plants and the centre of the floor had
been transformed into a garden of green
cry and bloom. The opalescent bulbs that
star the ceiling were wreatbed with smilaX
which were swung in loops from wall to
wall. The mauteis glowed with brides
nd D,Nin 70 IAI
with gorgeously tinted leaves, and before
the great mirrors were suspended wreaths
of Christmas holly. AS the President join
cd the guests in the East Room the Marine
Band, stationed in the conservatory began
programme OF inspiring music that con-
tinued throughout the banquet The Presi-
dent escorted Mrs. Hay and Mrs. Mckin-
ley went into dinner with the Secretary of
State
The additional guests were: The Secre-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs. Gage, the
Secretary of War and Mrs. Root the At
torney General. the Postmaster General
and Mrs. Smith, the Secretary OF the Navy
and Mrs. Long, the Secretary of the In
terror and Mrs. Hitchcock, the Secretary
of Agriculture and Miss Wilson, the Presi
dent pro tempore of the Senate and Mrs
Frye the Speaker Of the House and Mrs.
Henderson. Senator Allison. Senator and
Mrs. Teller. Senator and Miss Nor
gan, Senator and Mrs. Foraker.
Senator Hale. Senator and Mrs. Jones
fArkansas). Senator and Mrs. Chandler,
Senator and Mrs. Plat (ConnecttcuO,
Senator McLaurin. Senator and Mrs. Fair
banks. Senator and Mrs. Hawley Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Payne, Representative
Richardson, Representative Cannon, Rep
resentatiyc and Mrs. GrOsvenor Represen
tative and Mrs. Hepburn. Representative
and Mrs. Mcclellan. Representative and
Mrs. BroSius, Representative and Mrs.
Hull. Representative and Mrs. Dalzell. !
Representative Bsbcock Mr. and Mrs |
Robert Pitcairn. Mrs. Z. F. Pierce. Mrs. |
Parsons, Mrs. Sheridan, Miss Hay, Miss |
Root, Miss Griggs. Miss Hitchcock, Miss |
Sarah Duncan. and Miss Grace Mckinley.
Mrs. Hobson. of \ Street, assisted by !
ner niece Miss Lay, entertained at a small |
tea for young people yesterday afternoon. |
Their guests of honor were Miss Edith |
Catlin. Of New York. and Miss Mary Sar !
gent, of Boston. In the daintily appointed |
tea room the Hon. Lillian Pauncefote and /
Miss Ernst presided. Mrs. HObson well |
The Cabinet hostesscs were the recip- |
tents OF an unusually large number OF |
callers yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Hay was
assisted by her daughters the Misses Hay,
and by Miss Nicolat. Mrs. Gage had with |
her her daughter, Mrs. Pierce and her |
house guests, Miss Ruth Crandon and Miss |
Jennie Cox. Mrs. Root was assisted by |
Mrs. Cowles. Miss Gertrude Clagett. Miss
Hagner and Miss Root. Mrs Hitchcock held
one OF the pleasantest Ievees of the after
noon. Her assistants included her daugh-
ter, Mrs Shepherd, and Miss Greedy Miss
Wilson was at home to a throng OF visitors.
and, as usual. she was assisted by several
f.rDr9, ,iyl.ap Dc .,yNl
Mrs. Fairbanks. 1890 Massachusetts Ave-
nue., will not receive today.
Mrs. Somers and Miss Eddy will be at
home Fridays in January from to at
l1C0 NJ Street
Mrs Clark. wife of Senator Clark. of Wy
oming, will not receive until January %
Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage and the Misses
Talmage will receive tomorrow from
until $50 o'clock when they will be as
sisted by their guests, Mr. and Mrs Nc
'utcheon of Pittsburg. Miss Paxton of New
York, and Miss Gosnell of Baltimore.
Miss Will Allen Dromgoole and Mrs. A.
: Pettus will be at home to their friends,
Monday evenings during this month at the
Congressional Hotel.
Mrs. Charles G. Dawes gave a luncheon
u twelve covers this afternoon in honor
# Mrs. Pearce, of Chicago. daughter of .
secretary Gage, who is visiting her pa Z
ents.
Miss Jessie Gary. who has been spending
portion of the Christmas holidays with
secretary and Mrs. Gage, has returned to
Baltimore. 4
The Patria Sinks Again.
DOVER, Jan. 4.-The steamship Patria,
f the Hamburg American line, which I
aught fire in the English Channel last No
ember and afterward sank, was floated
his morning. While being towed toward I
he land off Deal she suddenly sank again
nd two persons were drowned.
Sympathy may help
a wounded heart
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