Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-12-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Chattv Gossip About Congressional
Dinner Parties at the White
House.
tFrom our regular Correspondent

(From our regular Correspondent
The assembling OF congress was a
signal for the opening of the season
for dinner-giving, which il is needless
to say is much more popular with the
senator or representative than any
other form of social entertainment
in fact, it is the only sort of an enter
tainment that many OF them can be
induced to attend. The President
and Mrs. Roosevelt have started a
series of small Congressional dinner
parties which will be kept up all this
month. Two or more of them will be
given every week, with the number of
guests ranging from twenty to forty,
the majority of which will be sena-
tors and representatives and their
wives and daughters. These are not
formal affairs like the state dinners
given later in the season, which are
dreade d by many prominent men on
account of their ultra dignity and
dullness, bat just like dinner party
where all the guests are friends. If
it be fair to judge by the talk of those
who have attended one or more, a
Roosevelt dinner party is very jolly
affair.
Mrs. Dominis, once known as the
queen of Hawaii, arrived IN Washing
ton this week with three companions
two men and woman-and seven
teen trunks. One of the men calls
himself cher majesty's private secre-
tary,' and that he brought his nerve
along with him was shown when he
entered on a hotel register, III. M.
Queen Liliaiokolani." | don't know
what she is queen of unless it be
clubs, which is in keeping with her
rich mahogany color. 'Her majesty"
would not condescend to see a COM
mon newspaper man, but her bust
ling 'private secretary" said that she
contemplated taking a house aud
spending the winter in Washington,
among the friends she made here
three winters ago. Wonder who
Washington before she had house,
but it was understood that about the
only visitors she had were a few silly
toadies, some young men and women
who used to make a practice of polk
ing fun at her before her face while
pretending to treat her as though she
were a queen, and some chronic bor-
rowers who tapped the royal purse
quite heavily. Surely a chocolate
colored scion of has-been ten-cent
royalty would know better than to
call such things friends. 1t would
seem to an unpreJudiced person that
the color line was too rigidly drawn
in Washington to make it a pleasant
place of residence for a colored celeb
rity, even if Booker Washington did
eat a White House dinner. Such
things are exceptional in Washington.
The home of Hon, and Mrs. John
W. Foster has for years been popular
with the most celebrated men and
women to be met in Washington, and
now that they are in new and
larger house it is likely to be more
popular than ever. For the first
time they have ample room to show
the many beautiful works of art they
have gathered in all quarters of the
world during their travels, and the
display is one calculated to arouse
the envy of the managers of many
public art institutions. just now
the Fosters have their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lansing for
guests and are expecting DR.. and Mrs.
Dulles of WATERFOWL, n. Y. They
have cards out for two dinner parties
this week.
Another notable Washington resi-
dence is that recently bought from
Mrs. George Fraser by ex-Congress-
man and Mrs. Thropp of Pennsylvania,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thropp are now person
ally uperintending the redecoration
and furnishing of the house, which
will be when completed, one OF the
handsomest in the city. The large
square hallway is finished in paneling
of English oak, with an upper wall of
gold and old ivory, with a massive
marble mantel. The flreboard is con-
tinued either side into two marble
seats and the entire lighting is from