The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-15
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
PEOPLE RETURNING TO THE oApI-
TAI CITY FROM SUMMER RESORTS.

tonians-Fhe story of "HObsOuss
Choice"-The Countess Anna Cas-
teIIaine's Troubles Carnegie's
Better HaIf-The Ways in which
She Finds Amusement-TheG Gowns
onatiOD-The Fisheries ON the Po-
tOmac Below Washington-Other
Matters of Interest.
Washington, Sept. 13.-The hosts that
annual flee from the fiery furnace
of a Washington summer are returning
en- masse from their mountain and sea-
side and country resorts considerably
earlier this year than usual. With the
opening of hundreds of long closed
houses, theater posters all a-bloom and
erstwhile empty avenues suddenly alive
with pedestrians and stylish turn outs
the capital is fast losing that forlorn
appearance of some banquet hall de-
serted" which generally characterizes
it from the first of May to the middle
of October. But there are no festivi-
ties, nor will there be until the shadow
that rests upon the White House is
lightened. People are too honestly
grieved about Mr. Mckinley, and the
even greater danger to his delicate wife
should she learn the full extent of the
calamity that has befallen her hus-
band, to give a thought to the ordin-
airy gaieties. When the shocking news
of the attempted assassination of the
President reached Washington, all re-
ception and dinner invitations were i'm
mediately cancelled, theaters closed
and people crowded around the bulle-
tin boards day and night; which goes
to show that society" is not the sell
fish thing that some would paint it,
but is composed of very human men
and women who have hearts and souls
like other people.
Invitations have just arrived In
Washington for the wedding reception
of Gen. John B. Gordon's only daugh-
ter, which occurs on the evening of
Sept. is. at Sutherland" the country
home of the Gordons, near Atlanta,
Ga, and many friends and relatives
will make the long journey to attend
it. 1t will be the most notable wedding
of the year in the South, both from the
standpoint of the brides beauty and
grace, as we'll as the prominence of
her family, above and below Mason
groom, Mr.. Orion Bishop Brown is in
charge of extensive business enter
prises in Maine, and the young couple
will make that state their future home.
A most interesting season-end rumor
has f1oated from Newport to the fur
thest ends of the United States, to the
effect that the redoubtable hero of
Santiago; Capt. Richmond Pearson
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charms of Miss May Van Allen, a New
York beauty and heiress. This is one
instance where "Hobson's choice" does
not mean the sole alternative.
The sad news comes from Paris that
Countess Anna de Castellanes nose is
altogether out of joint in the affections
Of her husbands family since her faith
er's millions have been made ducks and
| brakes of 1t is not only the loss of
| the money, and the disgrace of COM
parative financial failure, but Countess
Anna has an unfortunate habit of
making herself ridiculous now and then
which. in French society, is the one
objectionable sin. Her latest achieve
ment in that line was in dressing the
part of Marie Antoinette at fashion
able fete, which her short stature.
awkward shoulders and by no means
handsome face made conspicuously un-
suitable. The energetic old Marquis
who has hitherto been Count Boni's
hacker, has transferred his indispensi-
BILE support to the young sister-in-law,
Countess Stanislaus, formerly Miss
Terry, who has beauty and tact but
never any money worth mentioning
The latter has announced her intention
to make her husband the head of the
family, and the all-powerful Marquis
evidently agrees with her, as he is
pushing Stanislaus with might and
main into the Chamber of Deputies,
while ignoring his elder brother. STAN
islaus is only 81 years old-the very
youngest of the $1,000 Mayors with
which France is blessed (?). So, while
Count Boni is off shooting cartridges
and squandering what remains of his
wife's share of Jay Gould's money, his
brother is hustling for votes, aided by
his wife, mother, uncle and the rest of
the family.
Though all the world has heard
great deal about Mr.. Andrew Carnegie,
very little has been said about his
better half''-for the simple reason
that Mrs. Carnegie, wise, domestic soul
that she is, fights shy of personal
paragraphists" and has a shuddering
horror of the professional interviewer.
She utterly declines to pose as Ter
son of public interest, preferring to Re
regarded only as the thrifty mistress
of Skibo Castle, whose highest aim is
to initiate the Scriptural example of
the woman who "looketh we'll to the
ways of her household and eateth not
the bread of idleness." The few who
have the honor of her intimate ac-
quaintance declare that she is the most
charming of house mothers, bright
clever, vivacious, making everybody
happy about her. and although a mod
ell hostess, she seems always to stu
diously avoid saying or doing anything
which might impress the visitor as Of
sufficient importance to repeat to the
outside world AS everybody knows,
Mrs. Carnegie is more than a score of
wears younger than her husband. The
laird of Skibo did not marry till rather
late in life. after the death of his
mother, to whom he was tenderly at
tached. There is but one child, win
some little Scotch lassie, in whose
name Skibo Castle was purchased.
Among other accomplishments, Mrs.
Carnegie is a clever photographer and
spends much of her leisure at the
work. Her husband remarked the other
day. "A great thing is this instantane-
ous photography. One has not time to
look ones very worst by trying to look
pleasant
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