The Washington times., 1901-07-11

Commander and Mrs. Robert Grosvenar
Peek have issued Invitations to the mar
riage OF their daughter Katherine to Sir.
Henry Ellis Iackey. OF the United States
Navy, which VIII take place Saturday
afternoon. July % at $50 O'Clock. at Ever
may, 1873 Twenty-eighth Street. George
town
Among the beneaciaries OF the s3.0o0.o0O
estate left BY the late Joseph +. Sheffield.
OF New Haven, are Mrs. William J.
Boardman. of Dupont Circle: Mrs Porter,
widow OF Mr.. J. Addison Porter, who was
secretary to President Mckinley before
~ health caused hts resignation. and
Countess de Castlemeuurdo formerly Miss
Edith Van Buren, who has 50 frequently
visited Washington as the guest of Mrs.
Hoardman. her aunt
The announcement that Mrs. Martha
Patterson. the only surviving child OF ex-
President Andrew Johpson died at
her home in Tennessee. recalls a vision
OF little Belle PattSrso:I. who was a pretty
child, with wonderfully long brown hair
at the time that hes mother was the
hostess Of the White Hose the Presi-
dents wife being too much Of an invalid
to assume the social obligations of the
First Lady in the Land. The daughter
Of Mrs Slower also spent tn greater part
of the time at the White House. She
was a triIe older than BeIle-a slim. fair
haired girl not particularly pretty, but
very lovable and demure. The two chill
dren were great chums and used regularly
to attend dancing school at Marinfs
Hall on E Street, now used by the
Government. They hob-nObbed with the
other pupils and interchanged visits fire.
quently with a dozen or more. Belle
openly declared that the Stover child
envied her long, erimpy hair. and the
other invariably expIained-gently but
with persistent detail-that il wasn't
crimpy by nature. but had to be plated
in pig tails and sometimes pressed with
a hot iron. and she also made point Of
showing her own Cinderella-like feet. and
requested whoever might be around to
compare them with Bellies. which were
quite as long as her hair" OF course
they were nOt-quite-but it always gave
the laurels of victory to Miss Slower. who
would graciously make up with the
vanquished one until both hair and feet
We're forgotten. Belle was forever doing
quaint. childish things-thOugh she dfd
not get herself into print so continuously
as Tad Lincoln before her. Everybody
knew and loved Tad. Once Belle and the
little Stover girl. with Mrs. Patterson
and one or two ladies' visiting at the
" nIJe House, went to the circus, and
Belle betrayed symptoms Of accepting the
invitation extended by the clown TO any
little girl who would like TO ride a pony
around the ring. She was bought OF BY
Mrs Patterson. who paid her then and
there. After the performance, as the
party were elbowing their way out. Belle
insisted upon stopping before the ~,aby
elephant and after an admiriug inter
view eXcitedIy declared her intention OF
buying ii on the spot. She had already
asked the man in charge what was the
price of the elephant before the party
could coax her away. Poor little Belle
died a long time ago, shortly after her
marriage. leaving little daughter who.
IL is TO he hoped. has grown up TO be as
captiyatingly pretty as her mother.
Mrs Patterson enjoyed excellent educa-
ttonaI advantages when girl. attending
seminary at Georgetown while her IA
ther was in Congress. She was consid-
cred a brilliant woman in that day of
highly educated women. In 1858 she mar
ried Judge David r Patterson TO whom
Andrew Johnson said when he sought her
hand She is my faYOrite child Judge
Patterson died about ten years ago The
only son. Andrew Johnson Patterson. still
lives. With the exception OF the time
spent in Nashville. when her father was
Military Governor. or when she was at
school or afterward mistress Of the White
House. Mrs. Patterson always lived in
Greenville-
Lieut.. w. W. Buchanan, United States
Navy. and his mother and sister. Mrs
and Miss Buchanan, of GAINESVILLE. ohio;
Mr and Mrs. O. Hyde. Mrs. N 3. Moore
and Mr.. G. Walton, OF this city, are at
the Washington, Asbury Park
Mr. and Mrs. c. Gains have issued inyi-
tations for the marriage OF their son.
George E Ruhl, and Miss Carrie E. Dam
mann. of Baltimore, daughter Of the late
DR.. L II. Dammann. Of that city, which
will take place Wednesday evening. July
a. al 8 O'clock. at COncOrdia Lutheran
Church. Twentieth and G Streets north
Marie Kraus, bridesmaid. DR.. William T.
Heyser, being best man, and the ushers
AIessrs. William German, ]. Powers, Leo
Zwissier. and James Madison.
Cen Robert Williams, Miss Williams.
and Miss Mildred Williams are at the
NetherwOOd Hotel, NetherwOOd, n. ].
\ New Yorker now in Paris writes as
follows from the French capital:
1.-The smart French society OF Paris,
which for so many years held out against
the English and Americans, has at last
accepted the inevitable, and this year the
Anglo Saxon contingent mas been received
on equal terms Formerly it was only
on sufferaRce that il entered these French
houses.
'sThe predictions Of those in position
to know is that IN five years time the
rich Americans will have taken posses
sion of Paris society. and their entertain
ments viii be crowded BY the haute
loblesse of France.