The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-08


nome IN order for the season, has re-
turned to Washington. They paid a
visit TO friends in Boston before leav-
ing the East.
mrs. kean, mother of Senator Kean
OF New Jersey, has engaged the Judge
Lorlng place, at Pride's Crossing,
mass Tor the summer, and will go to
IL about June 20. After Congress closes
she Will be joined by her daughter,
MISS kean, who has been one of the
most prominent hostesses of Washing
ton during the past season. Misses Lucy
ana Bessie kean, younger daughters
OF the family, will sail for Europe late
IN June, to pass the summer in Nor
way and Sweden. Mrs. Fairbanks
leaves Washington on Saturday of this
week. After attending the commence
ment at Princeton, where one of her
sons Will be graduated, she will pay a
visit, for the same purpose, to another.
son at Yale. Then she will spend a
snort time visiting in Connecticut, but
Will not close her Washington home
permanently until the session of Con-
gress is over. And when will that
be?' is anXiously asked by many good
wives and mothers who are divided be-
tween the duty of taking their children
away from this most uncomfortab BILE
and unhealthy summer city, and disin-
clinatlon to desert their worked
husbands of the House and Senate who
show no signs of letting up on Cuban
reciprocity and the Philippine question.
The other day Senator Hansborough
answered the familiar query, when is
Congress going to adjourn?" by as
sorting that it will die as Pat OBrien
did. And how did he die?" was the
natural question. why, haven't you
heard?" said Hansborough. 1T was
this way: A friend of Pats met an
other friend Pats going to be hung,
he said mOurnfully. Oh no., it's mis-
taken We are, replied the friend. In
dade, but he is was the positive an
swer. He was convicted of murder in
the first degree and that means hang
ing No, We blatherin' idiot insisted
the friend. They don't hang men now
| days for nothin, at all. They just kill
them by elocution.'
Mrs. and Miss Fuller, wife and
daughter of the Supreme Court. JUS
| tice, will go the their cottage at Sor-
ento, Maine. some time next week.
Mr.. Weston Fuller has already arrived
| at Sorrento for the season. Justice and
Mrs. Horace Gray will spend the sum-
mer at Nahant, their cottage there
having just been put in order.
Senator Cockrel will be joined this
week by his second daughter, Miss
| Anna Ewing Cockrell, a debutante of
next winter, who for several years has
been a pupil at the Convent of the
! Sacred Heart, in Paris. Like her Sis
ter Miss Marion Cockrell, who since
the death of their mother has presid-
ed over Senator Cockrell's home in
Washington and Missouri, Miss Anna
| is a handsome blonde and likely to be-
very popular in society.
i i G
the late Senator Mcdonald, of In
diana-who barely escaped the Vice
Presidency a few years ago, you re-
member-has given up her home in
Indianapolis to again become a resi-
| dent of Washington. She is now living
with her brother and niece, in modest
| home on 18th street Previous to her
marriage to Senator Mcdonald she
was an employe of the United States
Treasury for a number of years; and
was then, as now, a very beautiful
woman, with dark eyes, snow-white
| hair and the carriage of an Empress.
The engagement is announced of
Representative Edmond S. Blackburn,
| of North Carolina, and Miss Louis
Parker, Washington belle of consid-
cradle wealth. The wedding will not
occur until near Christmas next; and
meantime the young lady will
| go with her parents to their
summer home at .Penobseat Bay,
near Camden, Me. Last year
Mr. Parker built a spacious residence
| there, which mis- wife and daughter
have recently furnished, with a view
| to entertaining a succession of house
parties throughout the summer. Miss
Parker is a brunette, tall and grace
full, fitting mate for 1.-The handsomest
man in Congress" as Mr.. Blackburn
is called. She is also a brilliantly edu-
! Gated gtrl-a fine linguist, we'll versed
! in literature and music, and up in
all the milder forms of athletic sports.
She is especially devoted to horseback
riding, and can gallop across country,
leaping fences and bitches. with the
best of the country club paper-chasers.
Representative Blackburn has been
honored with several positions of trust
in his own state and was serving as
assistant United States attorney be-
! fore he was nominated for Congress.
! He is still young, and regarded as GER
| tain to make a brilliant career in the
| law. He was elected from Winston.
in the Eighth district of North Caro-
lima; but the Democrats have recently
redistricted the state, and he moved to
Wilkesboro. Now he and Mr.. Kluttz,
the veteran Democratic campaigner,
and the latter is expected by his party
to fight his way back into Congress,
to the defeat and confusion of young
| Mr. Blackburn" Whether he can do
| it or not remains to be seen. At any
rate, a battle royal will be fought to
the bitter end between these two in
the next Tarheel campaign.
One OF the most interesting figures
in Washington just now is Mr.. James
Lane Allen, the novelist, who wrote
1.-THE Choir Invisible" "A Kentucky
CARDINAL" and many other books
which have brought him into wide IA
vor with the reading public of Ameri-
ca. In appearance he is about what
one would expect from his books-tall,
blonde and good looking, though thin
haired and specialized; and decidedly
modest as to his own productions. He
is fond of hunting and outdoor pur
suits, and has just come from the
great game preserves of the Nittany
Gun and Rod Club in Center county,
| Pennsylvania, where even last week,
November temperature made fires and
blankets indispensable to comfort
Saws Mr. Lane: zone of the pleasant
est things in the life of a writer is the
reception of letters of ecomium and
kind appreciation that come to him
from people with whom he has no per-
sonal acquaintance. A great many
beautiful letters have been sent me
by persons 1 never saw. They are a
source of tremendous encouragement
too, to an author, coming as they do
from those who can have no Interior
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