The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-13
soME WASHINGTON GOSSIP
INV PEOPLE AND oPEN-AIR
sOClEi AMUsEMENTs.

uatrons and Maids
h"'O InpertendOm--soIne Account "
o. punting CIub-The Autonomous
the der, who Are Not
sho" - Addicted to Horseback
"spo- senator Depew and His
"-;de Enjoy a Day OF sunshine
poIatiaI Dining-room OF ohe
,,ers-The Dining-room OIL the
House-Some Points
the Hay Dirdng-roOm-other
~" of special Interest.
-,irqton. D. c.. April s.-The
,IabIe world of the National Cap
i''D'1 ,.,,icb should properly set the So
h'1 for the rest of the country,
eai s1,,.avs gone in a good deal for
~+.door amusements and open-alr eA-
'' ,rohably to revivify itself after
orduous indoor duties of the
l ,ington winter, in the way OF balls,
lions. heavy dinners, late sup
ct cetera. The coming season
pc tees "a dim all previous records in
athletic and sporting line, and
,,hodv with any pretension to So
standing is more or less in 1t.
rson earliest days horseback riding
&c been greatly in vogue in this semi
.4horn region-ever since the Colon
=, halles of Georgetown, Madame
Martha Washington and Dolly Madi-
used to make their visits in the
w 1afs because the roads were often
o daen in mud for carriage-w wheels.
.sgOradavs many are the maids and
irons of uppertendom who belong to
no chevy Chase hunting club and can
.asb across country, over bitches and
I@5gas and come Gin at the death
With the best of the men and dogs.
INV any gentlewoman can regard the
-nnning down and killing of some
harmless little beast in the light Of
snort. passes my old-fashioned compre-
bfnsion: but that is a mere matter of
taste and opinion. Bicycling, which
nod its day a few summers ago and
became almost obsolete, seems to have
bepn restored to popular favor and al
wadv bicycling parties and bicycle
ciubs are being formed, though the
Weather continues too cold for their
fnioyment. Last year, motor cycling,
Or "choo-choo'' racing as it was called,
furnished society with a new and
thrilling sensation, and will doubtless
he revived again, soon as winter quits
his disgraceful lingering in the lap of
spring OF course golfng, tennis,
piBg-pong and similar wild diversions,
like the poor, we have always; varied
BY occasional fencing bouts, polo,
cricket and baseball contests, among
the young Diplomats and their friends
By the way, the Countess Cassini, sew
efsl of the Cabinet girls, and other of
the younger social luminaries, who are
members of the exclusive fencing club,
lave become expert with the foils.
The annual season of horse-racing,
now in progress in the suburbs of D.
C. is being numerously attended, dis
pite the steady down-pour of weeping
skies-not only by all the roughs and
rOwdies in this part of the country,
but by the swagger set of Washington,
Dame Rumor says that not only boxes
CT gloves anad bon-bons, silken hose,
and jewels hastily stripped from fair
fingers, have been making lively ex-
changes among the gentler sex, but
also considerable of Uncle Samuels
circulating medium in good bank
notes. So it appears that Twentieth
Century New Women and Bachelor
Maids have taken to betting and gamb
ling as well as to racing and hunt
ing.
Another difference of opinion as to
whether the out-of-date Old Woman, as
examplifed by our housekeeping, stock
ing-darning grandmothers, were not,
after all, more advanced" types of
true womanliness. Just now the fad
Of the hour is automobiling. The au-
in Of
which Gen. Nelson A. Miles has the
Management, is proving the greatest
post-Lenten attraction we have had
for many years. 1t is held in the
Light Infantry Armory, and not only
all the automobile dealers are inter-
ested, but the Washington Automobile
Cub, and owners of the machines. All
KINDS are represented, electric, gaso-
line gas and steam, big and little, light
and heavy, from elegantly, upholstered
affairs for ladies, to clumsy hotel
ousses. Among the officers of the Ma
uonal Automobile Club are Senator
Clark of Montana, Chehib Bey, the
turkish minister, Senator Elkins, Adj
mlral Flint and several of our prom
ment bankers. Later this afternoon
occurs the much-prepared-for auto pa
Iade, IN which hundreds of gaily-dec-
orated machines, manipulated by their
owners. male and female, with ban
hers streaming and colors flying, will
tour the principal streets of the city.
among those who will join the pro-
cesslon, driven in their own machines,
VIII be the Baroness Hengelmuller.
COUNTESS Cassini, Mr.. WI, the Chinese
minister, his wife and son in another
yeaoW-satin-lined auto, Nine. Wilde,
we OF the Argentine minister, Mrs.
fairbanks, Mrs. Cushman K. Davis,
yrs James G.. Blaine, Jr., M. Cam
Coh' the French ambassador, Mrs.
Ihauncey M. Depew, MIR. John r. Nc
Lean, in short everybody who owns a
norseless carriage. Senator Clark of
montana, owns a $4,000 French flyer
winch he bought last year in Paris. It
was built in France. under the direc-
.loh Of well-known American manu-
tacturer, and has a seating capacity
VI Ten people. 1t will lead this after
Iooh parade, occupied by the Copper
hIAg and Gen. Miles, 1.-THE handsom-
est man in the army''-so says the fem
.Llne verdict. Senator Elkins claims
~ nave the speediest and all-around
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