The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-21

hair, or a modest bunch of violets in
her belt. instead of the half-bushel or
so with which many fashionable young
ladies' overload themselves. Old timers
at White House doings may miss the
Rantels banked with flowers. mirrors.
pictures and columns wreathed with
smilax. corners massed with palms,
and pink and white azaleas in straight
rows along the corridors; but they are
fain TO confess that Mrs. Roosevelt's
two or three tall vases in each room.
containing perfect specimens of roses,
orchids, or other flowers. is decidedly
more artistic.
Saturday evening the President gave
a stag dinner. which included the
Postmaster General, the Secretary of
the Navy and sixteen congressional
guests; and Monday evening a COM
pany Of twenty ladies and gentlemen
dined with Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt
Between 400 and 500 invitations have
been issued for Mrs. Roosevelt's next
tea, which are weekly events looked
forward to with much pleasure by the
social world of Washington. The
First Lady" has sent to the men,
bers of Rebekah Lodge, I. o. G. T.,
of Oyster May, who are holding a fair
this week, a Mexican bride and whip,
made of brilliant colored horse-hair.
woven by Mexican Indians. 1t is to be
sold for the benefit of the Lodge. Miss
Alice Roosevelt. who is being enter
tanned with her debutante cousins in
New York city, viii not return to
Washington until just before Christi
mas. AT ball the other evening,
where the six Misses Roosevelts now
In society were present. Miss Alice
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white satin, and wreath of white and
green.
Senator and Mrs. Depew will spend
Christmas in New York. Early next
week they will go to Asheville, N. c.,
to be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Vanderbilt over New Years
Day. On their return they will bring
with them a party of house guests. who
will attend the famous diplomatic re-
ception on Jan. s. Mrs. Depew is look
ing particularly handsome and happy
since her return from abroad and re-
covered health, and nobody seeing the
genial senator can believe that he has
lived half the years he confesses to.
Mrs. Depew is expecting with great
pleasure a visit from her sister, Mrs.
Won Andre Of London, who is widely
known as one of the most beautiful
women in England. where she has re-
sided several~years. Senator and Mrs.
Depew will celebrate the first anniver-
sary of their marriage on Saturday,
Dec, 81.
Some notable changes in army and
navy circles will mark the coming sea-
son, the most important being the re-
turn TO official society of Mrs. Dewey,
wife of the Admiral of the navy, who,
nearly ever since her marriage has
been i'll. or in mourning. or for some
other reason. unable to take her prop
er place in official life. She is at pres
ent in New York, laying in "gaud and
gear" for the brilliant future, but will
return to spend Christmas in Washing
ton. On New Years Day she will
throw open the historic house which
the people presented to her husband on
his return from Manila. for her first
official" reception. The Admiral will
be absent being still engaged in the
maneuvers at Culebra: but Mr.. Moody,
the bachelor Secretary of the Navy,
will abandon his K. street residence
for the day to assist Mrs. Dewey in
receiving and play host for the high
est officer of his service. AS the Dew
ey house is not large, the reception will
be limited to the officers of the army
and navy,
The largest debutante tea of the sea-
son was given last week by Mai. Gen.
3. M. B. Young, to present his daugh-
ter, Elizabeth, to society. Mai. Young
has recently taken house In Nine
teenth street, and 1t was in gala dress
for the occasion, adorned with wagon
loads of flowers sent by military friends
to the debutante. An elder sister,
Mrs. John H. Gibbon of Philadelphia,
acted as hostess. and Mrs. Leonard
Wood, Mrs. Henry C. Corbin, Mrs. Re-
Der. Mrs. Bates, and other army ladies'
assisted in doing the honors. The same
afternoon witnessed another Coming
out" In army circles, when the daugh-
ter on Col. de Witt made her debut
She is blonde of the purest type and
looked very lovely in girlish white null
and Valencienes lace, carrying an arm
full of La France roses--the gift of
her brother, Lieut.. dewitt, a young
soldier Just home from the the Phil
ippines. The hostess, in Manila gauze
and Roman pearls, was assisted by a
bevy OF bright young army girls; and
later in the evening, forty or more
young officers from the medical corps
now stationed in the city, came in a
body for an hours dancing.
The other day Senator Cockrell of
Missouri, made formal announcement
of the engagement of his eldest daugh-
ter, Marion, to Mr.. Edison p. Gal
laudet, son of the president of Gallu-
Diet College for the Deaf and Dumb at
Dendall Green, near Washington. Miss
Cockrell has lived all her life here and
is greatly beloved. Since her mothers
death, few years ago. she assumed
full charge of her fathers household,
at the age of Is, and has since occupied
the unique position of a maiden hos
tess of the senatorial circle. Her edu-
cation, begun in this city and COM
pleted in Paris at the Convent of the
Assumption has developed that which
stands as the best type of Amer
lean womanhood. Mr.. Gallaudet grad
uated from Yale In the class of 1893,
and was one of the crack athletes of
that university, as well as honor man
of his class. For three years after his
graduation he was an instructor at
Yale, but Is now associated with the
ship building firm of Cramp & Co., at
Philadelphia, to which city he will take
his bride. Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Ludlow entertained Miss Cockrell and
Mr.. Gallaudet at luncheon yesterday,
the latter having come over from the
City of Brotherly Love to celebrate
with his fiancee the announcement of
their engagement. Mrs. e. M. Gallau-
det will give an afternoon reception
at Kendall Green on Dec. 26, in honor
of her future daughter-in-law. 1t is a
woman's undoubted privilege to change
her mind, and pretty little Miss Hoy
Is exercising her perrogative. Some
time ago her betrothal to M. Pierre
Rogestvensky, second secretary of the
Russian embassy, was duly announced.
After fortnight or so society was as
tonished at its cancellation; and last
week was positively electrified by the
announcement of its renewal. II Miss