The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-09

| a center of pigeon-blood rubies OF price
/ less value A single black ostrich tip
was fastened in her hair.
The new Secretary of the Treasury
/ and Mrs. Shaw are now at home in
/ the Arlington Hotel Their daughters
! did not come with them, as the elder,
/ Miss Enid, is travelling in Mexico, and
/ Miss Ina is at college. Miss Kate
Brice. daughter of the late Ohio SEN
ator is visiting in Washington, guest
at the British embassy.
While there are eighty-eight senators.
with their families, in Washington
during the season, only about twenty of
them enter into social life to any ap-
preciable degree. Among those who
occupy prominent homes here are Sem
ators Hanna and Foraker of Ohio, Ell
kins of West Virginia, Wetmore of
Rhode Island, Hawley of Connecticut
Mcmillan of Michigan, Fairbanks of
Indiana, Quay of Pennsylvania, Lodge
of Massachusetts and Jones of Nevada.
The present Senate includes a larger
quota of new members (twenty-one)
| than in any previous session for many
| years. 1t is a very young Senate, COM
| paritively speaking having more men
on the sunny side of forty in it than at
any other time in it's history. Bailey
of Texas celebrated his thirty-eighth
birthday last October; Kearns of Utah
is exactly six months, and Beveridge
of Indiana, one year his senior. Sen
ator Kittridge of South Dakota is fat,
fair and forty; Penrose and McLaurin
are each forty-one, and eight others are
under fifty. The Senior Solon, in point
of years, is Senator Pettus of Alabama,
who will be 81 on his next birthday. Of
far more interest than all this to the
dinners -givers of the capital and mat
rons with marriageable daughters IS
the fact that there are five particularly
eligible bachelors and twelve widowers
in the Senate-there were fourteen of
the latter until Depew and Blackburn
recently became benedicts. 1t is the
wives and daughters of the statesmen
rather than the senators themselves
who are of most Importance in the
social world For example, there is
charming Mrs Dubois. While Mr.. Du-
bois was a member of the Senate be-
| fore he was one of its most popular
| bachelors; but during his last winter in
| that body, he met at the home of his
colleague, Senator Pettigrew, a young
| woman who was attending the Mothers
Congress as a delegate from Dakota
| and whose address on child culture,
| from a kindergarten point of view, at
tracted much attention. To her the in
vulnerable bachelor capitulated at once
and a wedding in the following fall was
| the result Senator and Mrs. Dubois
live very quietly here, in house keeping
apartments on questionable Capitol
Hill; and no doubt the autocrat of their
modest establishment is the wee MISS
| Elizabeth, who, so Mrs. Dubois de-
clares, is all that a mother Congress
| ideal-babe should be.
Mrs. Ker, wife of the new senator
from Louisiana, was New Orleans
girl, who lost her parents when very
young and was educated in convent,
| which she left to become a bride. Sen
ator Fosters wife won an env1able
reputation as a hostess when her hus-
| band was Governor of his state. She
| has two young daughters, Bessie and
Rose, who will soon be introduced to
society. Mr.. Mitchell, wife of the sena-
| tor from Oregon, is a semi-invalid who
| finds that the climate Of the South OF
| France agrees with her better than
any other. SO she seldom comes to
| Washington, but spends most If her
| time with her daughter, the Duchess
| de Ia. Ruuchefoucauld, whose husband,
| besides being a Duke, is captain In
| the French army. Another daughter
Mrs. Hembold, is with the senator at
| the Dewey hotel in this city. She Is a
| very beautiful woman, as are all the
! Mitchell girls, with the loveliest neck
and arms imaginable. The wife OF
| Senator Carmack of Tennessee, be-
| longs to the group of young senatorial
| matrons. She is a tall and graceful
| blonde and a musician of decided aIbil-
| ity; though her happy husband says
| that since their baby arrived, about
| three years ago, he has made most OF
| the music for them. The wife of Sena-
| tor Dolliver is one of the most cultured
women in the senatorial circle. She is
| the daughter of a wealthy Iowa mer-
| chant and was given every advantage
| of education and travel. She graduated
| from Wellesley with the class of '89.
Senator McLaurin, once Governor of
| Mississippi, is a courtly gentleman OF
| the Old school, high in favor with the
| Southern contingency in Congress. He
| has been married since 1870, and has
seven living children. Three of the
| daughters are married to prominent
| business man of the Bayou state; one,
| Miss Belle, was a debutante last win
| ter, and two others are still school
| girls. The only son is attending Millsap
| College, at Jackson. Mrs. McLaurin
| does not take much part in social af-
| fairs. Miss Belle, who ably represents
| her, is a bright and handsome bru-
| nette, with all the vivaclty that char
| acterizes the Southern girl. She grad
uated from Belhaven College, about
two years ago, with the degree of
| bachelor of arts. She is an expert
horseback rider and golf player, and
| her exquisite voice has won her con-
| sidera bie reDlt a tiOn as a singer