The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-22
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS. SUNDAY NOVEMBER o. 1908

cago. Miss Shaw has gone to Phila-
delphia to spend a week with friends.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Payne,
who are among the most hospitable
hosts in Washington, opened their Sc
ries of entertainments the other even
ing with beautiful dinner party. The
guests were the Speaker Of the House
and his daughter, Miss Cannon; the
Belgian Minister and Baroness Mon
cheur, the Secretary of the Navy Gen.
Young, Mrs. Leonard Wood, Mrs. Hunt,
wife of the Governor of Porto Rico,
and several others. Miss Louise Jones,
the favorite niece of the host and host
ess, who has come on for the winter,
also entertained at luncheon the same
day. Her company included a dozen
we'll known young ladies'
The newly appointed British ambas-
sador, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, is
on the high seas en- route to this coun-
try. He will come direct to Washing
ton upon his arrival in America. Lady
Durand and their daughter will make
several visits in England before join
ing the ambassador in the American
capital, which they will probably reach
just before Christmas.
Baron Sternburg, the ambassador
from Germany, was obliged to defer
his return to America another week,
in obedience to a request from the En-
peror The ambassador now hopes to
sail on the Moltke Nov. "a.
Lieut.. Won Bredow, late attache of
the German embassy, and now on leave
of absence, will not return to Wash
ington, greatly to the regret of belle
dom. He has been assigned to duty
| ruVff h hi -.
Guards, at Berlin. The rumored en-
gagement of this popular young SOL
| der to a youthful American heiress
was one of the pleasant rumors at Bar
Harbor last summer. The story still
lacks official confirmation, but is re-
! garded as one of the interesting GER
tainties Of the near future.
The Earl and Countess of Yarmouth
are expected in Pittsburg shortly, on
their way to attend the wedding of Mr.
| Josiah c. Thaw. Mrs. Thaw will
give a reception at Lyndhurst for the
newly married couple and her titled
| daughter and son-in-law. The Var
mouths will spend the winter in this
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Carnegie of
Cumberland Island, off the coast of
| Georgia,
Representative Butler Ames Of Mas
sachusetts has leased Maj. Gen. Cor
| bins house for the winter. He will
have with him for the season his young
| sister, Miss Ames, whom he will pre-
| sent to Washington society. Miss Ames
| is said to closely resemble her mother
| blanche Butler, the beautiful daugh-
| ter of Gen. B. F. Butler), and has the
same delicate features and exquisite
coloring. Another debutante in whom
| Washington society is much interested
is Miss Catharine Cullom Ridgely,
| daughter of Hon. William Barrel
| Ridgely, controller of the currency, and
| granddaughter of Senator Cullom of
illinois. Her mother, who was sena-
| tor and Mrs. Cullom's only daughter,
| died about year ago. Miss Ridgely
is just now in Chicago, where she
went to be presented to the society of
that city at tea to be given by her
aunt Mrs. William A. Vincent. on
Nov. II. The young lady expects to re-
main in Chicago two or three weeks,
and just before Christmas will make
| her Washington debut under the aus
pices of her grandmother.
1t was a rather gruesome joke, but
one could not help smiling at it. On
| the last page of the new Congressional
| Record, copies of which have just been
distributed, is an alphabetical list of
$ majors and officers of the Senate, to-
Their with their present places of
aSode. At the bottom of the first
column appears REV. w. H. Milhurn
D. D., Chaplain" with a blank space
left for the address. The good man
died a few months ago, which fact it
! appears that the editors of the Record
had not yet discovered.
No doubt you have heard of the lady
who wanted quickgold in her Their
| mometer, because quicksilver was so
very common. Her spirit is emulated
if not outdone by a new fad which
lately prevails here in fashionable
houses. Whoever has a CRATE or other
| open fire has also a big ornamental
box of some sort, deliberately trimmed
with antique-looking grass, or burned
black to simulate doings in old Nuren-
| burg. In it you will see nothing but
| pile of neat paper bagS-red, blue,
| rose color, even creamy-white, which
bear no suggestion of coal dirt of gravel
about them. Each, however, is filled
| with black Jumps, arranged and tied
| up in the lower regions of the man
sion; and really, the idea is not a bad
one. Thus the coal box is positively
a thing of beauty, with all that red
| or blue against the brass, instead of
| the usual eye-sore one used to see.
| Speaking of devices that masquerade
| as something else, lovely ones in the
| line of cupboards are very much the
! rage just now at the House end of
the Capitol. They came in since the
"canteen," to say, went out. Most of
| the cupboards are done in plate glass
and mahogany. You approach what
| looks like a nice marble wash basin, and
| press a secret button. Presto! The
mirror turns on it's hinges and an ar
ray of hospitable bottles is disclosed
| to view. To be a chairman of COM
mittee and not to have ones own special
cupboard, is nowadays to argue ones
| self far in the rear of the procession
| at the south end of the United States
| Capitol Therefore cupboards abound
They are on the gallery floor, and they
are away down under the building,
| and all the way between, strung along
| beneath the tarrace and the subter-
ranean corridors. The w. c. T. u,
| which is about to send a delegation to