Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-10
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Residents of Notable Homes
Are Changing.
NEW COMERS EXPECTED
HosPITALITIEs AT, CAPITAL AND
NEARBY SECTIONS.
Comings and Goings Of Interesting
People-Personal
Notes.

A good many well-known Washington
houses will have new occupants this winter.
but whether for the better or worse, as far
as entertaining aspirations are concerned,
waits tic be seen. 1t is generally assumed
that newcomers with leisure and means
have. little other reason for taking resi-
dences here than to enjoy the superabun-
dant ways of passing the time SATISFACTORY
| ly in the best of company. Society extends
such prompt welcome that opportunities
of seeing the passing show, and, indeed, of
participating to any degree that pleases,
are to be had by any one with the inclina-
ton and the dollar. AS winter resort
the capital has gone ahead rapidly
| the past five years that persons whose
| IDEAS about certain restrictions as to streets
ana sets did not permit stretching have
been simply passed by
There is great deal of sentimental remi-
niscence to the methods by which events
| used to be conducted, but it is the new way
or the new people that makes the liveliest
reading. Washington cannot have too
| many additions of the kind who offer hos
pitality on the large scale one associates
with broad ideas well as first efforts
may be, but of a most enjoyable character.
The rich men in the Senate have prided
| themselves of late years on their quiet, in
deed, almost obscure, way of living at the
national capital. only very small proper
of lawmakers making any pretense at all
o. keeping open house. There are said to
Ee, however, magnificent intentions on the
part OF several new members of Congress to
make all previous efforts along these lines
seem like puny affairs, and the hope is
what is keeping up the spirits of the hun
dreds who expect to be on hand as often as
possible.
tertaining has been on the decline lately.
and residential society has carried the bur
den gladly. The chances are, however that
these necessary amenities to the success
full conduct of a Washington winter will be
more equally shared the coming season.
An era of dinner giving, such as the most
fanciful brain might conceive, is said to be
already under way, the preliminaries in
this as In every other important campaign
being necessarily settled upon months in
advance. The afternoon tea will still be
the favor1te method of paying off small OBJ
legations and of rounding up the entire
family acquaintance to meet the debutante
of the household. Evening receptions I'M
less accompanied by dancing or music are
1nfrequent happenings of late years Balls
go by the name of small dances and must
Gales and need no explanation, but these
are the modern ways of entertaining and
dazzling at the same time. Washington
society can stand an uninterrupted pro-
gram of efforts of this kind from January
l to February II, when Ash Wednesday is
due in 1904.
Mrs. Lillian T. Janeway, whose marriage
to Senator I. c. Platt will take place next
Thursday at the Marble Collegiate Church.
New York city, is much the junior of her
prospective husband. She is credited with
saying, however, that the senator's career
impressed her even when she was small
child. and visiting relatives near Oswego
N Y, his old home. She was acquainted
with the senator's first wife. Her daugh-
ter is very prepossesing young woman
about twenty years old. Her husband DR.
Theodore Janeway of New York. died about