The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-07
,oME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
4 CHARMING TEA BY A FORMER
MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE.


Movements of Well known People.
Arrival in Washington of a
French AdmiraI-He Has a STAFF OF
Thirty officers An Interesting
sketch of Count Chambrun-Other
MATTERS of General Interest.
Washington, June 5.-Mrs. Laetitia
TYLER Semple, a former mistress of the
White House, who is now SO years
did gave a charming tea to her friends
Of the Louise Home one day last week.
she has been. an inmate of the ariis-
tocratic Home" herself for many
wears. Another former lady of the
White House. Mrs. Harriet Lane John
ston, who has been seriously i'll for
several months in her Washington
home, has so far recovered as to go
Yesterday to Narragansett Pier, where
she has taken cottage for the sum-
mer. The journey was made in the pri-
waite car of Mr.. A. ]. Cassett of Phila-
delphia, a close personal friend of Mrs.
Johnston. Indeed, Mrs. Cassatt and
Mrs. Johnston are cousins. Miss Ken
nedy, another cousin, who has for years
been Mrs. Johnston's companion, also
went along and will spend the sum-
mer at the Pier. Society seems to be
peculiarly sensitive to heat, and is fast
fleeing from town to Europe, the
mountains or the seashore, although as
vet we have had only faint promise of
heat to come In a few days not one
of the faShionables will be left; but
there will remain thousands of busy
workers, and the great proletariat who
do not regard the capital in summer
as impossible, but manage by fire.
Quenting the parks, availing themselves
of the electric cars and river boats, to
find pleasure in life even which the
thermometer is sky-larking in the Dos,
and to maintain their health. The
number of summer homes in this coun-
try has increased amazingly in the
past few years. Two decades ago the
wealthy people of leisure crowded the
summer caraVansaries old family es-
tates were allowed to fal Into decay
and the smart folk were even more
gay in midsummer than in winter. A
revulsion against this unhealthy and
artificial mode of life finally set in, in
spired, no doubt by the growing popu-
larity of outdoor sports, for which the
confines of a hotel balcony and lawn
were too limited. Those who own es-
tates put them in repair, and the rich
man of culture who was not fortu-
nate enough to possess an ancestral
hearthstone set about establishing one
for mis- children. To-day it is the fash
ion to own a country seat, to possess
at least, a pied terre from which eX-
cursior:s can be made and which offers
retreat to the wOrk-weary. Curious
~ enough, the hotels seem to have
lost no patronage by the establishment
of these summer homes throughout The
country, and the legend, mo rooms, >
is to be heard at all the fashionabl
hostelrIes at the hight of the season.
Mrs. John A. Logan bought a rura
home several years ago-a farm in Vir-
ginia, where she always entertaini
numerous house parties of friends
now at her home in this city, having
come to superintend the annual Me
mortal Day exercises at the tomb Of
her distinguished husband.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Fuller will
occupy their cottage at Sorrento, Me.
during the coming summer, leaving fol
that resort the last of this month.
Justice and Mrs. Harlan and tn,
Misses Harlan will leave tomorrow
for Murray Bay, Canada, where they
have delightful summer home.
Justice and Mrs. Brewer, who re.
Gently moved to their new home IN
Sixteenth street, will not leave town SC
early as most of their associates, but
expect to spend a portion of the sum-