The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-22
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
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fastened to the shoulders in a broad
double box-plait and attached to the
skirt below the hips, falling from that
point in straight lines into a train
three and a half yards long, according
to the regulation length of a presenta-
ton gown at the English court. The
train is edged it's entire length with a
border of rose-leaves tied with true
lover knots, wrought in real pearls and
small spangles of sterling silver.
Mrs. Nelly Grant Sartoris has taken
quarters iii a modest apartment house
on Twentieth street, in this city. Since
the Grant homestead was sold soon
after the death of her mother. Miss
Rosemary Sartoris is with her, and the
two will be Joined early in April by
Capt. Algernon Sartoris, whose resig-
nation from the army was recently &C
cepted by the President and who is now
en- route from the Philippines. Mrs.
Sartoris and her family will probably
spend the summer at Coburg, Canada,
where the late Mrs. U. s. Grant bought
a beautiful estate several years ago.
Mrs. Holmes, wife of Justice Holmes
of the Supreme Court, gave her first
dinner party in Washington this week.
1t wa: in compliment to the envoy
from Germany and Freifrau Speck Won
Stcrrturg. Justice Day still continues
very i'll at the Arlington, with his semi
invalid wife and two of his sons in
constant attendance at his bedside.
His case excites the more apprehension
because his father, Judge Luther Day
of Ohio, died of the same complaint
(pneumonia) when about the age that
his son has now attained.
Senator and Mrs. Foraker and Miss
Foraker are in Cincinnati. for a fort
nights visit to Mrs. Randolph Mat
thews. The senator and his wife will
return to Washington in a few days.
but Miss Foraker will remain some
weeks longer with her sister. Mrs.
Nelson A. Miles has gone for an cx-
tended visit to West Point and Boston.
Miss Waite, only unmarried daughter
of the late chief justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, win sail for
Europe next week, to remain indefinite
ly. The wife and daughter of Senator
Proctor, who have been detained at
their Vermont home all winter by the
serious illness of the former, have just
arrived in Washington and opened their
residence on Sixteenth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Henderson, Jr.,
have returned from their honeymoon
journey to Cuba, and are now with Mr..
Henderson's parents at their home in
this city. Mrs. Henderson, Jr., the
daughter of Col Schuyler Crosby of
New York. is pronounced the most
beautiful bride of the past winter, and
a most charming young matron who
will be distinct acquisition to the res
ident society of the National Capital.
She If tall and slender. a blonde. ac-
complished and clever. and with man
ners both gracious and unaffected.
Mrs. Archibald Forbes. widow of the
famous war correspondent, and former
ly Miss Meigs, of this, city. is now here
after a fifteen years absence from
America, and receiving q great deal of
attention. She contemplates making
permanent home in Washington, to the
joy of her many friends in resident
circles. Mrs. Forbes has Just returned
from Philadelphia, where a company of
sixty guests, all family connections and
representatives of the Meigs and Cad
wal1ader families were invited to meet
her at the home of her aunt During
recent years, before the death of her
husband, Mrs. Forbes has divided her
time between London. and her beauti-
full estate near Aberdeen, Scotland.