The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-19
time to pay his respects to the .presi-
dent on New Years Day.

dent on New Y ears Day.
Mrs. Addison G. Foster, wife of the
senior senator frim Washington, and
cling thru Japan and portions of
China, and will not arrive in Wash
;ington until late in the season.
Representative and Mrs. George B.
Mcclellan, who will remain in Wash
ington until early in January, have
leased as home in New York an old
fashioned mansion on Washington
square, in a still fashionable and ex-
elusive neighborhood in which the
boyhood of the Tammany mayor-elect
was: passed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Hill, formerly
deal. in Washington society during the
winter. They are living at the New
Willard.
Consul General and Mrs. John
GoodnoW have been invited out num-
Der OF times since they came to Wash
ington, and have given several din
ners 10 Washington friends. They go
from here to New York for a week at
holiday time, and thence to an eastern
college, where Mr.. Goodnows son is
located after which they will return
to the west. They will pass thru the
twin cities on their way back to
Shanghai about the middle of jan
Uary
j Miss Roosevelt, who attended the
doll sale and tea at Representative
Harrison's house a few days ago, was
stylishly gowned in dark brown crepe.
Her round hat, in the same color, had
a bird with long plumage. Captain
ma IN ha
ton sale that rounded off the after
noon Thomas F. Walsh was the first
purchaser. Mrs. Emile. Montgomery
won the doll given by Mrs Roosevelt,
which had earned $50 for the fund,
and Mayor-elect George B. Mcclellan
won a Red Riding Hood. The sale
was a great success and most fash
iOnably attended. So was the tea and
sale at Rauscher's, for the Children's
Country Home and the exhibit of the
Christ Child society at the home on
Twenty-sixth street.
Senator lDolliver has no daughters
who have grown to woman's estate,
and therefore, until a day or two ago,
was not fully aware what expensive
notions they sometimes cultivate.
The fair daughter Of one of his new
colleagues in the house was shopping
for a fine pocketbook. She shopped
t have a stationery allowance, but moth
| ing there quite pleased her. 1t was
| suggested that she go to the senate
| store, where more luxurious articles
are said, to be on sale. There the
| young lady found something very
much to her liking.
Wait. a moment said her fond
| father, who has recently come to the
| house, and is not we'll acquainted ON
| the north side of the capitol. Il will
get Senator Dolliver to arrange for an
exchange on my stationery account"
The generous junior senator would
| not hear to it, Get the pocketbook
| for the young LADY, said he, "and
/ have it charged against my allow
Eance. No protests availed,@ and the
senator himself descended to the store
to personally. supervise the bargain.
Mr.. Dolliver did not finch when the
dainty article was found to be worth
Well nigh a days salary. He admired
it; looked at the clerk, and observed
| shrewdly: $50. -.
+ That old color looks as tho the
1 book had been in stock. Don't. you
/ offer a little discount for that rea-
son?'' ~ -.
4 Its the color which makes it both
! stylish and ,valua ble,'' remarked the
clerk. The deal was forthwith closed,
and the young lady regards Mr.. Dol
] liver as about the incest man in the
/ world. 81
- Mrs. Roosevelt is now busy buying
i and making her Christmas presents,
of which she gives a very large num-
Der, and they go all over the world.
Many OF them go to old-time friends
and acquaintances, for the most part
women of humble station, at Oyster