The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-11
SOCIAL LIFE
AT
NATIONS CAPITAL.
~ GRACE poRrE1s HOPKINS.
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Especial to Tho Times.Dlspatch)
WASHINGTON, D. e., Dec io.--Thc as
seinbing OF tho second session OF tho
Fifty-eightll Congress was the event
around which all social Aund Of
flcial affairs of the week re-
Y Owed. Reunions Wit, congratulations or
& condolences as the chief topic OF cont
scrsaton were the order OF the day. With
g d wedding or tlebntante reception to re-
lieve the moliotony. Eclios Of tho recent
election are perhaps more frequently heard
here than lii the States, for tho success
Or failore Of the husband III politics.
usually measures the success or failure
x Of the wife In official society, at the,
national capital. s4;
OF course, there are exceptions, but
the majority proves the rule, and only n
few OF the recently fortunate Legislators,
Wy taking IL third-story apartment III 4
building without an elevator, annp,ince
to the Interested public that thcy do
not intend to entertain nor do they wish
TO be entertained "a - az
tho four new Cabinet officers, Hon.
Victor IL Nictcalf. alone. has not taken
Y a house. His sons are boil, away, one
Bat college III California, and@tlic other
} at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, 20
Tho and Mrs. Metcalf Will remain III the
apartments at thc-Arington which they
occupied while members OF the Congress
sional circle Senator and Mrs. Aldrlcll.
Scnnt tor and Mrs. O. II. Plat. Senator
John w Dwight. and MRS.. Henry G.
Payne. widow of the late Postmaster
u General are among their ncighDors un-
( der the Same roof. n IA u Vi
Senator and Mrs. Thomas c, Platt,
who for years have made their winter
residence In this Lobby OF the White
House, are at the New Willard. where
I o1at ,,ll nf,u al a y
after the new year. Senator and Mrs.
spooncr. whose former home will sool
give way TO the new building for the
4 United States Haltgo Of Records, have
\ taken q house for the season OF Sixteenth,
Street. not far from Boundary Castle. :
where lives Mrs. Brooner's classmate and
friend, the wife OF ex- senntorJ. B. Hen-g
eerson, OF Missouri. ~ II ss.3 e e. B;
Senators. Willard. 3of ebraska; Scott,
4of Maryland; Penrose; OF Pennsylva MIA b
md Warren. OF Wyoming; have Joined
ex-senator Faulkner Mrs.. Faulkner, and
Miss Faulkner. In a senatorial coterie at
the New Willard, where Miss Faulkner
and Miss Warren divided the honors OF
$belledom during the last session OF Con-
gress. N & ~ 5 XII
4 Most OF the Southern contingent in
the National legislature. have homes OF
their own. and as they keep open house
4 in "a quiet way. arc seldom without house
guests. i5 IN III. n ri sS Is S5s
ss Senator. John ". Daniel, the silver
tongled orator OF Virginia. Is perhaps
the most picturesque figure on the floor !
of the Senate, where his brilliant speech
I and clear cut figures are suggestive OF
ono who fain would DO here refer to
THE, Hon. VIM. Jennings Bryan Air.
Daniel has removed from MS former
home, and Is now on Columbia Road,
with Representatives Smith and Prince.
OF Illinois, as near neghbors
Senator Francis Af,a Cockrell, the vet
s eran from Missouri: much in tho ;pnblic
eye because OF e his recent ddfea FOR
reelection az ter honorable service 81
thirty years In the Senate. and his prob
able appointment by the President, to
a distinguished commissionership, has re-
opened his home on r Street, though 'lli 2