The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-13
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taol,e Of the French Embassy and Miss

attache of the French Embassy and Miss
Ivy 1sarghatri, Mr. Il. Van
Roljcn; Charge d'Aftairea 81 The Neither.
lands, and Misc Albertinn Winthrop. re Z,
ihn tllroc couples whose maria gcs III tic
early summer will be international events
OF interest
I Scarcely D. day passes without the tPrcst.
dents Pertaining either uhchc or din
nerS guests, and generally 1t Ia both. Hon.
IL. "a Ffothlnghntn. speaker. OF the Ma NJ
sacliisctts House Of Representatives. WINS
Hits dlfhcr guest Of honor OH Saturday.
I,fhc company included Speaker Cannon
Mr., Justice Holmes, Mr.. Justice Day.
Senators Aliiaor, Lodge, and Spooncr,i
Representative tIitt the Attorney Gcner-
Ill lilo Secretary OF tho Navy, Prof Al
bert Bushnell Hart, Hon. W w. Rock
hill, lion, james r Garfield. Mr.. Afford i'
Nv. Cooley, Mr.. III Clifford Pnchpt (Mr.
noosevclts friend for the protection Of
forests +, Mr.. ". Cameron Forbes, and
Civil Service Commissioner, william Dud-
LEY roulko 5at3.3 s 5b3 q
/ q on Thursday, Mrs. Epooner, wife OF The
senior senator from Wisconsin, enter
tanned iat al, attrnctivcly appointed lunch.
con- given in honor Of the German Am :
jbassador's wife, Baroness Won Stcr1lbcrg.
! tihe table was laid In tho fnmons tcak-
wood room OF the Senator Stewart house
| now occupied by Senator and Mrs. Spoon
|ier,Sand the very atmosphere OF the place
sayors Of hospitality both historic and
generous. The decorations were La
France roses and Farloeynese fern with
| Il corsngc bouquet at each of tho twelve
covers. The seating OF cosmopolitan
company always MI important phase OF
social llfo ut tho capital, was In this
case perfect. Mrs. spooner, at the head
\ OF tho table, g51lad as her yis-n-vis Mrs.
| Holmes. wife Of tho Supreme Court JUS
ticc; to her right sat the Baroness yon
| sternberg, and to her left La yi Durand.
| vito Of the newly appointed British Ans
| bassador.. Mrs. q. Al itchc0ck, the only
| Cabinet lady present came next. while
Mcsdamcs Foraker and F'airba INKS wives
Of U. s senators, wero given lie pa over
Mrs. Adna r. Chaffee, wife OF the Lieu-
ltennnt- General Of tho Army, and Mrs.
William Cowles. wife Of s. Commander
Cowles OF tho Navy, and sister OF the
President. Mrs. gAudcnrcld, Mrs. Herbert
Wadsworth and Mrs, Frances Burton
Harrison were the unofficial guests ana
therefore more easily placed, at the end
or the line. Part Of the guests faced the
windows overlooking the famous Burns
cottage and what remains Il OF IN old
Dayy Burns farm" known to hist DRY as
the land for which George Washington
negotiated for the site OF the Federal
city. Upon THIS remaining SlotSo an his-
toric estate tile Continental Hall Will
soon be erected by the National Society
Of the Daughter of the Revolution. and
beyond 1t the Columbian University build
Iings will be- arranged along the borders
| OF tho slowly moving Potomac, with the
! blue Mills OF Virginia forming a back
ground. Other Of the luncheon guests
sat opposite the most remarkable s speer-I
men Of lakewood carving ever brought
| to Ancrlca-the nnntel which the late
Mrs. William NJ. vs. Stewart. OF Nevada,
bought In India for Stewart Castle. Or
|5"stewart's folly as the great house
on Dupont Circle was called twenty
lyears a go. iS $ il
One OF tile most genial diplomats at
| washington is Baron Moncheur. the Bel
gian minister. whose wife was Miss Char
lotte Powell, daughter of the U. 8. Am
| bassador to Mexico. Baron Moncheur Is
| thoroughly Bc gian but does not believe
| that the best interests OF his country
can be served by his remaining in seclu-
| sion. He has therefor cultivated a. know
| ledge Of the ways and customs Of Amer
lea even to the extent Of marrying an
American woman-in fact, two of them
for hts first wife was a Miss adelffordd,
Of New Jersey, who died several years
ago, leaving two little girls who now
live with their maternal grandmother
| part OF each season. 8ss less 8 H.
GRACE PORTER HOPKINS.