The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-06
From The Journal Bureau. Colorado Building,

of Cabinet Dinners.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, Jan. 6.-The social
calendar for the pre-Lenten season
discloses the following events of i'm
pOrtance:
The dinner dances have begun. The
first assembly will be at the French
embassy on Jan. s, to be followed a
week later by dance at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Legare.
You might just as well call Sena-
tore Eugene Hale IS and let it go at
that, but then the senior senator
from Maine always figures with the
young people. Whenever a festival
for juniors is projected in the official
set Senator Hale is invited. He is
one of those who prove that men of
experience are better beaux than the
Callow youths. At the White House,
and at every other function, Senator
Hale is a gay young fellow. On Jan.
this rejuvenated beau and Mrs.
Hale gave a dinner party to young
folks. and they gathered around them
a merry throng.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
entertained the President and Mrs.
Roosevelt at dinner on Dec. 20. The
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Shaw, being in mourning, will not
give the usual cabinet dinner, and
their date, Jan. 5, was appropriated
by the Secretary of War and Mrs.
Root, who will leave Washington early
in February. The Attorney General
and Mrs. Knox will entertain in honor
of the president and his wife on Jan.
II. and the Postmaster General and
Mrs. Payne, the secretary of the navy,
the secretary of agriculture and Miss
Wilson. Secretary and Mrs. Cortel-
you. the youngest members Of the
presidents official family, will en-
terrain each week successfully.
Jan. 6.--Bachelors' cotillion at the New
Willard.
Jan. s.-rhe marriage Of Miss Isabelle
McKenna, daughter of Justice and Mrs.
McKenna, to Pitts Duffield Of New York,
at the residence Of the brides parents.
Jan. THE Austrian minister and
Madame Hengelmuller Won Hengervar, q
dinner.
Jan. 7.-President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
reception in honor Of the diplomatic
corps. 49,
Jan. S.-Nrs. Roosevelt, musical.
Jan. 9.-AIrs Cullon, tea to introduce
her granddaughter, Miss Katharine Ridge
ly, 1913 Sixteenth street.
Jan. 11.-Mrs. Thomas F.. Walsh, a din
ner. followed by cotillion.
Jan. 12.-The annual charity ball for
the benefit of the Children's hospital at
the New Willard.
Jan. 14.-President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
a dinner in honor of the diplomatic
corps.
Jan. 1s.--The colonial ball, under the
auspices Of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution
Jan. 21.--President and Mrs. Roosevelt
reception in honor Of the supreme court
Jan. 27.-The second bachelors cotil-
lion at the New Willard. ~
Jan. 2S.-President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
dinner in honor of the supreme court.
Feb 1.-The Southern Relief ball. under
the auspices Of the Southern Relief So
ciety. at the Arlington. .s...
Feb 4.-President and Mrs. Roosevelt,
a reception in honor Of the members Of
congress.
Feb O-The third bachelors cotillion
Feb 1l.-President and Mrs Roosevelt
. q reception in honor of the army and
navy.
Feb 12.-M-s. Roosevelt, musical.
Last night General Chaffee gave a
large dinner to his fellow officers and
several civilian friends. General Chat
fee has entered into the spirit of his
position, present and prospective, and
seems to grasp not only the disciple
potency to encourage intercourse
among the army families.
Mrs. Orville H. Plat, wife of the
senior senator from Connecticut, has
announced her semiretirement from
social life. During the coming season
she will not keep Thursdays at home,
but will be glad to receive her friends
at their convenience. She proposes
to enjoy a life of leisure and free
dom from the thraldom Of etiquette.
During the year she will give a few
small entertainments to her intimate
acquaintances, but will not attempt
either to respond to or issue formal
invitations.
Visitors to the White House in the
future Will enjoy an exhibition of the
china of various administrations for
many years back. Every new admin
istration is furnished with a new set
of china, always selected by the mis-
tress of the White House. The set
used by the previous administration
is stored away.
This has been going on so many
years that there are many historic
sets of china in the building: Prior
to the time Of President Lincoln there
are not found any whole sets, but
some valuable pieces; but since the
administration of President Lincoln
there are almost complete sets of
every administration. The plan of
Colonel Symons, superintendent of
public buildings and grounds, who OBJ
tanned the assent of Mrs. Roosevelt,
is to place the china of each admin
istration in a suitable case, properly
marked, and place all the cases in the
east entrance Of the White House,
SO that visitors may see and inspect
it as they enter. Visitors have often
asked to be allowed to see the china
SETS but as they were stored in pan
tries in the private parts of the White
House, their wish could not be COM
piled with.
Miss Rebecca Knox, daughter of the
attorney general, has perfected plans
to sail for Naples on Jan. 10. She
will be accompanied by her particu-
lar friends the Misses Mohler, and
the party will be chaperoned by Mrs.
Martin Van Buren, Kennedy. They
expect to be absent six months, spend
ing most of the time in Italy and
southern France, and devoting them
selves to art.
The French government is about to
build it's own embassy in this city.
Louis Bernier, who was the archi-
teet of the Opera Comique in Paris,
has been commissioned to draw the
plans, and 1t is understood that the
house, when completed, will take
rank with the most notable buildings
at the national capital.