The Washington herald., 1911-08-06
~H1S is an unprecedented midsum-
mer weekend, with a distin-
guished foreign admiral and no


guished foreign admiral and no
bleman as the guest Of the na-
ton. and as the inspiration for large
dinner party at the White House. fol-
lowed by a brilliant reception. This Is
quite unprecedented in Washington. Few
Presidents have ever been found in the
White House in the month Of August,
and fewer still have had the courage to
be host at a dinner party and reception
without tho aid of wife or daughter, or
other experienced hostess.
Very few new hostesses in the Congress
sional circle have had the privilege OF
becoming familiar with their new duties
during the informal season, like the new
hostesses Of the present Congress, and
few other official hostesses in addition.
are having this summer. These affairs
are like the rehearsals preceding the
great productions. They are important
in themselves. but not quite so much. so
as the real play. No summer in the his
tory of the White House has known so
many dinner parties, formal ones, as
there have been there this summer, all
due to the OBTAINING Of the Congressman
and in consequence, the OBTAINING Of
many other officials and diplomats in
their places.
All this has had little or no effect
upon the gay places, for the festivities
continue at seashore and mountain re-
sorts and grow more and more elab
crate every season, in the mad pursuit
of pleasure. The White Sulphur has
seemed 10 take on new life, and a great
army of distinguished men and women
have fiocked there, to be entertained and
amused every hour of day and evening,
until the old White" seems to have
resumed its old-time Importance as the
center of gayeties south of New York
in the summer.
At Newport, the real festivities have
not yet begun and when they do, they
will hardly get we'll started when they
will be over with. 1t is a short season
and merry one there At the noun
tain resorts, already the preparations for
the hunting season, which savors of
autumn, are well on. The seashore re-
sorts are having their innings during
these few weeks. and of them all, At
lanuc City is. of course, the maddest
and the gayest There is no effort TO
get the people and keep them there
through July and August, but ii needs
some to keep them in September One
Of the first attractions for next month
at this wonderful place is an entertain
ment pour les pauvres." which will he
given on the Steel Pier on the sth of
September for the benefit of the Chill
dren's Seashore Home.
1t will be a Mother Goose waxworks
and society vaudeville" the performers
10 be the debutantes of the past season.
the present one. and the one to come.
Some of the leading society women in |
Philadelphia. who have the interest of
the home at heart. are managing the
affair, which will be both beautiful and
unique. II will. of course be followed
by great ball on the pier and this
Will practically mark the closing of the
gay season at this resort. Not that II
makes much difference about the closing
for there is almost as great a crowd
of people to be found there at the end
of september as there is in August, but
there is some difference in the amuse-
ments which they find.
The death of Mrs. Sib,ey, wife Of for |
mcr Representative Joseph c. Sibley, of ]
pennsylvania, was a shock to her many
friends in Washington, for Mrs Sibley
had made many of them during her hus-
bands term in the House of Representa-
tives. and even after that when they
purchased home in Massachusetts ave-
nile and spent their winters here. There
was no indication of failing health IN
Mrs. Sibley until the recent outcome of |
Mr.. Sibley's return to politics and en-
tering the race again for Congressman |
from his district. The outcome of that |
race and the events which have followed /
It were such shock to Mrs. Sbley that