Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1888, Page 9

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HAZARD, Chemist and druggiste Factory 200 THIRD DISTRICT of New York | MARIE ANTOINETTE, The composition of these Cigars is a selection of the finest wrapper and choicest vuelta abapo filler with Cuban workmanship equal t9 : $60.00 Per M. Petit Londres, Londres Sublime, Perfectos, : 14 (3 62.50 65.00 s the imported, SOCIETY IN WASHINCTON. Arrival of Lent Hailed With Delight by Weary Belles and Beaux. WHITE HOUSE ENTERTAINMENTS Mrs. Oleveland a Hostess—Mrs. ‘Whitney's Charming Receptions —The Chinese Minister's Esti- mate of Capitol Society. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C,, Feb. 17.—Special Correspondence to the BEE: Lent,long delayed, has put in an appearance, and the society satinted capitol is assuming its penetential garments, Forthe con- vential party days we shall have a ces- sation of the giddy rout of receptions and “‘high tead;” of state dinners and stately balls. The white house will be closed to dining diplomats and jocund justices, senate and congress, army \und navy and the general crush. Mrs. Cleve- 1a farm, which hasliterally ‘‘yanked” thousands along the long line to the time of Marsh lson’s stentorian voice Wi m its labors, and the presi- dent’s society smile will be put safely away to be brought out again at the opening ofanother season. The social season has been one of un- usual brilliancy even for Washington.” There has been, perhaps, no more than the common number of official social events, of white house and cabinet din- ners and of receptions and of senatorial soirees.. But, aside from this, the rapidly increasing list of wealthy prom- inent residents of the city has swelled the number pf social events and length- ened the visiting list of the eligibles. From the holidays on it will be a steady succession of parties, hu)m, receptions, cotillons and ‘“*afternoons” until the fe- male face divine of the leaders and fol- lowers of fashion began to show the lines of fatigue and lornness which marked the end of the season. “1 am so glad that it is all over,” said a fluttering little miss to me the other evening. I myself have made more than a thousand calls since New Years' Every day during the week there was an unvarymng routine; Mondays, su- preme court; Sundays, foreign digni- ries; Wm}wsdnz}: cabinets and con- gressman’s Wives; illln«h\ys, senatorial receptions snd the army and navy; Fri- days and Satyrdays, civilians, not to speak ‘of & score of card receptions lK“ruwn in in the _evening which had to be attended. "I have used uE fifteen hundred visiting cards since the begin- ning of the year, and fourteen dresses, not to speak of gloves, whose name was legion. ‘‘And then to think of my di- gestion—poor thing—what with salads, a dozen kinds of heavy, stimulating punches, twenty varieties of ices and all the nids to the study of medicine, which Washington edibles and drinks furnishes.” This has been the usual experience, and the lady who spoke with so much feeling on the subject Krubflbly simply voiced the prevailing i THE LEADER OF SOCIETY, of course, hus been the president’s wife. Mrs, Cleveland has added to her lnurels during the pust season, and stands par-excellence as the vepresenta- tive of feminine tack and womanly dig- nity in the national capital. The state dinners at the white house uunder her careful supervision have surpassed in elegance and -excellence even those iven under the regime of President 1rthur. There have never been less than seven kinds of wine at each plate and, ajthough Mrs. Cleveland, following the example of Mrs. Hayes, has steadily declined to drink anything but cold water, she has not cast a frowning chill upon the digestions of the guests present. The floral displays have used up something like 16,000 roses and chrysanthemums, mostof which have beensupplied by the conservatories of the white house, but many of which have been secured from outside sources. Itis stated by those who ought to know that the cost of the entertainments at the white house dur- ing the last three months have run up toa figure which will closely approxi- mate §12,000, all of which must be from THE PRESIDENTIAL POCKET BOOK. At the ofticial receptions Mrs. Cleve- land has, of course, been the center of attraction. Her dresses have been a matter of universal comment for their richness, their elegance and the invar- iable taste displayed in the se'ection of material and make up. Her cordial hand grasp and beaming smile have sent warm chills down the back of many & countryman, while they have added to the presidential retinue of followers thousands of followers. The president’s wife is everywhere voted a social and political success, Mr. Cleveland will undoubtedly receive many votes should he become a candidate next fall, which will be polled solely on account of his wife’s popularity. Next to Mrs. Cleveland Mrs. Whit- ney, the wife of the secretary of the navy, has scored the greatest success in society. Her weekly receptions have been thronged. Nothing like the ele- gance and floral decorations, magnifi- cence in toilets and variety in table which Mrs. Whitney’s parlors have af- forded have ever before been seen in the cabinet houses in Washington. During her first year her brother, Mr. Payne, of New York, generously do- nated to his sister $100,000 for purpose of entertainment. ‘With this high water mark set at the beginning,Mrs. Whitney has more than sustained the reputation of her first winter in Washington. Plain in features and figure, she has offset her natural advantages by a cordiality of manner and a lavishness in the way of enter- tainment which has drawn to her week- ly receptions, and the five balls which she has given during the season all the eligible officials and residents of the city. Terrapin by the drove have ssed through the secretary’s kitchen, ocks of canvas-back ducks have been plucked in the areaways, a ship load of champagne has popped and fizzled in the dining room, and the richest and most expensive table and room decora- tions have been utilized in making the Whitney mansion an Alaadin-like palace of beauty and splendor. Among the foreign legations the min- ister from the ‘‘Flowery Kingdom” and his suite stand par excellence as the centre of attraction. Chang Yon Hoon, envoy extranordinary and Plenpoten- tiary, with a retinue of fourteen secre- taries, assistants and interpreters, oc- cupies the old Stewart mansion, called Stewart castle, upon the court cirele, in the most fashionable portion of the northwestern quarter of the city. Ar- rayed in the picturesque garb of their country, in flowing robes of billiant silk, glitterin with cords of gold bullion and gilded buttons, with tufted caps representing their rank in the order of mandarris the Chinese legation are the most notice- able, us they are the most welcome of visitors in official circles. There is a sweet smile of social contentment and enjoyment mn.uum{ playing around their lips; their small eyes glitter with excitement when the music strikes up for the dance, and their ‘little ladies twist in contortions of courtesy as they are surrounded by a bevy of fascinating girls who ‘eagerly listen to the pigeon President English mingled with the rasping lu“gungc of the tea chest and laundry bil It has-been the object of the Chinese minister since his arrival at Washing- ton, to outdo all the other foreign lega- tions in the brilliancy of his receptions and in the extent of his hospitality, The reason for this, as he himself has stated, is to introduce educated China- men and Chinese to the American people in order that, if possible, he may wipe away somo of the prejudices whic exist so strongly in this country against his nationality. His prime aim has been to create good feeling between SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES of the United States and the diplomatic representatives of the Flowery King- dom in order toaffect pending legis- lation adverse to the iuterests of the Chinese. With this object in view he has taken one of the most elegant resi- dences in the city; hassurrounded him- self with a suitef Ameriean servants, drives through the streets in a Victoria with a colored’ coachman and footman, and, accompanied by a brilliant retinue, invariably puts in his appearance at every reception or ball where prominent officials may be expected to be in at- tendance. The urbanity of the man- ners of the Chinese legation, the pic- turesqueness of their costumes and the elegance of the receptions which they give to their friends have made them the admired of all admirers by the female sex. It matters not what the social entertainment may be, if a particularly large crowd of lovely women arp seen smiling and bowing in one corner, in the centre of the circle will invariably befound either Chang Yen Hoon or some of his attaches. I met the Chinese minister on Thurs- dap at a senatorial reception and listened with pleasure to a conversation in which he indulged with the nephew of one of the senators. “Vellee finee duy,” chirped the envoy extraordinary “Lovely,” responded the young gen- tleman, “Shallee welee see you at ourlee leception?” “Oh, I guess not,” responded the young man. *“There will be such a crush,” *Oh, yessee,” said the minister, ‘“‘allee Washington likee bellee fullee.” Thus did the shrewd representative of the Flowery Kingdom refer to the hi-oo lunching mania of Washingtos so- ciety. 'fly\e Chinese minister dnring the past senson has been throwing himself into the social vortex with an energy and vigor that would do credit to a man thirty years younger, Having watched in ccstatic raptures the movements of the modern waltz during the last year, and having been compelled to decline the earnest requests of scores of ladies te meander with them in the giddy mazes of the dance, the minister last December made arranzements to receiyy private structions in dancing, gether with his translato®, Liang Shung, and a couple of other members of the legation, ~Mondays and Thurs- days, with unvarying regularity, these representatives of Oriental aristocracy could be found at Miss Wilson’s, per- spiring in their efforts to acquire a knowledge of the three and two-step waltz, and making glittering circles of BLUE SILK AND TINSEL as they whirled around chairs and caromed against sofas in the apart- ments of the fair dancing teacher. No more inspiring and inspiriting sight has ever been secn in Washington than the Chinese minister plenipotentiary, with his spectacles bobbing up and down on his nose,clasping spasmodicall, the °fair-haire@ American maiden wildly endcavoring to elude her train as it swept over the floor, and dodgingy her fairy-like feet. ms the; tripped through the mazes of the pofim. 8 a result the Chinese minister can now dance the twp | step waltz as well as “the @verage ten-year-old American schoolBdy, while his agonizing contortiongin the polka would throw Mr. Dodworfh into convulsions of merriment. Hefdéls, however, quite satistied with his pfogress; and at one of Mrs. Whitney’s feception a couple of weeks ago paralyzed all bystanders by knockingover three foreign diplomats and doubling up a waiter with a tray of wine glasses as hfakipped festively down the floor with his four inch soled shoes, bobbing serengly up and down in the festive waltz, ; [« That the Chines# minister is not de- void of gratitude, for the sociul atten- tion paid him may be seen by a visit to some of the ladies”.parlors in Washing- ton, where, hanging on the walls or dis- played conspicuously on tables are seen the New Year’s gifts - of his.excellency. Like most of his nationality he never allows a Chinese New Years to pass without giving profuse evidences of his regards for his friends. How deeply at- tached he is to his dancing teacher may be seen from the fact when the Chinese New Year came ardund this year he sent her a most gorgeonsly decorated air of silk stockings, which she now as hung on her parlor wall witha Chinese dragon ubovg“lhem. —— — Lent in the City of Mexico. Weritten for the Sunday Bee. Unfortunate it certaifily is that this is the favorite time of the year for tourists to visit the City of Mexico, for she is covered under a closely drawn cloak of religious fervor, is doing penance for theaccumulated sins of the past year, and with shame and contrition seeks forgiveness on bended knee in sack cloth and ashes. Mexico's crown of precious jewels, namely her Roman Catholic churches and cathedrals, are now hung in somber drapery, obscuring the magnificent crimson velvet hangings of the church of Santa Domingo; the priceless golden ornaments of the cathedral and rare old paintings, Open wide their ancient doors—churches pathetic in age and association—built by Cortez. Time eaten and soiled they are filled by horrar-striking ghastly images. Tl)'.lfiflllj!ll;. stand, earth- quake shaken churches, presenting the unholy appearance of having visited relig- iqus bar-rooms. Churches of fabulous wealth, as well as churches for the *poor and lowly in spirit.” These churches all open & straight and narrow path for their bleating, wandering lambs who may be seen from 5 o'clock in the murnlnr throughout the day wending their way thither. The early service is strictly attended by all classes, the streets being thronged -by - black draped figures, hugging their Fosaries ‘and prayer books, While over the cify in the rosy dawn, ring out a score of bell#in tones of admoni- tion. Black is universufly worn during Lent and gayety abolished.# The theatres are closed for legitimate purposes, while balls and tertulia )evening payty e blown out eir bright lights, and the click of the Span- ish boots to the time of the danza will not be heard for a time. The fashionable drive of the paseo de la Retarma is deserted by the arftocracy for the morg secluded paseo dela Viga, the ribbons of thie former drive being held by women of the demi-monde over whom the power of Roman Catholic church is as nothing, There are two distinct phases of life visi- ble in Mexico during jent, the -one of ex- treme godliness, the gther of extreme ungod- liness. Now is the ageepted time for the un- righteous to unfold themselves like the long wwd snake and bask in the sunlight of their forty days of promimepee, as it is the time for christians to repent of their sins. Natur- ally these two sides of life do not come in contact. Carnival, the noisy herald of Lent, opens brilliantly under an ardent sun and bright blue sky, but participated in principally by these same women of the' demi monde. The strcets are thronzcd by & chattering, feast. loving people who ou gicasure iutent flock to | egoy & Moore, Agents, COTITCII. BLLUIES, IO A the paseo to witness the gay scene, ‘Extend- ing from the alameda far outron the paseo are rows of chairs sold by neat, smiling Indian women for a medio (61 cents) apiece. Seited hero the scene is varied and interesting, Lhoufh not as splendid as in former ycars.. A multitude of cairiages pass up and down oc- cupied by masqueraders. Bands of music of music statioded hcre and there drop gay notes from French opera and Spanish love sond, while above this musical tumult rise the voice of duice and fruit seller, the latter wmpurg[; you with lucious, sunny trop- ical fruit, while” both sides of life are pre- sented to the roaming eye by frowning and laughing masks. Discordant notes shaken from throat and horn; or bu“le, trumpet, the approach of drag, or coach filled by laughing women representing eagles with their royal wings extended; lustily crowing cocks and ballet-girl and silly dude, or keen eyed bull fighters and beribboned tambourine jingler. “Fallen angels,” all, defiant under the cold gaze of an onlooking public, not one among whom, I doubt, conld fling a stone. Cosmo- politan the throng is and in the dusk with the musqueraders they slowly saunter home all languages of the world floating on the air to the accompaniment of national airs, On this nignt, as well as on every Sunday ninht during Lent, these women, shorn of pity, or charity by the righteous world, give grand fancy dress masked balls in the vari- ous theaters of the city. Every year tho newspapers cry out against them. for they are scenes of wild deprovity, but in spite of forcible articles they still flourish; the only difference noticed in them is that each man as he arrives at the theater is searghed at the entrance by a policeman for knifé of fire- arms, for some .of Mexico's best blood has been spilled at these debaucheries. In the theater every other man is a policeman and as the hours advance it is well that it is 80. It is a brilliant spectacle, tier upon tier of boxes, flled with magnificently costumed women, but rather _disrespectful it seems, to behold every man in ordinary dress with his haton. A costly supper is served in the foyer of the theater amidst rare plants, soft music from the ball roo and songs of Span- ish students. Sparkling wines never cease to flow, and obscene songs of crazed women penetrate the unholy atmosphere, iouder yet as the drunken applause of Mexico's most respectable men strike their confused ear. Broad daylight hastens these poor creatures home fromn theater and tivoli, wrecks in body and costume, home from where men and women both have lost their lives for—what? The lower the people the smaller the theater and more degraded the scene. Such are the two sides of life here represented, both watched over by the same God. Through all Spanish towns during lent one day is devoted to the burning of an effigy of Judas and to the cracking of Judas' boues. The latter may seem to you to be a difticult matter, but it is very simple. Toys are made after the style of ‘a watchm rattle and sold in the plaza and on-the streets, They are often made of beautifully carved ivory, fit souvenirs of the country. 'Big and little 'people buy them, whirling them with quick turns of the wrist, round and roung, roducing the sound of the cracking of mes. Strung high across the streets, well out of the reach of rogueish, boyish fingers, are ropes from which dangle hideous cloth, or paper-made Judases from the size of over- grown men with small, disagreeable head surmounted by a stovepipe hat, extended belly and short bow legs to little betrayers . the size of a doll de#ncing on the wind. Crouds gather beneath these figur fall to cbeating m with long sticks, spitting at them and nging opprobrious names at them, as do jother groups of men and boys carrying huge eftigios about the streets. The stomach of Judas is filled with gun powder, and jeering and hooting, the crowd anxiously awaits the hour when they can apply & lighted torch to this combustible edition thus causing it to n‘\lnde‘ 80, they think fittin nding Lent. All the city comes out to witness the funny spdctacle, hurrying to this or that point in order to obtain a better view of the bloated efigies, As the clock strikes u certain hour, from over the four poiuts of the city comes the sound of exploding Judases midst wild expressions of delight from the multitude gathered beneath them. Gr. Deaxe Husr, ——— Lady Agents Wanted for the Van Orden Corscts. Every lady wish- ing good health uud a beautiful figure buys them. Quick sales. Good pay. Send for terms und circular. Van Orden Cors:t Co., 12 Clintou Place, N. Y. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Maurice Barrymore has left the Langtry company. Henry Irving celebrated his fifticth birth- day recently. Sardon_is building a magnificent villa at Nice for Sarah Bernhardt. Rubinstein has been made a Russian coun- cillor, with the title of “‘excellency.” . Sir Arthur Sullivan is said to be again very ill, and owes it entirely to over-exer- tion. Minnie Ewan, the American young lady, is singing leading parts in grand opera at Milan. A new theatre, to cost $700,000, is to be built upon the site of the burned Opera Comique, Paris. The National Opera company did a heavy business in Washington, the receipts having been over $20,000. “King Lear,” a new opera, founded on Shakspeare's tragedy, has been completed by Victor Joucieres. ‘Weber's posthumous work, ‘The Three Pintos,” has been brought out at Dresden with good success. A popular edition of the complete works of Wagner is to be published at Leipsic in thirty-one volumes, Manager Henry E. Abbey has signed a new contract with little Josef Hoffmann for 100 concerts next season. Parties in London are endeavoring to sell the pianoforte which little Hofman used, at a fancy price, because his autograph is written inside the case. . Tony Pastor has rénewed for five years hfs lease of that part of Tammany hall now oc- cupied by him as a theater,at an annual rental of $10,000. In the spring the remains of Beethoven, Mozart, Gluck and Schubert will be exhumed at Vienna and transferred to the Central cemetary of that city. Mapleson, of London, has engaged an eleven-year-old girl, Pauline Ellice, to travel on a piano-playing tour, She is said to be a sensation in Germany, Mume. Gerster made a second trial of her voice in public at Steinway hall, New York, last week, but the result was not favorable, The charm of her voice is gone, George and Edward Hannan became nat- uralized citizens of the United States last week, and will make this country their home for the remainder of their days. ‘W. J. Scanlan 18 getting ready to produce his comic opera of “The West Point Cadet," for which he has written the words and music of thirty songs and choruses. The farewell engagement of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in the United States will open in the New York Star theatre on Mon- dayl‘e\l'ening, February 20, with W. G. Will's “Olivia.” Christine Nilsson writes in a letter toa Philadelphia friend that she is a constant suf- ferer from rheumatism, and fears thatshe will be obliged to close her professional career at once. To repluce at the Paris Opera Comique his “Romeo and Juliet,” that is to be transferred to the repertory of the Grand Opera, M. Gounod 18 to write an operato be ealled “Charlotte Corday.” M. Frederic Le Rey, the young composer and pupil of M. Delibes, who wrote the opera “Stenio,” is finishing another on the subject of “Hermann and Dorothea. He intends it for the Paris Opera Comique. Chassaigne's Hungarian opera purchased for America by Rudolph Aronson, of the New York Casino, has been rechristened Nadje. It was Nadgy at first. In London Violet Cameron will play the heroine. Marcella Sembrich, the brilliant and yet youthful soprano, who is considered by many judges as the most probable successor to Patti's mantle of pre-eminence, is singing with great success at the Berlin opera, Booth and Barrett will play in San Fran- cisco for three weeks, beginning March 5 mator Fair has offered £10,000 for the Bal n theater for one night to have an excl ‘e theater party. The offer is being con- ered. Thirty choir singers from New York churches have been engaged by Mr. Price, Fanny Duvcn[lurl s husband, to sing the incidental music of “‘La Tosca,” which will be produced at French & Sanger's new Broadway theater on Monday evening, Feb- ruary 17, Imre Kiralfy has started work on a second “Mazulm, the Night Owl"” producti which he intends presenting in Cuba ani Mexico. The company now at the Acade! of Music will appear in due_time in and afrerwards go to Philadelphia, Pittsby and Chicago. { Madam Wildt, the Vienna prima donna, ‘ said to sing the roles of Valentina and (i | queen in the ‘‘Huguenots" on the same ni i and that Lili Lehman is likely to attempt same feat here, but it 1s not explained how | the garden scene can be accomplished, w! the queen and Valentina sit side by side. The royalty paid for “Jim the Penman,' appears in legal proceedings brought at I kuk, Ia., to restrain an authorized produt tion, is $150 a week. For the performaces the play at the New York Madison Squi theatre 10 per cent of the gross receipts pad to Sir Charles Young, the author. Oerdi’s Othello has been performed in Mese ico, not with the original instrumentationy but in an arrangement made from the pi forte scored by Vallini, musical director the theater. The manager had been refus the right of performance, and helped him: by ;:Iinging out the work in thé man: stated. y M. Ambroise Thomas, the celebrated poser, will, on his return from lumo.wm‘:'.g 0 has gono on & short visit, take hi ters at Hyeres, and set to work on his n o‘i‘ern, which is founded on Shal “Tempest.”” The opera is to be finishea time to be produced at the Paris opera dv ing the exhibition time next year, One night recently, at a Denver City, tre, to the great delight of the sudience, | bulldog in the play, whose part was %o the villlan'by tho throat and hold on for life, succeeded in dragging from under actor’s collar the piece of liver which coaxs him on, and taking it beforo the. foot-light he sat down and quietly ate it, while villian escaped. Mille. de Lusson, if she is not a great coms dieunne, possesses beyond doubt extraordin: ggwen of mimicry, Her voice has cn compared to Pattrs, It is really more like Patti's than an agate stone is I an opal. Yet Zelie, with that wonder mimetic voice of hers, will color certal tones of her voice till they do remind yor wonderfully of those of the great Adelina. It is not generally known that Miss Winafy fred Emery, whose impersonation in Mr, Irv§ ing's compaity have not been unappreciaf cho large audiences, is under study fe iss Terry. During the run of ‘‘Faust” London Miss Emery had scveral opportus ties to play Margaret, and the critics spol in the highest terms of her performance. Fog 80 young an artist her capubilitics appear 4 be exceptionally fine, and a brilliant future is anticipated for her in the profession. Mme. Coquelin, the mother of the Fren actor, is now well on toward her seventiof {cnr, and lives with her sons in Pari While their own apartments are furnisi with every luxury demanded by modes taste, the old lady has her room fitted uj with the simplicity which characterized h pleasant days in Boulogne. She is very proud of her sons, and they are oquu‘l'“ proud of her, and when they want to sh special honor to a guest they introduce him to the old laay in her cottage room. Brooklyn Eagle: Prof. Carlos Hassels brink, of the German Opera orchestra, sa; that violins differ in value according to mal and conditi Alard has a Stradivariug \ #4,000. ~ Wilhelmj plays on Stradivarius which is worth #,000, Leon: has & Maggini which cost £,000, ana Joach has a Stradivarius worth $4,000, General Haw! of Hartford, and Mr. Colton, o'! probably have the fluest violu collections in this country. Hawley hus & Guarnerius worth $10,000. "Colton has the fiddle left him by Ole Bull, estimated ay 3,000 in London, The Players' club, which was recent! organized by prominent actors and mane agers, hus been incorporated. Among the directors are Messrs. A, M. Palmer, Auguse tin Daly, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barretty Brander — Matthews, Henry Edwards, Cuwrence Hutton, ' J. H. Daly, Wils liam Bispham, 'S. L. Clemens, W, T. Sherman, Joseph Jefferson, Johm Drew, John A. Lane and Stephen 'H. Oliny ‘The objects of the new ¢lub are the promoe tion of social intercourse between the rep: scntative members of the dramatie ‘ut::- sion and of the kindred rwh-uwu of litera= ture, sculpture and music; the creation of library relating to the American lup‘ an the collection of curiositics portaining to dras matic bistory, o