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6 THE INTER OCEAN, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1903. SOCIETY FINDS SOLACE IN RACES Grand Dames Discover Diversion at the Washington Park Club house and Pick Winners Besides. A BREEZY STORY BY MRS. DE KOVEN Chicago Absentees Busy at Eastern Resorts--Notables 1 to Attend the First Horse Show In Milwaukee's History -Movements and Doings of Society. ballad of Washington park: I love to see the nags run round, fleeting, swift procession, And count, in mental ways profound, The cash in my possession.

I love to hear the gladsome howl That goes up for the winner, And handsomely forbear to scowl, Tho' robbed am I of dinner. I love to watch the satin coats Gleam in the sunshine brightly, And wager then some hundred groats Upon my choice all lightly; I love to watch the sorry dog That carries forth my savings, Far in the rear guard homeward jog, And thus escape my ravings. I love to seek the clubbouse lawn, And- scan the costumes fragile, Then hear the tooting of the born, And watch the jockeys agile, A on the hosses' necks, Like monkeys small and funny, And separating me from specks Of what I've left of money. I love to sit upon the porch, When every race is overThe while the sun has ceased to scorch-! And sniff the scent of clover. The infield sends it forth A weary, hardened sinner, And it produces pleasantlee An appetite for dinner.

I love to drive serenely through The park's beflowered mazes, Reflecting do, On Life's peculiar phases. And as the cart the corner turns, And homely joys I'm facing, My heart with heavenly ardor burns For all the bliss of racing. Without the season of racing at Washington park, the I fear, would have had rather a dull time of it. The South Side course is the only one that is patronized to any appreciable extent by the so-called upper and the clubhouse has been the scene throughout the week of gay parties that could scarcely have found adequate diversion In any other locality. The first families that frequent the clubhouse miss a good deal of excitement enjoyed by the hoi polloi in the grand stand and betting ring, a few hundred yards farther east, but they contrive to place their wagers somehow or another and they manage to howl in unison with the rank outsiders when the right horse comes home in front.

Inured as I am to all phases of feminine emotion, I am beginning to feel, since my visits to WashIngton park, as if all screams of bliss sounded alike to me. Odd it is, too, how some of the fair ones managed to pick out winners when their gallant male escorts have floundered fruitlessly in the betting ring, returning bedewed with perspiration and possessed of everything but money. Our friend William Ullrich, for example, who is one of the newly elected members club, had the honor of escorting thither the other afternoon an adorable sprite a maid from Kentucky, who would faint with mortification if her name were made known, but who succeeded in selecting four winners and sending modest commissions into the ring upon them, while Billy was floundering amid the vortex fruitlessly following the tips of touts. True, the club people missed the excitement of Thursday, when a bunch of bookmakers--pardon, again! I mean arrested and some enterprising advocates of the gentle art of arson tried to burn down the grand' stand, what o' that? You can't have everything--particularly if you're inclined to be exclusive. Our ladies of fashion continue to distinguish themselves.

Mrs. Reginald. De Koven, whom Chicago still claims as a daughter, though I believe she and her talented husband have taken up their residence permanently in Washington, 1 has a story In the current Ainslee's that her friends will be sure to say smacks strongly of genius. I am no literary critic; as a rule have no time to read stories, I am so busy writing them, but this one of Mrs. De Koven's ought, as they say, to hold you for awhile.

It is about a very chic and voluptuous and wicked Countess who deliberately provokes a duel bechunst her husband and her lover, In order that the latter may have a chance to put the former into a becoming suit of grave-clothes. At the duel the lover magnanimously fires into the air, and the husband, who is elderly and presumably gouty, falls dead of apoplexy, precisely a8 Sir Brian de Bois Guilbert did when menaced by the lance of Ivanhoe. Afterward the wicked Countess meets the lover in the wood- has seen all, the saucy essays to encoll him in a snaky embrace. He spur-rr-runs her and she ambles off: still laughing wickedly. It is by far the nutmeggiest story in the magazine.

You can't go three steps up the avenue or across one of the bridges without hearing of what our celebrities are doing away from home. The folks write while they are away, which lets the other folks know what they are doing. From Bar Harbor, where I have very faithful correspondent, I hear that Mr. Frederick S. Osgood of Chicago, who has been critically Ill at the Homeopathic hospital in Boston, is expected to spend part of his summer there.

Mr. Osgood was taken ill while returning from Europe with his family, and was taken direct to the hospital from the steamer. Also these notes; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bowen and family of Chicago are at their pretty cottage, Baymeath, at Hull's Cove.

Mrs. A. E. Platt of Chicago has opened her cottage, Arden, on Clefstone road. She as guest Mrs.

Platt-Hunt. Mrs. James Crow, Miss Crow, and Miss Frances Crow of Chicago are at the Acadian, Castine, for July and August. Mrs. H.

L. Lewis and Arthur J. Lewis of Chicago and R. B. Livingston of Detroit are at the Appledore house, Isle of Shoals.

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Walker, Mrs. Mary Randolph, and Miss Ethel Randolph of Chicago, and John B.

Rice of Cleveland are guests at the SamoBet house, Rockland. Mr. and Mrs. H. Morton of Chicago are at the Rangeley Lake house, Rangeley.

Again from Newport, where that now famous Fish dinner has stirred up such a rumpus and set Mrs. Drexel to biting her thumb: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marsh and Mr. and Mrs.

E. Haven of Chicago are among threw handkerchiefs, gloves, flowers, and jewels. There was never such a heard in the Auditorium, and there never will be again, unless Tamagno comes back. From a musical standpoint it was perhaps beastly; but from the spectacular- inimitable and overwhelming. Pardon the reminiscence, but I can never forget that straight from that great brawny chest.

Tamagno would come back and repeat it, r'a cook his chickens for him. WILLIE DEARBORN. Personal Notes and Jottings. Judge H. V.

Freeman and his daughter Helen are at their cottage at West Harbor Point, Mich. Mrs. R. R. Rollo, and Miss L.

A. Rollo, 235 Ashland boulevard, are staying at New Murray, Mackinac. Dr. and Mrs. 0.

W. Nixon, 741 La Salle avenue, have returned home after a nine months' stay in southern California. Miss Marjorie Benton Cooke, the wellwriter, of Madison avenue, is spending the summer Long Shore, Mass. 6610. The engagement is announced of Miss Florence Woodford, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. A. Woodford, to James L. Palmer of Austin.

Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Worthington and their little daughter, Zilla, 5119 Jefferson avenue, left Thursday for Canada to spend the summer.

Miss Violet. Hart of New Orleans, who has been visiting the Misses Myers of 4406 Lake avenue, left Thursday for the mountains. Baroness Eugente von of Stuttgart, Germany, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Hayden S. Barnard, 4031 Vincennes avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. Orville E. Babcock are en route to Jamaica, having sailed from Boston Thursday. They expect to be away from two or three months.

Miss Alice Haas of San Antonio, Texas, is Miss Charlotte Schram of 3309 Caluvisiting Several entertainments will be met avenue. given in her honor during her stay. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B.

Jones and family, 1643 West Adams, streetumbus, accompanied by Miss Lillian Ohio, have gone on an extended Western trip. Mrs. S. J. Goldstein of 874 Fiftieth street and her guest, Mrs.

F. Goldstein of New York city, will be at home on Friday afternoons and Sunday evenings. Mr. Walter Hately has taken possession of his new Highland Park home and has his and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Alan Mcllvaine, staying with him. Mrs. C. William Wilson and Mrs. William Schwartz of Homestead, have returned to their homes, after visiting during the past two weeks with Mrs.

A. C. Harris of 9116 Superior avenue. Mr. and Mrs.

William Lincoln Bush of the Plaza, who have been sojourning during the past fortnight at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, will return from the East next Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Henry Brinkman, formerly of 8684 Vincennes road, nOW of Mobile, announce the engagement of their daughter, Florence Colburn, to Stanley Shaw Holmes. Mrs.

D. S. White, 760 West Adams street, entertained Friday evening at a "kitchenshower" in honor of Miss Harriet J. Brown and Edward L. Lichtenberger, whose marriage will take place July 16.

SOCIETY EVENTS OF WEEK IN THE EAST Newport Still the Center of Attention -London Wedding of Interest to Many New Yorkers. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. NEW YORK, July The social set is enjoying itself at Newport and other resorts. After July 4 the series of dinners, dances, balls, luncheons, and morning concerts begin in earnest at Newport, and nearly all the summer residents who intend to spend this month, August, and part of September there are already thoroughly settled for the season. The clambake club held its first meeting on the Fourth, and Mrs.

James P. Kernochan gave a large reception at her beautiful villa. The dates for the horse show have been fixed for Sept. 7, 8, and 9, and among the judges this year will be Mr. Frank K.

Sturgis from Let the GOLD DUST twins do your work." BEWARE OF Good-bye Soapl Welcome GOLD DUST! Better for clothes, dishes, pots and pans, floors and doors--and yet more economical. GOLD DUST drives dirt before it--makes everything clean and bright--lessens the housewife's cares. With GOLD DUST'S aid wash-day ceases to be "Blue Monday." It makes it possible to have snow white clothes without rubbing them to pieces on the washboard. Made only by THE N. K.

FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, New York, Boston, St. Louis- -Makers of OVAL FAIRY SOAP. Wickham road. Mrs. Frederic Pearson is at her cottage at Ochre Point.

Mr. and Mrs. Julien T. Davies are at their place, and have Mrs. Thompson as their guest.

Mrs. Burke Roche's new Italian garden is much admired, a wonder of artistic skill and taste. Mrs. John Clinton Gray's villa, Hawxhurst, and Mr. Frederick Vanderbilt's place, Rough Point, are for sale.

A wedding which was an event of Interest to New Yorkers took place Tuesday in St. Peter's church, Eaton square, London, England. It was that of Miss Lily Whitehouse daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Whitehouse, to Baron Constantine de Ramsay.

Prince Orloff was the best man, and immediately after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom started for St. Petersburg. Mr. and Mrs. William Tudor of Boston, announce engagement of their daughter, Miss Elsa Tudor, to Comte Alain Dedons de Pierrefeu of Paris, France.

Announcement is made in Washington, D. of the engagement of Miss Lucille W. Fuller, daughter of Mrs. Henry W. Fuller, to Lieutenant C.

Edward Gilpin, U. S. only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gilpin of Philadelphia.

Mr. Richard P. Charles announces the engagement of his daughter, Miss Marie Charles, to Mr. William David Judson. Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Hoffman have announced the engagement their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman, to Mr. Arthur Wellman Butler, son of the late William Allen Butler of chis city. Mr. and Mrs.

Townsend Howes of Stamford, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Florence Howes, to Mr. Leander Shaw Herrick, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Herrick of Brooklyn.

Another Brooklyn engagement just announced is that of Miss Louise Thorne Ditmas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Ditmas, to Mr. John Frelinghuysen Talmage, who is a son of Dr. and Mrs.

Samuel Talmage. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Gerard, will soon leave for a trip to Montana, where they will be the guests of Mrs.

Marcus Daly. Mr. and Mrs. Anson W. Hard have gone to their country place, Chacara, at Lawrence, L.

for the summer. Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan has left Cragston at Highlands on the Hudson, and has gone to Bar Harbor for the rest of the season. Mr.

and Mrs. Lewis L. Delafield and Miss Delafeld are also at Bar Harbor for part of the summer. Mrs. Levi P.

Morton has gone to her camp at Saranac Lake, where she will be joined later by the Misses Morton. One of the principal events of the Bar Harbor season will be the marriage of Miss Lucy Gurnee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- MRS. EBON BYRON SMITH.

Well-known Chicago woman who read a paper before the National Outdoor Art and Park association at Buffalo last week. New York, Mr. Reginald W. Rives from New York, and Hr. Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, from Boston.

Among some of those who have cards out for series of dinners are Mrs. William H. Sands, Mr. George L. Scott, Senator George Peabody Wetmore, Mrs.

Robert L. Gammell, Mrs. William Payne Thompson, Mrs. James L. Kernochan, Mrs.

Hugh L. Willoughby, Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mr.

Lispenard Stewart, Mrs. Charles Pfizer, Mrs. T. Shaw Lafe, Mrs. Elisha Dyer, Mrs.

George B. De Forest, and Mrs. Harry Lehr. Mr. and Mrs.

William Fitzhugh will open their Newport cottage the end of this month, sailing from Europe on July 17, where they have been spending some time. Mr. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor will also arrive at Newport the end of July. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry C. Taylor, who have been cruising on their yacht, Wanderer, are now again at their villa. Mrs. Ogden Mills and the Misses Mills sail today for New York, and will join Mr.

Mills at Newport on their arrival. Others coming over on the same steamer, who will go at once to Newport, are Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge T.

Gerry, and the Misses Gerry. Mr. and Mrs. William M. Kingsland have taken Pinard cottage No.

3 for the season, and Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Collier are at the Coats villa, on WANTS MONUMENTS PUT IN THICKETS Sarcastic Advice Given Outdoor Art Association Convention by Mrs.

Herman J. Hall. What a heavenly time those Chicago women are having in Buffalo! They are attending the national convention of the American Park and Outdoor Art association and telling the good people of New York how the cause of art can be aided by individual effort. One day last week Mrs. Herman J.

Hall, the president of the woman's auxiliary, got quite excited over the placing of monuments in parks, satirizing them as effigies. She said that it these granite perpetuations of musicians, sculptors, soldiers, and others had to be in parks it would be wise to conceal them in thickets, where those who wished to find might do so, but where there would be no danger of other visitors coming upon them unawares. Convention Well Attended. One hundred delegates from all parts of the United States Canada were present. Among those who went from this city were Mrs.

E. B. Smith, Mrs. F. K.

Bowes, Mrs. W. F. Grower, Mrs. C.

F. Millspaugh, and Frances Copley Seavey. A brilliant and enthusiastic audience gathered at the hall of the Sorbonne in Paris to witness the conferring of the degree of doctor of sciences on the most famous living woman scientist, Mme. Sklodowska Curie, the discoverer of that mysterious body radium. Radium seems to be force and matter rolled up into one.

Its properties are passing wonderful. To begin with, unlike any other form of Inert matter, it is hot-moderately so, but it gives out heat month after month and year after year without ever getting cold. If it were as plentiful as coal, or even as diamonds, the problem of perpetual motion would be solved. Unfortunately our whole planet does not probably contain more than an ounce of radium. As its present price is $666 a grain $10,000 gram), I- do not venture to prophesy its future price should some New Jersey trust get hold of that ounce.

Mme. Curle is a young woman, most attractive, and is the wife of a man who is very proud of her, and always insists upon her getting and holding the first place. A great effort is made to throw open the doors of the College of Charleston (S. to women, the representative women of the city and state using their best endeavor in behalf of the idea. As usual, the young men object, on the usual ground that the entrance of women "would alter the spirit and tone of robust Commenting on this ungenerous attitude, a local paper says: "In other words, they would rob every young woman in the city of an education merely to have a monopoly in athletic sports.

This question of coeducation should be decided by a board of trustees and not by a baseball team." The young chivalry of Charleston should consider the university students of their state. These young men, when they perceived that their protests against the admittance of women were vain, resolved on a philosophical attitude. They would ignore the existence of the girl students. When a bright girl took first honors at graduation, they grandly overlooked her and held a jubilation for a youth who came off second best. In this way were they enabled to bear the presence of the inferior sex within their classic walls.

Is It true--did Mme. Prozzl, at the age of 80 years, tell the truth about the secret of all women's woes when she wrote this 150 years ago? Whence this Distress of head? Whence comes my Nose so red? Our Doctors have all said From Liver. Why all this Heat of Skin? Why so much pain within? What makes me get so My Liver. Why Gout In Feet and Toes? Carbuncles on my Nose? When all this only shows 'Tis Liver. Miss Rosa has a Pimple Where once she had a dimple, And she believes Oh, Simple Liver.

Why my torn frame to telze Bites of Bugs, Gnats, and Fleas? All these Excrescences Come from My Liver. "Smoking cigarettes and drinking In public Is not becoming in a university president, and good example to hold up to the students of the college of which he is the head." This 1s what Mrs. Carrie B. Young of the W. C.

T. U. thinks of the action of President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California. He also has been severely criticised by a number of the residents of Berkeley, and particularly at a recent meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. At that time a paper was read by Mrs.

Young deploring the fact that one in such a high position as that of the executive of the university should smoke on a train to and from San Francisco, at the depot, and in other public places. Mrs. Young's paper ended with the following expression: "Would to God that the president would not set to the student such a bad example by smoking and drinking in public places. No Eastern graduate that amounts to anything would be addicted to the habit of drinking or smoking." Mrs. Leland Stanford, who at a meeting of the Stanford university trustees was chosen president of the board, made an unexpected announcement that the power to choose and discharge the professors would be taken from President Jordan and given into the hands of the trustees.

As Mr. Jordan has had this power from the opening of the university, the change of policy excited much comment. this week's arrivals at the Aquidneck. Mr. and Mrs.

F. A. Bemis of Chicago are at the Perry. Mr. and Mrs.

Levy of Chicago have opened their handsome cottage at Warren Cove, near Plymouth. Mr. Everett Churchill of Chicago is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I.

T. Churchill, at Whitman. The Misses Grace and Dorothy Leslie of Chicago are guests at the Town Hill cottages, Edgartown. While up the beateous Berkshire Hills-an ideal model wilderness if ever there was one--the Chicago colony is large and constantly increasing. Some of the particulars: Mr.

and Mrs. Fred T. West of Chicago have leased the Ogden place, the Pittsfield season. It is one 6f the prettiest Berkshires. The Misses Sheldon of Chicago, sisters of D.

K. Sheldon of Lee, have purchased of Mrs. Lucy Way the old Beach homestead. in Lee. Mr.

of Chicago are Mountain farm, Lee, and Mrs. A. G. Morey and Mini. Marie Morey for the summer.

Mrs. J. A. Wilfert of Chicago is spending few weeks with her sister, Mrs. H.

E. Hitchcock, of Lee. Mrs. W11- fert will be joined by her husband about the middle of the month, when they will make an extended European tour. Mr.

O. Dickinson Street of Chicago is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. D.

Street, of Lee. Mrs. Judson Field of Chicago is visiting her father, Mr. B. M.

Field, of Leverett. Mrs. Sarah Guillow Wheeler of Chicago is visiting her father, Charles Guillow, of Bernardstown. Miss Viola Hemmingway Chicago is visiting friends in Medford, Mass. Mre.

W. W. Bartlett and Mrs. Caswell of Chicago are guests at the Red Lion inn, West Stockbridge. Miss S.

L. Graves of Chicago is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. S. D. Graves, of Sunderianda, Mr.

and have Mrs. been Howard visiting Halligan friends in Shelburne Falls. They went East to attend the Williams-Griswold wedding at Grisr. oldville. The White mountain resorts are sprinkled with Chicagoans, and the same is true of the North Shore of Massachusetts.

Mr. W. Swift, a well-known Chicago lawyer, with Mrs. Swift, will spend July and August at Magnolia, having gone there from the Maplewood at Pittsfield. Mr.

Swift was elected president of Williams College Society of Alumni at the last commencement. They will return to the Berkshires for the autumn. Among last week's arivals at the Magnolia were Mr. and Mrs. Nathan W.

Wil-liams, Miss Ragna Haugan, Miss Mary E. Berth, Mrs. Charles B. Pope, and Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas E. Donnelly of Chicago. Mrs. William Halliday and Miss Zimmerman of Chicago and Miss Constance and Master Emery Rogers of Colorado Springs are guests of Mrs. Charles Manning at 1 Mrs.

Charles B. Pope of Chicago, Mrs. W. O. Hugert of Grand Rapids, and Mrs.

Lee McMillan of New Orleans are at the Hotel Preston, Swampscott. Swampscott is about as ideal a seashore spot as can be found on all the New England coast. I can blame nobody for going there. -Portrait by Koehne, Bush Temple. MISS FERN HUBBARD.

A West Side girl who is winning laurels in a school of oratory. alone. The town is the home of not a few millionaires, who have not yet given up the horse for the automobile, and who say the day will never come when they will. One of the peculiar features of the Milwaukee show arrangements is this: The wives of the officers of the association that is paying the bills and doing the work of planning have former a combination to prevent the newspapers from publishing their portraits, and have thus far succeeded in their purpose. The leading ladies say that under no circumstances shall their pictures appear newspapers, although they promise to honor the show with their presence and do all in their power to make it a social success.

No explanation is given for their refusal beyond the simple one that they do not court publicity; but an explanation is possibly found in the fact that one of the Milwaukee newspapers insists upon treating the affair wholly as a "sporting event." A lot of distinguished Chicago people intend going to the show, which is set for July 20. Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Howard have gone East and taken a cottage in the Adirondacks for the summer.

Mrs. Howard's mother, Mrs. Augustus Byram, has returned from Europe, and with Miss Muriel Byram and Miss Marjorie Burnes will occupy a cottage In the mountains also. Mrs. Otto William Smith of 305 Winthrop avenue announce the marriage of her daughter, Alice, to Milton Green Norton, eldest son of Mrs.

Mary H. Norton of 1228 Sheridan road, Tuesday, July 21, 1903, at 7:30 p. m. At home Sept. 1.

This from an Eastern contemporary, about some celebrities in Paris, is not uninteresting: "I met another celebrity bn my walk this morning. Madame Melba, fresh from her antipodean triumph, is in Paris enjoying the sunshine of the boulevards, where she is generally followed by half a dozen urchins who are familiar with her weakness for giving away pennies. Melba is staying at the Ritz, in the Place Concorde, and here she keeps up a semi-royal state quite befitting her great station. Paris has a wonderful attraction for singers. Whenever they have a day or two to spare they run here from all parts of Europe.

This great magnet draws them all with irresistible force. The two De Reszkes, Paderewski, Kubelik, Patti, Plancon, Sembrich, all spend as much time as possible in Paris. Young Kubelik, who did not speak a word of French three years ago, now talks it with a fluency that is really remarkable. When in Paris he does not live at a hotel, but, for choice, goes to a French boarding-house and mingles with the boarders just as if he were a commis voyageur. Tamagno, the Italian tenor, lives in a little flat at Montmartre, when here, and cooks his own meals.

He is said to be so rich that he does not know what to do with his money." The most interesting sentence in the foregoing concerns the herculean Tamagno, who, It is pleasant to perceive, still exercises his talent for cookery. When in this country fourteen years ago he used to cook his own chickens in his sleeping-car, in order to avoid dining-car extortion. No wonder he does not know what to do with his money. I can never hear Tamagno's name mentioned, or see it in print, without thinking of the night-it was in December, 1889, to be exact--when he made his Chicago debut at the Auditorium. The opera was "Il Trovatore," hackneyed enough, the dear Lord knows, but we had heard wondrous things of the great.

tenore robusto and the place was packed to the skylights. All through the first part of the opera the muchvaunted blacksmith-tenor- I believe he graduated from a blacksmith's shop, did he distinctly disappointing. In his lower notes he sang through his nose, and In every scene he seemed incapable of gracefully engineering his bulk. Then came the great castle scene and the "DI Quella Pira," and then the tumult. When the big man struck his high -the note that has brought him wealth and fame and all the chickens he can ever cook -in sleeping cars or anywhere else- something very close to a cyclone happened.

The note swelled up and up, clear as crystal, true as a bell, increasing in volume and resonance every fraction of a second, until It seemed as if the very roof would split. The effect was unusual. Some people sat dazed. Others half rose from their seats, awestruck and bewildered by a sound the like of which they had never before heard issue from a human throat. The blacksmith was not allowed to finish his aria.

It was lost in the tornado of noise. Some enthuslastic people, musically inclined, howled their approval, and a few idiotio women Miss Frances Whitehouse, eldest daughter of W. Fitzhugh Whitehouse of Newport, R. who lived for many years in Chicago, and Baron Constantin gentleman-inwaiting to the Czar, were married at St. Peter's church, Eaton square, Tuesday.

Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Ambassador Choate and Mrs. Choate, the Russian Ambassador, Count Benckendorff, and Countess dorff, were among the distinguished persons present. Baroness Ramsay is the granddaughter of Bishop Whitehouse, a predecessor of Bishop McLaren the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Chicago. Bishop Whitehouse was one of the most famous clergymen of the church. Several of his children, the father of the bride among them, were born in Chicago.

Miss Whitehouse was greatly admired for her striking beauty. The members of the Whitehouse family have been known much better in recent years in the East than they have in Chicago. They have passed many, summers at Newport, where they were members of the exclusive New York colony. To the death of a little baby, which might have lived had it been nourisHed with proper. milk, Chicago's babies are indirectly Indebted for the plant which is to pasteurize their milk.

The baby that died, it is said, was the childi of Nathan Straus, who is now trying to save other people's children. Mr. Straus credits his wife with the thought which inspired him to devote a part of his wealth to preventing death among the infants. They were driving one day, when, seeing children paying 5 cents per glass for milk, Mrs. Strauss remarked that it was too much for the poor to pay.

It was this remark which led to the establishing of the first pasteurizing plant in New York. Twelve years ago, when a coal famine distressed the pocr of New York, Mr. Straus bought coal by the cargo, constructed bins for it, and sold it to the poor at less than cost, at the same time serving hot coffee and buns to those waiting to secure the fuel. Members of the Chicago Teachers' tion, in session at Boston, attended a reception to Miss Margaret A. Haley and Miss Catherine Goggin by the Catholic union.

Miss Haley reached the city about noon, but discovered that the trunk containing the beautiful gowns to be worn by her and by Miss Goggin was still somewhere on the road to Boston. Consequently the two leaders of the federation had to go to the reception in their traveling gowns. The trunk containing the flags, banners, and bunting for the decoration of the federation headquarters was also missing. The clubrooms of the Catholic union of Boston were brilliantly lighted and decorated fo for the reception. Miss Haley was praised for her work in behalf of the grade teachers of Chicago, and also as president of the National Teachers' federation.

Miss Goggin also came in for commendation, Mrs. Charles Henrotin, president of the Chicago Woman's club, has received a cablegram from Kimberley, South Africa, announcing the birth of a grandson last Friday. Together with her husband, who is stock broker and Consul for Belgium, she cabled congratulations. Charles N. Henrotin married Miss Alff of Salt Lake City a year ago.

He is in the employ of the De Beers Diamond Mining company. Here's another grandmother. Mrs. J. W.

Wadsworth, daughter of Secretary of State Hay, is the mother of a healthy girl baby, born at the Hampton country home of the Wadsworths. Mrs. John Hay has been with her daughter. The baby has been named in honor of herEvelyn. That's enough for the wanderers; is it not strange that some of them go so far? There has been mighty little doing at home except at the country clubs, where the usual round of athletic pleasures, including tea on the veranda after golf-has been observed.

There have been some weddings of consequence- the altar will be pretty well deserted from now on until September. In midsummer most people are far too well amused to think of marriage. The National Society of Associated Arts will be entertained on the grounds of Mr. and Mrs. James W.

Ranson, Ravenswood, on Saturday afternoon, July 18. In the evening the guests will be further entertained by a concert to be given in the private theater of the host and hostess. The National Society of Associated Arts, of which Mr. George E. Colby is president, has in contemplation the erection of a $3,000,000 national art museum.

Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Hammond, who are at their summer home on Bangs lake, Wauconda, are entertaining a number of Chicago friends.

Among those who were present at the house party last week are: Captain D. G. Harrington and wife, Commodore G. L. Seavey and wife, Lieutenant W.

E. Rice and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

Burgess, and Mr. and Mrs. William Poppenhagen. Up at Milwaukee society people are in the throes of their approaching show. They never had one before, and as near as can be measured at this distance everything is coming out all right.

Milwaukee has all kinds of high-bred horses and well-bred women and galore, although they are divided into classes that are distinct and "The British Widow" is in town and will shortly appear upon the streets with her barrel organ, soliciting alms for the support of herself and her children, and to retrieve the home and fortune lost in the Boer war. She will not divulge her real name for the sake of her family, but she is said to be the daughter of a celebrated Irishman of letters, and evidently of gentle birth. She lost her home and fortune in Johannesburg during the Boer war. Coming to America, she was injured by a fall in Buffalo last January, and, casting aside her name and adopting the sobriquet by which she nOW. goes, went about the streets of Toronto soliciting alms with the aid of a barrel organ and a circular relating her misfortunes.

Her family do not know of her plans, she says, but think she is traveling. She will appear upon the Chicago streets, as she has in Toronto, Detroit, and Toledo, as soon as she secures permission from the mayor. ter Gurnee, to Mr. Henry Thorndike of Boston. The wedding will be celebrated in August at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. Gurnee. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton McK.

Twombly will open their Newport villa on Saturday next. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Parsons will not go abroad this summer, but will go to Bar Harbor instead. The Rev.

Dr. and Mrs. William S. Rainsford have closed their town house and have gone to Murray Bay, Canada, for the summer. Mr.

and Mrs. Julien T. Davies, will spend the entire summer at their place at Babylon, L. I. Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph T. Low and Miss Laura Low will spend the summer at New London, where they have taken a cottage. Mrs. Philip J.

Sands and the Misses Sands will spend July and August at Bay Head, N. where they have leased a house. Mr. and Mrs. Temple Bowdoin have opened their house at Elberon, N.

for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Perkins have taken a house at Black Rock, for the summer. Harriet Lane Johnston's remains were Interred yesterday at Greenmount cemetery, Baltimore, beside the bodies of her husband and two sons.

The funeral was private. A beautiful wreath of white carnations from the White House gardens was sent by Mrs. Roosevelt. Bishop Satterlee of Washington officiated, assisted by the Rev. William L.

Deveries of Washington. Elisa Boyd, Mrs. Johnston's colored servant, nearly as old, as her mistress, went with the casket from. Narragansett. Mrs.

Blaine, widow of the late James G. Blaine, is reported to be seriously ill at her home in Augusta. Her children are with her. Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, a granddaughter of the late Elzabeth Cady Stanton, will take up the work of her grandmother. She was the first and only woman to enter the civil engineering department of Cornell university.

The late King Alexander and Queen Draga were insured for $100,000 each with a Belgian and Dutch insurance company, Dowager Queen Margherita is reported to have asked frequently for news about the pontiff..