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Show A ROSE-SILK PETTICOAT. Mn, Jostle. Rrnwa Charm. Washington with Ezqul.lt. Cloth... Washington. Jan. 27. The wife of the new justice, Mrs. Brown, is a lady of most remarkable ancestry. She traces her lineage back to Pris3illa and John Alden of the Mayflower. Although Al-though she has been in Washington only two weeks she is already one of the greatest favorites here. During Mrs. Harrison's first reception recep-tion she stood beside her. At Mrs. Morton's dinner to tlio prssidont she wasgiveu the place of honor at the right hand of the vice-president. The great charm of Mrs. lirown is that she accepts the situation with so much ease and grace aud without the least touch of affectation. She wears tbo most exquisite ex-quisite gowns and jewels, which, of course, have the effect always of making mak-ing a pretty woman prettier. ller favorite colors nre old rose and blue. Ono of hor reception dresses is a combination of the two colors. A petticoat pet-ticoat of old rose silk and a train of dark velvet held in place at llie shoulders shoul-ders oy large bunches of pink roses. The gown which she wore at Mrs. Morton's Mor-ton's was all of velvet, with embroidery of pink roses extending from the shoulders shoul-ders to the belt and down the side of the skirt. Mrs. Brown possesses some ancestral jewels; ono of them, a bracelet, was the property of her graudmother. who wore it nt the ball given to General Lafayette in 1824. There is a tradition that she also was a very pretty and fascinating woman, and that during the progress of the ball she danced with the great French oftiocr and so pleased him that ho begged permission to kiss her hand. As he stooped to do so the bracelet slipped down and he pressed his lips on a medallion holding his own portrait. Mrs. Brown will receive hor friends on Tuesday afternoons at the Arlington throughout the season. |