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Show 5 conversation in Washington. The ball cost fully thirty thousand dollars, and was a small affair at that. Such expenditures are very rare at the capital. Indeed, the Walshes are the only Washington hosts who have surpassed Mr. Clarks extravagance. Clark is a bachelor, and wiiu a fortune of ten million dollars is a striking figure in a city where wealtny young men are to be counted on tne Angers of one hand. I believe he is the wealthiest army officer on the active list, if not in the entire army. He is modest, however, ana the Washington girls are very fond of him. It has been said that he is now devoted to Miss Roosevelt, but I know, that he is not nearly so devoted there as in less prominent quarter. , Jl Jl The season in Washington is known as the dancing winter, from the large number of. private and subscription dances which fill the calendar. There are five series of subscription dances, not to mention the Bachelors' Cotillions, and about thirty throughout private dances planned the season. In a city where dancing men are as scarce as in Washington, such a large number of dances will mean the wearing out of the dancing corps and the necessary importation men. Mr. Clarks dance of was assisted by the presence of a large number of New -- ork men. There is but one cotillion leader in Washington worthy of the name Mr. George Howard. A number of ambitious youths who have aspired to lean may be tried, however, as Mr. Howard, in his new role of a Benedick, cannot do all the work. out-of-tow- n and the more prominent have taken their new husbands to their own houses or apartments to live. Mrs. P. A. Valentine, who was the beautiP D rmour Jr. would ful not, stance, gIve up Chicago to live in this city, where Mr. chier interests lie. AlthoughValentines the Patrick A. took enough money lucky out west to buy several homes on the shore of "the unsalted sea, Mrs Valentine preferred to continue living in the house the late Mr. Armour had provided for her in Michigan avenue and where she had won fame as a hostess. Then there is Mrs. Lockwood Honore, who, until her recent marriage to Mrs. Potter Palmers er brother, was the dashing youngMrs. Charles H. Richardson. Of course, Mr. Honore could easily have managed to take his bride to a home on the Lake Shore Drive and be a neigh-fo- r to his illustrious sister, but the widow Richardson thought too well of her cosy apartment in one of the Winston flats, where . she had lived for years; so she took her second husband there to live. Again, there is the case of the attractive widow of David Barnes. She spent last summer in Toronto, and returned homfe with a young surgeon named Small, whom she bad met there, and whose name she took in due legal form. They are living in her old home in Division fr street. Jl Jl I announced last week that Mrs. Edgar W. Kirk had filed a suit for divorce against her husband, son of the late Chicago millionaire soap manufacturer. Mr. Kirk will not contest the suit, for it appears he is only waiting for the decree to marry Miss Tulu-la- . Dunsmoor, of Fort Dodge, Iowa. Jl Jl Miss-- Dunsmoor, until a few months Fashionable Chicago widows have ago, when she secured a divorce, was been rushing pell mell to the altar, a Mrs. George Curl, of Chicago. Her fondness for Kirk and his affection for ,U8e1 a confusion between the Kirk brothers, Edgar W. and Milton . Mr. Curl brought an action for damages for alienating his wifes affections against Milton V. Kirk. Events proved that he had sued the wrong brother, for Milton W. had never seen the woman. Amis once represented Spain at Washington, but this list tells me lie is a Frenchman. Jl s "Well, Count, I suppose you will kiss the girls under the mistletoe at the Christmas dance?" Under ze vat? Under the mistletoe." Jl Jl "Sacre! Vat you tink me? I kiss Lexington's popular young cleric. ze ladies ze nose or novalre. under Dean Lee, stimulated gossip the other Jl jl evening by withdrawing abruptly from The physical condition of Mrs. Mcthe theatre during a scene in "The remains about the same. Bonn Kinley Little Duchess, in which Anna Helds chorus girls remove their stockings days she is bright and on others deeply and constantly crying. preparatory to wading in an imaginary Herdepressed mind at times is very active, and brook. With all his liberality and unher conversation while doubted ability. Dean Lee is at others she mustentertaining, be humored and Inclined to create a sensation. His moral and pecuniary support of ti eated as a child. She makes a daily in all weathers to the vault where the Lexington trotting races last sum- visit her husband's body rests. Town mer added to his popularity, but his 0 Topics. taste was severely criticised when, at Jl jc a recent banquet, he rose and proposed Society people are talking of geta toast to "the Man of Galilee." ting up a grand mask ball or bal pon-drJl Jl as a finale to the season's gaieties A marvelous list of American wo- before Lent. The Idea has called men who have married foreign title forth considerable enthusiasm. o was published last Sunday. To the Justice Morris Sommer relinquished Jerome family were attributed Lady with great alacrity his position as jusWimborne, Lady do Ramsey, Lady de tice of the peace and turned over his (sic) Tweedmouth and the Duchess of records to, the new city justice. He Roxburghe, meaning, I suppose, the was glad to get rid of the office, and Dowager Duchess. All these women will henceforth devote all his time were sisters of Lord Randolph and attention to mining law, r which Churchill and not of his wife. Miss he is making a specialty. Corbin, too, married the Earl of OxF F ford and not Oxford, a title that has The committee of the Commercial long ceased to exist except among club, which was appointed to investishort horns, and Viscountess Falkland gate the of the street car inefficiency is classed among the wives of titled is hard at work, and will reservice, Italians. The former Miss Curtis will port in about ten The Investihardly recognize herself as Princess gation will be verydays. and the thorough, of Peggia Tuasa, nor Miss Coudert will be interesting reading. The report that was as Marquise de Choisene. committee is composed of Dr. I used to imagine that the Duke de Sam Ewing and Morris Sommer. King, occa-sionall- y e, NOW IN FULL BLAST! 9 Seldom has a sale attracted such attention. Try as we might we were hardly able to wait on the crowds. Mondays rush broke all records. Yesterday again it was a crush and ' It means big money in your pocket to be here. This is a sale today the jam is terrific. full of the most important and aggressive bargains ever offered in this city. A terrific slaughter and sacrifice of all winter goods REGARDLESS OE COST COST OR VALUE CUT NO FIGURE. Thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of Millinery, Cloaks, Skirts, Waists, Hosiery, Underwear, Gloves, Notions, to be slaughtered to make a clean sweep of all winter goods. We hesitate at no loss to make this the most memorable of the year. bargain-even- t |