The Sphinx, Vol. 13, No. 186

              December 30th
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Mr. G. M. Taylor, of Birkenheard, who is well-known to lovers of football in Cheshire for his prowess in the field, has come to Egpy t to recover from a severe attack of rheumatism. Mr. Taylor stayed at Shepheard’s Hotel for some time and is now at the Ghezireh Palace for a week, after which he will return to Shepheard’s.
Members of the Turf Club and its many visitors will be glad to learn that the genial secretary, Mr. Aspinall, is now on the high road to recovery from his illness, but we understand be will remain at A1 Hayat, Helouan, for some time yet.
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Judge and Mrs. Wessel, Mr. and Mrs.. Car-lewis, Mrs. M C. Dyer, and Mr. Huffman are among the visitors from Pretoria who are staying at Shepheard’s Hotel.
Sir William and Lady Gculding, Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, Major and Mrs. Mat-ignon, and the Misses Collins, have gone up the Nile and are staying at the Luxor H< tel.
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Mr. Guttman, general manager of the newly established German bank in Cairo, is staying at the Savoy Hotel.
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M. Kehren, the lately apppointed vice-Consul for Germany, and Mine. Kehren have arrived in Cairo and are shortly going up the Nile.
Mr. Webb, who left for Upper Egypt last Saturday, returned to Cairo yesterday.
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Mr. A. M. Mortimer has been appointed Spanish Consul at Cairo in place of Mr. Pelizaeus who resigned lately.
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H.H. Prince Christian of Hesse and several officers of the German cruiser “Charlotte,” which is in Alexandria harbour, are staying at the National Hotel.
Mr. George Pauling, the South African railway king and millionaire, who, accompanied by his wife, has been staying at the Ghezireh Palace Hotel, has now left on a short visit to Luxor. We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Pauling is indisposed and trust that she will derive great benefit from the Luxor air.
Mr. Mitchell Innes, who has been making a tour of the mining areas of the Red Sea with Mr. Weils, has returned to Cairo.
Admiral Alfred Taylor Dale and Miss Dale are staying at the Hotel d’Angleterre. Admiral Dale entered the Navy in 1854 and was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1876. In 1891 he was made Rear-Admiral and six years later Vice-Admiral. He served in China in 1858.
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Major and Mrs. Donegan are staying at the Tewfik Palace Hotel, Helouan.
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Mr., Mrs., and Miss Beresford, who have been spending the last few weeks at Assouan, are returning to the Continental Hotel on Monday, and will remain some time in Cairo.
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Count Au de Pret, from Brussels, will arrive in Cairo on Monday. He has engaged rooms at the Continental Hotel.
Countess Picciolamissi will arrive here tomorrow week with Depute Brachi and Depute Lucernari. These distinguished visitors from Italy will stay at the Continental Hotel previous to going up the Nile.
Captain Maenaghten is due at the Continental Hotel on Wednesday next.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Blake Baker, who are well-known to New York Society, are staying at Shepheard’s Hotel.
Sir Charles Metcalfe has arrived in Cairo from South Africa and is staying at the Savoy Hotel.
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon Morril, from Boston, Mr. Hen it and Miss Agnes Mosler, Mrs. and Miss Burr, Mr. and Mrs. Joyce, Mr. and Mr. A. H. Thorndike, Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Houghton, and Mr. Henry Lord are among the visitors from America who are staying at the Cataract Hotel, Assouan.
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Dr. and Mrs. Saunders are staying at the Luxor Hotel.
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His Highness Prince Ibrahim Pasha Halim and Herr Von Mohl arrived in Egypt from Europe last Monday.
Lady Colvin left Marseilles for Egypt yesterday and will arrive in Cairo on Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mile Subercaseaux, who are well known in Paris Society, are staying at the Ghezireh Palace Hotel.
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The Norddeutscher S. S. “ Hohenzollern ”, which arrives at Alexandria next Monday, is bringing a large number of visitors to Egypt. Among these we notice Baron von Born, Mr. E. L. Flood with a party of friends, and Miles, de Plaeas, who has wintered in Egypt for several years past and who will go up the Nile in her private dahabeah shortly after her arrival.
There were many who braved the bitter cold of Thursday night in order to attend the first small dance at Ghezireh Palace. The Hotel is so popular and its entertainments so splendidly managed, that its distance from Cairo rarely deters guests from responding to its invitations. \.any people started the evening with dinner parties, and Mr. Curphy was entertaining some fourteen guests among whom we noticed the Hon. and Mrs. Claude James, the Hon. F. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Heller, Mrs. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. Rome, Miss Begg, and Mr. Spooner. Colonel Gordon’s party included Lt. Colonel Watson and Mr. Carter Wilson ; while Captain and Mrs. Mac-lean were dining with Major and Mrs. Burnie. Sir Hugh Smiley had as his guests Crookshank Pasha and Captain and Mrs. Claude Rome. Lady Lampson had a party of eight, including Major Davidson and other officers of the Royal Innis-
killing Fusiliers and Captain Wynham had Mr. and Mrs. Scott Dalgleish at his table. Other hosts at dinner were Captain Grant, Major Wynn, Mr. Horrold, Mr. Binkley, Major Hessie, Mr. Bennett, M. and Mile Subercaseaux, and M r. von Mohl. A fair number of other guests arrived after dinner and at a quarter to ten dancing was commenced in the beautiful ball room, and continued till the early hours with an interval for supper soon after midnight.
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No more fitting background to pretty dresses could be found than the handsome salons and halls, and there was never too great a crowd to swamp the individual toilettes. Mrs. Bailey was wearing a sweetly old fashioned pink silk trimmed with gathered robings of the same and with a neat little tucker round the decollatage. She wore earings of either pink coral or pink pearls ; and as far as we can remember she and Mrs.-Claude Rome were the only two who wore those ornaments. The latter who is very petite, wore a charming frock of soft pervanche blue, the bodice made with deep tucks slightly pouched over the waistline. She wore a small scarf of the same blue in her pretty hair, and Mrs. C. James had also a morsel of turquoise chiffon threaded through her coiffure. The dress of the latter was of turquoise silk, the revers of the bodice falling over a sash of chene ribbon. Mrs. Rome was in cream net, bordered at the hem with a deep flounce of white satin and also trimmed with a large design in ruched ribbon threaded through with tinsel hands. The bodice of lace was caught into a draped corselet of satin on which appeared other gleams of tinsel. Her pretty sister, Miss Begg was in a very pale shade of pink, the Hounce and tucked corsage headed with lace run through with pink ribbon. Mrs. Travers was in some soft white material melting into a flounce of fine white lace embroidered with ribbon work. Mrs. Heller had on a very handsome black chiffon Empire dress weighted and trimmed with a Greek design in black velvet. Mrs. Allen Joseph, who brought Miss Joseph and her two girl friends, was in black, while Miss Joseph was in a pretty shade of pink crepe de Chine. Miss de Bilinsky was in pink also but wore with it a high corselet belt of a somewhat vivid green. Mademoiselle Subercaseaux, who did not dance however, was wearing a lovely white chiffon frock heavily inset with guipure de Venise. She always wears most elaborate things, and has wonderful taste. There were many other pretty frocks, but space forbids our mentioning them.
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Several dinner parties were given at Shepheard’s Hotel on Christmas Eve. Among the hosts of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Masson, of Alabama, Sir William and Lady Goulding. the Baron and Baroness of Buddenbrock, Princess Cantacuzene, Mr. E. A. Harrison, Mr. and M rs. A. V. Thompson, Major Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Carton de Wiart, General von Blucher, etc.
We have received the list of visitors staying at Mena House Hotel too late for publication in full, but among those who have arrived there this week we notice Misses M. and A. Davie, Mr. Alexander Thomson, Miss Dodd, Mrs. H. Form-by, Mr. A. Y. Duguid, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Daisy Spence, Mrs. A. M. Colls, Miss Colls, Mr. and Mrs. Elgar, Mr. and Mrs. Y. W. Strain, Mrs. Y. N. Cutter, Miss Margaret Perkins.
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The dining room of the Savoy Hotel was crowded last Saturday. Colonel and Mi’s. Patterson Bey were entertaining Crookshank Pasha, Mr, and Mrs. Alston, Mr. and Mrs. George Hoyle, Miss Johnson, Mine Aghion, and Mr. Constan-tinidis ; the Hon. F. G. Morgan, Mr. Curphey, M r. and Mrs. Stone, and Mr. F. H. Russell were also entertaining small parties, and in the res-I taurant we noticed General, Mrs., and the Misses Bullock, Mr. Horace Humboldt, the Marquis de Fioravanti, Mrs. Coles Pasha, Major and Mrs. Spong, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Joseph, and several othei-s.
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