Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-31

Last night between dinners and dances
society in its largest sense found plenty amuse-
ment at hand.
Some Of the dinners were notable ones. At
the Skoreham Mr.. and Mrs. ]. b. Montgomery
gave a dinner at which Mrs Mckee was the
guest Of honor. The flower pieces on the table
were great ovals Of maiden hair fern. studded
| with large pink roses. The other guests we're
Senator and Mrs. Cockrell, Senator and Mrs
Dolph. Mrs. Cyrus Dolph. Gen. and Mrs. Miles,
| Senator Mitchell, Senator Dubois, Mrs. j. w.
Pinchot Mrs. Henry Emo, Mrs. William P. Emo.
Mr. Z. w Halford, Col. Long. DR.. Wyman and
Gen. Batchelder.
The cotilion at the English legation last
night was an especially brilliant event. Gen.
| eral dancing commenced about 0 and the ger
man at IL. Lady Pauncefote wore becoming
I toilet OF white sabin, Miss Pauncefote in
pink and Miss Sibyl wore q white tulle gown.
| The latter danced with Mr.. Jesse Brown, who
led the cotiion. The favors were very pretty
In one figure the men got sashes. the ladies
| butterflies, and in another, the ladies dainty
| little hats, trimmed with silks of different
1 colOrs.
| Among the guests were Mrs. McKee, Mr.
Russell Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gordon
Miss Caroline Gordon, Mrs. Don Cameron
Mrs. Dimmick, Lieut.. and Mrs. Parker, Mr..
John Mclean, Miss Sturgis of Philadelphia
Miss Morris of Baltimore, Marquise de Talley-
| rand Pergord, Miss Blaine, Miss Wanamaker,
| the Misses Berry, the Misses Wallach, the Misses
Wilson, Miss Carroll, Miss O'Donnell, Miss
| Lodge. Miss Cox, Miss Carlisle, Miss Stout, the
Misses James. Mr.. and Mrs. Wharton, Mrs. and
| Miss Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
| Roosevelt. Miss jackson, Miss Warder, the
Misses Letter, Mr.. and Mrs. Blair Lee. Miss
Cameron, Miss cambridge Hoff. Capt. and
| Madame Lotten, the Misses Del Monte. Senator
and Mrs. Cameron, Representative and Mrs.
1 Lodge Cant CnWles Mr. Thaypr Mr. FL
bridge, Mr.. Mulligan, Mr.. Mott Mr.. Montgom-
cry Blair. Mr.. Arnold Hague. Mr.. Kasson.
Representative Sanford, Mr.. Clifford Rich
ardson, Miss Bonaparte, Mrs. Brice,
| Miss Pendleton, Mr.. Lawrence Heap, Mrs.
| Slater, Miss Gwynn, Miss Bliss, Mr.. and Mrs.
! Frank Riggs. Senator and Mrs. Wolcott, SEN
ator Gibson. Mr.. and Mrs. Linden Kent. SEN
ator and Mrs. Hale, Gen. and Mrs. Berdan,
Judge and Mrs. John Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
May. Miss Antoinette Pinchot, Hon. Alan
tombstone, Mr.. and Mrs. Slack, Capt. and Mrs.
| A. Rodgers, Mr.. and Mrs John Hay Assistant
Secretary and Mrs. Solely. Mr.. and Mrs. Ander-
son, the Misses Horsey, Mr.. Guillard Hunt, Mr..
Woodbury. Lowery, Capt and Mrs. Hoff, Mr..
Alfred Thorndike, Maj. Rathbone and MIR. and
Mrs. William Lay.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Mclean are entertaining
this afternoon at brilliant ball for their
| young son, Master Edward Beale Mclean. the
/ little folks OF their acquaintance. The
guests were invited for 2:30 and at 8 Of clock an
assemblage of little ones. half-grown girls and
| boys, each and all attired in fancy dress,
| thrOnged the long suite of drawing rooms, ball
room and the spacious new dining room. thrown
| open today for the first time. The ball room
was a fairy land. not one Christmas tree but a
forest of them, all sparkling with tinsel and
heavily hung with lovely presents for the little
guests Mrs. Mclean received in her French
drawing room surrounded by her guests, Miss
| Lulu Morris of Baltimore. Miss Susie Sturgis
of Philadelphia, Mrs Rust Hurdekoper of New
York and Mrs. Robert Garrett of Baltimore.
| When the great folding doors of oak were
| opened another beautiful scene attracted all
attention. The spacious room is tinted in an
! old red shade Ike the ball room. At one end
is the superb mantelpiece. reaching to the cell
| ing. with wide fireplace under it. Tall bronze
] figures holding electric lamps are at each side
of the bay window. The table decorations to-
| day were a small Christmas tree hung with
| fancy bon bons, and gariands of holly all
| around the cloth. between which the fancy
| dishes were set.
In the throng of guests there were kings and
queens, peasants and princes, babes and iadies,
| dukes and duchesses, fairies and SYPHILIS, quak-
| ers and students, monks and nuns, and in fact
| every fancy that mothers or costumers could
| devise. The hall was without exception one of
| the most fairy-hke pictures tina: ever seen.
/ Mrs. Mckee was among the few of the older
people invited TO look on the pageant. Among
the children themselves were Alice and Mary
Morton, Gladys and Thomas Hinckley, Master
Ward, Master and Miss Carlisle, Miss
Mssu 1ateno, the Misses Greeley, Mas
ter John Wentworth Greeley, Miss Elise
| ainter, Misses Constance aud Lucy Adee
| kilbourn Gordon. Marjorie Mott, Sadie and
Flora Britton, Thomas Hutchins, the Misses
| Newlands, Marie Mcmillan Brown, Annie and
Phelps Brown. Jean and Pierce Crosby. Mitchell
| and Hobart Handy. Miss Ffouke, Sarah Coch-
ran Walker, the Misses Leech Miss Steele.
| Evans Helen, Button and Al ee Brown, the
II H.
Herbert, Edith Marmion, William V. Marmion,
Viii Van Reypen. Gwendolen and Gladys
| Young, Burns and Pauline Magruder, Miss
| Gordon Cumming, Fred. G. Van Vliet, Daisy
Wilson, Charlotte and BrvsOn Taylor, Alice L.
| Bacon. Fitzhugh and the Misses Goldsborough
Anita Poor, Helen Steele, Ethel and Allen
Merritt. Miss yelling, Master Woolcott, Master
| Tuckerman, Master whitman, Master Whitmer,
the Misses Lanier Dunn. the Masters
reeves, Master and Miss DENLY, the
and Master Hyatt, Masters Reyburn,
| Robert s. Chew Ada and Bessie German, Kath-
crime McCook, Masters Jackson. May Arms,
Alice Delknap. Mary Stone, Rose Wallach Grace
Jarvis, Misses de Peyster, Miss Bessie Ashton,
Bessie Glover, Alice Rochester, Alice Neill,
Marion Cockrell, Ewing Cockrell, Frank Cock
rell. Alice Wilmerding. Misses Solely. Master
and Miss Solely, Master Logan Tucker, Miss Alice
Hay. Miss Elsie Anderson, Master Chauncey
| Hackett Master Willie Hackett, Master Jamie
Hopkins Master johnson, Master Montrose
Adee, Master Daniel Miss Daniel children of
Senator Daniel; Miss Daisy Rusk, Master Alex.
II. Magruder, Miss Isabel Magruder, Miss Daisy
Letter, Master George Gould Lincoln, Miss
Natalie Lincoln, Miss Mary Raymond, Henry ].
Raymond, Miss Marion Pelew, John Rodgers,
Margaret Montgomery,
Mr.. and Mrs. s. H. Kaufman gave bril-
liant reception last night in honor Of the men,
| beers Of the National Capital Press Club and
their wives Mr.. Kaufman was recently
reelected president Of the club for o second
term A stringed orchestra played during the
| evening. The entire suite of parlors was
fragrantly decorated with roses. The guests
began assembling shortly after o'clock and
| did not leave until close to midnight. Mr. and