New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-22
INCIDENTS IN SOCIETY.

DR.. W. seward Webb and Mrs. Webb gave leap
year dance at their house, No. 6SO Ffthave., last
night which carried out In full leap year. spirit
There were few Of their friends invited and the
tertanment was In no sense ball. For in four
years the were coy and ingenious, waiting to be
asked to dance and to be escorted to supper by the
members of the fair sex. No man was permitted TO
come without proper clapcrOnage, and some OF them
received bouquets from their fair friends, but these
bouquets most unusual in character. one being
composed OF ferns interminged not with choice
flowers but with playing cards suggestive Of "royal
nushes,7 full houses q" straights' and " three OF
kind to say nothing OF two pairs No man was
permitted the without female escort,
neither could he help himself to supper liquid re
freshment The DRAWN g-rooms were prety decorated
with palms and cut flowers. The guests began TO
arrive at IL o'clock and dancing was Informal until
supper announced at l o'clock. after which the
cotlon began Mrs. ogden Mills leading with the host
There in the cotlon not than forty couples
the guests being principally the young married people.
The favors afforded little sport there being for the
men such knickinackS are usually given to the
women. There were trumpets, tambourins, bouquets,
perfumed satin bags for the men, also velvet rosetes,
gilt bells and gilded spoons Among the guests were
Mr. and Mrs. F. X SturgiS Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Sloane,
Mr.. and Mrs. William JAY Mr.. and Mrs. +. Bronson,
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Miss Shepard, Mt
and Mrs. W. j. Schienelin J. Louis Webb G.. Creighton
Webb, Mr. and Mrs Lloyd Bryce, Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Webb, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Aston, Mr.. and Mrs w. C.
Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs. CT. IL. Bend. Mrs w. E. Dodge,
Mr. and Mrs Oliver Hartman, Mrs. Burke Roche. Mr.
and Mrs. Cooper Hewitt Miss Elise Hurst a. s. Webb.
jr., Miss Carrie Webb Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. d. lanieT,
Miss BabcOc H. DE Courcey Forbes. Miss Kitty sands
Miss Flora Davis. Mn and Mrs J. Il. Roosevelt Miss
Turnure. Mr.. and Mrs Bradley Martin. Miss katherine
Cameron, Miss Winthrop, f. L. Winthrop, Dudley
Winthrop, Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Baylies, Miss Van
Reps sp1a and Mr. Mrs
The Thursday Evening Club met at the holl>c OF
Miss Frances Johnston daughter of John Taylor John
ton, No. 5 F1fthave.. last night, when an interesting
entertainment was given consisting of illustrations oil
life In the eighteenth century, given In the costume OF
the period Scenes from Moeres lie bourgeois
Genthonme@ acted In French By the Misses Noel
II. Chaurcey jr.. Nine. Castajng Pierre and Charlie
Mali Henry Cammann, II. lie Mastrc and Alfred de
Rouge. The menuet was danced by Mrs. Charlcs
Whean and A. VI. MADDEN in Louis Nv costumes
Mrs. Whelan and Powers Farr sang chansonettes The
club members were out in full.
Mrs \. NJ. Dodge gave the second OF series OF
musical evenings at her house 40. - East Thirty
fourth-st last night Nine Mapleson Miss EdmandS
and Arthur Seaton sang, and Tmotlee Adamowshi
PLAYED violin solos. Victor Harris was the accom-
PIANIST. About 200 people were present
Dinner parties given last night by Mrs w.
Bayad Cutting No. l. West Fifty seventhst.; Mrs.
j. c. Eealcs, No. 30 West Thirty second St; Mrs.
George Dodge. No. - West Fifty seventlst. Mrs. II.
Parish, No. l West Nineeenth-st, and Mrs. F. r.
CoudeIt, No. - East Forty ffthst.
Mrs. Bradley Martin will give small cotillon to
night TO follow a dinner at the house OF Mrs. Ogden
MILL.
Mrs., Oliver Sumner Teal gave dinner on Wednes
dav evening Among the guests were Colonel and
MR., william JAY Mr. and Mrs. Charles q. Franckiyn,
Mr. and Mrs. Reginald dc Koven William Bcekman,
Miss Moler Mr. and Mrs. John {. Wilmcrdlns, Mrs.
Henry Egleston and Herbert satterlee.
Mrs. Gerrit Smith gave an informal musical re-
copton for Miss Lang, of Boston, Wednesday, at
Mrs smiths studio, q 573 M.dieon az" Among
those present were Mr.. and Mrs samuel sloan. IT.,
Dr. and Mrs Eoderck Terry, Mrs Samuel Thorne'
Mr. Ludlow White, Mrs Dunbar Wright, Mr.. ana
Mrs Edward Winslow, Mrs. Jacob Wendell, Jacob
Wendell IT, Mrs. Cortandt Van Rensselaer,, Mr..
Harold Goodwin. Miss Emma Thursby, Walter kcmeys'
MI, Buttcricld. Mrs. Francis Bowman Ms H. v ~
Hlack Mrs Alfred de Castro. Miss May Colby
Mr., NIthu. Murray Dodra. Mrs. Charles j. loo"'
r. swain Clifford, Mrs. Frederic y. Goddard Ny
GIue.pe Nil, Hastings. Mis-, Ogdenjone>. Mrs Car
dem Mr.. and Mrs August Lewis Mrs Mark Machy'
The Princess EngdlitChcn cad an interfering Pil"'
on Russia in Mrs. john CGnnii sham iltLeis AZ"
ing room at Pelham Manor on Wednesday a'"ino''.
i'm addition 10 the young women OF the sch"l "a a -
nunilr Of guests we're present, and an Informal YEA
Tbr ,erond Morris Park subscription dance Will be
hold at the New York Jockey Club house. MORN, falh'
on Friday evening. January ~ fIahcin VI, I,rs''
Lincoln Building. No tni9h h9uare' , haS Ta 8,
the subscription, specai tan N Win Do ran ANY n
mccall train will after the dance Among tH
na;ronesses ar, Mrs. Francis VI. Prison Mrs iHcntd
f. Ware Mrs. Frank Henry Mrs r. e. -: "T M,I, UT
swan Mrs. +. A. Crulhshanh ana MIS- DcA~r -
LOOMS.