The morning times., 1895-12-11
SOCIETY HELPED
TEE LITTLE ONES
Tea for the Newsboy's and Chill
dren's Aid a Success.
Several Pretty Functions and u We'd
ding Made Up Last Nights
Social Program.

The Newsboy's and Childrcn's Aid So
cjety have every reason IL be proud of
The bazaar and ouse-warming given by
them yesterday afternoon and evening at
the Maulsby Memorial Hume, Third and Z
streets north west.
The freshly tinted walls of the uld
gray mansion made a stately background
for the prominent men and women who
| thronged its chambers The vivid green
and scarlet of the holly decorations, the
varied lights casting reflections at each
other from chandeliers, silken shaded
lamps and red wax candles in silver sticks,
| the music of CHEEKY Voices, mingled with
/ the melody of the military bands, made a
scene of beauty and cheeriness that thuse
| present will not suon forget.
Around the walls uf the reception room
were tables, wreathed with holly and
! smilax, where neeGlework, ,unfections and
cut flowers were for sale. Mrs. T. S.
Childs. president of the suciety; Mrs. j.
G. Brcckinrdge and Mrs. Waite were in
charge of the wares, assisted by Miss
Breckinrdge. Miss Fanny Childs, Misses
Julia and Helen Lamont. the Misses Bell,
Miss Letitia Scott, Miss Fuller, Miss Will
coz, Miss Rochester, Miss Miller, Miss Ennis,
Miss Gallaudet, the Misses Mattingly, Miss
Cotton and Miss Durand.
The refreshment tables in an adjoining
room were presided over by Mrs 1. r.
NJ acfariand, treasurer of the society,
aided by Mrs. Thurston, Mrs Atwater,
Mrs. Pollock. Mrs. Henry Macfarland.
Mrs. Babson, Mrs. W. o. Cunningham, Miss
Terry and Mss Childs.
pretty touch of the nature that makes
all the world akin. was shown by four
little, white-fr )cked girls, with glad. in-
nocent faces. who danced up to the SUPER
intendent, Miss Wilson, and begged TO be
allowed to place some dolls they had
bought on the pillow of each little girl
| inmates bed. The request being graciously
granted up trooped the children to the
dormitoTies and around swarned the
owners of the cots, each pointing eagerly
to her own.
Fortunes children and Fortunes step
children cbattered together like happy
young robbins in sprinstinie. They were
standing on youths neutral ground in the
kingdom of the doll. And the names of the
four little donors were Helen Bel, Julia and
Bessie Lamont and Zaidee Cobb.
The patronesses OF the affair were Mrs.
Stevenson. Mrs. Patenotre, Mrs. Romero.
Mrs. De Mendonca, Mrs. John W. Foster,
Mrs. Olney. Mrs. Carlisle. Mrs. Lamont.
Mrs. Hoke Smith, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Har-
mon. Mrs. Nelson Miles, Mrs. Shiras, Mrs
Gray, Mrs. White Mrs. Brewer, Mrs. Nc
MILAN, Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page, Mrs.
Mrs. Gardiner Hubbard Mrs. John Hay,
Miss Morton, Mrs Fuller. Mrs. Harlan,
Mrs. Field. and Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Nortons tea yesterday, at which
twenty charming ladiesassisted, wasa very
delightful occasion. The dra wing room
was decorated in palms and yellow chrysan-
thenums and was lighted entirely by
candles in delicate pink shades. In the
library the dark green of the palms har-
nioniZed with the soft red lights, and in the
dining-room the color scheme was a rich
red. carried out in the American Beauty
roses and red capped candles.
The table showed the taste and skill
which clara cterizcs Mrs Norton's func-
tons and was beautifully decorated with
the prevailing color.
The receiving party were Mrs. Norton,
in black lace and gray satin with diamond
ornaments: Miss Norton, a Paris gown OF
ecru silk and lace; Miss McCeney. in black
satin brocadc, with pink satin and black
lace; Miss Tyler. black satin and Brussels
net over white satin: Miss Brown. pink
chiffon: Miss Cuthbert, Black silk and
blue chiffon; Miss Elenor Tyler,
blue satin and white chiffon; Miss New
comb, black and blue chiffon; Mrs. Stern
berg, white brocade and pink velvet; Mrs
Howard S. Paine, black crepe de chine;
Miss Ruth Kerr. black brocade and tur-
quoise velvet.
Among the guests We're The Misses
Stevenson, Mrs. Howell Dodge, Lieut..
and Mrs. Blunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Ross Perry,
Mrs. Philip Johnson. Miss johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. Goodloe, Mrs. and Miss Fuller.
Mrs. Catchings, Prof. and Mrs Newcombe,
Justice and Mrs. Field, Major and Mrs.
Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. GoldsbOrough, Mrs.
Justice brown, Gen. Greedy, the Misses
German, F. E. Chadwick, Major and Mrs.
Hall, Lieut.. and Mrs. Harlan, Miss Patter-
son, Mrs. Micou, Madame de Sibour,
Mrs. Holmes Conrad, Justice and Mrs. Field.
Judge and Mrs. Shepard, DR.. C. H. Aide,
U. S. N; Mrs. H. +. Pellew, Miss Nor
ton. Miss Gale, Senator and Mrs. Call and
others.
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