Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-10
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Miss Mary Condit Smith Presented at a
Tea.
Mr.. and Mrs. Letter Mt Home to Their
Friends-Debut Teas and
Dinners.

honor of the debut of her youngest daugh-
ter. Miss Mary Condit Smith. The drawing
looms were thronged during the entire
time. Roses and orchids sent to the debu-
| tante were banked all around where the
handsome young lady and her mother
stood to receive. The rooms were all pro-
| fusely decorated, and the refreshment ia
BILE, with its handsome appointments and
dainties. was a picture. A Mexican SOM
brero, in pink and white candy, most
deliberately ornamented and filled with
white cherries, made a pretty bit of color
at one end of the cloth.
The debutante was gowned in white chif-
fon, traced on the yoke and on the front of
the skirt with seed pearls. She carried
bunch of lilies of the valley, one of the
dozens of bouquets sent her. Miss Condit
Smith and Mrs. Leonard Wood and Mrs.
Field were in the second drawing room,
where Justice Field was always surround
ed by an admring court of his own. Miss
Jane Fuller, the debutante daughter of the
Dominguez; Miss McCammon, Miss Lang
horne, Miss Cabell the Misses Garrett, Miss
Averel and the Misses Dodge were in the
receiving party. Mrs. Montgomery Blair
presided at the tea table. Among the
guests were Mrs. Lamont. Secretary Her
bert, Mrs. Micou, Mrs. Fuller the British
ambassador. Lady Pauncefote and the
Misses Pauncefote, Mrs. Romero, Justice
Justice and Mrs. Brown, Miss Pitts, Justice
and Mrs. Gray, Justice and Mrs. Shiras,
Justice and Mrs. White, DR.. and Mrs. Guz
| man, Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Uhl,
Senator and Mrs Mcmillan, Miss McMil-
ian, Gen. and Mrs. Miles, Senator and Mrs.
Murphy, Senator. Mrs. and Miss Call, DIR.
and Mrs. Nash, Admiral and Mrs. Crosby,
Mrs. Elkins. Mr.. and Mrs. Mum, Mr.. and
Mrs. Whittemore, Miss Aline Wilcox, Mrs.
A. A. Wilson, Mrs. Ross Perry, Mrs. and
Miss Clagett, Mrs. Stewart, Miss May
Belle Stewart. Mrs. H. p. Randolph, the
Misses Patten, Mrs. and Miss Greer, Mr..
and Mrs. Dominguez, Minister and Mrs.
Lazo Arriaga, Miss McCeney. Miss Hagner.
Mr.. William Acklan, Gen. and Mrs. Stern
berg, Gen. and Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Josiah
Pierce, the Misses Cullen, Mrs. Payne and
Mrs. Calderon Carlisle.
company equally notable and large was
present at the Letter mansion between 4
and yesterday. The big house. which has
been closed since the departure of the fam
lily last spring for England, following the
marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Curzon, was
again thrown open hcsntably. Mr.. and
Mrs. Letter received together, the hostess
wearing mauve velvet, trimmed with lace.
Miss Letter wore gray MORE and lace. Miss
Elsie Anderson, Miss Elizabeth Warder,
two of the winters debutantes, Miss Adams
of Boston, and Miss Caroline Story pleasant
ly assisted In the dining room Mrs. Slater
and Mrs. Millikin did the honors. Among
the guests were the cabinet and Supreme
Court families, Mrs. r. R. Hit, Mr. and
Francis Riggs Mr.. and Mrs. Clymer, Mr..
and MISS S. Rowland Mrs. N. L. Ander-
son, the British ambassador and Lady
Pouncefote the Misses Pauncefote, the
French ambassador and Mrs. Patenotre,
the German ambassador and Baroness Thiel-
man. Mrs. Romero, Mrs. John w. Foster,
DR.. and Mrs. Mackay Smith, the Spanish
minister and Mrs. Dupuy de LONE, Nav
| royeni Bey, the Austrian minister and Mrs.
Hengelmueller, sMrs. and Miss Bonaparte
Mr.. and Mrs Mcclure, Mr.. and Mrs. and
bald Hopkins. Judge and Mrs. Mott, Miss
Nett, Judge and Mrs. Hagner. Col.
and Mrs. Francis Cotton. Mrs. Hearst,
Senator Wetmore, Admiral and Mrs.
Franklin, Mr.. Bax-Ironside, Baron Won
Ketteler. Bishop Hurst, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Clifford Barney, Miss Barney, Prof.
and Mrs. Newcomb. Bishop Keane, Senator
ator and Mrs. Elkins.
Mrs. and Miss Reed, who are with Speak
er Reed at the Shoreham, will not take any
part in the social gayeties Of the winter on
account of the recent death of Mr.. Reeds
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Barbour will give
a dinner Saturday, December u, in honor
of the charge d'affaires Of Colombia and
Mrs. Rengifo
Gen. and Mrs. Moore will give a dinner
in honor of Gen. and Mrs Miles Saturday,
December 81. which will be followed by a
small reception.
The Guatemalan minister and Mrs. Lazo
Arria3a will give dinner on the 26th of
December
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Barney will give a
dinner on the 2Sth of December.
Mrs. Thaedeus Norris, ISL N street, will
give 4 tea Tuesday, December IL, when
Miss Norris will make her debut.
Mrs. John Frederick Leech will give
tea Wednesday. December is, at o'clock,
when Miss Leech will AXE her debut
out cards for Thursday, December 10. 5
O'clock at Pill Massachusetts avenue They
will receive Thursdays in January.
Mrs. Seth Shepard has Invitations out for
Tuesday, December II, to Z, 1929 Euclid
place, to meet Mrs. w. w. Leake and Miss
Leake.
Lieut.. Clover will give dinner to gentle
men on Tuesday, December II.
The Spanish minister and Mrs Dupuy de
LONE gave a dinner last night as a fare
well compliment to Mr.. Padilla of the le-
CATION, who viii shortly leave for Madrid.
The guests were Mr.. and Mrs. Calderon
Carlisle, Mr.. and Mrs. Dcminguez, Miss
Grace Shepherd, Mr.. and Mrs. Ayala and
Mr.. Pastor.
Mrs. John Van Rensselaer, has cards out
for a tea, to Z, December 20, to meet her
sister, Miss Johnston.
Miss McNelly has gone to Richmond,
where she will sing in concert
MISS bertnd Bartlett, one OF baltlnOreS
most beautiful bellies. will be married on
Thursday to Mr.. Charles NJ. Sherman of
Chicago at the home of Mr.. Columbus
O'Donnell Lee, in Melvale. a few miles
from Baltimore. The bride-elect is the
daughter of the late General Joseph Bart
lett, U. S. A, and her future husband is
the son of Mr.. Hoyt Sherman of Des
Mones. Iowa, and nephew to Senator
John Sherman. He is engaged in the prac-
| tice of law. The ceremony will be attended
by none save the closest friends and i'm
mediate relatives of the contracting par
ties, but will include Senator and Mrs.
Sherman and Major General and Mrs. Mel
son A. Miles. Tecumseh Sherman, son Of
the late Gen. w. T. Sherman, will act
as best man. The young couple will make
| their home in Chicago.
Miss Florence Bryant of New York will
visit Mrs. Lamont after the holidays.
Mrs. Ellen Meade Clarke. after spending
several weeks at the Virginia springs and
at the Atlanta exposition, has returned to
the city.
Mrs. George K. Byington of Norwalk.
Conn.,, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. o.
H. Morrison, 1925 o street northwest.
Mr.. T. Lloyd Lewis, late of London, Eng
land, and Miss Gertrude E. Ryan of this
city were married last Tuesday evening at
the parsonage of the Rev. Samuel H.