Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-14
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Forty-Nine Days Of Pleasure After
New Year.
4 FORECAST AND 4 RESUME
The Social Calendar of the Com
ing Week.
LUNCHEONS, DINNERS, TEAS

With the days as busy as they have been
| all the past week and the long program for
| the coming one it begins to look like a
| blessing that the social season after New
| Year will not last longer than forty-nine
| days Ash Wednesday is due on February
| 10, and while that date is but temporary
| check to the gayet.es during long session
| of Congress, it generally means that the
| backbone of the season is broken, and that
| the real end is in sight. December has
been so busy and is so fully marked up to
| the very last day that the addition Of these
four weeks will be about all the average
reputation for amiabiity and good clothes
| could possibly stand. 1t is simply lovely
now the good humor that everybody is In,
and the rosy views with which the debu-
tantes have charged the atmosphere nave
been delightfully."- contagious. When the
evening performances commence they only
exist now for the favored souls who belong
| to the dining-out fraternity, all this Charm
.lg serenity, now unclouded by rush o.
engagements and undisturbed by inclpient
dyspepsia. will have evaporated and the
| hard work Of being on hand at the proper
moment to be amused will be a daily ana
hourly task. The debutantes have come
along every day, either in little family
groups or sirgly, and they make such
one might reasonably wish that there might
be hundred more Many new names have
appeared in the list of hosteSses lately, al
| though few of the old fayorites have dis
appointed their friends in the expectations
| formed. Dancing events are pleasantly an
nounced by the invitations sent out by Mrs
Letter for the 24tb and Mrs. Draper for the
| nth, with an almost certainty that Mrs
and the Misses Brice will mark their re-
| turn to town by a dance some time during
| the holidays. Miss Cassells starts the
dances by her invitations for Monday even
ing, when the partners will be Princeton
men.
The dinners and teas of the past week
have been its most notable features. Prom
inent among the dinners were those gfver.
| by Mr.. and Mrs. Boardman, Mrs Stanley
Matthew'S Miss Gale, the Mexican Minis
| ter and Mrs. Romero. and Assistant Sec
rotary Curtis. The teas have run along all
week in an uninterrupted stream, and show
| no signs of letting up during the coming
ore. Beginning with the debut of Miss
Mary Condit-Smith Monday afternoon,
which was brilliant opening for the weeks
| pleasures. each day has been full of inter
estng occasions. The other buds of the
week are Miss Edith McCammon, Miss
| Mildred Merrick. Miss Rittenhouse. Miss
Gordon, and for today there are Miss Jane
Fuller. Miss Rockhill daughter of the as
sistant secretary of state. and Miss May
Catin, daughter of Mrs. Robert Catlin. In
| next weeks list there are Miss Norris. Miss
| RILEY, Miss Leech. Miss Alice Langhorne.
Miss Letiua Ewing Stevenson and Miss
Julia Green Scott. The reception next Fri
day evening at which these last young
ladies, the daughter and the niece Of the
Vice President, will make their debut will
be among the most notable events of this
administration. at which all the official and
social luster of the moment will be gather
ed. The entire first floor of the Normande
Hotel will be In service and superbly dec
GRATED for the event.
The list of gayeties for the coming week
day Is largely given up to festivities for the
| Princeton men. Among the events are
for
Mrs. Beriah Wilkins. a tea, to G. to
meet the Princeton University Glee Club.
Miss May keyworth Barbour. dinner.
The Misses Mattingly. dinner.
Miss Margaret Cassels a dancing party,
all in honor of the wearers of the yellow
and black.
Matinee at the National Theater for the
benefit of the Children's Hospital
Mrs Mcmillan, tea. o'clock.
Mrs. Seth Shepard. 1929 Euclid place, a
Miss Leake.
Mrs. Robert Bonner Bowler. a tea. 5
o'clock.
Washington Club, to meet the Misses
Dodge.
Mrs. Thaddcus Norris, a tea, at which
| Miss Norris will be presented.
The marriage of Miss Belle Cyrene
Bemiss to George Holcombe Barber, as
| sistant surgeon, U. S. A, will take place at
$50 pm. at the residence of the brides
| sister. Mrs. Edward Wight. 1922 18th street.
The Brazilian minister and Mrs. Men
donca, dinner in honor of the cabinet.
Wednesday,
Mrs. sternberg, luncheon, in honor of
Mrs. U. S. Grant.
Mrs. Audenred. luncheon.
Mrs John Frederick T.eech. tea <
o'clock. when Miss Leech will be presented.
Mrs. Langhorne. a tea. o'clock, when
Miss Alice Langhorne will make her debut.
Mrs. Charles r. Collins. a tea, to 4, at
the residence of Mrs. Riley, I Iowa Circle,
to present Miss Riley.
Officers of the Washington barracks
Miles.
Mrs. Francis Cotton, a tea. 4 tot.
Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Sartoris a tea, 5
o'clock, at Pill Massac husetts avenue
The Guatemalan minister and Mrs. LaZo
Arriaga, a dinner. in honor of the cabinet
Representative and Mrs Draper, dinner.
Friday
Mrs. Frank Anderson a tea, to l.
Mrs John Van Rensselaer, a tea, to Z.
In the evening
The Vice President and Mrs Stevenson, a
reception, to II, in honor of the debut of
their daughter and niece. Miss Letitia
| Ewing Stevenson and Miss Julia Green
Scott.
Saturday
General and Mrs. Moore, dinner, in
honor of General and Mrs Miles, to be fol-.
lowed by a small reception.
Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Barbour. a din
ner, in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Rengifo.
Col. and Mrs. Fred. Grant will be here
during the holidays to visit Mrs. U. S.
Grant, who will give dinner in their
honor December 80.
Witt Arnold entertained at one Of the
dantiest luncheons of the week Wednes-
day. The decorations were IN green ard
white, and among the guests were Mrs.
Nre