Evening star., 1896-10-24
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Pleasant Chat of Several Well-K Known
People.
THE WILCOI-HALSTEAD WEDDING DAY
The Debutante List Grows in
Length and Interest.
r E G E Mt EV EN- T S

Many of those whose social movements
are attended with considerable interest
are as yet unsettled as to what part they
Will take In the winter campaign. The
suggestive sign For rent adorns many
notable homes and applies to many other
houses whose owners dislike to see the
words staring them In the face while
they continue to occupy them, awaiting
the coming of a desirable tenant. In most
instances the getting away from ones
home comes from the necessity either from
health or financial reasons to seek new
| pastures. The Barneys have gone. abroad
for lengthy SPELL from neither of these
causes, but from the pleasure they take in
foreign life and Mrs Barney's wish to work
| hard at her painting. Owing to rather
poor health Of the latter, Mr.. and Mrs
Howland will not return this season, unless
for very brief spell, SO that the events
to which society had grown accustomed
under this hospitable roof notably their
Sunday night receptions. &C.. will be miss
Ing. The Frarklin Steeles have gone
abroad fer the winter and family be-
reaVements have closed other houses where
people were wont to gather with great
pleasure. The return of the Brice family
10 Corcoran House may be classed with
| the strong probabilities, and the conyic-
| ton that they will mark the closing months
of their residence there 10y the same lavish
hospitality amounts to a certainty also.
After the fall weddings the debutantes
are expected to engage popular attention
during the last month of the year. The
list Is as interesting as ever. and includes
Miss Wilson. daughter of the Postmaster
General; Miss Sartoris. daughter of Mrs
Nellie Grant Sartors; Miss Baker Miss
Sands, Miss Ward. Miss Ffoulke. Miss Fox
granddaughter of Senator Stewart; Miss
Gertrude Clagett and several others whose
| names are not as frequently repeated. Res
idential circles usual have the greater
number. and. from all accounts, each of
these pretty young girls will make her
maiden bow to society at a December tea.
Another Of the fall weddirg gs to which
| society is looking forward with particular
interest is that Of Miss Aline Wilcox and
Mr.. Albert Halstead. The event has been
set for Tuesday. December g. and the cere-
mony will be solemnized at the residence
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Whittemore, New Hamp-
shire avenue. on that evening at o'clock
The family have been in New York since
returning from the Adirondacks, where
| they spent the summer. Mr.. Whittemore
has been In town for few days. but will:
rejoin his wife and daughter in New York
before the last Of the week, and then short
| ly return here for the season. Miss Will
cox's wedding will be beautiful event, as
hefits the nuptials OF such a charming
young lady: but 1t is tiEged with one regret
her leaving Washington. Mr.. Halstead
| Is editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Union,
and it will be in that city the young couple
will make their home.
The opening exercises of the new gym
| nasium hall and dormitory Of the News
boys and Children's Aid Society, which
have been fixed for next Tuesday evening,
October u. at o'clock, will be made a
social occasion, which will he a very at
! tractive break in the quiet now reigning.
! Several hundred Invitations have been is
sued. Interesting addresses by Justice Har-
| Ian and Postmaster General Wilson have
been promised. and Rev. DIR. Mackay-Smth,
president of the society, will preside. The
president; H. b. F. Macfarland. secretary;
J. b. Wight. treasurer; f. NJ. Gallaudet.
Ii. D., Crosby S. Noyes. Mrs. E. F. King.
| Mrs. M. E. G. Wilbur and Miss Ida Corson.
Mrs. T. S. Clilds is president of the
ladies' aid. and the vice presidents are Mrs.
Teller, Mrs. McCulloch. Mrs. Cunningham,
Mrs. McLanahan. Mrs. Gallaudet. Mrs.
Myers. Mrs. Hamlin. Mrs. Armes, Mrs. j.
c. Breckenridge and Mrs. Mackay-Smith.
On the executive committee are Mrs j.
w. Babson, Mrs. Charles G. Dulin Mrs c.
G: Halpine, Mrs. T: B: Hood. Mrs. L. d.
Merchant. Mrs. A. H. Thomas. Mrs. B. T.
Tupper, Miss M. b. Ferry and Miss F. C.
Childs.
The Current Events Club met with Mrs
Eunice Rider. on Maple avenue yesterday
| afternoon, Mrs. North presiding. Miss
Bertha Swindels was admitted to member
ship. Mrs. Grant presented a paper upon
the Mercantile Library Of New York Mrs
Florence Johnson upon the Boston library,
Mrs. Emily L. Sherwood, the Congressional
Library. and Mrs. Mary NJ. North told
about the Rochester and Baltimore Ii
braries. Mrs. J. H. Simpson and Miss May
Harner read sketches Of Margaret Fuller,
ard general discussion followed. The sub
5ect for the next meeting will be tornadoes
and cyclones, with papers by Mrs. Rider
and Miss Evalyn Doughty; reading, by Mrs.
Simpson. from Emerson's Margaret Full
ler" The next meeting will be at Mrs.
sarah Grants. The hostess served refresh
ments. after which the club adjourned.
Membership has been limited to thirty.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Fenwick will be at
2131 l. street for the winter
straw ride was given Wednesday even
irg, chaperoned by Mrs. Edw. F. Pywell
Upon arrival, about $50 o'clock, dancing
was begun, and lasted until II 30, when a
| repast was served, after which games were
in order until the time for their departure.
The participants were the Misses Nellie and
Lizzie Mccormick, Misses Mamie and Lula
Mccarthy, Misses Clara and Margie Py-
we'll. Misses Emma and Bertha Nightingale.
Misses Sallie and Alice Connolly and the
Misses Lula Cowling. Mamie Hammer, Car
RE Kirk, and Messrs. Edw. F. Pywell. Jo-
seph Doyle, Clarence HALEY, Joseph Ham
mer, Will McCauley, Will Hutton, Lloyd
Mocabee, George Robson. Harry Baulir. H.
NJ. White. McCauley. Bloomer, Marston.
Byram, Thompson and Sinclair.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Isel and family have
| moved into the handsome and commodious
residence, known as the Colonial house, cor
per 18th and Hartford street, South Brook
| land. D. c., where they will be pleased to
see their friends.
The Pansy Social Club held meeting at
the residence of Miss Viola Kerper, S14 K
street southeast. Those present were
Misses r. Lowe. o. Watson. M. McClain r.
Jordan. V. Kerper, E. Ober, J. Zimmerman,
Z. Keil, E. German, l.. Mangum and NJ.
Schneider.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis and Miss Dennis are
located at 1928 street. Mrs. Samuel
Knapp Towie has returned from the north,
and will spend the winter with them.
Captain and Mrs. Burnham and their son,
Master Ralph. have returned. and are at
1896 street. Mrs. Burnham at home Tues
day.
Miss Theresa Snyder has returned from
Oak Lane Pa, where she has been spend
ing the summer with her grandparents.
A straw ride was given to the home of
Mrs Cummings, near Chevy Chase. last
week. The party wes chaperoned by Mrs.
w. M. Harley and Mr.. and Mrs. Hoff. In
the company were the Misses Mayme
Horlav Wh{tford Mna Hi11a Kato