The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-13
wHhr sooIErr rs DOING.

grammes Of all sorts Of novel affairs arc being
sent out, Lectures and readings rule inc honr
In addition TO these are dramatic teas and
| TriaDon fetes, SO that what with sowing circle
meetings, bowling. badminton, whist, ouchre,
and poker parties. the maids and matrons find
their time we'll taken up.-
The most interesting large festivity In pros
pect is that for which cards have been issued
by Mr.. and Mrs. Robert @. Ingersoll, on Tues
day night, March %. On these are theatre
GALS and Anton Seidl." Mr!'and Mrs. Inger-
soil have the Brevoort Bristol residence at 22o
occupied It a few years ago he entertained CON
sidcrably. 1t Is one Of the few houses in town
tSsSipo boasts % oS e 9so IL ft GTn Story pFly" sSd fh Is Very T TSH
equipped as to stage and scenery. Another
popularity of the establishment is that the
pillars yen Safoi With ;SSreatSs Of silded leaves.
supper for several hundred guests seated at
small tables.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney J. Smith will figure to-
morrow night in the tablcaux to be given at
the Waldorf for the benefit of tho Society OF
Decorative Art. The picture in which they will
pose will BIO Gibson's. Bachelors Dream" Tho
3Se,Sis 1. Tho Powell place, ON the Jeri:
cho turnpike. This ndtoine tho fine estate Of
n Mfc ana pald MRS Is said ihG tn have rt'fbs een SIS 100 600. II T6oy
purpose to build a fine house on the grounds
tnlS spring.
One Of the conspicuous absentecs of the New
port cottage set this season will DO James J.
Van Allen. Word comes from intimate friends
who have recently returned from Europe that
Mr.. Van Allen has planned q stay of two years
summers one of the chief entertainers in New
port, he will be greatly missed. Mr.. Van Aliens
rive in Newport somewhat earlier than usual
this season. John Jacob Astor being now ex.
Mexico and Honduras by April 1.
The splendid stone mansion of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin u. Morgan at Newport will also remain
closed this summer. The Morgans, who arc
in Europe, have just notified their friends on
this side that they have decided to remain
abroad until the autumn.
Mrs. Theodore A. Havemeyer has been at
Lenox during the past week looking at the vari-
Gus places there which arc for sale. Mrs.
Havemeyer wants a largo and finely furnished
mansion. and at last accounts had not made q
selection. She will have q large family party
with her all summer. At the present time she
does not purpose to again occupy. Friedman
years. The humid climate there does not suit
her constitution. In fact, Newport. was the
late Mr.. Havemeyer's fancy rather than that
OF his wife.
Elisha Dyer. Jr.. whose very name suggests
functions of social gayety. will sail for Now
York on March 80 on the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse. At last accounts Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer
were sojourning at Monte Carlo much improved
Dyer will not return to America with her hus-
band, but will be here in time to open her Now
port cottage for the season.
Mr.. Dyer is not the only cotillon loader who
hns been recuperating of lato. Worthington
Whitehousc has been off on a fishing trip. He
owns an island known as Redwood in the st.
headauarters Mr.. Whitchouse has a trip to
New Orleans also in prospect: The wedding. of
Miss Vera Boarman will be a late April event.
Mrs. William A. Perry entertained the mem
bers of the Trio Club last night at it's third
meeting, at her residence, z East Fifty.sixth
street. She was aided by her daughter, Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Van Rcnsselaer.-are
spoken of rs likely to take their:place on:the list
OF lavish social entertainers. The impression
exists that they will have n town house here as
well as the big rural establishment near Phila
delphia. They are still on their hone moon
"trip on the steam yacht May, on which the
britc-cruised about tho world when she was
Mrs. Fell. but are expected to return from tho
ready in order for a large dance to be given by
them during April. The date is not yet fixed.
Mrs. James W. Pinchot lends the big drawing
rooms OF her residence. which have an outlook
on Gramercy Park. for q series of Lentcn talks
on Tuesday afternoons. The general subject
chosen by Miss Ada Webster Ward for these
is THE Making Of ,'Iodern History" Mrs.
her son-in-lnw and daughter, the Hon. and Mrs.
Alan tombstone. Mr.. tombstone met his wife
when he was attached to the British Embassy at
Washington. For the past few years he has
been IN the diplomatic service at Copenhagen.
s some N time t there. N y5s1'iG in the ine reenisT Posti i1G
of British promotion there will be a change of
p Tiii b and tat mea aGx.nea a v az III tho TIKI latter after
for n visit to America.
Cards will soon be out for the wedding Of
Miss Edith Seymour Johnson and Edward de
Clifford Chisholm. The date fixed is Monday,
April:1s. The Rev. J. Wesley Brown. rector
of st. Thomas's Church, will perform the cerc.
mony at the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. Fisher johnson. IL East Sixty.third
Miss Sara Louise Patterson, Of Troy. as maid
6f honor. and will have no bridcsmaids; Mr..
ohi snHann ls a G iSn Il Ills thf br iSiS Su& Tai shi' seofi
Chisholm, will be best man. The young couple
tTrn T Tii fo rssidt io In th Se s%% YnfE.. a9 Mi 9n. ) ! bSn, re,
was introduced two winters ago and has tray
clled in Europe since tLen with her parents.
Mrs. Guthrie Nicholson. nGc Elliot. will soon
leave town to rcjoin her husband, who Is on his
Texas ranch, known as White Deer Farm. Since
the return of Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholson from
their bridal trip TO England they have been tho
| guests Of inc DFlut :. SlSttT, MISS Alice MAY
Elliot. Miss Elliot is much interested IN the
work of:thc Church OF the Holy Cross in con-
ncction with the summer Home for Boys. In
aid OF this she lcctured last Thursday after.
noon at the residence of Mrs. Henry Redmond
An elaborate programme has been arranged
for the second OF the dramatic teas to he given
next Friday afternoon at the Waldorf-Astoria
In aid of the Orthopedic Dispcnsary and Hos
pital. An act from "Adrienne Lecouvreur"
will be given by Nine. Modjcska and her COM
MANY and tho fnllpyyinnD na-i,rt MIA a .sIIta I net
Appearance" 10 Passant,' and The Over
coat" IN which w; II. Crane and company,
Hoyt, and William Courtleigh will appear.
The tea which follows will be in the Aston Gal
lery.
Two entertainments for the benefit OF the
Lying-in Hospital. Second avenue and Seven
tccnth street, are to be given at the Waldorf
Astoria on Saturday, the 10th, one in the after
noon at 2:3O O'Clock, and the other In the oven
ing Mt A.ln. In the nflGrnnnn Viii ha oil