Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-24
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Pleasant Mention of Well-Known
People.
Recent Dinners and other Uospitali
ties-Early Straw Rides
Personals.

| Mr.. James King Clarke of Pittsburg.
whose marriage with Miss Bartlett will
take place wednesday at Epiphany Church,
| will entertain at a bachelor dinner tonight
! at Rauscher's where the wedding break
| fast will also be served after the ceremony.
| The Secretary of State and Mrs. Hay
| gave a dinner Saturday night, when the
| Mexican ambassador and Mrs Azpiroz
| We're the guests of honor. The others pres
| ent we're the minister from Costa Rca and
Mrs Calvo, the minister from Colombia,
| the Turkish minister. the minister from
! Haiti and Mrs. Leger, the Secretary OF
| War, the Postmaster General and Mrs.
Smith, Commander and Mrs. Glover. MIR.
| and Mrs. Gallaudet Mr. Herbert Putnam.
| Mrs Stanley Matthews, Mrs Manning,
| Miss Horstmann and Miss Hay.
In the company entertained Saturday
evening by the Belgian minister and
| Countess Lichtervelde Were the French
| ambassador, the Russian ambassador tn
| Swiss minister and Mrs. Picda, the assist
| ant secretary of state and Mrs. Hill, Mr..
! ard Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. Waliach,
| Miss Tuckermanp and Count b. LIGHTER
| yelde.
Mrs. Clayton Fotterau McMichael is Sc
| ricuSiy III at her home in Philadelphia. Her
| maiady is pneumonia, and her condition is
| one to arouse the gravest of fears Mr. and
| Mrs. McMichael were in this city last week
| to attend the marriages of the Misses
| Wood.
! Mr.. Cambon, the French ambassador will
| be given large reception at the AIT Club
| Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, which
| will be followed later by a stag smoker Mr.
| Cambon will be present at the ceremonies
attending the unveiling of the Grant statue
| in Paramount Park besides the Art Club
entertainment.
| Herr Won Bruening and his bride are ex-
pected back in Washington today, when the
/ n mill
| leaving her native land. Her young sons
are 10 remain in this country with their
grandmother, Mrs. Treat TO finish their
| education.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Leayitt Francis
will extend their honeymoon trip well into
May. Then they will return to New York
ana SAL for Europe, to be gone all sum-
| mer. They expect to locate permanently
! in New York when they return.
The German ambassador entertained at
| dinner Saturday night DR.. and Mrs Won
Rottenburg, Gen. and Mrs. Breckenridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Boardman. Mr.. and Mrs.
| Cropper, among other guests.
| A straw ride party started from the home
| of the Misses Gaegler last Thursday and
proceeded TO Glen Sligo. where dancing was
| enjoyed and supper served. Those present
We're the Misses l.. BowIding, G.. GaegIer.
| Is. McWiliiams. L. Duffy, r. PrendeGanst
| NJ. Gaegler. y. Mayer. L. GaegIer, L. Ne
Williams. Messrs. r. Kirkwood F ward
{. Cutsail. j. Downey. r. BoWlding John
| Schnopp, Z. Bennett, VIM. McGrath and +.
| J. He'll.
| Mrs. Mary 4. Hendiey. who has been
| quite i'll. was removed TO her brothers, Mr.
| j. VIM Lee, today.
| A delightful surprise party was given to
Miss Katie Cole by her friends at her resi-
| dence. Lie street, Friday evening. April
| 81. Games, vocal music, recitations and
| dancing were enjoyed, after which a boun-
| tiful supply of refreshments was served.
| Among those present We're the Misses Katie
| Cole, Julia Barry, Blanche Haney. Nellie
| and Mary Manning. Nora Rundlett, Grace
| Dodd, Rachel Shaw, Alice BoWdIe, Laura
| McGlue. Gerue krause, Anna Griffin, Ida
| Long, Edith Gideon, Mamie Cole, Mary
| Walsh, Bessie McHale, Lulu brennan.
| Bertha Cole, Matilda Haney. Ethel Cole
| and the Messrs. John Barry, Richard Dow
| ney, Gray Walters, Edward Depenbrock,
| Christian jacobsen, Barry Burnell, Frank
| Mast, Charles Reed, Maurice Stewart d. a.
| OBrien. Raymond Young. Thomas Cole,
| William brennan, George Kaiser, William
| Armour and Michel O'Brien.
The tenth assembly of the Society for the
| Promotion of Sociability was held at the
| residence of Mr.. George T. Nixon, 1415 Park
| street Mount Pleasant, Saturday last, in
| honor of the birthday Of his sister, Miss
| Helen ]. a. Nixon. The company assem-
| bled as phantom surprise party. and after
| unmaSking spent the evening in dancing
| and playing euchre, after which refresh
! ments We're served. Tha party enjoyed
| several surprises furnished by Mr.. Nixon,
| one of which We're handkerchiefs inscribed
| with the name of the club. the date and thu
| person in whose honor the party was given.
Among those present were Misses Nixon,
Keefe Phinney, Steele, Chaplin. Caldwell
| Cora and Kate Van SAINT. Ida and Emma
Curry Bertha and Edna Knots, Carrie and
| Isabel Jordan Krumm and Miss Townsend,
| Messrs, Keefe. Coombs Page. Van Ingram,
| Dunn, George and Curtin, Nixon, Crawford,
! Goddard, Wight, Saers, Knots, Ramsey,
TtrSti in Srl0i+
A. H. Nixon and Rev. Leslie Moore. Mes
DANES Keefe, Page, Justin, Evarts and
Moore were the chaperons.
Dr. and Mrs II. T. Guss gave dinner in
honor of Miss Faulkenburg of New York
Friday evening Their guests were DR.. and
Mrs. d. Percy Hickling, DIR. and Mrs. l.
Wesley Bovee. Mrs Myron B. Wright, II.
NJ Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. Summer and DR..
/. Exner.
Miss Gay will be with friends on Capitol
Hin until she leaves the city July for the
summer.
Mrs L. Minzie, 1919 K street, has dis
continued her Wednesdays at home for the
| season
Miss Lucretia G. Edgerly entertained the
two Central High School glee clubs Of boys
and girls at her home, Cool Springs, Ard
wick Md. on the 22d instant. In the
morning base ball and horseback riding
were enjoyed and in the afternoon athletic
exhibitions were given by the boys, two OF
which were especially pleasing, the ee-
phant act by Messrs. Shipe and knight and
a race in which Mr.. Knight was victorious.
The evening followed with the dancing of
'ye old English lancers'' and the Virginia
reel After rousing cheers for Central and
for the managers of the glee clubs, the
tovIal party left for Washington on a spe-
olal train at 1910 pm. Among those pres
emit were the Misses Elenore Adams. Isabel
Arthur Virginia Arnold, Carrie Burkhart,
Fannie Henprin, Ruth Heilprin. E. Briggs,
Bessie Tompkins Maud Watkins, Rosa Bo-
gan, Edith Clark. Nellouise Stevens, Agnes
Scudder, Lucy Penterson, Mr.. and Mrs
Edgerly, Lucretia Edgeriy, Messrs, Edward
Holmes, Dean Corsa, Ralph Johnson, Irving
Maloney, John Merwin. Frank ShiIe. Wal
ter, Paschal, w. B. MoKelden, Charles
Clear Robert Barringer. E. H. McLachlen,
J. A. Murphy, Wallace Jones, Harold Tracy,
Major L. r. Alden, Carlisle P. Knight.
The chaperons were Miss Howell, Miss Orr
and DR.. Yount.
Mrs. Edward K. Fox is spending few
weeks with her parents in Carroll county.
Maryland.
The Army and Navy Chapter, D. A. r.,
will give reception and musicale at the