Evening star., 1899-02-10
THE WORLD, or SOCIETY
Spring Weddings Foreshadowed in Pleasant
News.
Recent Hospitalitics and Future Ones
Personal Notes of In
terest.

| Vice President ard Mrs. Hobart. The other
| guests present were the Attorney General
| and Mrs. Griggs. Gen. and Mrs. Miles, Sem
| ator and Mrs. Platt, Senator and Mrs. Han
| ma, the Belgian minister and Countess de
/ Lchtervelde. Mrs. Manning, Mr.. and Mrs
| George Clover of New York city and Gen.
| Bingham.
| Secretary and Mrs. Alger who were
! obliged to defer their dinner to the Presi-
! dent and Mis-. Mckinley on the first date
set, have again arranged it for the 24th of
this month.
The wedding day for Miss Mason and Mr..
| GaiIlard Hunt has been set for April 4.
| Miss Mason resides in Cleveland.
| Mrs. and the Misses Letter are in New
| York, and will sail tomorrow for Europe.
| The voyage is taken at this season to place
| the young ladies in care of English friends
| who are going to India, where the Misses
| Letter will visit their sister Lady Curzon,
/ wife of ths viceroy. Mrs. Letter will not
| accompany her daughters, but will return
| to this country in April Mr. Letter will
1 remain in Washington until her return.
They will spend the summer at their Lake
Geneva home.
| Mrs. I. a. Bingham entertained at lunch
today Mrs. Chas. Emory Smith. Mrs. John
| w. Foster, Mrs. d. J. Hill, Mrs. Legare,
| Mrs. Chas. H. Alien, Mrs. Andrews Mrs.
| Brewster, Mrs. John Jackson Mrs Ffoulke,
Miss May Williams and Miss Mitchell.
| The engagement was announced yester-
day in New York of Miss Romola Dahl
| gren and Mr.. Lspenard Stewart. Miss
| Dahlgren is daughter of Mr.. Paul Dahl
| gren. formerly consul general at Rome, and
granddaughter of the late Commodore
| Dahlgren of Washington. Her fiance is
| accounted one of the wealthiest bachelors
| in New York society.
| Professor Alexander Graham Bell gave a
| dinner last evening to his house guest, Maj
| A. Feltner Won Sonnenburg, who lectures
| this evening before the National Geographic
| Society on Manila and the Philippines.
Maj. Won Sonnenburg was the official ex
| pert representative of the German army
| detailed to observe and report upon mill
| tary operations in the Philippines, and also
| uron the maneuvers of the Japanese army,
! and ne and Professor Bell were fellow
| steamer passengers on their recent Voy-
| age from Japan to this country. Those in
| vited to meet Maj. Won Sonnenburg were
| Senator Platt. Mr. David J. Hill. first secre
! tary of state; Gen. Joseph r. Wheeler, Rep
| reSentativc LentZ, ex-senator Manderson,
| Gen. John NJ Wilson, Gen. Greedy. Surgeon
| General Sternberg, Professor Simon New
comb, Professor Roland of Johns Hopkins
| University: Professor Hale of the Yerkes
| observatory, Chicago; Mr.. McCurdy, Mr.. S
| II. Kaufman and Mr.. Charles J. Bell.
| The engagement has been announced of
| Miss Constance ingalls,, daughter of eX-
| Senator and Mrs Ingalls, and Mr.. Robert
| Schick of Reading, Pa. Miss Ingalls, is Il
| charming young woman, who spent last
| year III the Deaconesses Home in Philadel-
phla. During last summer she nurSed sick
| soldiers at hospital in Philadelphia and
| proved herself a real heroine. Mr.. Schick
! is a lawyer and graduate of Princeton
and Lseipsic. The wedding day is set for
| the Easter season. Ex-senator and Mrs.
| Ingalls, are an the Cairo this winter
| Mrs. Godoy, wife of the charge d'affares
| of Mexico. has Invitations out for a tea
| Monday, February il, to g. at 1446 Rhode
| Island avenue.
Mrs. Manning, president general of the D.
! a. R., has cards out for Saturday, Febru-
| airy IS, 8 to :, at the Arlington, 10 meet
| the national board, d. A. r.
Mrs. Russell Selfridge will give a theater
| party tonight and supper in honor of Miss
| Wallace of Pittsburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Wilson will give
| a dinner tonight.
| Mrs. Garcia. sister of the late Mexican
| ambassador, and her aunt, Miss Guadalupe
| Avendano, left last night for Mexico. They
| were accompanied by their nephew, Mr.
| Jose Romero, who also returns TO the
| Mexican capital to reside
The cozy parlors of Captain and Mrs. J.
| Donnelly, jr, Massachusetts avenue north
| east Were crowded last night by masked
| surprise party. The evening was passed
| with songs, reritatons and dancing. after
| which refreshments were served. Those
| participating We're Mr.. and Mrs j. f.
| Richmond. Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Goss, Mr.
| and Mrs. Richard Rogers, MIR. and Mrs. l..
/ u Frost. MI. ana MRS. j. j. Davis, Air
| and Mrs. Ward Davis, MIR. and Mrs. Geo.
| p. Newton, Mrs wilkins and Misses Ma
| mie White Bertha Donnelly, Mollie Rod
| gers, Jennie Richmond, Bernice Case, Lot
! tie Richmond and Messrs Frank a. Dom
| nelly, Samuel Il. jacobson, DR. James H.
| Oliver, A Murphy, Willie Frost, Joseph
| Hall, Joe Housler and John Donnelly, ST.
Gen. and Mrs. L4ongstreet will be at home
| tomorrow afternoon. 14lS Goth street for
| the last time this season.
| MrS L uyi1l ho ut
at the Portland tomorrow, but will receive
| the remaining Saturdays in February.
! Mrs. j. Worden Pope, wife of Col. Pope
| chief quartermaster at Manila has taken
an apartment at the Cairo.
Mrs. Halford will not be at home Satur-
day on account of absence from the city
The Misses Miller of 125 4th street south
east have moved to 129 4th street south
| east.
Mrs. Walter WeIlman has gone to Cam
| ton, Ohio, to visit her mother, who is very
/ i'll at her home in that city.
Mrs. Fannie NJ. Kautz, Miss Kautz and
Miss Navarro kautz, wife and daughters
of the late Gen \. v kautz, L. S. A. are
! at the Dewey.
| Mrs. Henry Solomon and Miss American
/ of Chicago, ILL.,, have arrived in Washing
ton as delegates to the third triennial OF
the Council of Jewish Women, and are
81 ests of the Arlington Hotel, WHERE they
| will receive tomorrow afternoon the men,
bers of the Washington, d. c., section
| Council of Jewish Women.
| Mrs. William F. Aldrich and Mrs John
| w. Pratt will give a reception February H.
| to IL. at 1881 New Hampshire avenue.
| Ex-senator Fred Dubois of Idaho and his
| bride are the guests of Senator and Mrs
| PefuSrew A dinner will BE- given In their
| honor on February II.
A cordial invitation is extended TO the
| delegates and visitors to the national coun-
| Gil of women and other organizations in
| session at the time in this city to meet the
| women of the mothers congress AT the Cal
TO on Tuesday evening, February IA
Mrs. George Bacon, 170S 10Th street. was
at home yesterday for the last time this
| season. assisted by Mrs. Aldrich Mrs
Pratt, Mrs. Leadley and Mrs George Hill
| areth.
HOUR WITH LONGFELLOW.
Children Given Treat at Jefferson
| school Building.