The times., 1900-12-25
SOCIAL and PERSONAL
Mrs. CrOpper's Christmas Dance
for Miss Loiing.
The Ball Room of the Handsome
Home of the Hostess Was Filled
y. ifh Many of the SenHon's Dcbu-
tuntes and Their CayaIiers-Miss
Wilson's Luncheon and Musicale.

Mrs. Cropper gave a Christmas Eve
dance last night, in honor of Miss Lydia
Loring, the elder daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Frank B. Loring, who was intro
Guced at fashionahy attended reception
on December l. Tho ballroom was gay
with holly boughs and woodland vines, and
mistletoe hung on the hall The pretty
heroine of the hour wore her coming out
gown of light blue crepe, fowered with
daisies, and among the young people bid
den by the gracious hostess Of the even
ing to dance in the Yuletide were Miss
Fuller, the Misses McKenna, Miss Davis,
Miss Austin, Miss McCauley, Miss Bell,
Miss Garcia de Peyster, Miss Kellogg, Miss
Palmer. Miss Louise Lieber, Miss Kerr,
Miss Julia Foraker, Miss Daisy Letter. the
Misses Power. Miss Satterlee Miss Will
Jams, Miss Peter, the Misses Ffoulke Miss
Latrobe. of Baltimore; Miss Frances New
lands, the Misses Greely, Mr.. Bancroft
Davis. Mr.. r. F. Fisher. Mr.. Pasteur, Mr..
Alfred Hopkins, Mr.. Crowninshield Mr.
Joseph Blair Mr.. John f. Lodge, Mr.
Charles Mandhull. Mr.. J. B. Foraker, ir.,
the Messrs. Huidekoper. Mr.. T. l.. Rodgers.
Mr. Davidson, Mr.. Cary Johnson, Mr..
Montgomery, Mr. Findall Mr. Price, Mr..
McKaig. Mr. Clayton, Mr. Puiido Mr.. Gist
Blair, Mr. Joseph Warren, Mr.. Charles X
Poe Mr. Walter Peter Mr. Murray Cobb,
Mr. Francis Poe. Mr.. W. NJ. Austin. Mr..
Charles Howard Mr.. Rogestvepsky, Mr.
R. Mckee, Mr.. Harry Postlethwaite, Mr..
Arthur Crosby, and Mr.. E. Hale. ir.
Miss Wilson. daughter of the Secretary
OF Agriculture. is entertaining Miss Wal
lace and Miss Westermann, of Des Moines,
Iowa. Miss Wilson gave luncheon for
her house guests last Saturday, after
which there was an informal musicale
Miss Westermann who has won national
fame as a pianist. delighted the ladies'
with several selections, and Miss Wallace,
who has a deep. rich eontralto, favored
the company with several vocal numbers.
The company included Nine. Wilde. wife
Of the Argentine Minister; Mrs. D. B.
Henderson, Mrs. Walsh, Mrs Bingham,
Mrs Hill. Miss Sybil Pauncefote Miss
Louise Foraker. Miss Constance Satterlee,
Miss Gailaudet, Miss Cockereli, and Miss
Rochester. tt 4 a,
Senator Hanna and family win spend
the holidays at Palm Beach. Fla. The
party is travelling by special train.
Baron Won Holleben, the German AM
bassador, expects 20 spend Christmas Day
and the greater part of the week follow
n
new decorations Of the German Embassy
will hardly be completed until some time
in January but in good season for the
celebration OF the anniversary CT thu birth
of the Emperor, January q.
Rev. MIR. and Mrs. Eugene r. Shippen,
of Boston, are spending the Christmas
holidays with the parents of the latter
Col. and Mrs. Henry +. B!ount The sons
of the hnFsP Mr. Nelson Riornt of Yale
and Mr. Harold Blount, of the Military
Institute. at Montclair. y. j.. are also
home for the vacations. Other members
of the house party now at the Oaks are:
Miss Aimee Nesbir, of Kalamazoo. Mich,
and Miss Fenno and Miss Mabel Gele;son
Of New York
Mr.. and Mrs. Blount viii give one Of the
dances of the Yuletide
Representative Chanler and his sister
Miss Chanler. who occupied the Tyler res
idence last winter. have taken the house
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Putnam on
Nineteenth Street Mrs. Putnam will re-
turn TO Europe where their children are
Z. school.
The Austrian Minister and Baroness
Hengelmulier viii have small Christmas
tree party this afternoon for their little
daughter. and later in the evening Miss
Pauncefote and few other friends will
be guests at supper at the Legation.
There will be family dinners and merry
house parties of young people wit hout
number today, and Yuletide gayeiies will
be the order of the day and evening but
few entertainments have been announced
the Cropper dance being the most i'm
portant event of the night