The times., 1900-12-24
SOCIAL, And PERSONAL.
Dinner Guests Entertained by Mrs.
n. s. Lincoln.
Christmas nj the British Embassy
How the Day VIII BE Observed
by other Members of the Dipio-
mnsic Corps - Mrs. Breckinridge's
Afternoon Luncheon for Girls.

Mrs. n. S. Lincoln gave dinner Tor
young people last night in honor of the
Misses Tyler. The table. with ats beau
tiful appointments of gold and silver was
abloom with pink flowers and the lights
we're reflected through rose tinted
shades. The company gathered about it
were in addition to the guests of honor,
Miss Garcia de Peyster, Miss Lille Nc
Cauley, Miss Natalie Lincoln, Mr..
Charles Richardson, Mr.. Walter Davidge,
Mr. Martin Jones, Mr. ormsby Mccain
mon, Mr. Augustus Blagden, and Mr..
Gould Lincoln, the son of the house, who
is a junior at Yale, home for the Christ
mas vacation.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Pauncefote always keep Christmas by
observing the time -honored customs of
the day. The stately apartments and the
portrait of the Queen in the stairway hall
will be decked with holly and other wood
land boughs and garlands, and there will
be family dinner party, at which the
guests will be the gentlemen of Lord
Pauncefotc's staff and their wives. There
will be genuine English plum pudding
and the usual toasts of the day.
The Ambassador and Lady Pauncefote
have dinner invitations out for We'd
nesday, when the guests will include
large contingent from the Diplomatic
Corps. Later they will attend ball at
the Letter mansion.
DR.. Won Holleben and the staff of the
German Embassy will observe the custom
of their Fatherland by celebrating Christ
mas this evening instead of waiting for
tomorrow. The big brick embassy is gay
with Christmas greens, and the usual
plans are made for an evening Of good
cheer
Russia's calendar will give the members
of the Russian Embassy two distinct
Christmas celebrations the first will be
in their uniting with their friends of other
natiOnalities. and one week later, in the
room adjoining the Ambassadors library.
on the second floor, there will be q Rus
sian Christmas tree, burdened with beau
tiful and unique gifts for the various
friends and members of the household.
There will be an illumination of this fairy
like tree on the Russian Christmas night,
when Russian hymns will be sung and
toasts proposed in true Russian fashion.
The Italian Ambassador and Baroness
de Fava, who are at their home in New
York. will probably be in Washington in
time for the New Year reception at the
White House.
The little daughter of the Austro- Hun
garian Minister and the Baroness Won
Hengelmuller will spend her second
Christmas Day. She is to have Christ
mas tree, and her parents will invite her
little friends and a number of the men,
bers of the Diplomatic Corps to partici-
pate in the merrrmaking.
Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, of Boston, is the
guest of Prof and Mrs. Raymond. form
erly OF Princeton, N. ]. Mrs. Lothrop has
recently purchased the famous "Orchard
House." the recent home of Louisa NJ.
Olcott. The place adjoins "Mayside,"
formerly occupied by Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, which is now Mrs. Lothrop's sum
mer residence.
Miss Hazel Breckenridge, who is home
from Smith College for the holidays. was
given a luncheon by Mrs. Breckenridge
Saturday afternoon. Her guests included
Miss Hildegarde McKenna, Miss Gladys
Ffoulke, the Misses Greedy, Miss Cobb.
Miss Margaret Hawley, Miss Louise
Kingsley. Miss Lieber, Miss Katharine
Ward, Miss Sanger. Miss Mary Hopkins,
and Miss Helen Bell, and her house guest,
Miss Anne Washington. of Tennessee.
II one could be quite English and refer
to Miss Condit-Smiths trunks boxes,
a pun could be satisfactorily arranged
between her belongings and those dreadful
natives who made life terrible for her
during the siege OF Pekin. Her expert
ence. while at the Chinese capital, was
such as seldom falls to the lot of the
women of today. Now that she is coming
home where loving relatives and a wide
circle of warm friends await her, it is to
be hoped that, like the heroines in the
fairy tales, she will Live happy ever
after"
The latest announcement made and
promptly denied is the engagement Of
Miss Edith Patten TO Adjutant General
Corbin.
Mr.. and Mrs Bloomer will give an end
Of the century dance at Rauscher's New
Years Eve for the young friends of their
son and daughter.
Mrs. William Richards has returned
from Walters Park Sanitarium, Pennsyl-
vania. where she has been for more than
a year. Mrs. Richards and her daughter
Miss Janet Richards, are now at 1929 VI
Street. where they will be glad to see
| their friends informally on Tuesday after
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