New-York tribune., 1901-01-13
SOCIETY'S SUNDAY REVIEW


! This week promises little more although the
majority of the entertainments will partake of the
nature of the dinner dance Colonel and Mrs. John
Jacob Astor will have a dance on Tuesday evening
1t will not be large affair, and their list is much
smaller than that of Mrs. Astor. DR., and Mrs
/ w Seward Webb will also give small dance on
me iecoy eyening Miss EieanGr MOTIFS & Will nave I'VE
metropolitan Club Annex on Thursday evening
MOTHS eSo one @ thfre be E gTn pf by M Robert mss Mss
Allister Bloyd. at No Gramercy Park
The entire tendency of the winter has been toward
the dinner dance. The idea has been make
| Informal entertainment out of what would have
| been called In other days Junction The English
custom of writing the invitations and placing the
| legend Come and dance will YOU not come
in and dance with u.s., a request couched in Ike
intimate terms prevails quite generally; Here and
of course formal but these affairs grow fewer and
fewer as the years advance.
Miss Webb will be very much feted in the COM
ing week, for besides two dinner dances arranged
for her, DR.. and Mrs Morgan Dix will give a
large dinner in her honor on Tuesday evening
The DANCE which is to be given by Mr. and Mrs
! Webb and Miss Twombly Mr. and Mrs TwombIy
have not been ou! in society for some three weeks
prevented Miss Twombly from going to any Of the
very large entertainments.
The one large entertainment OF the week was
the ball given by Mrs Astor Monday evening
last 1t was perhaps. the largest which Mrs Astor
has given in her new home There were over six
hundred invitations Contrary to usual custom
the floral decorations were very elaborate The
cotillon was extremely late and there was a rumor
az time that Craig Wadsworth who was to
lead, was taken suddenly i'll. He. however. led
part of the cotillon. Richard Peters and Harry
Lehr assisted him. Many of Mrs. Astors guests
went to the opera before the ball. Here Aida"
was so delightfully."- given that they fingered, and
II was almost midnight before the curtain fell
upon the tragedy. The presence Of so many Of
| Mrs. Astors guests gave the opera very brill
liant appearance. and the gowns and Jewels were
| magnificent. In fact. this winter the opera has
abe R at Te among even the on fFSho1 F5o1
when Jean de Reszke did not sing. all the parterre
tier.
The number Of foreigners at Mrs Astors ball
was very large. and there many new faces
| NewYork society is changing. On Mrs Astor's
! list are the names of those who have always gone
/ In NeW-fork society, and large entertainment at
| her house is always representative. When the
/ have the official stamp, so TO speak, of society.
The grip, influenza. is prevalent everywhere
and has played sad havoc with entertaining. Mrs
W. Storrs Wells obliged to give up her re-
| ception os Friday, and there have been many
| changes in the guests at the different dinners
Some of the cases have been very serious, indeed
New-Yorkers were much shocked learning OF
! the death Of Mrs. John Robinson Friday last In
! Baltimore A week ago Mrs. Robinson gave
large ball. the first entertainment any extensive
| scale which she had undertaken for several years
| A number Of Newly Workers went on, and Mrs. Rob
| inson that evening looked very well, and no one
! had idea Of the impending tragedy. Mrs
Robinson was the leader Of that h Baltimore set set
! known as the Brass Band, ana Tor years she
and her daughters were conspicuous AT Bar Har.
these Young girls ali Of whom but two have mar
/ ried. This Baltimore set has been the subject Of
have been t9d o. MISS MISS HnIg np MP
| nd Ot Baltimore belonged a
time to this little coterie. Mrs. Robinson was
in-law of the late Randolph Robinson and conse-
| quently an aunt OF Mrs. putnam MISS augusta
| Mrs. Lucius K. wimerding will give a small
dance on Saturday evening. 1t is for the debut of
| her daughter. Miss Caroline Wimerding. or rather
| one in a series. that young lady having made her
| formal bow at large ball given in her honor by
| her aunt, Mrs. w. Bayard Cutting, fortnight ago.
Among the new announcements of entertainments
is that Of a large dinner which Mrs Astor will give
/ on January %, Mrs. stuyvesant Fish and Mrs
| Clarence H. Mackay are both to give large dinner
dances and there will also be given at Sherrys on
arr d6 dn1eT m ss a5d 9y M 2 o. he r. f. Bel
| ter of Colonel and Mrs. William Jay.
! Mrs Kernochan has taken the Richard Townsend
| house. in Lafayette Square. Washington for the
/ season. She will have visitor Mrs. Van Rens-
! selaer Cruger who for several years since her
widowhood has made her home in Italy. There
/ were rumors that Mrs. Cruger was TO marry a Mr.
/ Gardiner, a wealthy young man, but yet these
| rllmors have not been substantiated. Many of Mrs
Iruger's friends anxious to find about this
story anziously awaiting her arrival in this
| country.
As vet Aiken is not overcrowded. In fact Il is the
/ resort of a little coterie than of crowd. So
far there has been no large hotel to replace the
! one burned some years ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
J Hitchcock tr Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Kemp, Mrs
, Duncan Elliott Mr.. and Mrs Butler Duncan jr.,
! Mr. and Mrs Frederick Beach, Major and Mrs
| MaIlery and a few others make up the set which
enjoys hunting and outdoor sports, with bridge
/ be al Aiken by the end OF the week.
There is much gayety in promise for Florida. and
ST Augustine Miami and Palm Beach are looking
! forward TO a brisk season. Already many invita-
tions have been issued for parties for special
/ for February and March. which are expected TO be
/ very severe and disagreeable months in New-Yor
All the Florida hotels open, and golf, fishing
( and surf bathing among the amusements. Mr
and Mrs Charles Dana Gibson are still at Palm
| at St Augustine At Thomasville there have been
! fox hunts and Jekyl Island is filing up rapidly
! lakewood is still the Mecca of society over Sum
/ day although the cottages and the Laurel House
! and the Laurel-in- -the-Pines filled the entire
week The dry air of Lakewood is relief from
the prevailing dampness in New-York P. F.
Collier has been organizing a series OF hunts, and