Evening star., 1901-12-20
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MRS. ROOSEVELT HAS ASKED
FRIENDS TO MEET HER SISTER.
January Wedding. Will He brilliant
and Numerous-Nesterda HosPi-
taIittes--Interesting Personals.

Mrs Roosevelt will hold a public recep-
ton for ladies tomorrow from 3 to
o'clock. She viii be assisted by the ladies
of the cabinet and Will have with her dur
ing the reception a number of young ladies,
including those of the cabinet circle.
Mrs Roosevelt has invitations out for
tea Monday, December %. to O'Clock, to
| meet Miss Carew. The latter, who is sis
ter of the Presidents wife. arrived at the
White House last night and win be there
during the holidays. She has been abroad
several years and only returned few days
ago.
Senator and Mrs. Foraker have issued the
invitations for the wedding reception OF
their daughter Julia and Mr.. Francis King
| Wainwright, Wednesday, January 5, at
1890 o'clock. Only family gathering will
| witness the ceremony.
DR.. and Mrs. Clinton Gushing inaugurated
their winters hospitaities yesterday by an
afternoon reception, when they had assist
ing them Mrs. Rixey, Mrs Bi8dle, Mrs.
Malcolm Henry, Mrs. Charles c. Ayres, Mrs.
Andrews, Miss Dahlgren Miss Morrison and
Miss Whitney, while in the dining room
| Countess Esterhazy and Mrs. McMurtrie
did the honorS. DR.. Cushing has just re-
turned from California.
| The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs
| Hitchcock gave dinner last night, when
| the company included Chief Justice ana
| Mrs. Fuller, Attorney General ana Mrs'
Knox, Judge and Mrs. Vandeventer, the
| assistant secretary of state and Mrs. Hiil,
| Surgeon General and Mrs. Sternberg, Col
and Mrs. Bingham, Senator and Mrs. Platt
| and Mr.. SwiSher.
Gen. and Mrs. Gillespie, Mrs Warder
| and Mr.. Wayne McVeagh gave dinners
| last night. The latter entertained the
| Farmers Club.
| The solicitor general and Mrs. Richards
were also dinner hosts last night. their
guests being Justice and Mrs. WHITE, Jus
tice and Mrs. McKenna, the Secretary OF
Agriculture and Miss Wilson, Senator and
Mrs. Lodge, Senator and Mrs. Foraker.
the assistant attorney general ana MIS-
James NJ. Beck, Mr.. and Mrs: Aulick
Palmer and Mr.. and Mrs. j. LeVering
Jones of Philadelphia.
Gen. and Mrs. William B. Rochester have
issued invitations for the marriage of their
daughter, Alice Davies Rochester, and
Capt Charles Wendell Fenton. q. S. A,
at the family residence Tuesday, January Z,
at noon. Miss Ethel Davies of New York
will attend her cousin maid of honor,
and Lieut. George t. Langhorne Will be
best man.
Miss Minna Cromwell, daughter of Rear
Admiral and Mrs Cromwell and Ensign
Needham Lee Jones. L. S. N, will be mar
ried at the Church of the Ascension Tues
day, December 81. Miss Cynthia Richards
will be maid of honor, and the Misses JLna
Scott and Alice Hyatt of this city, Eliza
beth Huber and Estelle Willoughby Of
Philadelphia bridesmaids. Ensign s: c.
Hart will be best man, and Ensigns Watts
and Houston, Lieuts. c. II. Poor, EdWard
McCauley, jr., and ]. H. Roys and Pay
master ]. H. Merriam ushers.
Mrs White, wife of Lieutenant w. w.
White, L. S. N, is spending the winter at
Wayne, Pa, near Philadelphia, where her
children are at school,
90 % Gov otner
Springs, n. Y. are visiting their parents
at 1441 street and will remain. for the
holidays.
Mrs W. H. Coleman gave a progressive
euchre party last evening at her home on
Riggs place, in honor OF her daughters,
were Misses Alice and Emma Berry, May
Keho. Bessie Keyser, Kathryn and Elsie
Powell and Mrs. Todd: Messrs. Albert f.
Berry, Laurence Brumidi, VIM. F. Bowen,
]. Parrew Jarboe and DR.. Hutton.
Dr. and Mrs. Loren B. T. johnson will
| spend the Christmas holidays with Mrs.
Johnson's parents Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Of
Pittsburg returning to their home on Far
ragut square the first week in January.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Gordon Crawford of
New York, who have been visiting Mrs.
Jno. G. Carlisle at her home on Washington
square during the past week, have arrived
in Washington, where they will spend sew
erai months at 1908 18th street, returning
to New York in the spring. Their daughter
born in New England is now two months
old. Mrs Crawford was Miss Kathleen
Beale Owen.
| A surprise party was given Thursday
| night at 500 Stanton place northeast in
| honor of the nineteenth birthday Of Mr.. ].
William Oehmann. Selections on the piano
| were rendered by the Misses Williamson,
| Whitney and Corcoran, and a duet on the
piano and violin by Miss Williamson and
| Mr.. John Donovan. Later in the evening
| refreshments were served. Among those
| present were Mr.. and Mrs A. Oehmann,
| Mr.. and Mrs. j. p Donovan, the Misses
| Marian Williamson, NJ. Whitney, L. Mat
| thews B. Moot, l. Nash. Matte and Ada
| Lear, s. Corcoran. VI. Howell, B. Etchison,
NJ. Carlisle, L. Bel, z. Moves, and Messrs.
J. w. Oehlmann, J. Henry Oehlmann, ]. G.
| Donovan, Guy Farson. John Nash, NJ
Noyes. j. Waple and Frank Rupp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar H. Klemroth are
stopping at the Ebbitt House to attend the
| Soldiers Alliance banquet.
| Mrs. Henrietta Stuart will receive at her
apartments, the Portner, Fridays during
! the season.
Miss Pearl Edna Thornsen of the faculty
| of Limestone College, Gaffney, S. c., ar
| rived last night TO spend the holidays in
| this city with her parents.
The leap year cotillion. of which Miss
| Hildegarde McKenna Miss Lydia Loring,
Miss Helen Bell. Miss Isabel May and Miss
| Caroline De Pyster form the committee,
| will be hel6 at the New Wizards Janu-
| ary 49,
| Mrs. Aspinwall gave a tea yesterday to
meet Miss Margaret Worth Hubbell, daugh--
ter of Major Hubbell- Mrs. Woolsey Aspin-
wall Miss Anna Breck. Miss Hoehling,
Miss Marie Barnes and Miss Helen John
| ston were in the receiving party.
FUNERAL OF JAMES NJ. BALDWIN.
Veteran Of Union Army Victim of
Complication of Diseases.
The funeral services over the remains of
| the late James NJ. Baldwin, who was for
sixteen years day watchman at the Treas
| ury Department, and who died Wednesday