Evening star., 1902-01-18
DAUGHTERS GIVE A TEA
ANNIVERSARY OF GEN.
wAsHINGToN,s MARRIAGE DAY.
The Occasion Remembered Also by
Seven Thousand Chapters Through
out the United States.

The District Daughters of the American
Revolution celebrated a wedding anriver-
sary yesterday afternoon which is not mum
bered among the conventional anniversaries
that call for social functions in their OBJ
servances. Hitherto the diamond jubilee
for seventy-five years of welded happiness
has borne off the palm. The wedding ami
versary celebrated yesterday was that of
George Washington and Martha Custis,
which took place in quaint colonial style
January IL, new style, 1159, just 143 years
ago
The tea was the initial observance by the
National Society of the Daughters of the
but it is said that it will henceforth be one
of their white days in memorys album"
so eminentIy successful did it prove to be.
Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, one of the found
ers of the national society and regent Of
the District of Columbia chapters, said that
1900 chapters throughout the United States
were at the same hour observing the ami
versary in some patriotic way. The move
ment was almost spontaneous and has been
received with every evidence of enthusiastic
pleasure by the nearly 4O,OU women who
comprise the great national society. The
president general, Mrs Fairbanks, was par
ticularly interested in the observance of the
day, and has most energetically superfn-
tended the promulga ton of the sentiment.
The Washington Club rooms, where the
tea was held from to clock, were sim
ply decorated with flowers and flags, the
whole of the first floor being given over to
the reception of guests, while the banquet
hall, wreathed in eversreens, was occupied
by the dainty tea tables.
Mrs. Mary Smith-L Lockwood, district re-
gent, received the guests, nearly two thou
sand in number, and Mrs. H. T. Guss pre-
sented them. Stationed throughout the par
lors were the regents or Representative of
the thirteen original chapters of the Dis
trict, forming general receiving party.
They were as follows: Dolly Madison, Mrs.
Henry Mann: Army and Navy, Mrs Char
lotte Main; Constitution, Mrs. Ellen spen-
Ger Mussey; Martha Washington, Mrs. Lii
liam Rooam; Mary Washington, Mrs. Nc
Cahlll, Columbia, Mrs. J. D. Croissant; !;
Elizabeth Jackson Mrs. Mary Camfield
Wysong; America chapter Mrs. Patty Mil
Ter Stocking; Manor House, Mrs Green
wood Stanley; Merriam Danforth, Mrs Belle
M. Draper; Lucy Halcomb Mrs John w.
Holcomb, and the baby chapter, Katharine
Montgomery, Miss Mary Desha.
Continental Chapter was not officially rep
resented. 1t is in mourning for it's late
regent, Mrs Mary S. Gist, who died less
than two weeks ago
Ihere was great regret expressed at the
enforced absence of the president general
until the last moment of the reception
Mrs. Fairbanks several weeks ago ACCENT
ed an invitation to be the guest of honor
at reception Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution in Baltimore, and the
dates confiicted, but the District CHAPTERS
did not perfect their plans until after she
had accepted.
Representatives of National Board.
The national board was represented by
Mrs. j. c. Burrows, vice president general (:
Miss Mary Desha and Mrs. A. Howard
Clark, honorary vice presidents general for
life; Miss Minnie Mickey, registrar gem
eral; Miss Hetzel, historian general Miss
McBlair, library general
Miss Maybelle Brooks, sister of Mrs. II. T.
Guss. presided at one punch bowl, and the
baby of the national society, Miss Nc
Cahill, who is just old enough to wear the
coveted distaf and wheel, presided at the
other- At the tea tables, fragrant with
pink roses and bright with candles glowing
under silk flag shades. We're bevy of
They We're Mrs. Mertz, Mrs. Kaen and
Misses Lockwood, Wilson, F'inckel. Grieg.
Chamberlain. Moncure, Middleton, Heath
and Townsend. Among the guests were
hundreds OF daughters from all sections of
the country.
A string band, located in an alcove, played
throughout the reception hours. Many of
the callers remained till the last moment,
gan dancing. "Sir Richard de Coverly''
and "Grandmamma's Minuet' were speedily
followed by the Virginia Reel" Down the
long parlors the lines formed, and the
graceful old-fashioned dance-courtesy,
swing, romp up the middle and down the
outside-held fun sway for half an hour.
An unexpected wedding present quite
delighted the daughters The present is a
copy of Boydell's engraving of Benjamin
Vests picture of William PENIS treaty
with the Indians. The picture, which is
made from the original copperplate, was
presented to Mrs. Lockwood, district regent,
by Mr.. Horace l. Smith, who Is descend
ent of James Logan. the first chief justice
of the province of Pennsylvania, and who
stands next to Penn in the picture Mr.
Smith found the original copperplate in
London, England, recently, and bought it,
bringing it to Philadelphia. The engrav-
Ing is said to be one OF the best specimens
of its kind for that early day, and is about
two and a half by three feet in size. Mrs
Lockwood has announced her intention of
having the picture framed to place in the
Continental Hall for the benefit of which
the teas and entertainments all In the
United States were given yesterday
Mrs. H T. Guss, in behalf of the regents
of the District chapters, presented Mrs
Mary S. Lockwood a large jardiniere of
growing ferns and bouquet of pink roses.