The Washington times., 1902-01-08

Fashionable society paid tribute yes
terday to Miss Rebekah Collier. the debu-
tante of the week and one If the most
charming of the season.
Miss Collier is the daughter of Mrs. T.
De Witt Talmage, and her coming out tea
at the family residence on Massachusetts
Avenue brought together a distinguished
gathering made up OF the various phases
of society, official, diplomatic, and civil.
that go to make Washington, socially,
one of the most captivating cities in the
world.
Mrs. Talmage, In a becoming toilet of
white with effective touches of black and
white lace, received in the drawing room
to the right of the wide hall, with the
debutante beside her.
Miss Collier, tall, girlishly slender, with
dainty coloring and blonde hair. was
ethereally pretty in a French gown of
creamy lace, in arabesque design. over a
slip of white silk. The yoke of lace was
studded with silver spangles in flower ef-
fects about the neck and in bands OF
flashing light around the throat and long
lace sleeves. From the dozens of
bouquets that banked the piano and were
heaped upon tables and tabourettes the
debutante selected an armful of tinted
orchids and lilies 1of- the valley tied with
French knots of guaze.
The matrons on social duty in the draw
ing room included Mrs. Stone. wife of
the Governor of Pennsylvania; Mrs. John
w. Foster. Mrs Westinghouse, Mrs Rob
ert l. Fleming. and Mrs. Mcdonald.
Mrs. Fairbanks and Mrs. J. C. Burrows
presided in the tea room. In room
hung with tapestries and paintings, glow
ing with crimson flowers and red-shaded
lights, was another flower -decked table,
where Mrs. John Dalzell served frappe.
Among the group of attractive girls who
added to the general charm of the after
noon by entertaining the guests were
Miss Hildegarde McKenna, Miss Helen
Bell. Miss Grace Bell, Miss Mamie Hume
Miss Evans, daughter of the Commission
er of Pensions, Miss Armour, Miss Kittie
Reed. daughter of ex-Speaker Reed OF
New York, and the Misses Talmage.
The bud of yesterday is the granddaugh-
ter of Judge ]. F. Collier of the Court
of Claims of Pittsburg. who has been on
the bench for thirty-fiye years and has
achieved the distinction of having been
elected twice by acclamation. Judge Col
Iier is very devoted to his granddaugh-
ter, who is the only daughter of his only
son, and the last of her line. 1t was a
very great disappointment to both OF
them that he was not able to be present
at her introduction.
She is an earnest student and devotes
great deal of time to her books. her
fayorite study being in the line of his
toricaI research. She is also devoted to
riding. and takes a canter every day on
~; II Niroinia thnrpnqt h
bred. whom she refers to enthusiastically
as one of her dearest friends.
The floral decorations are always an
artistic feature of the hospitalities dis
pepsed by DR.. and Mrs. Talmage. and
nothing could have been more beautiful
than the arrangement of palms and flow
ers with which the entire first floor was
adorned.
The walls, above the doors and win
dows. were sprayed with Southern laurel,
and smilax wreathed the stairways and
chandeliers.
The lace curtains formed background
for tall gracefully branching palms set
on tabourettes before each window and
here and there were hooks of grecnery
formed of exotic foliage and fern. The
niano was almost hidden with the floral
tributes sent to the debutante, and other
houo,iets of roses, orchids, violets, and
Easter lilies were heaped on tables and
mante,s-the drawing-room mirror being
almost covered with orchids and Easter
lilies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Westinghouse will give
dinner dance on January 81, in honor
of their guest. Miss Violet Brocklebank,
of Liverpool, England.
Miss Fannie Mudd, daughter Of the
late DIR. Mudd, OF Baltimore, will be
married in the spring to Mr.. James J.
kennedy. a we'll known patent attorney
of New York Miss Mudd is relative OF
Representative Mudd of Maryland
The marriage OF Miss Alice Davies
Rochester, daughter of General and Mrs.
William B. Rochester, to Capt Charles
Wendell Feuton, U. S.iA., was solemnized
at noon yesterdaya at .he family residence
IN Eighteenth Street The ceremony was
nerforr,ed by Rev. Father Buckley, as
sts,ant pastor of st. Matthews Church.
the couple standing in palm embowered
window from the centre of which was