New-York tribune., 1902-01-26
NEW-YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs James a. Stiuman's dance AZ her house in
East Seventysecond-st. for Miss Ethel Rockefeller
Tuesday night, and the Charity Ball Thurs
day, which number OF fashionable people have
arranged to attend. will constitute the principal
features Of societys programme for the week open
ing to-day. Not that there Is any decline in the
dinners. ''at homes and entertainments of minor
character as eyer and II is only the relatively few
the season that serve to call attention 10 the ap-
proach OF Lent
Among the dinners Of the present week will he
large given by Colonel and Mrs Astor at
their house in Fifth-ave. Tuesday Mr.. and
Mrs Harry s. Lehr have dinner for twenty-eisht
on the same evening at their house in West Fifty
sixth-st. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and
James Henry Smith give dinners OF Wednesday y
night while Thursday Mrs Lucius X. VII
Townsend and Mrs. James D. Laying will be among
their guests.
Miss Rosna Boardnan gives a luncheon party to-
morrow at her house in West Forty-eighth-st. Miss
Matte Beeckman has euehre party in the after
at her house in West Thirty-sixth-st. while
Mrs Edward I'd l. & Keyes will have a musical at her
Henrietta Weber and Charles Russell will play
On Tuesday afternoon the Misses Preston. dsugh-
ters OF the late stephen Preston. who was for so
many years Haytian Minister and dean of the
Diplomatic Corps at Washington. will give tea
chantant' at the Waldorf-Astoria under fashion
able patronage Miss Gurnee has an ''at home ar
cal entertainment will be given also under fashton
able patronage in the Gerrit Smith Studio, in East
Thirty third-St, in aid OF the New-York Red Cross
Hospital and Training School,
Mrs Frederick Il. Halsey gives the FIRST of a
series of receptions Wednesday afternoon at her
house in West Fifty-thrd-st and Mrs Joseph T.
Low has lat home" In the evening there will he
and dramatic recital at the West FiftY-spcond-st
house of Mrs. Jay Muhlenburg Bailey by Miss
Grace Atkins Dobson, under the patronage of Mrs
Richard Gambrill. Mrs. Gerald HOyt Mrs Bayard
Tuckerman and Mrs. j. Lnrimer WOrden
The condition OF Robert Hargous who ia i'll with
pneumonia at the Hotel Manhattan is stiu serious
But his physicians entertain hopes of his recovery
Among the dinners given yesterday was one b,,
Mrs, William Post. at her home in East Sixtv-sev
enth-st. dinner was likewise given bv Nrs
George X. Schienelin, at her home in East Fortv
hfth-st;, and by Mrs. j. Woodward Haven at her
home In East Thirty,ninth-st, Mrs. John Murray
Mitchell had an ''at home" at her home An Fast
SiNty-seventh-st., and James Henry Smith eava y
luncheon AT his house in West Fiftv-second-St
followed by coaching party. 50
In the evening there another Of the Satrr
day evening dances at Delmonico's the guests
being received by Mrs. Charles r. Huntington ana
several or the other patronesses Nontsomsry
Strong led the cotillon, dancing with Mrs Tsana,SS
Francke. Dancing ended promptly an rnidnirbt
when supper served The next and last Sas,a.'
day evening dance of the season takes nlacs on
Saturday, February s. F ''i
The marriage of Miss Mollie Hays to Henry
Oater took place yesterday afternoon at O'Clock