Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-29
THE SOCIAL WORLD
The EastertideP rogramP Prom
Uses Well.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS, TOO
DANCES AND DINNERS ARE NU-
NERVOUS.
Easter Sunday Luncheons Start the
Ball Rolling-Weddings and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
RANGE BLOSSOMS, TOO


Receptions-Personals
| The Easter season is quite up to the aver
age in the way of hospitality. Dinners and
| Iuncheons have the right of way and are
planned two and three deep for every day
and night Of the next fortnight, with the
usual number of weddings to give the
proper tone to the gayety as an occasional
diversion. Nearly all the charity affairs In
which society takes an interest or has en-
tire management are asking that special
attention be paid the entertainments for
which much preparation has been made for
weeks past. In this list comes first the
Homeopathic Hospital benefit. the Home
for Incurables' ball, the Newsboys' Home
tab1eauX and tea at Wizards Wednesday,
Wagnerian lecture for the House of the
Good Shepherd, all within the coming fort
night
Mrs Townsend, who has entertained so
handsomely all winter, starts spring rec
ord by breakfast tomorrow at the Coun-
try Club, to which over fifty guests have
been hidden. Others who will give din
ners in the near future are Senator and
Mrs. Wetmore, Mr.. John B. Henderson,
Capt. and Mrs. Beach, Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Wadsworth, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh, Representative and Mrs. Sibley,
Senator and Mrs. Depew, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
c. Barney, the Belgian minister and Bar
oness Moncheur and the Mexican ambas-
sador and Nine. de Azpiroz.
Mrs. Reyburn gave a luncheon today at
the Washington Club for about thirty chill
dren friends Of the young people of her
family.
Miss Daisy Emily Hodgson and Mr.. Edgar
Toll orf Mill he tod icf
Church southeast Tuesday evening. A
reception from $50 to 10 will follow at the
home Of Major and Mrs. Frederic S. Hodg-
son, 1921 Sth street.
Two noon weddings will take place We'd
nesday-Miss Rebecca Middleton Barbarin
and Mr.. Theodore G. McGirr will be mar
ried at st. Patrick's and Miss Marie Mar
garet Watson and DIR. Dixon L. Moore of
Cleveland, Ohio, will be married at the
same hour. A wedding breakfast will fol-
low at Rauscher's. The bride will be at
tended by Miss Louise Watson as maid Of
honor. Mr.. Lower will be best man and
Messrs. Warner Harrison of Columbus.
Ohio, and John Wagner of Paramount, w.
Va, will be ushers.
invitations to the wedding reception of their
daughter Elizabeth and Mr.. Chester E.
MCGOWAN for Wednesday evening, April 2
The ceremony, which is to be private. will
ne ny lne SIettl-ullCie VI tHc
bride, Bishop Bowman. Miss Winter will
be attended by Mrs. Edgar Allan, tr., Of
Richmond. Va, as matron OF honor and by
her schoolgirl sister. Miss Helen Winter.
and by Miss Marie Buxton of MartinSburg.
w. Va. The groom will have for his best
man his cousin, Mr.. T. Edward Grafton of
New York.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will at once
resume the social program that has made
their residence at the White House so de-
lightful Invitations are out for a musicale
next week, when about 300 guests will be
present, and, it is understood, Paderewsh
will be the artist. Other musical evenings
are also contemplated during the next two
months. The departure of the President
and his family for their Oyster Bay home
will probably occur in June, long after
those who are to represent this country
and it's capital at the coronation will have
gone to their pleasant duty, and society
will have scattered for its summerings.
Many of the prominent diplomats are going
abroad, although but few are at this time
entirely Of their program. AS the
question of the British ambassadors longer
stay in this country is as yet undecided the
allegiance. The Italian ambassador has in
prospect a tour of the great lakes with his
wife before they go north for the summer.
Mr. S. c. Neal will give dinner of a
dozen covers tonight at his home on 10th
street.
Mr. and Mrs Crosby will give a luncheon
tomorrow at their home at Cleveland Park.
General Clayton, the American ambassa-
dor to Mexico, will be in Washington next
week on visit to his daughter, Baroness
Moncheur who will give dinner in his
honor, April s. The baroness expects to
spend the summer with her parents in Mex
leo.
Mrs. Shaw accompanied the Secretary Ct
the Treasury to New York this week and
was with him on the steamship docks while
he personally observed the landing of pas
SengerS. Mrs. Shaw was intensely interest
ed in the emigrants, especially their chill
dren, and watched the long line till the last
had left the pier. Washington women who
have been trying to change the workings of
the custom house inspectors of trunks are
congratulating themselves on the personal
interest the Secretary and his wife have
shown in the matter, and are especially
cabinet woman herself watched the pro-
ceedings to which they object, and
is therefore doubly qualified to help in the
matter if she sees fit to do so. really
more comfortable feeling exists that re-
turning transatlantic tourists next fall,
with their trunk loads Of coronation SOU
venirs in the way of good clothes, etc, will
have an easier time than when they re-
turned last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Mum will go to
Europe the last of next month.
The sixty couples cotillon will be given
Wednesday night at Masonic Temple, and
the Leap Year cotillion Thursday night at
Rauscher's. This latter is in charge of a
committee of next winters debutantes,
whose mothers will be the chaperons of the
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert j. Wynne will give a
reception to the Gridiron Club next We'd
nesday evening.
Tuesday evening Mrs. Sara Chase Guss
entertained the members and friends of
Constitution Chapter, d. A. R., at her home,
1406 Binney street. Mrs. GuSS was assist
ed in receiving by Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster,
chapter regent, and Miss Brooks. After
the business meeting the subject of What
the Government Has Done for Education
was taken up, Mrs. Foster making the OPEN
ing address, a clever comparison Of what
our government does for education as
with foreign countries. Mrs. Mary
ri of