New-York tribune., 1903-02-17
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Mr. and Mrs H Mex. Twombly. who leave here
on Friday for Palm Beach. gave small dance last
night at their house in Fifth-ave. II. Pelham Rob-
bfns dancing with Miss Florence Twombly. led the
cotilIon which followed the supper. About two
hundred people had been asked, principally MEM
bers of the younger set including a number OF
debutantes of the winter and also several young
married couples, as, for instance. Mr. ana Mrs
Dave Hennen Morris. Mr. and Mrs. William j.
schiehelfn Mr. and Mrs. w B. Osgood Field and
Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Hammond.
Among the dinners which figured the calendar
last night were those given by Mrs Ogden Goelet
at No sos Fifth-ave; by Miss White. No 6os Fifth
ave. and by Mrs. Dallas Bache Pratt, No Il West
Forty-eighth-st. The. last given for Mrs
Pratt's daughter Katherine.
Earlier in the day Mrs George Hammond Nc
Lean gave a large reception at her house, in West
Fifty-seventh-st-, for her daughter-in-lav', Mrs.
John Hammond Mclean who was Miss Mary Cecil
Boardman. Mrs William Henry Folsom, Mrs. W.
Eugene Parsons and Mrs. Frederic R. Coudert. tr,
likewise received yesterday afternoon.
Scheduled for to-day are a luncheon party to be
given by Mrs Charles Frederick Hoffman, jr-. at
her house in West Fifty-first-st.; dinner by Mr..
and Mrs Pembroke Jones at No. 13 West Fifty
tirst-st.. and the dance given board the New
Hampshfre ar East Twenty fourth-st. by the mem
bers of the Second Division of the 1st Battalion,
Naval Militia. Mrs. ". Butler Duncan jr-. Mrs.
Stephen H P Peil, Mrs. Hilborne Roosevelt, Mrs.
stephen Peabody and Mrs. H. Livingston satterIee
are among the patronesses and will receive the
guests
Mr. and Mrs James L. Breese likewise give a
dinner tonight for Miss Anne Breese. The latter
is the second daughter of Mrs Henry Vincent
Higgins, who lives in London Mrs Higgins has
been twice married and her first husband
the brother of James Breese, that Miss Anne
Breese is the Iatter's niece Miss Breese came to
America with Mrs Vanderbilt with whom she is
staying.
Mrs John II. Hammond has issued invitations for
a theatre party next Saturday night at the
Casino, and will sfterward take her guests, some
forty in number. to Delmonico's for supper.
Mrs H De Berkeley Parsons has issued invita-
tions for a dinner on Feruary 2S at her house in
Madison-ave.
Mrs James W Wadsworth has arrived in town
from Washington. owing the illness of her sister
Mrs William A. Duer. who is spending the winter
at the WsIdorf-Astoria. Mrs. Duer is the mother
of Mrs. Clarence IL Mackay.
Dr. and Mrs. W Seward Webb who have beer
entertaining a party of friends at their camp in
the Adirondacks. have returned to town.
Mr. and Mrs. John d. Rockefeller accompanied
by John d. Rockefeller, 1r.. Miss spelmau and Dr.
Biegar left town yesterday for the South and Will
return home by way OF Southern California.
Mrs. Frederic J. De Peyster gives a luncheon
PARTY next Monday for the Countess de Laugier
Vilars who sails for Europe Shrove Tuesday
Mr. and Mrs. oliver Hartman ir leave here this
week the South. where they will remain until
late in the spring.
That Lent is near at hand Is shown by the ac-
tvitv in the matter OF sewing classes. old ones
are being reorganized and ones formed That
which works for the New-York Infant Asylum Will
meet Mondays throughout Lent at Mrs. Fred
eric J. De Peysters house. In East Sixty-stxt