Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
THE SOCIAL WORLD
Next Weeks Program Full
Of Interest.
NEW YEAR EV ENTS
OFFICIAL HOMES THAT WILL BE
OPEN TO CALLERS.
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The White House Children's Party
Today - Personal
Notes.
NEW YEAR EV EN- rs

| last days of this. Miss Rosita Calderon's
coming-out tea at the Peruvian legation
| is happily anticipated event. The Junior
| cotillion will be danced at Rauscher's in
| the evening, with Mrs Robert Fitch Shep-
ard. Mrs. Seaton Schroeder. Mrs. Bateman.
Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins and Mrs.
| Frank Lee Denny as ehaperons The COM
mittee in charge is composed Of Miss Alice
B. Shepard, Miss Cassie Schroeder, Miss
Bella Bateman, Miss Alexandrine Fitch and
Miss Eleanor Hoyt-a group of next years
| debutantes The Tuesday program includes
| such important affairs as the dinner for
| the President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the
| home of the Secretary of State, and the
| beautiful coullion to be given by Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas F. Walsh, supplementing their
dinner dance of tonight. Mr.. and Mrs.
Leupp will also give a dance Tuesday night
| at the Washington Club in honor of their
| debutante daughters. Miss Peters will give
| o'clock tea the same date. Wednesday
| next Mrs. Lester A. Barr and Miss Ida May
| Barr will give tea, and in the evening
| Mr.. and Mrs John r. Mclean will give
| a dinner dance for their guest, Miss Wal
| colt of Boston.
| The President and Mrs. Roosevelt had
| few personal friends with them at dinner
and Mrs Lodge, Mr.. and Mrs. George c.
Lodge, Mrs. John Lodge. Capt and Mrs.
Cowles, Mr.. and Mrs Brooks Adams, Mrs.
\ Charles Henry Davis, Miss Davis, the
| Masters Davis, Lieut.. Granville r. Fortes-
que and Mr.. r. H. NJ. Ferguson of New
| York.
| The children's party at the White House
| today will be attended by four hundred
youngsters at least, and the list includes
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| of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps, sena-
torial and congressional homes. and other
| official households, well as acquaintance
| of the small Roosevelts in resident circles
| The grandchildren in the Hay family are
| too small to participate in this or any
! other state function. Among the assistant
| secretaries Of state, however, there are
goodly number Of stable age. The Cortel-
| You boys and their sisters, Grace and Helen,
carry off the honors in this particular re-
gard, there being no other first editions"
| so to speak, in cabinet households, except
| Phil Knox, who is with the Attorney Cen
eral and family at their Pennsylvania farm.
The young daughters of the first assist
| ant postmaster general and Mrs. r. ].
| Wynne, Ida and Ruth, will be present.
| Speaker Cannon's granddaughter, Virginia
LIE Seure, will also attend her first White
| House party.
In the diplomatic circle the little daughter
of the Austrian ambassador has the dis
| tinction of being the only guest from an
embassy household, but the families of the
! ministers and of several of the secretaries
abound in the Juvenile element
Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and their children have entered into the
spirit of the gathering with unusual en-
| thusiasm, and all previous affairs Of the
| kind will seem Insignificant when this
| afternoons entertainment becomes history.
Mrs Burrell, the daughter of DR.. John
| A. Swope and the sister Of Mrs. Clabaugh,
wife of Chief Justice Clabaugh of this city.
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spending several years abroad educating
her children. She will introduce her daugh-
ter, Miss Burrell, at a tea given at her
home on street Thursday next.
The old year will be danced out at Sem
ator Kean's and Col. FIemings, the first
party being for the young relatives of the
Roosevelt and Kean families. who will be
here for the official gayeties of the new
year, and the latter is for the associates
of Miss India Bell Fleming, the schoolgirl
daughter of Col. and Mrs r. I. Fleming.
The Secretary of State and Mrs Hay will
entertain the diplomatic corps at breakfast
New Year, at IL o'clock, but no public
| reception will be held at their home. Mrs.
Shaw will not receive either that day. ow-
ing to the mourning retirement of the fam
lily. zv
Mrs Root, Mrs. Knox. Mrs. Payne, Mrs.
Hitchcock, Miss Wilson. Mrs. Cortelyou,
Miss Cannon and Mrs. Dewey will hold re-
ceEt1OnS en- New Year.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, who are
giving dinner dance tonight for their
young daughter, Miss Evelyn Walsh, have
! two of her friends with them for the holi-
days. Miss Dorothy Morgan of New Haven
and Miss Fanny Brewer of New York.
Other dances tonight will be given by Mrs.
Scoville. at Rauscher's. and by Mr.. Scott
at his Connecticut avenue residence Mrs.
William Healy Dali will present her daugh-
ter, Miss Marion Dali. at a tea today.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Morton Grinnell
have taken the house 1920 street for the
winter.
Mrs. VIII Hofheimer Of Baltimore Ia visit
ing Mrs. r. Berliner at 1717 p street and
will be pleased to see her friends.
The second dance of the season Of the
| Georgetown Junior Assembly will take
place at the Linthicum Institute Tuesday
evening, December 20. The chaperons will
be Mrs. William Conard, Mrs. Du Bose,
Mrs. H. Cragin, Mrs. Downs Wilson, Mrs
William B. Orme, Mrs. Mac Alloy.
Mrs. Lester A. Barr has cards out for
dance for Thursday, December 81, for her
debutante daughter, Miss Ida May Barr,
whose coming-out tea takes place next
| Wednesday at the family residence, 2117
California avenue.
A very pleasant event took place last
evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. An