New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-24
About People and |ociaI Incidents.
NETWORK SOCIETY.

Mrs John f. Cowdin's dance at her house In
Gramercy Park. for Miss Ethel Cowdn; Mrs VIII
lam P Prentice's theatre party and supper FOR her
niece Miss Martha Prentice Strong. and the dance
of the organization known the Saturday Evening
Dancing Glass at Denonico's, among the few
entertainments scheduled for to-day in town. For
it ia Christmas Eve. which is always rather quiet
in a social sense. the entertainments being. az q
general rule. restricted to kith and kin. Be
sides this. large number OF people are in the
country. where many gay house parties in
progress. Tuxedo. in particular. being scene %
much Christmas reveIry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones have left town fof
their plantation in South Carolina where they are
entertaining large house party over the Christ
mas holidays.
number OF people went 10 Morristown yester-
day to attend the dance given last night b. Mrs
John ]. WATERBURY the Whippany River CoUn-
try Club for her daughter Miss Gladys Water
bury. with whom Stowe Phelps led the cotillon.
dance for young people not VET out took pace
last night in the Ladies' Annex Of the Metropolitan
Club, under the patronage OF Mrs. c. p. A1exande-
Mrs. Benjamin WeIes, Mrs. Charles H. Coster and
Mrs. Richard Mortimer. Schuyler Schieffeln ed
the cotillon dancing alone. after which supper
was served al small tables.
Mrs. Arthur Mason Jones gave Iafse tHestrs
party last night for her daughter, Miss lydia
Mason Jones, who is one of the debutautes of tile
season. and after the performance took her guests
home TO supper at her house, in Fifth-ave- Amon-
those present Miss Janet Fish Miss Marian
Fish, Miss Corinne Robinson. Miss Pauline Rt-s-
Miss Grace Chaplin Miss Dorothy Kane sIiss Natt-
lie Wells Miss Georgette Borland. Miss Janet
Dana, Miss Dorothy Snow Miss Alice HaseH LOWS
c. Ledyard. jr.. Frederic De Rham. John Water-
bury. William Iselin, Gordon Douglas Roger Poor
Aymar Johnson and Albert Gray.
Earlier in the day Mrs. Howard Mansfield gave
a large luncheon at the St Regis for her daughter
Miss Margaret Tuttle. who has been launched into
society this winter. The luncheon was followed
by an entertainment which took place in the ball
room. Among those present were Miss DOROTHY
GrinneIl Miss Janet Dana. Miss Julia Dodge Miss
Ruth Hubbel Miss Lydia Mason Jones. Miss
Georgette Borland, Miss Louise Kobe Miss Sea
trtce Morgan. Miss Edith Tandon. Miss blanche
Shoemaker. Miss Malvfna Hoffman Lyman Dcano
Frederic de Rham. John Sloane. jr. stephen Ian
don. Whitney Kernochan and Stewart Witherhee.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson has cards out T0r a small
dinner on January in honor OF Henry James and
X. VI. Ferguson.
a large house party to-day at their country place
Roslyn. for the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Norman whitehouse has left town FOR The
Another departure for the South IS that ~ James
H Hyde who is of the house party which Efr
and Mrs. George Vanderbilt entertaining az
Biltmore for the Christmas holidays
Mr. and Mrs. Berkeley Mostyu have taken Mrs
Hugh Thompson's house. No. "a East Ffsty-thrd-sr
for the season and will take possession ipmedia5a'v
after the holidays. Miss Helen Stevens. the daueh-
Of Mrs Mostyn. has now recovered from rsv
attack OF appendicitis.
Mr. and Mrs c. Oliver Izelin and their little hov
have left town for Providence TO spend Christmas
with Mrs. Iselins parents. Colonel and Mr. Will
lam Goddard. They Will be joined at Providence
day by the Misses Iselin-
Mrs. Frederick Nelson has also left town 70
spend the holidays with Mr. and Mrs REGINALD G.
Vanderbilt at their place. near Newport.
town week 10 stay with Dr. and Mrs ".
Seward Webb al shelburne Farms their place in
Vermont.
Faust was given last night at the opera. with
Nine. Games in the role OF Marguerite Among
those present were Mrs Orne Wilson. Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence VI. Hyde. Mr.. and Mrs z. Francis
Hyde. Mr.. and Mrs Rutherfurd Stuyvesant. Mrs
Stuyvesant Fish Mrs. Astor. Mr. and Mrs Breese.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest II Crosby. Mr.. and Mrs.
William B. Leeds. Mr.. and Mrs. H A .. Taylor.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Townsend Burden. Miss Gwendoyu
Burden. Mr.. and Mrs. W D. Sloane. Mr. and Mrs
Clarence Mackay. Mrs. George L. Rtves Mr.. and
Mrs. James A. Stillman. Mrs. Egerton Winthrop
Miss Mary Winthrop. Mrs. Frederic Pearson. Cen
eral and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, ID. O Mills
and Colonel John Jacob Aston