Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-01-19
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
THE COLONIAL BALL LAST NIGHT
AT THE ARLINGTON.
Beautiful Costumes on Pretty Wome1
Small Dances Last Night
Personal Notes.

The anniversary of the wedding day of
| George and Martha Washington was cele-
| brated by a colonial ball given by the d.
| A r. last night and held at the Arlington,
| The event has been talked of for months
and on the part of many Of the participants
| had required preparations for that period.
| Happily for those with ancestors and
cestresses and what was equally valuable
| to the purpose last night the possession OF
| family herlooms in the way of clothes and
| jewels, 1t was simply matter of repro
ducing family portraits and recalling the
| individuals who have lent charm and CLAM
OF and material for honest pride in family
| histories
In the grand march that opened the ball
! the district regent, Mrs Charlotte Emerson
| Main, in Martha Washington costume,
| made after White House picture. was es-
corted by Colonel de Hertbern Washington,
who is not only the exact height of the first
1 President, but is also his closest living rel
alive. He wore dark blue coat, yellow vest
and breaches, knee and shoe buckle, etc.,
| the costume most familiar in pictures of
George Washington.
| Mrs. Rosaie H. Bocock personated her
| Observation-Disclosures Sarah Harrison,
| wife of Lieut.. Col. Levin Powell who was
| major of the Minute Men and an intimate
| friend and fellow soldier of George WASH
| ington. Col. Powell was a member of the
| virginia convention OF lbs winch ratlneQ
| the Constitution of the United States; he
| was elected to the House of Representatives
| in IDS. The dress worn by Mrs Bocock
was cream color brocade, court train with
| paniers; pointed bodice, decollette, and a
| black chantilly lace shoulder cape. The
| necklace buckles of briliants and drop
| earrings worn by her nearly two hum
| bred years old
Miss An Magill Fauntleroy imperson-
| ated her great-grandmother. Katherine
| Brooke, granddaughter of Robert Brooke,
| member of Lord Baltimore's privy coun-
| Gil of the state. Miss Fauntleroy wore the
! dress of her grandmother which is 125
| years DID, and, although yellow with age
| is highly priced as an heirloom. Mrs. Emma
| Henry Young, Observation-Disclosures of
Patrick Henry, personated Dorothea
| Spottswood Henry, and wore some of her
| garment century old. Her daughter,
| Miss Marie Henry Young, personated Pat
rick Henry's second wife, Martha Dam
| bridge.
| Mrs Morgan D. Lewis as Anna Scudder
| wore a Moonlight on the Lake" brocade
| Mrs Mary s. Lockwood. one of the
founders of the d. A. r., wore trained
| gown of black velvet trimmed in white
| lace; Mrs. Sanders johnson, a gold-colored
| SATIN, made from portrait of her an
! cestor the Warehouses de Brechan; the
| Misses Euphemia and Octavia Graham,
| colonial gowns of light-colored satin; Mrs
| Ellen $. Cromwell, black satin costume
| reproduced from that of her great-garnd-
| mother, Emily Heiskell Lauck whose hus-
| DdHu was Rllleu IN scaling the walls of
| Quebec: Miss N. J.. White, white embro;d-
| cred lace over pink satin with antique or
| naments: Mrs G. w. Strongman blue en-
| broidered mousselne de sole over Detticoat
| OF blue satin; Mrs. James X. Eppley, SIM
| liar gown IN pink both being models of
| 11l6: Miss Minnie Mickey, q delicate-color-
| ed brocade gown, after model owned
by her grandmother, Barbara Michelet
| Wfe or a French refugee, Jean jacques
| Michelet.
| Mrs: Newport Potts. a brocade trimmed
| in point lace. Mr.. Potts inpersonated his
| ancestor, Admiral Sir CHRISTOPHER Potts.
| who commanded ship coming to America
| in 1905 Mrs. George Marsh wore a colonial
| gown of deep red velvet. and DR. Adeline
| Portman, gray satin house dress belong
| ing to an ancestor of revolutionary DAYS
| Mrs. Thomas johnson wore a costume of
| striped pink and white satin made after a
| portrait of her grandmother, Pleasentine
dorsey OF Annapolis. Mrs Henry Mclean,
| gray satin brocade; Miss Virginia Miller
| black velvet; Miss AIne Solomon court
| costume of the eighteenth century; Miss
Irma Piexotto, court costume
Others present Were Mrs Scott black
satin; Mrs. Hobart Brooks pink silk and
| white lace; Miss Lillian Lockwood pink
Drocade silk with bertha of white lace:
| Miss Janet Richards gray silk Miss Red
dlng, black net, and Mrs. L. r. Messen-
/, ger, black satin.
Gen. Greedy as president of the Sons OF
| the American Revolution; Mrs Daniel
| Manning, former president of the d A n
and Miss Mary Desha, one of the founders
| OF the ID. A. r., were notable figures in the
I ball ROOM The floor committeeman were
| members of the Sons of the Revolution.
| Society of Colonial Wars, Society of 1872
| and Society of the Mayflower.
| MRS Z. D. Merwin, chairman of the enter
| tainment committee, directed the arrange
| ment of the procession. in which the Minute
| Men in the becoming dress of buff and blue
| took part. under the command of Lieuten-
| ant Colonel e. r. Campbell Major Myers
| Captain B. B. Smith, Captains Brown,
| Wheeler, Fletcher, Goodrich. Mulvery and
| Robins. The ball room was handsomely
| decorated, and a buffet supper made a
pleasant break in the evenings program.
| Capt Leavitt C. Logan, L. S. N. and Mrs
| Logan gave pretty dance last night at
| Rauscher's for the friends of their daugh-
! ters the Misses Logan, the younger of
| whom Is n debutanta this winter Roth hon