Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-07
! THE SOCIAL WORLD
The Charity BAD Will Start
tho Week.
OTHER GREAT EVENTS
A DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION AND A
BACHELORS GERMAN.
Dinners, Weddings and Other Assem-
blies Past and Future-Per-
sonal Notes.


Miss Cannon and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Calf. Other Inequalities for which cards
have been sent are the first of Mrs. Chat
fees at homes next Tuesday. the second of
Mrs. Frank Ellis Wednesday, Mrs. B. H.
Warner Thursday, and the second Friday
for Mrs. and the Misses Sheridan.
The diplomatic reception will be held next
Thursday evening, the invitations having
gone out from the White House during the
present week. The Bachelors cotillon, the
first of the series, is the big event of We'd
nesday next.
Three interesting weddings are also on
next weeks program. That of Miss Rose
Douglas Wallach and Paymaster John Han
cock Merriam, U. s. NJ Wednesday next,
owing to the family mourning, will be
very quiet event. Miss Helen Tally.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Tally,
will be married to Capt. Daniel J. Carr,
U. S. A, Wednesday night, at the Shrine of
the Sacred Heart. Thursday noon Miss
katherine Thomas Wood and Capt. Robert
Henry Dunlap will be married at st. Johns.
Secretary Loeb announced today that
the number already invited to the White
House reception to be held on the 18th in
slant had attained such proportions that it
had become necessary to close the lists,
and no more invitations could be issued.
Mrs. Dewey will be at home next Monday
Miss Pauline Morton. daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy, gave a luncheon
today.
Miss Elkins will entertain at dinner
Wednesday night in honor of Miss Woods
and the bridal party to attend her at her
wedding with Captain Dunlap on Thursday.
Senator and Mrs. Dryden will give dinners
January 10 and 1S:-
The cabinet tea table seems to have van
ished shut probably more than one of last
Wednesdays hostesses felt sorry they did
not feel free to offer some sort of holiday
cheer when hundreds of callers were max
ing the rounds and the afternoon was cold
and gloomy-and just suited for the re-
viving influences of tea--ef punch. But the
agreement was reached the last time the
subject was talked ovef and it is a little
early in the year for resolutions of this
sort to be broken. The. cabinet women are
the most active in societys ranks and most
of them have already series of dinners
planned for their own homes and the new
eI corners have to resort to considerable
planning to get in convenient dates to &C
cept what is being offered. to them. The
New Year receptions with people, flow
ers lights, refreshments, etc, were excep-
tionalIy interesting inGevefy way, and the
matrons and maids, invited%to the various
houses to assist, took part in what must
be considered as memorable events. Per-
ried away with them that sent the women
around so gaylyl Wednesday.
Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Chaffee will give
dinners January II, is, February 1 and 8.
Secretary and Mrs. Hay begin the cabi-
net dinners in honor of the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt Tuesrday next, the other
members Of the cabinet. following in turn
the successive Tuesdays of the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gafr will give a dinner jan
uary A. and dance on the 18th.
Senator and Mrs EIkins have dinner in
vitations out for the 18th and 23d.
Admiral of the Navy and Mrs. Dewey
will give dinners January p and %.
The Speaker and Miss Cannon, the Rus
sian ambassador and Countess Cassin and
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell will give din
ners tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid of New
York will be the guests over Sunday of
Mrs. w. S. Cowles, who will give a lunch
con for them tomorrow, and has asked in
other friends to meet them after O'Clock.
Mr. and Mrs Louis Streuber of Erie. Pa.
announce the engagement of their daugh-
ter, Florence M. Streuber, to Captain Henry
Darlington Davis, United States Marines.
NO date has yet been set for the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. George Denegre, who are
back at the New Orleans plantation gave
dinner last Tuesday for Archbishop Cha
relle.
Miss Catherine Eddy of New York spent
last week here as the guest of Mrs. Slater.
Mrs. Hobson had Miss Grace Bigelow of
New York with her over New Year.
Miss Cassidy of East Orange N j., is the
Shaw visited Ia ST
fall.
The holiday visit of Mrs. T. Dewitt Tai
mage and her daughter, Miss Collier, to
Pittsburg was the occasion of number of
handsome entertainments. A large dinner
was given by Mr.. and Mrs. James R. Mel
lon for them, when Mr.. and Mrs. Westing
house were in the party present. Mrs.
Thomas Grant McCutcheon was another
hostess with whom they stayed and whose
TRENDS were asked to large tea to meet
them.
DR.. and Mrs. Edwin A,aAlderman of the
University of Virginia, who were here
recently visiting Col and Mrsg Bromwell.
spent the Christmas holidays in New Or
leans and were continuously entertained.
New Orleans is Mrs. Alderman's former
nome, and her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hearn,.
gave large reception, followed by din
ner, IN her and her husbands honor. They
VIII visit the Bromwells agai1l this month,
when Mrs. Cromwell will givesat tea
Mrs. John Davies Jones' frieIihs have re-
ceived the announcement catsls of her
daughter Martina's marriage to the Mar
quis Giussepe LAMA d'Ajeta, December 8,
iSo4. They are very foreign and interest
ing, engraved on full sized letter sheets of
parchment bearing the svater mark Of the
swan and trefoil of Florence. On the sec
ond page the Marquis Conrado LAMA
q A1eta, father of the bridegroom, makes
similar announcement for his son. The
newly married couple will live In Florence.
A wedding celebrated lately in Chicago
was that OF Frank w. DeWolf Of this city
ana Miss Fanny Davis of Windsor Park
III. Mrs. Frank Lewis served the bride, her
sister. as matron of honor and Miss Mabel
Norris OF Woodlawn was maid of honor
The bridesmaids were Miss Glare DeWolf
ana MISS Lillian Haskell, and the brides
little nephew, Master Franklin Davis, serv-
ed as ring bearer. The groom was attend
ed by David A. Morris of New York city.
me ceremony was performed by DR.. Joseph
A; vance of the Hyde Park Presbyterian
Gnurch, and was followed by a reception.
city.
MISS Hester Laughlin, whose engagement
70 carlo Pfister, lieutenant of the royal
Italian navy and attached to the italian
embassy, has recently been announced. -