Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-24
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
SECRETARY AND MRS. TAFT WILL
ENTERTAIN AT DINNER.
Inequalities at Other Well-Known
Washington Homes-Personal
Notes.

Tonight the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
will dine with the Secretary Of War and
Mrs. Taft.
General and Mrs. Gillespie geve a dinner
last evening in honor of the Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. Shaw. The others
present were Senator and Mrs. Alger, SEN
ator and Mrs. Dryden Mr.. and Mrs. Gan,
Admiral and Mrs. MCGOWAN, Mr. and Mrs.
Reginald de Koven and Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
Bradley of New York
The italian ambassador and Baroness
Mayor des Planches had as dinner guests
last night the French ambassador and Mme
Jusserand, Senator and Mrs Depew, Mr.
and Mrs. Boardman, Mr.. and Mrs. Merriam,
Miss and Mr.. Parsons, Miss Gwynne, Prince
de Bearn of the French embassy, Baron
Giskra of the Austrian embassy and Mr..
LIE Teller of the Belgian legation. A num-
Der of others came in later to reception.
Mrs. Robert I. Fleming will receive to-
morrow for the last time this season.
Senator and Mrs Elkins gave an elegant
dinner last night in honor of Gen. and Mrs.
Frederick Dent Grant, and in the company
to meet them there were present the Secre-
tary of War and Mrs. Taft, the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Morton, Senator
Kittredge, Miss Foraker and Lieut.. U. s.
Grant.
The concert and tea yesterday at the New
Willard in aid of the House of Mercy was
a splendid success, the afternoon by gen.
eral consent having been kept free from all
other engagements. Mrs. Kitty Cheatham-
Thompson and Mr.. Lucien H. Coenen gave
the musicale, and the large audience gath
cred later about the tea tables, where Mrs.
Gordon Cummings, Mrs. Mulligan, Mrs.
Sargent and Mrs George Lothrop Bradley
did the honors Miss Boardman was in
charge of a cake table which did a thriv-
ing business She was assisted by Mrs.
George Howard, and the cakes unsold were
auctioned before the people separated, Mr..
Herbert WadswOrth acting as auctioneer.
Mrs Howard Reside gave a pretty
luncheon yesterday at her home on 18th
street, entertaining Mrs. Brown, Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Gillett, Mrs. jenkins. Mrs.
Roberts. Mrs. Littlefeld, Mrs. Conner, Mrs.
Bankhead and Miss Wilson, and afterward
taking the party to the matinee.
Mrs. Emma s. Shelton of Louisa coun-
ty. Va, announces the approaching mar
riage of her daugter, Miss Juliet Cecilia
mony is to take place at the home Of the
brides mother at Shelton's Mill, Louisa
county, Va, on the evening Of Tuesday,
February T.
Mrs. Charles N. Fowler. who is at the
Shoreham for the winter, will not be at
home tomorrow.
The Misses Forrest, 1899 N street, with
Mrs. James c. MacSherry, will be at home
informally tomorrow.
On account of her recent illness, from
which she is slowly recovering, Mrs. Rob-
ert N. Harper of 1917 18th street will not
observe any formal reception days this
COG h11f yxi1 no oil fn hor fri
informally at any time.
Mrs. Stanley Matthews gave dinner last
evening to Bishop and Mrs. Mackay- Smith
Mrs. Max Weyl will not be at home We'd
nesday, but will receive the following Wed
nesdays during the season.
Mrs. NJ E. Morgan announces the en-
gagement of Ter daughter, Mary. to Mr..
John LaWton Norwood of Baltimore. The
wedding is set for after Easter.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. orc. Callaghan have had
Father E. ]. Brennan. chaplain u. 8. N.
while en- route from Pensacola for his
home, New Haven, Conn He has been at
SCI for three years on the historic Hart
ford, and has just been detached from her
and placed on waiting orders.
Invitations have been issued by Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Law for a reception in honor OF
the twenty-fifth anniversary of their mar
risge The reception will take place Satur-
day evening, February 4, at their residence,
1927 14th street. from to II o'clock.
Mrs. Odell s. Smith and Mrs. Hurley will
not receive tomorrow. but will be at home
Wednesdays, February 1 and 8.
Mrs Fred G. Aulsbrook, nee Cassie May
knight, formerly of Washington, but now
of Omaha, Neb, where her husband is con-
nected with the Omaha Times, is visiting
her parents at their apartments in the
Stoddert Goth and Q streets.
Mrs Albert T. Freeman of Philadelphia
will be at home tomorrow informally with
her sister, Mrs. Harry T. Harding, at 275O
14th street, from 4 to 6. Mrs. Freeman
this city.
Mrs. w. R. Reynolds. who is at the Dewey
Hotel, will not receive Friday this week.
Miss Virginia Underwood of New York,
who is the guest of Mrs. Converse, 1744 NJ
street, will remain with her two or three
weeks
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kern have issued
invitations announcing the marriage of
their daughter, Lena, to Mr.. Oscar G. Vogt
on Wednesday evening January %, at
o'clock at Concordia Lutheran Church,
corner of Goth and streets northwest.
Mrs. w. G. Ellinger will be matron of
honor and Mr.. Harry Kern will be best
man. The ushers will be Messrs. John
Rooms, William Kern, Alvin o. Portner,
William Volkman, John Dunn and Leo J.
Vogt.
Owing to a recent death in the family
Mrs. Marion Wilson Crenshaw and Miss
Lee. 141O massachusetts, avenue, will not
be at home, formally, during the season. ,
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