Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-04
THE SOc|AE WORLD
Counting the Days and Nights
Before Lent.
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SOME RECENT EVENTS
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SOCIABILITIES OF THE PRESENT
WEEK AND OF THE FUTURE.
Mrs. Townsend's Cotillion Last Night
The Rutherford Tea
Notes.

| The season has thirty days and nights
| more to it's credit, beginning tomorrow,
| which as far as breakfasts, luncheons and
| dinners of a formal character are concern
| ed and drop-in teas, is pretty nearly as
| active as any day of the seven. So far the
| winter is considered up to the average OF
| recent years, nothing at all sensational hay-
| ing occurred nor is contemplated, evident
I ly involving large expenditure. The pri-
| vate balls of the winter have thus far been
| few, making the events at the homes of
| Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Mclean Mr.. and
| Mrs. Calf and Mrs. Townsend all the more
| distinctive. There will other house balls
| though, before the month wanes The
White House mas had it's usual large share
| in the hospitality, although the number OF
| those entertained at the state dinners is
| not as large as met about the state dining
| room table last winter, for instance. There
| has been one large reception, the diplo-
| matte levee, and one of much more comfort
| able proportions, the judicial last Thurs
| day night, when the majority of the guests
! were strangers to the scene. There are two
more of these Thursday events on the CAL
| the army and navy, February Is. The
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will give a
| small dinner Saturday next.
Int will begin this year on the Sth of
IudiCu, anu Easter sunday Will he on
April %. writer with turn for Stats
| tics says that only nine times in the last
two centuries and a quarter has Easter
day come as late. If 1t comes fine, 1t will
be glorious season for feminine finery
and more suitable spring program is as
sured. 'N
The inauguration ball will give the win
ter gayeties national finish There 10 ono
| more bachelor cotillion February % vet to
be danced and sixty-couple cotiIIion for
which February "a has been selected.
The Mardi Gras bride and groom will be
Miss Anita Poor and Lieutenant Bulmer,
and the festivities to surround the wedding
breakfast at Rauscher's will give the hap
piest sort of goodbye to gallant young
officer and his lovely young wife before
they start on their bridal trip.
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be
guests of the Postmaster General and Mrs
Wynne at dinner next Tuesday night, the
convalescence of the latter from her recent
severe illness having continued so evenly
the past few days that her presence at
table is confidently assured. The President
and his wife on the succeeding Tuesdays of
this month will dine with Secretary and
Mrs. Morton, Secretary and Mrs. Hitch
cock, Secretary Wilson and Secretary and
Mrs. Metcalf.
Mrs. Townsend's cotillion last night was
what might be expected of hostess whose
entertainments have always been SO dis
tinctive and especially now that her home
has lost the newness that characterized it
during her first parties there. Her love of
Beauty roses, white lilacs and orchids ev-
erywhere and special adornment for each
OF the supper tables, the guests who num-
Dered nearly four hundred, supping together
In quartets, Major McCawley led the cotil-
lion, dancing with Miss Townsend, and Mr..
]. Van Ness Philip danced with Miss Thora
Strong of Pittsburg, a niece of the hostess.
The favors were especially pretty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald de Koven gave
dinner last night for Miss Roosevelt, the
other guests being Mrs. Benedict, Miss
May, Miss Josephine Boardman, Miss Hag-
ner, Miss de Koven. Lieutenant Fostesque
Mr.: Goelet of New York; Mr.. and Mrs
Gill1att, house guests; Mr.. Rhodes, Vicomte
de Chambrun and Representative Long
worth.
Representative and Mrs. Dalzell gave
dinner last night in honor of the Speaker
OF the House and Miss Helen Cannon. The
othef guests were Senator and Mrs. Fair
banks. General and Mrs. William F. ORA
per, General and Mrs. Fitzhugh of Pitts
burg Senator and Mrs Burrows. Senator
Mrs. Stanley Matthews, Attorney General
MOODY. Mrs Loose of Chicago, Mr.. Ohm
sted Miss Hartzell Of Cleveland, house
guest or Mrs Dalzell Mr.. and Mrs. Dali
sentative, and Miss Mccoy. The table was
decorated with meteor roses and white
Hlacs.
night, when her guests We're the Russian
ambassador, the Secretary Of the Interior
ana Mrs Hitchcock, Justice and Mrs Peck
nam. Senator Beverage, Mr.. and Mrs.
1elrce, Mr.: and Mrs. Merriam and Mrs.
sheridan. Mrs. Audenried will give a lun-
cheon next Friday in honor of Mrs. George
Draper, and dinner on February 16 in
honor OF the former Attorney General and
Mrs. Griggs.
Mr. and Mrs. John w. Foster gave
large dinner last night in honor of the
twenty covers were laid.
Col. Francis Cotton and the Misses Cotton
Colonel and Mrs Bromwell, Mrs John T.
Davis Miss McKenna Miss Foraker, Mr..
and Mrs; Oliver Cromwell, Miss Calf. Mr..
Evans, Mr. Wyeth, Mr.. Dennison and
at dinner last evening. Colonel Cotton is
expecting visit from his son, Col. George
X. Cotton. who has had an official position
garded by both natives and foreigners, and
where many fattering attentions were
SHOWN him previous to his departure for
this country.
MISS Gale gave a dinner last night in
nonor OF General and Mrs. Chaffee. when
the other guests We're DR.. and Mrs. Loring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Colonel and Mrs.
Sharpe, Commander and Mrs Mulligan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chopper and Robert Adams,
jr.
Apropos of the pleasant events of the near
future, Miss Margaret Edes will give a
oeputante tea Monday next in honor OF
MISS Pauline Morton and Miss Katharine
Elklns, to which she has asked only the
young people of her acquaintance.
Mrs. Howard Reside. 1929 10th street, |
has tea cards out for Saturday February |
IL, to 7.
Major and Mrs. Richard Sylvester have |
cards out for an evening reception, to IL. |
February 10. the date being the twentieth |
anniversary of their wedding
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby Flower Smith have
sent out invitations for dinner Tuesday |
evening, February IA, at their residence, |
719 Park avenue, Baltimore, to meet Mrs.
Armistead Peter of Washington, d. c.
Mrs. William r. Hodges win be at home /
Thursday, February %, at the Cumberland.
Mrs. Clayton E. Emig has as her guest |
MISS Sara Detweiler, and will be at home |
Monday February 10, from to g.
Mrs Rutherford, wife of Captain Robert
u. rutherford, gave delightful reception
from to yesterday, when she introduced
her young daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert |
G. Rutherford, jr., wife of Lieutenant |
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