Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-14
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
AND VISITING NoTA-
BLES DINE AT WHITE HOUSE.
Dinners and Teas for Young and Old
Interesting Personal
Notes

The President and Mrs Roosevelt began
their official entertainments last night by
a dinner at which the cabinet was the hon.
ored body. The table, laid in the state din
ing room, was very tastefully decorated
with plaques of red roses, interspersed
with vases filed with white carnations
and candelabra in which the candles
burned under red and silver shades. Mrs.
Roosevelt wore yellow satin brocade and
point lace. The guests at dinner were the
Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks, the
Secretary of State and Mrs. Root, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury and Mrs. Shaw.
the Secretary of War and Mrs. Taft, the
Attorney General the Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Bonaparte the Secretary of
the Interior and Mrs Hitchcock, the Secre-
tary Of Agriculture, the Secretary of Com
merce and Labor an. Mrs. Metcalf, the
Secretary to the President and Mrs. Loeb,
Colonel and Mrs. Charles S. Bromwell the
Surgeon General of the Navy and Mrs.
Rixey, Senator Proctor, Senator Foster,
Mrs. P. c. Knox, Representative and Mrs
Dalzell. Representative Payne. Representa-
tive and Mrs. Sherman, Representative
William NJ. Howard, Mr.. Henry White, am
bassador to France; Governor and Mrs
Winthrop, Commander Robert f. Peary,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Morton Of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts, Miss
Moody, Miss Ide, Miss Shonts and Capt.
Harding. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Morton and
the governor of Porto Rico and Mrs. Win
throp stayed at the White House over
night
The only absentees from the cabinet cir
Gle were the Postmaster General and Mrs.
Cortelyou. who are in mourning.
A section of the Marine Band played dur
ing the dinner.
Miss Juliette williams gave a tea yester-
day when the guest of honor was Miss
Barry daughter of Gen. and Mrs. Barry
and, like the hostess a debutante of this
winter. Mrs Charles Lee and Miss Marjorie
Ide presided at the tea table supper
party followed.
Miss Polly Mason's tea yesterday for Miss
Helen Sylvester Of Philadelphia and Miss
Irene Shepard of New York brought to-
gether a merry company for the late after
noon hours. the receiving party also includ-
ing Misses Lucy and Josephine Mason, the
Misses Shepard, the Misses Downing, Miss
Lillian Stone, Miss Louise Ryan. Miss
Beatrice Ashmead, Miss Ruth Halford.
Miss Newlands Miss Clabaugh, Miss Libby
Rice and Miss Louise Fitzgerald, both of
Texas, and Miss Elise cambridge of Ken
lucky.
Mrs. Bulmer, wife Of Lieut.. R. C. Bull
mer, gave a debutante luncheon yesterday
for Miss Jessie Steele.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh will give
dinner next Tuesday for Miss Dorothy Kane
of New York and Miss Lillian Hurd of Den
yer, who are now their guests.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew gave a din
ner at his house last evening in honor Of
Speaker Cannon, when the other guests
were Representatives Alexander, Andrus,
Bradley, Bennett Calder, Cocks, Dunwell,
Driscoll, Dwight, Fassett, Foss, Grosvenor,
Hull, Law, Littauer, Mcmillan, Olcott, Jesse
Overstreet, Southwick, Vreeland and Waldo
and Secretary Bennett Of the Senate. =
Gen. George NJ. Sternberg gave dinner
last night in honor of Mr.. Crosby s. Noyes.
To meet him were present Senator Warren,
Senator Perkins, Commissioner Mcfarland,
Mr.. Thomas F. Walsh, Mr.. w. ]. Board
man, Col. Biddle. President Needham, Mr..
Theodore w. Noyes, Mr.. John Joy Edison
and Mr.. John Taylor Arms.
Mrs. William S. Cowles returned yester-
day to her home on N street, having spent
the fall at her place in Connecticut.
The Christmas sale and tea, recently held
for the Good Shepherd House, Melted
81 ,330.59.
Mrs Milton Hopfenmaier and child and
Miss Helen Hopfenmaier have gone to Ma
con. Ga, for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. William s. Knox will give a
tea December %. to Z when their daugh-
ter, Miss Georgia Knox. will make her
debut.