The Washington herald., 1906-12-30

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HE return Of the President and
Mrs Roosevelt from their Vir-
ginia retreat tomorrow in time
for the opening of the official
season on New Years morning. will be
very short season.
The state dinners and receptions will be
given on alternate Thursdays through
January. beginning with the diplomatic
reception of next Thursday evening.
Should the President and Mrs. Roosevelt
follow the rule observed with the Cabi-
net dinner Of December 19. the companies
in honor of the chiefs Of the diplomatic
corps and the justices Of the Supreme
Court will be smaller than in former
years, with few additional guests from
general society.
In the reception of Tuesday morning.
when all the official world will pay its
respects to the President and Mrs. Roose-
welt, there viii be many changes in the
receiving line, with at least three Of the
Cabinet portfolios without any feminine
representation. Mrs. Cortelyou. Mrs.
Hitchcock. and Miss Wilson will be the
absentees.
Mrs. BOnaparte viii stand next 20 Mrs.
Taft during the coming season, with Mrs.
Metcalf. who has closed the line through
out her husbands Cabinet service, ad-
vanced to the sixth place in the ranks.
The only new member Of the receiving
party will be Mrs Straus. wife Of the
new Secretary of Commerce and Labor,
who succeeds to Mrs. Metculf's former
place.
The President and Mrs Roosevelt will,
as usual, have a large house party for
New Years Day, who with the daugh-
tiers and guests of the Vice President and
Cabinet families. will share the honors
Of the Blue Room. There will also be the
usual number Of ladies. wives or daugh-
tiers OF prominent officials. invited to the
these specially invited guests and the
ladies of the diplomatic circle, who in
variably accompany their husbands. the
attendance Of women at the White House
is almost as unusual as at the Cabinet re-
ceptions later in the day.
In addition to the state dinners and re-
ceptions, the dates of which have been
published some time. Mrs. Roosevelt will
give d series Of Friday evening musicaIes
during January, the invitations for that
OF January being already out. The mU-
sicale viii be preceded by a dinner COM
pany of thirty covers.
The afternoon receptions on New Years
Day will. of course, be for the men
friends OF acquaintance only OF the nu-
merous hosts Those receiving will be the
Vice President and Mrs Fairbanks. the
Secretary Of the Treasury and Mrs Shaw.
the Secretary OF War and Mrs Taft, the
Attorney General and Mrs. Bonaparte,
the Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs Met
calf. the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor and Mrs. StTaus All Of these will
be assisted by large companies OF friends.
representing the resident, as we'll as the
official life of Washington. Mrs. Fair
banks and ner daughter, Mrs Timmons,
will have with them Mrs Hale Mrs
Lodge, Mrs. Elkins Mrs. CullOm, Mrs.
Foraker. Mrs. Burrows. Mrs. AlgeT. Mrs.
Martin. and Mrs. Nelson. all Of the Sena-
tOTial circle, all the ladies Of the Indiana
Congressional delegation, who are in
Washington, Mrs. Francis King Vain
wright, of Philadelphia; Mrs Warren
Fairbanks, Mrs Frederick Fairbanks,
Miss Foraker, Miss Elkins, Miss Evelyn
Walsh, Miss Foulke, Miss Wade.
Mrs. Root will not hold a reception, but
viii entertain the members of the diplo-
matte corps at breakfast at noon. This
annual function of the Secretary Of State,
unlike the diplomatic dinner at the White
House, is not merely for the ENJOYS and
their wives, but includes the entire diplO-
matte contingent. from the dean of the
corps TO the newly arrived attache of the
smallest legations.
Mrs. Shaw and the Misses Shaw will be
assisted by Mrs J. II. Edward and Mrs.
Charles H. Keep, Mrs Thomas W.
SymOns. Mrs. Schriner. Mrs. Stratton,
Mrs. James P. Conner. Miss Calderon,
Miss Pansy Perkins, Miss Perie Ander-
son, Miss Irene Moore Miss Ryan, Miss
Hatfield Miss Ridgely. Miss Fleming. Miss
Edgarina Hastings, Miss Showalter, the
Misses Abbott, and the Misses Conrad.
Mrs. Taft, wife Of the Secretary of War.
will have with her Mrs. Oliver, wife OF
the Assistant Secretary; Mrs. Thomas II.
Barry. Mrs. Charles F. Humphrey, Mrs.
Alexander g. Sharpe, Mrs. Charles s.
BromweIL Mrs. Arthur Murray, Miss
BOaTdman. Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. Laugh
lin. Of PittsbuTg, Pa. Miss Heron. of
Cincinnati; Miss Symons Miss Morgan,
the Misses Oliver.
With Mrs Bonaparte will be Mrs. Al
ford W. Cooley. Mrs Winton Warren, Of
Boston; Mrs. Charles ". Rae. Mrs. H.
A. Grant Watson. Mrs. ellison Fahne-
stock. Mrs. Postlethwaite, Mrs. Chatard,
Mrs Nathaniel Francis Miss Harlan,
Miss Hester Shepard, Miss Clabaugh, and
Miss Doris Stewart, Of Baltimore.
Mrs. Metcalf's assistants will include
Mrs Newberry wife of the Assistant
Secretary; Mrs. William 6. Cowles, Mrs.
Morgan G. Buckley, Mrs. +. p. Flint,
Mrs. John W. Dwight, Mrs. James r.
Garfield. Mrs. &. II. Slater, Miss Gwynn,
Miss Williams. Mrs. Richardson Glover,
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