Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-25
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR MEETS
NoTABLEs AT WHITE HOUSE.
A Picnic Tea Party at Pierce's Mill
Other Events-Per-
sona1 Notes.

| Inc PRESIDENT and MIS-. Roosevelt enter
| tanned at dinner last night, when their
| guests were: The Japanese ambassador.
the Secretary Of State and Mrs. Root,
Senator Hale. Senator and Mrs. Lodge.
| Senator and Mrs. Foraker, Senator and
Mrs Long, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Evans.
| Rear Admiral and Mrs. Brownson. Brig.
| Gen. Thomas H Barry, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Charles c. Glover, Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold
| Hague. Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Richardson.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Henry E. Pellew, Mrs. Long
! worth, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Miss
| Carew. Miss Hattie Swan and Major
Charles L. McCawiey. The table decora-
tons were Of pink and white peonies.
| Baron Francis Riedl Won Riedenan, whose
| coming marriage with Miss Magee Of Pitts
| burg was here a few days lately with his
| cousin. Baron Hye. The Austrian ambas-
| sador will attend the wedding and several
| members of the embassy staff will be
ushers. Miss Mabel Hume will be among
| the bridesmaids. The wedding VIII take
| place June 6.
| Senator Clark of Montana was the host
| Wednesday evening at the third. in a series
| Of senatorial dinners, at his residence on
Massachusetts avenue.
| Those who enjoyed Senator Clarkj's hospi-
| tality were: Secretary Shaw, Secretary
Wilson. Senators Brandegee. Dolliver, Full
| ton. Gearin. Long, Proctor. Smoot, Warner,
| Clay, Lodge, Sutherland. Wetmore. Repre-
| sentative Towne of New York Commits
! sioner H. l.. West Director c. D. Walcott
| of the United States geological survey, and
| Messrs II. c. Wallace, c. c. Glover and
! James A. Mcdonald.
The afternoon picnic tea at Pierces Mill,
which began yesterday and will continue
| today and tomorrow, gives home folks and
strangers chance to help along one of the
| most interesting of Washington charities
| the Children's Country Homeland at the
same time in good company enjoy the
| beauty of one of the most picturesque spots
| around the capital. Automobile and driv
| ing parties made the place rendezvous
yesterday and drank tea and nibbled sweets
| under the fine old trees. Everybody found
| 1t hard place to leave.
The affair is in charge Uf Mrs. S. c.
Briggs, and given through courtesy of Col.
! Bddle and Morris Hacker.
| Mrs. Richard Wainwright is in charge
| of the tea table, and Miss Roy and Mrs.
Whiting sell the lemonade while Mrs H.
| D. Walbridge has sandwiches and ice tea.
| The assistants are Miss Huff, Mrs. Ken
| yon, Mrs. Curtin, Mrs. Wainwright, Mrs.
| Whitwell and Miss Alice Cuthbert of ST.
| Louis.
Mrs. John Cammack of Brightwood ave-
| nue. will be at home to her friends Tuesday
| next, to Z.
| Mr.. Albert Halstead, recently appointed
| consul to Birmingham England. left yes
terday with his family and will sail for
England on Saturday.
The consul general to London and Mrs
| Robert ]. Wynne are at the Grafton, where
| they arrived Tuesday. Mrs. Wrnne spent
| last week in New York, where she was the
| recipient of many pleasant attentions.
she always is In her home city. Her father,
on account of whose illness her present trip
was made, has entirely recovered his usual
health.
The naval attache of the German embassy
o. dyrnr,a acf
evening, when their guests included the
Swiss minister the first secretary of the
German embassy, Baron Bussche; the mill
tary attache of the German embassy and
Nine. Korner DR.. and Nine. Won Kuhl-
| mann, Lieut. Kohler. and DIR. Won Frerichs
also Of the embassy, and Mr.. A. de Pury of
the Swiss legation.
Senator and Mrs. Knox are entertaining
Mr.. Leishman. United States minister to
Turkey, who is in Washington on leave of
absence. He will sail on June 20 to return
to his post of duty.
Mrs. Charles G. Ayres has just returned
from the Philippines and is at the Grafton.
Miss Ayres accompanies her mother and
both will soon start for West Point to visit
Cadet Fairfax Ayres. Mrs. Ayres had left
on reaching Nagasak learned of the disas-
ter that had befallen that city
The engagement has been announced of
Miss Lille Bell Price daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. E. F. Price of 1926 street northwest,
to Mr. Charles Wood, the wedding to take
place in June.
Invitations to the wedding of Lieut. w.
Garland Fay, u. S. M. c., and Miss Lennox
of Colorado Springs have been received
here. The wedding will take place June 9.
Lieut.. Fay is detailed at the Naval Acad-
envy marine barracks at Annapolis.
Mrs. P. F. Fisher of Roanoke City, Va.
is here visiting her sister, Mrs. w. c. Van
Horn of 228 z street northwest.
Invitations have been received here for
the marriage of Miss Mary Gunsaulus, the
daughter of Rev. Frank Gunsaulus of Chi
cago, and Mr.. Harry Walford Chesey of
this city. The ceremony will take place
June at $50 o'clock in the home of the
brides parents on Prairie avenue, Chicago.
Mr.. Chesley's brothers and sisters and some
intimate friends will go to the ceremony.
She made a lengthy visit here last fall to
the family of Mr. w F. Hoffman, when
she acted as bridesmaid for Miss Hoffman,
former college classmate, at her wedding
with Mr.. Charles Hendley of Baltimore.