Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-04

bertha ana Nefne Stewart, Sadle Busey,
Amy Harvey and Lorene Serrin. and
Messrs. Howard Beckett Wade Fowler,
Elmer and Morris Harvey and Dave Serr n
of SeabTook.
Mrs. Milton c. Barnard VIII remain with
her daughter. Mrs. Edwin Pendieton Par
ker. 1764 Willard street. during the month
of November. visiting Indiana in Decem-
Der.
Miss Elcise Cisse1l entertained about
fifty guests at Halloween party We'd
neSday evening among them being four
classmates at school.
The annual exhibition and sale of the
work done by the inmates of the Convent
of the Good Shepherd will be held at Rau-
scher's on the afternoon Of December 9.
The Mt. Holyoke College Aiumnae Asso-
citation was delightfully."- entertained last
Wednesday by Mrs. Robert Brown of Ia
koma Park. The travel talks planned for
the season promise to be most interesting.
The Misses Abbot. the twin daughters of
Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Frederic V. Abbot.
VIII be Gebutantes of the coming season.
The Misses Abbot are the granddaughter
of Gen. H. L. Abbot, United State engi-
neer officer, retired.
The vicomtesse de la Bassetiere, nee
O'Donnell. after visiting relatives in this
country for two months. will sail Tuesday
by the French liner La Provence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Whistler, who have
been spending the early autumn at Lenox
with their son-in-laW and daughter. Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Louis Howell of Wash
ington, have returned to their Baltimore
home.
Mrs. John R. Edie. who has been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Hilles of
Baltimore. will join lieutenant Commander
Eide in Manila next month.
A very large reception was held at the
old colonial mansion. the summer residence
of Mrs. Daniel LothrOp and formerly the
home of Nathaniel Hawthorne. at Concord.
Mass, Tuesday last. Despite the threaten
ing weather very large companies went over
from Boston, Cambridge. the Newtons and
adjoining towns. completely filing the spa
cious ''Wayside.''
Miss Margaret milford Lothrop. the
daughter of the hostess whose formal in
PRODUCTION into society was the occasion OF
the at home was assisted in receiving by
a classmate at Smith College, Miss Mabel
Chick, daughter of Mr.. 7. w. Chick OIL Bea-
con street Boston. Both young ladies were
gowned in VIII te and carried large bouquets
of violets. Miss Lothrop's gown. i'm
ported mesSaline with embroidered and
lace insertions on skirt and waist, and Miss
Chicks. Paris embroidered gown. Mrs.
Lothrop was gowned in back velvet. with
black silk French embroidertes on waist
and sleeves.
The young ladies assisting were four Bos-
ton cousins of Miss Lothrop-the Misses
Edith. Margaret, Helen and Martha Pitkin
of Marlborough street and Chestnut Hill;
Misses Bertha Hackett, Helen Clark, Ellen
Hidreth and Helen Abbott. representing
Smith College. and Misses Emily Solner,
Alice Jones and Helen Moore of Concord.
The ushers were Messrs. Charles Everett.
Fitch Haskell George Prescott 'Oo Har-
ward; Leslie Hastings Vanderburgh Brown,
OF Harvard and Carroll Curtis, 04 Tech
nologJ.
The entire mansion including Hawthorne's
famous tower. was thrown open to the
guests. with the spacious veranda turned
into a bower festooned with pine branches
and banked with palms and ferns. this
opening into the study in which group
ed the orchestra. The colonial rooms and
the balustrades of the Old staircases were
garlanded with the pine that crowned the