The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30

gayety. There are but few nights in JAN
uary for which invitations are not out for
dances or other festivities. Theatre par
ties, followed by suppers and dances, are as
popular as they were last winter.
Tickets and boxes for the performance
of Robert Browning's @Colombe's Birth
day, to be given at the Hudson Theatre on
Friday afternoon. January 4, may be OBJ
tanned from Mrs. Richard Irwin from to-
morrow on to the time set at her home, West
Thirty-ninth street, from 10 to l O'Clock.
The proceeds will aid the Virginia Day
Nursery. Miss Grace Elliston and a cast of
we'll known actors will ppear in the play.
The patronesses include Mrs. Irwin, Mrs.
III. Fairfield Osborn, Mrs. Robert H.. Dodd,
Mrs. Rudolph f. Schirmer, Mrs. Russell H..
Hoadley, Mrs. G. Ledyard Blair, Mrs. Robert
ELEPHANT and Mrs. Henry G. Trevor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tyrrel w. Cavendish will
sail very shortly for England, which will be
their future home. Mrs. Cavendish was
Miss Julie Florence Siegel, daughter of
at the residence of Mr.. n Mrs. Siegel, 20
East Eighty-second street, on Wednesday
noon, followed by a breakfast for the rela-
tives and few friends present.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bayard Cutting will
give d ulIIeT neat NCOllCSidy ulRlIs JAN
uarv 2. for Gov. and Mrs. BeeSman Winthrop
of Porto Rico. Mrs. Sidney Dillon Ripley
has cards out for a dinner on Friday night,
January 4. Her brother, James Hazen HYDE
will winter in Egypt.
Miss Lucy Margaret Roosevelt, the debu-
tante daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. Emlen
Roosevelt. is among those going to Wash
ington tomorrow for the New Year fes-
~tivities. She will be the guest of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt (the former her
cousin once removed) at the White House,
and will be in the receiving line at the New
Year reception. Afterward she will visit
with her uncle and aunts, Senator kean
of New Jersey and the Misses hean, They
will give a big dinner for her IN Janu-
uary II and a ball on Tuesday night, Janu-
airy IS. This will be a repetition of the en-
tertainments they gave for her elder SIS
ter, Miss Christine Kean Roosevelt, when
she came out a few seasons ago. MIR. and
Mrs. Perry Belmont will pass New Years
at the house they have rented in Washing
ton. After this season they will have their
own residence at the capital.
The costume domino party given by Mrs.
Artemas II. Holmes for her daughter, Miss
Hilda Holmes, on Thursday night was a
particularly pretty affair. Mrs. Holmes
lives AL OAlC VI AAlC AhA|H - ~ AAAASN
of the three on Madison avenue, in the rear
of the Cathedral, originally built 10y Henry
Willard for his own residence. Mrs. Holmes
who is somewhat of an invalid, does not
contemplate giving any other festivities
just now.
Col. Oliver H. Payne has gone to his
country house in Townsville, Ga, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whitney and other
relatives will visit with him later in the
season. Mr.. and MES. Whitney, who passed
Christmas at their country house in Man
hasset, l.. l., went on Wednesday to Wash
ington. and will pass New Years with Mrs.
Whitney's mother, Mrs. o Hay. Mr..
and Mrs. S. Montgomery Roosevelt will
remain over New Years at Roosevelt Hall,
Skaneateles, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B.. Alexander, who
will pass New Years at their home here,
will 20 on Wednesday TO Washington to
attend some of the functions of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Leeds, who
sailed on the Provence on Thursday, will
collect much fine furniture and fittings
while away for their new establishment,
Rough Point, at Newport. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt have removed
all of their belongings from the place re-
Gently. Mr.. and Mrs. Rutherford Stuy-
vesant, who sailed on the same steamship,
go over on their annual trip. They usually
pass a few months in Paris before returning
10 their country place in New Jersey.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish will give her
second dinner on the night of Tuesday,
January 8, which will be followed by n
musicale. Nine. Bresslar-Gianol and NJ.
Bassi Of the Manhattan Opera House will
be among the singers, Mrs. Fish's dinner
ro-4,, oouaro nn Christmas NIGHT Waz
served at one large table. Mistletoe, holly
and big scarlet poinsetta blossoms, were
scattered over the table. At each end
was a Santa Claus figure and at each corner
a small reindeer and sleigh. The centre
piece was a large white crystal tree,
trimmed with tiny colored lanterns and
red bells.
Mrs. John Jay White OF rOs East Fifty
seventh street, who will give a tea to-
morrow afternoon, will give a second on
\ January Z. Mrs. j. Edward Simmons of
% West Fifty-second street will give teas
! on Thursday afternoons, January 3 and 10.
| She will be assisted by her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Joseph Ferris Simmons. Mr.,
and Mrs. j. +. simmons were married last
spring. Mrs. j. F. Simmons was Miss
Mabel Storm.
Lady Herbert, who had been staying
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for several weeks, reached England in time
70 ave her sons, both at EtoDI with hel
for the Christ mas holidays. Her sister
| Mrs. Ogden Goelet, will probably now sal
, cry soon for England and pay her custom
ary sit TO her son-in-law and daughter
Inc Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, who
passed their Christmas at Floors Castle
scotland. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goelet
are spending the winter at their home in
! Fifth avenue.
Johnston Livingston will pass his New
Years at his home on Fifth avenue, and
have with him his son-in-law and daughter
| Count and Countess de Langier- Villars,
who 90 to France on their annual trip some
J weeks hence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who
had a little Christmas dinner at the Post
! cottage, which they have occupied of late
at Tuxedo, will return to town on Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt will
pass their New Years at Washington, hav-
ing left Biltmore House last Thursday
They celebrated Christmas In grand fashion.