Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-11-27
HER COMING OUT BALL.
The Governors Daughter To Be In
troduced Tonight.
EVERYTHING is IN SHAPE AT
THE MANSION.
Elegance To Mark Details In
Connection With Great
Social Event.

SOCldl Event.
Everything Is in readiness for the
| coming-out ball to be given by Gov
ernor and Mrs. Warfield tonight at the
| Government House in honor of their
i eldest daughter. Miss Carrie Warfield,
| who will be formally introduced into
society. Elegance VIII mark every
| thing in connection with this great
i social event.
Canopies have been hung today
/ from the side entrance TO the Govern
ment House TO the side gate and
| Garnet will be laid for the guests to
| walk on after they leave their car
| riages. Flowers and plants will be
used i'm profusion and the decorations
| will be handsome and elaborate.
| While there will be no lavish display
| the party will be marked by quiet
| simplicity and elegance and will be
| characteristic of Maryland hospitality
1 before the war.
For the visitors expected from Bal
| timore an entrance has been made at
| the side of the house opposite the
Court of Appeals Building. The guests
| will enter this door and go up the
| stairway. which is larger than the
front stairway of most houses. Three
great chambers, one in blue, one in
pink and one in yellow, have been
converted into temporary reception
rooms for the ladies. The men will
ascend to the large room on the third
floor, and after removing their wraps
will descend to the hall on the sec
ond floor, joining the ladies.
In the billiard room, on the second
floor, Governor and Mrs. Wartield and
Miss Carrie Wariield will receive. The
billiard room is q handsome apartment,
papered in dark red and with dark
red hangings. White chrysanthemums
and palms will be tastefully arran ged
| in pleasing contrast with the general
color scheme. The billiard tables
will be removed, and the furniture
from the big drawing room on the first
floor will be used instead. After
greeting the receiving party, the guests
will 90 down the broad winding
stairway that is one of the most beau
tiful features of the house. In this
way crowding will be avoided, as
the guests will come up and go down
by different stairways.
The large drawing room, the smaller
one adjacent and the big reception
hall will be cleared for dancing. The
porch before the main entrance has
been inclosed and adorned with palms
and lighted by soft lights. The big
doors, carved with emblems typical
of Maryland products, will be thrown
open, and through this aperture the
dancing can be seen. Beneath the
stairway will be stationed the Naval
Academy Band in brilliant uniform.
The two side porches have also been
inclosed and fitted up as conserva-
tories. The Governors Office, in
green and mahogony, with the por-
traits of the twelve Governors of
Maryland on the wall, and Mrs.
warfield's private reception room, ON
| the second floor, viii be used for
| tete-a-tetes.
When all of the guests have assem-
bled on the lower floor the Governor
and Miss Wariield Will descend the
broad stairway together in the courtly
| fashion of long ago and, advancing to
| the dancing floor, will open the ball
with quaint old dance-the varsu-
| vienne. The varsuvienne was origi-
mated in France in 1858, in imitation
| of the Polish murzurka. 1t has since
been Americanized, but still retains
| the picturesque features. The music
Il
/ first beat of every third measure.
There will be twenty-five dances in
waltzes, two-steps, old-fashioned
Ischottishes and lnncicrs-- concluding
with a Virginia reel.
All of the furniture in the State din
| ing-room will be moved except the
big table, which will be set with the
Government House silver, crystal and
.I,1 ,, n.
State seal. This room is in dark greer
and mahogany, and will be decorated
| with yellow chrysanthemums From
II. 30 to 1.30 genuine Maryland sup
per will be served from the cente
| table. At 2 o'clock the trains viii
start with the guests on their returr
to Baltimore.
six of Miss .Warfeld's schoolmate
at Briar Cliffs School, on the Hudson
where Miss Warfield was graduate,
last June, arrived today to visit at TIT
Government House. They are Mis-
Adelaide McAlphin, Miss Martha Cal
houn and her mother, Mrs. Patricl
Calhoun, and Miss Adelaide Gould
of New York; Miss Esther Stearns, o
Wilkes-Barre. Pa; Miss Elizabetl
Heron, of Pittsburg, and Miss Bessi
Caldwell, of Morristown, n. Y. The,
will all spend Thanksgiving with Mis-
Warfeld and go to the Army and Nav,
football game at Philadelphia on SAT
urday.
| Mr.. Edwin Warfeld, Jr., the younI
son of the Governor, who is almos
as big as his father, is student at ST
Johns College. lie will be presen
at the ball and assist in welcoming
the guests.