Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-18
THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
ARRANGEMENTS FOR WHITE
HOUSE TONIGHT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leighton's Handsome
Entertainment-A Luncheon
Personal Notes.

posfte the treasury. Pedestrians will fol-
| low the same route. After discharging pas
sengers carriages will be parked around the
ellipse In the White Lot
The gates will not be open until $3.50
o'clock. Two carriages will drive under the
| porte-cochere at the same time. Coachmen
| will be provided with numbered checks,
| which must be preserved by them in order
| to regain admittance TO the grounds. Guests
will also be provided with tickets of the
same numbers as their carriages. These
| they should carefully preserve in order to
| call their carriages, which will depart from
| the same entrance. Carriages will be called
by electric signal.
After leaving cloaks in the cloakroom.
guests are requested to fail in line and pass
up the main staircase.
The southwest gate will be opened at $50
pm. Guests holding special carriage cards
will enter the grounds by that gate, and
| the house by the door under south portico.
Carriages will approach this entrance by
18th street.
The reception given last evening by Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin F. Leighton at their
beautiful residence, 1715 22d street, was in
the nature OF a house warming, as this Is
their first winter in their new home. Over
five hundred guests were present from Of
fetal and resident circles. The reception
hall of this house is of noble proportions,
being between thirty and forty feet in
length, with a fine stairway, with fine
stained-g glass windows on the two broad
landings Of the staircase. Three of the
walls of the lower hall are mirrored from
floor to ceiling. The crimson hangings.
with the open fireplace, give a rich and
pleasing effect. The balcony in the hall,
where the orchestra was stationed, was set
with palms and vines. The drawing rooms
are eXquisitely furnished in blue and gilt.
In these rooms the floral decorations were
most pleasing. The mantels were banked
with pink roses, while baskets of pink and
cd on nod IS
before the richly draped windows. The
library, one of the largest and finest in the
city, had floral decorations of pink and
white poisoning plants. The library, as
well as all the rooms on both the first and
second floors, have open fireplaces, where
glowing wood fires burn from late fall I'M
til spring, giving most homeltke aspect
to the large rooms. The spacious dining
room, with its fine bay windows catching
the sunlight from all quarters, is a most
delightful room. American Beauty roses
decorated the dining table, where a fine col
latlon was served Mrs. Leighton received
her guests in the first drawing room
gowned in black velvet. She was assisted
IN receiving by her sister, Miss Foss who
was goWned in pink chiffon velvet trimmed
with rose point lace. Mrs. Leighton will
receive the remaining Fridays In January.
Senator and Mrs Hopkins entertained at
dinner last night at the New Willard, when
their guests were the Secretary of the
Treasury and Mrs. Shaw, Justice and Mrs.
IldTidH, senator ana MIS-. Burrows, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Scott. Senator and Miss Mil
lard, Senator Kittridge, Representative and
Mrs Dalzell. Representative and Mrs. Sb-
ley and Mr.. and Mrs ]. L. Loose
Miss Calderon, daughter of the Bolivian
minister, gave a luncheon yesterday in
honor of Miss Hanna Willard Taylor and
in the party to meet her were: Miss Walker
Martinez, Miss Godoy, Miss Calvo, Miss
Kathleen Bourke, Miss Perie Anderson,
Miss Cassidy of East Orange n. J., Miss
Bella Bateman, Miss Marion Stevens and
Miss Eleanor Parker
Announcement is made of the marriage
of Miss Frances Adelaide Barbarin, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Elizabeth c. Barbarin, form
erly of this city, but now of New York
city, to Mr. William Henry DonnaIy,
Thursday, January II, at the American
consulate, Payta, Peru.
Mrs. Burrows, wife of Senator Burrows
will receive this afternoon.
Mrs. Deb. Randolph Keim and Miss Keim
will not be at home until Monday, January
D. when they will receive with Mrs Charles
r. McKenney, at 200 A street southeast.
Mrs Gordon Cumming is suffering from
an attack of grip and is obliged to cancel
all social engagements.
The cabinet receptions yesterday were
generally well attended, the hostesses re-
ceiving being Mrs. Root, who had her
daughter and their guest Mrs Hutchinson
of New York; Mrs Shaw, who had Mrs |
Murphy and several other friends; Mrs.
Taft, whose assistants included Mrs Mills
of West Point, Mrs. Charles H. Taft and
Miss Anderson of Cincinnati, Mrs. Aleshire
and Mrs. A. f. Bates; Mrs Cortelyou who
had her sisters, Mrs. II. J. Hayden and
Miss Kinds; Mrs. Robert J. Wynne Mrs
Madden, Mrs. Judson C. Clements and her
sister, Miss Dulany, and Mrs. Bishop.
Mrs. Metcalf was also receiving.
Mrs. l.. f. Payson, 1929 Massachusetts
avenue, will be at home on Fridays, Febru-
airy and 8.
birthday party and dance was given by
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jewell at their resi-
dence, 2139 Pennsylvania avenue northwest |
on Tuesday evening, the 10th instant to
their daughter, Miss Anna Jewell. The ball
room was tastefully decorated with bunting
evergreens and flowers, and large party
passed delightful evening dancing. At II
o'clock the dining room was thrown open
and the guests partook of a bountiful cola
tion Among those present We're the Misses
Mary Hester, Minnie Homiller, Theresa
Waters Elizabeth Jewell Maddox Louise
Doxon, Nellie Doxon. Margaret Leech, Elise
BUTLER, Claudia Watkins, Clarice Watkins,
Lois Larkin, Estelle Harden. Amanda Hur-
ley. Lillian Adams, Marie Adams, and
Messrs Marion Baker, Lawrence Baker
Stanley Horner, Wallace Hickcox, Walter
Hurley, Jack Myers, Charles Cummings,
Robert Jonscher, John Waters. William
jewell Julian simpson, Nllllam MlIanu, Ar
thur Van Week, Reuben Morgan, Martin |
Mckee, Willett Caraccioli of New York, Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Selby. Mrs. William Selby,
Miss Margaret Adams, Mr.. Percival NJ
Brown, Rev. Father Smythe of st. Stephens
Church, and Mr. Larkin. The out-of-town
guests were Mrs. A. Caraccion and son of
New York and Mrs. Theodore Browning and
daughter Of Riverdale, Md.
Miss Olive Matthews, niece of Mr. Preston
s Robinson of Philadelphia, is with Mrs. s.
Kelley, 300 I'd street southeast for two
weeks stay.
Mrs, Walter Mclean of 21O9 street will
receive tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs John Howell have Issued
invitations to the marriage ceremony of
their daughter Ethel Byrd and Mr.. Philip
Maxwell Kemon, Wednesday evening, jan
uary 81, at o'clock, at Mt. Vernon Place |
Church. The couple will be at home after
March 1 at 1901 4th street.
Mrs Henry Birth Polkinhorn of 1888 P
street northwest will not be at home to-
morrow, but will receive her friends Fri
days, January 26 and February 8.
The home of Mr.. Morgan S. McCathran,