The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-16

ldT bub 0cDuJauJS ENTERTAINMENTS hdNV
not been as expensive or extensive as
those Of last winter.
Mrs. Charles Edward Tracy will give
the second Of a series Of three teas for
her daughter, Miss Grace Bigelow Tracy,
next Thursday afternoon. December 20.
at the home Of her father, John Bigelow,
q 0ramercy Park. The third will be a
week later. Miss Tracy had a dinner
dance given for her on Thursday night
by her aunt, Mrs. J Pierpont Morgan, which
far in the season. Red was the prevailing
color scheme.
The wedding OF Miss Beatrice Kobbe
and Raymond Demorest Little will a
place on Tuesday afternoon, January 8,
at All Angels Protestant Episcopal Church,
West End avenue and E~ighty-frst street.
The Rev. DIR. S. Delaney Townsend will
Rertorm the ceremony at : O'clock a MISS
as maid Of honor and the Misses Helen
Clucas, Margaret Behr, Elsie Little. Alice
Demorest, Florence M. Waterbury and
Gladys Waterbury will be bridesmaids.
Arthur West Little will assist his brother
as best man and g. NJ. W. Kobbe, J. Donald
Morrow, Eltinge Warner and Beals Wright
Of Boston and Frederick Hussey Of Al
legheny will be ushers. There will be no
reception.
Mrs. Frederic Nelson ia staying this
winter at the Collingwood in West Thirty
fifth street. Her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis H. H~unnewell, who
make their country place at Wellesley,
Mass, their headquarters, spent much
time here with Mrs. Nelson. Mrs. Nelson,
who is look ing very we'll since her return
from Eaarnna MORA n lnvalv SCUM IF nala
mauve satin brocade at the opera on
Wednesday night. She will go abroad,
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. H%unnewell,
on January 5.
The Countess STAFFORD, who has been
10 remain here over the Christmas holidays.
Countess Festetics has returned to town
from Closter, N. J.. Count Stanislaus
and Countess lie Castellane OF Paris were
at the Holland House last week. Sir John
n Lady Madden and their daughters
and the Baroness Hammerstein-Dirk
arrived on. Wednesday from Europe.
MARQUIS Villarosa has attended some Of
the debutante functions Of the week. Lord
and Lady Suffolk sailed OF Wednesday
on the Celtic TO pass their Christmas holi-
days at their place in England.
Miss Lucy Margaret Roosevelt, second
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. W. Emlen Roose-
welt, has assisted ut about all of the big
de5utante teas thus far. She goes on to
Washington for Christmas week, and will
be In the receiving line at the reception
given by President and Mrs. Roosevelt
on January 1. Her uncle, Senator Kean,
has cards out for a dance he will give in her
honor on January Is.
The wedding of Miss Madeline ives
Goddard with the Marquis Rene d'Andigne
OF France is set for Saturday, December 20,
at the residence of the brides parents,
Col. and Mrs. Robert H. Ives Goddard,
Hopeton House, Providence. Miss Goddard,
who is a thorough musician and is devoted
to athletic sports, will make a handsome
bride.
One of the very smart functions of the
week will be the dinner dance given by
Mrs. Charles b. Alexander at her home, 4
West Hfty-eighth street, next Thursday
night, December 20, for her d%ebutante
daughter, Miss Harriet Alexander. A large
number of the guests will be entertained
at dinners given by Mrs. William Douglas
Sloane, Mrs. X. Livingston ~Beeckman. Mrs.
r. Fulton Cutting, Mrs: Charles Henry
Coster and Mrs. John j. McCook. Worth
ington Whitehouse, who will lead the c~otillon,
win dance with Miss Alexander. The favors
will be particularly dainty and novel. The
supper will be served in the splendid new
dining room.
The first dance Of the Metropolitan series,
formerly held at the Metropolitan Club,
will be given next Saturday night, December
%. at Sherry's. The dancers will be chiefly
next years girls, ~collegians and the younger
set Of dancing men. The patronesses, in
Guiding Mrs. Charles b. Alexander, Mrs.
Charles Henry Coster, Mrs. John f. Alex
andre, Mrs. Charles ID. Dickey, Mrs. Frank
Spencer Witherbee and Mrs. Archibald
Rogers, will receive.
The dances on for this week are chiefly
young peoples affairs. Mrs. Charles Will
lam Romeyn will give a dance for her debu-
tante daughter, Miss Emma Langworthy
Romeyn, ON Thursday night at Dodworth's.
Mrs. j. Henry Dick will give a dance for
her daughters, the Misses Julia Dick and
Doris DicG, at her home, 20 East Fifty
third street, on Friday night.
The Rev. DR.. and Mrs. James B. WATSON,
now on their honeymoon, will live on their
return at Broadway and 18th street. After
the wedding, on Tuesday afternoon, a dinner
was served at the Hotel Marseille. The
bridegroom is associate rector of st.
Thomas's Church, and his brothers, one
Of whom read the MARI age lines and the
other assisted as best man, are both clergy
men, the Rev. Z. A. Wasson having a parish
az Newark, n. j., and the Rev. William A.
WATSON at Riverhead, l.. /. The bride
was formerly Mrs. Hicks, widow Of William
Taylor Hicks.
Cards are here for the wedding next
Saturday of Miss Alice Edwards Colby
and Charles Edward Bischoff of England,
to be celebrated at the country HON of the
brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph l..
Colby, Newton Centre, Mass.
The first Of the series Of Aston dances
for this season was given Friday evening
in the large ball room of the Hotel Aston.
The p~atronesses, Mrs. Charles Braxmar,
Mrs. NJ. T. Conover, Mrs. Thomas Lewis,
Mrs. X. p. Barber, Mrs. H. Higgins, Mrs.
f. r. Sweet and Mrs. A. Watt, received.
Mrs. Francis Forbes of 3 West Fifty
sixth street gave a tea Friday afternoon.
when she introduced her daughter, Miss
Adele Forbes, who wore a costume OF white
chiffon and lace and carried pink flowers.
The National Society Daughters OF the
Empire State will hold its December social
next Thursday afternoon at the Waldorf
Astoria. The music of the day Is arranged