New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-10

Mr.. and Mrs. George ]. Gould and Mrs. Reginald
Vanderbilt.
Then Thursday. which is sacred to St valen-
tine. there is Mrs Joseph H. Choate's entertain
ment OF the Thursday Evening Club at Sherrys In
the evening
Dinners will be given tomorrow night by Ms
w. Watts Sherman, for her daughters. Miss Irene
and Miss Mildred Sherman. by Mrs. r. Fulton Cut
ting and several others, some Of whom Will take
their guests afterward to Mrs. NJ. Orms WI
sons dance. Earlier in the day Mrs Joseph H
Choate will have luncheon in honor OF Mrs
Whiteaw Reid, at her house in East sd street
and Mrs. Robert ELEPHANT a luncheon for Miss
Sophie ELEPHANT at her home in East SD street
In the afternoon Mrs. Benjamin Knower Mrs
George Montgomery Tuttle and others viii receive
Mrs. Charles H. Coster Mrs. Archibald Roger,
and Mrs. Charles d. DIckey were the patronesses
who received the guests at the cotion OF the So
called Metropolitan Dances at sherry's last night
These dances for young girls who will mako
their debut year hence.
At Delmonico's another ~ the Saturday Evening
Dances took place last night, and Mrs. Charles R
Huntington Mrs. John Clarkson Jay and Mrs
sackett NJ Barclay were among the patronesses
present Augustus Barnard led the cotillon. The
dance was followed by a seated supper
In the afternoon Sherry's was the scene OF thu
St Valentines Kettedrum for tho benefit OF the
Samaritan Home for the Aged. Mrs Richard r.
win. Mrs. Hilborne l. Roosevelt Mrs Charles Per
kins Miss Audrey Townsend Sackett Mrs. James
Speyer, Mrs. Rowland Davis and Mrs. r P. Kinni-
cut were among the patrOnesseS most active In
charge OF the affair which proved a great success
from social as well as financial point OF view
Mark Twain. reader OF Browning and Shell
lev will be one OF the features of the literary and
musical matinee at the Waldorf on Thursday
afternoon for the benefit Of the Realistically Me-
mortal Fund. The veteran American huulorisr has
told his friends that he believes the public will
take him more seriously after ne has appeared IN
his new role as reader Of Browning and Shelley.
Edmund Clarence Stedman will preside Three
poems OF Shelley Will be sung by Mrs Francis
Wellman; Miss Julia Marlowe will read from
heatss ode on a Grecian Urn and two shorter
poems and Dr. Henry Dyke. DR.. s Weir
Mitchell. F. HOpkinsOn Smith. Mrs. Ruth NCEnerv
Stuart and Miss Beatrice Herford will also +ata
part Besides the literary and musical features
there Will be sale az auction OF valentines byr
distinguished artists, illustrating passages from
Keats and Shelley. Miss Ellen Terry will sell a
souvenir programme. Ex-President and Mrs
Grover Cleveland, General Horace Porter Count
Massiglia. the Italian Consul General A Raw
oaudi MassiEiia; Rear Admiral A T NIahan and
several well known writer's have promised to at
tend The benefit will be held IN the main ball
room The committee announces that the object
or the fund Is TO complete the recent purchase
by popular subscription OF the house beside thu
Spanish Stairs IN Rome in which Keats lived
and died. and TO establish therein fo- lovers ~
poetry library OF the works OF Keats and Shell
ley with portraits and manuscripts and through
this agency TO guard the graves OF the two poets
against the vandalism which stiI threatens W.
historic Protestant cemetery OF which Shelley
wrote: 1T might make IN love with death 10
think that one should be buried in so sweet a
place"
Announcement Is made Of the enra geunent ~
Miss Ethel Boudinot Atterbury. daughter Of Mrs.
John Colt Atterbury. OF Staten Island. to Georga
Tarr oherse. OF Haverford. Penn.
weeks at their shooting box IN South Carolina, near
Aiken.
Mrs. Clement c. Moore. who has gone 20 EUROPE
for stay Of several months. has let her house In
East 54th street to Mr.. and Mrs. Stuart Wing.
The Badminton Club VIII hold no meeting this
season owing 10 its being unable obtain suitable
quarters. The sessions will be resumed next vsa~
at the Tennis Building.
Mrs Ethel Hunt Wood married yesterday
evening 10 Lucian Hamilton Tying at the Church
OF the Ascension the ceremony being followed nv
a dinner given by the brides sister. Mrs Allen
Bartlett. at her house in West 18th street Tha
newly married couple will make their houas IN
Philadelphia The bridegroom IS a grandson OF
the late DR.. Stephen H. Tying
The tableaux-vivans entertainment which was u,
take place at the Waldorf on Friday in behalf OF
the New York Orthopsedic Hospital and DtsDArsa-,-
under the patronage of Mrs Charles b AIexa15s-
Mrs Douglas Robinson, Mrs. J. Hobart Warren.
Miss Frelinghuysen and others. has been aban-
doned.
Arthur Delano Wee<es. r., whose marriage to
Miss Dorothy Eigginson. daughter OF Mr. and Mrs
James J. Hgginson. takes place in the Chantr-- Of
Grace Church. on February .. mas selected his
brother, Harold II Weekes for his best man. and
a.
James J. HigginsOn. jr. Albert G. Gray and George
and RSHhin Potts ushers. He will entertain
them Saturday evening next at a farewell
bachelor dinner az Delmonicos