The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-28
In The SOCIAL WORLD
A Number Of Dinners Mark
Sundays Entertaining.
MRS. CAMERON IS A HOSTESS
Gives Breakfast for Twelve in Honor
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Ives Gam
nell Baroness HengeImuIIer Re-
sumes Her Afternoons at Home.
Dinner for MIR. winston Churchill.

Smart society was on the move yesteT-
day, when large and small dinner parties
were in order, and also a half dozen aft
ernO0n at-homes Sunday visiting was
INDUCED in only by the closest friends
The entertainments of the first day of the
week are the least formal and most en-
joyable in the social calendar. and no
invitations to a Sunday breakfast or din
ner party are ever declined. unless the
recipient thereof is one II those popular
men or women who has twice as many
invitations as there are days in the week
Although official entertaining is now at
its lowest ebb, the large number of dis
tinguished strangers and the constant
coming and going of interesting person
ages to and from the Southern resorts
give a new and pleasant tone TO Capital
society.
The Baroness HengelmulIer resumed her
afternoons at home yesterday, when the
draWing-rooms at the Austro-Hungarian
Embassy were pleasantly filed from to
6 O'Clock. The handsome hostess now
happily recovered from her Illness of the
early season. welcomed her visitors in a
prtncesse gown Of white cloth and Irish
lace.
Mrs. A. H. Grant Watson wife Of the
attache of the British Embassy. and Mrs.
William 5. COwles were also popular hos
tesses Of the afternoon.
Mrs. Donald Cameron, whose return to
her home, on Lafayette square. after a
prolonged residence abroad. has given
back TO Washington one Of its most dis
tinguished hostesses. entertained at a
breakfast Of twelve covers complimentary
20 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ives GammeH, Of
Providence, r. l.
Mr.. and Mrs John r. Mclean enter
tanned a company Of forty or more at
Friendship their country place. Just
north Of town, where they give a large
luncheon every other Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont had a din
ner party OF thirty guests in honor Of
the Russian Ambassador and Baroness
Rosen, with a musicale following the din
ner. The artists who responded to the
programme arranged by Miss Cryder were
NJ. Leon Rennay, tenor, and Fritz Rum
mel, vi0linist. Mr.. and Mrs Belmont
although they expect TO be IN their new
home, on New Hampshire avenue. next
season-haye greatly improved the dining
room of the house they now occupy. hay-
ing had the walls covered I'm dull green
SILK, which makes a most artistic back
ground for the distinguished companies
which gather at this hospitable home
several times each week The ballroom.
built a few years ago by Mrs. Morgan.
has also been furnished by Mr.. and Mrs.
Belmont. making d splendid mushroom.
where last evenings entertainment took
place.
The Misses PaJteH entertained dinner
company Of twenty covers at their home.
on Massachusetts, avenue. complimentary
to Mr.. Winston Churchill, who came to
Washington earlier in the week 20 attend
the dinner at the White House
The marriage Of Miss India Bell FIem-
ing 10 the Minister from Nicaragua.
Senior Don Luis Core will. according To
the present plan Of the youthful bride-to-
be, take place on Wednesday, February
=. at the home Of the brides parents.
Col and Mrs Robert !. Fleming. 1906
Massachusetts avenue, the wedding day
being less than two months later than
the date Of Miss Flemlng's debut
The ceremony Will take place az noon
IN the presence of only a small company
representing the relatives and most init
mate friends of the bride.
Although Miss Fleming took a less
prominent part in the round OF debUtautp
dances and dinners which en.ivened the
early season than many Of her contempt
raTies, she is the only one OF the twenty
OF thirty buds TO announce her engage
ment. much less the early wedding day.
which it is now the fashion to have fol-
low the engagement at very short notice.
The present residence Of Minister Corea
is 203 o street where he and his bride
will take UP their residence after a short
honeymoon trip and until such time as
they 50 abroad for the summer.
Mr. John c. Carlisle. with his grand
daughter. Miss Jane Carlisle. has estab-
Hshed himself in his former home on X
street, where he will pass the remainder
of the winter and early spring. Miss
Laura Carlisle, who is now travelling with
friends in Europe, viii join her grand
father late in the spring. The Misses Car
Isle made their debut in New York
slightly more than year ago.
Miss Martha Cameron has returned
from visit to Mrs Whitelaw Reid and
Miss Reid in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt have
taken possession Of their new home. 1907
New Hampshire avenue, after several
weeks at Stoneleigh Court Mr.. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt have issued Invitations for a
series of dinners in February.
DIR. and Mrs. A G. Wilkinson. of 1926
X street, have visiting them Mrs. George
/. Wilkinson and children, of Chicago.
Mrs. and Miss Wilkinson will be at home
this afternoon.
The following Congressional ladies of
the Driscoll will be at home on Monday.
February T. from to s: Mrs. Macon.
Mrs. Weber, Mrs. Fulkerson, Mrs. KEEP
per, Mrs. Rives, Mrs Frank S Dickson.
and Miss Sulloway. None of the above
will receive to-day.
Mrs. Burieigh, wife Of Representative
Burleigh, not having sufficiently recovered
from her recent illness, will be unable to
receive during the present session.
Wedding Gifts