Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-10
Asst" which has prefaced most
of the Inequalities of the past
week, applies with double force
II to what will occur tomorrow

ASI, WHICH Ids piS AAANS~
- of the Inequalities of the past
week applies with double force
IL to what will occur tomorrow
and next day, as Lent be-
gins on Wednesday and showdown
is a reasonable prospect all around.
| Two or three large receptions, nota-
bly, those at the German embassy to-
morrow and the japanese embassy Tuesday
night will furnish a brilliant finale. The
dancing set is of course keeply interested
in the Small and Early subscription cotil-
lion at Rauscher's Tuesday night, of which
Miss Alys Downing Miss Louise Chase,
Miss Alice Shepard, Miss Lillian Stone and
Miss Natalie Lincoln form the committee,
and Mrs Charles Campbell, Mrs. Shepard,
Mrs. Hinckley, Mrs. n. s. Lincoln, Mrs.
Richard Harlow and Mrs. Andrew Y. Brad
ley will be chaperones.
The gayeties have gone so continuous
| ly since the ball season began with the new
year that there has been no interval lot
reminiscent remarks. The private balls OF
which Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs.
| Townsend, Mr.. and Mrs. Calf, Mr.. and Mrs
John r. Mclean were hosts were carried
out with the splendor which always follows
anything they attempt. The ShontS cotll-
| lion last week was another beautiful AFFAIR,
| which has left behind it souvenirs lot
| of pretty trifies.
| The President and Mrs. Roosevelt enter
| tanned at dinner last night the Mexican
| ambassador and Madame Creel, Senator
| Daniel, Senator Warren. Senator Beveridge,
| Senator Du Pont, Representative and Mrs.
| Frank o. Lowden. Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
| Foster, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Cowles,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Putnam, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Mrs. John F.
| Stevens. Mrs. Letter. Mrs. Eddy. Miss Eliz-
| abeth Kean. Miss Christine Kean Roose-
welt, Miss Tyler. Miss Elizabeth Davis, Mr..
| Won Radowitz. Mr.. Joseph w. Alsop and
| Capt. Fitzhugh Lee.
| brocade. and the table decorations were of
| yellow tulips.
| The Japanese ambassador and Viscountess
| Aoki entertained at dinner last night the
| Russian ambassador and Baroness Rosen,
| Senator and Mrs. Burrows, Senator and
| Mrs. Cullom, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Con-
| verse, the Assistant Secretary of State and
| Mrs. Wilson, the Swiss Minister and Lieut..
| Col. and Mrs. Pedernerias, Prof. Swisher,
| Mrs. Fish, Miss Scdmore, Prince Kouda-
chef. the counselor of the Japanese en-
| bassy and Madame Miyoko, Miss Hunt,
Count and Countess Hatzfeldt and Com
| mander Taniguchi.
Miss Mary Sheridan is in Chicago visiting
| Mrs. John A. Spoor. who has given a series
| of entertainments in her honor.
| A recent hospitality in a southern city
| was a club breakfast. served at midnight.
| The place cards were attached to little
| brass candlesticks, and beside each plate
| was a morning paper, and each guest S
mail. that had been duly sent by post and
an egg cup with pick me-up' of caviare
disguised as an egg. The decorations were
cleverly contrived to represent by yellow
satin ribbons the rays of the sun radiating
from a center of golden daffodils, and Old
Sol smiled approvingly in at the windows.
Mrs. Charles Fl. Ackert and her son. Mr..
inl- Afya Iaft Iact
to remain several weeks.
One of the most pleasing receptions of the
season was given at the Normandie Tues
day afternoon by some of the congressional
ladies. Mrs. Burgess. wife of Representa-
tive Burgess of Texas. and Mrs. Acheson,
wife of Representative Acheson of Penn
sylvania; Miss Allen, sister Of Representa-