The Washington herald., 1908-01-18
In The SOCIAL WORLD
Secretary and Mrs. StrauS
Give Dinner Party.
MISS CANNON IS HOSTESS
EnteFtains in Honor of Vine. Creel.
HARDNESS Mayor Holds Usual FRI
day AT Home" at Italian Embassy.
Complimentary Tea tn Mrs. Eme-
line ChiIds Given by Daughter.

The Secretary Of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs Straus were among those en-
tertaining dinner parties last night. hav-
ing as guests the Speaker of the House
and Miss Cannon. the Naval Attache of
the French Embassy and Nine. de
Blanpre, the Naval Attache Of the Ger
man Embassy and Nine Hebbinghaas
Mr. and Mrs Nathan BejOis, OF New
York; the Assistant Secretary OF state
and MrS. Robert Bacon, Representative
and Mrs j. Sloat Fassett, Gen and Mrs.
Sharpe, Mrs John ". Timm0ns. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. w. S. Bennett. Mrs
Sehafer, and Mrs. Hochstadter,
Nine Creel. wife Of the Mexican Am
bassador. was the guest in whose COM
pliment Miss Cannon. daughter of the
Speaker, entertained yesterday at her
home in Vermont avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Garrison McClntock
were dinner hosts OF last evening, en-
tertaining at their home in Nineteenth
street
Baroness Mayor. wife Of the Italian
Ambassador, was hostess yesterday af-
ternoon at her usual Friday afternoon at
home. welcoming "a host Of callers at the
Embassy. Mime. carlo Pfster. wife Of the
naval attache of the Embassy, presided
at the prettily appointed tea table
The Ambassador and Nine. Mayor have
not resumed their old custom OF holding
Monday evening receptions. Later in the
season they viii give dance,
Yicomte de Chambrun. Of the French
Embassy has gone abroad on leave Of
absence.
The Mexican Minister to Cuba and Nine
GodOy entertained at dinner last night
complimentary 10 the Mexican Ambassa-
dor and Mime. Creel, who viii leave
Washington to-day or tomorrow for a
stay of several months in Mexico. In
vited 20 meet them were the Colombian
Minister and Nine. Cortes, the Haitian
Minister and Mime. Lcger. the NicaraSuan
Minister and Nine. COrea. the Bolivian
Minister and Nine. Calderon. the Minis
ter from Costa Rica. and Mile. G0doy.
Mrs. John ". Dwight entertained at "a
prettily appointed tea yesterday afternoon
from 20 o'clock az her home, in r
street. complimentary TO her mother. Mrs.
Emeline Childs, Of Los Angeles. Cal Mrs.
Dwight was gowued IN white satin and
lace. and Mrs Childs wore a princess
gown Of gray velvet, Mrs Depew and
Miss Patten did the honors Of the tea
table. and Mrs Dwight was assisted by
n .fTfsNT
Kean, Miss Lowering, Miss Kelly, Miss
Crosby. Miss Maxwell. Miss Brown, and
Miss RedmaH.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh and
Miss Evelyn Walsh have arrived ia
Washington from the West. and are es-
tablished in their home. in Massach Sets
avenue Owing 10 the recent death OF
Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Walsh's mother, the tam
lily is at present in mourning.
Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Marye viii have
as their guest for a week Mrs Julius
Conrad wife Of Capt Conrad, L. s. a
Col Charles BromweH, L. S A. and
Mrs BromweH were dinner hosts last
night. entertaining a party OF young peo-
pie 20 meet Miss Nabuco. the debutante
daughter Of the Brazilian Ambassador
and Nine Nabuco. Invited 10 meet her
were Capt G. T. Summerlin, L. S. A.
and Mrs SummerIin. Lieut.. Roscoe G.
Bulmer, L. :. n, and Mrs. Bulmer, Miss
Juliette Williams. Miss Eleanor Ridgely.
Miss Constance Hoyt Miss Hagner, Mrs.
Field-Gibson. Mr. Franklin Ellis. Mr..
Of g~so I
Reginald Huidekoper Signor Centaro, OF
the Italian Embassy staff; Capt. l.. c.
Leavitt, L. S. ", and Lieut.. Sias Miller.
L. 5. A.
Mrs. Bates. wife Of Gen. a. f. Bates.
L. s. A., entertained at an informal tea
yesterday afternoon in the small parlor
at Rauscher's. Assisting Mrs. Bates were
Mrs. NJ. G. Buckley. Mrs. w w. Rock
hill. wife OF the American Minister to
China; Mrs. J. Franklin Bell, Mrs Wight
man, and Miss Edith Sanger Mrs. Bates
will receive at Rauscher's again January
81.
Miss Mabel Boardman has gone for a
trip Of three weeks to Chicago and the
West in the interest of the Red Cross
Society.
Mrs. and Miss Madden will receive al
the Highlands this afternoon.
Mrs. Courtlandt S. Clements will not be
at home until Saturday. February l.
Owing to the serious illness Of Mr..
James ". Pinchot. Mr.. Clifford Pinchot
will be obliged to abandon the annual re-
ception usually given in January to the
American Forestry Association.
Capt. Conway H. Arnold, L. S. y, is
the guest of Rear Admiral George Reiter.
at the Edward, SIC Fifteenth street.
Mrs. Joseph E. Thropp will not be able
to observe her day at home to-day, owing
to her absence from Washington She
went to Philadelphia yesterday for a few
days.
Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, of 1880 7
street. will be informally at home. Satur-
day afternoons during the rest of the
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Fitz Gerald an
nounce the marriage of their daughter
Hatty Belle Gerald. to Mr.. F. Raymond
French, of this city, on Thursday at
. o'clock I'm the Mount Calvary Episcopal
Church Baltimore, by the Rev. r. H.
Payne.
The wedding was originally set for
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