Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-01
RicbnlonD Society.
Special Correspondence OF The Star


RICHMOND. Va. February 20 1905,
Society in Richmond is to be found
exclusively at the jefferson Hotel Audi
forum these last bright February days.
the indoor garden, party there being at
full swing under the management of the
most fashionable women of the city. who
are bending their energies to the amass-
ing of large sum for the needs of the
poor in Richmond The officers and
heads of committees for entertainments
are Mrs. L. l.. Lewis. Mrs. George A.
Barksdale. Miss NJ. p. Harris Mrs. Caskie
Cabel, Miss Page Aylett Royal. Mrs. Vir-
sinius Newton, Mrs. John Shelton Will
liams, Mrs. n. V Randolph. Mrs. Clifton
NJ. Miller. Miss Cally Ryland. Mrs An
drew J. Montague, Mrs James a. Grigg
and Mrs. Robert s. Christian.
Miss Nora Langhorne. who has been
taking part in a big charity affair. gotten
up by Mrs. William Waldorf Aston and
MIS- John Jacob Astor for the benefit
of the mountain people of Virginia and
the poor of New York. is now in Rich
mond. and has been a much admired fig
ure at the Jefferson Auditorium in her
pretty gowns and with big black pic
ture hat encircling her fresh young face.
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is already being arranged for The ladies'
cafe at the JeffersonNHotel is to be opened
Thursday next March 5, as a tearoom.
where tea and toasted mullins will be
served every day from to pm. The
tearoom will be attractively grouped
with palms and flowers, and ladies un-
dertaklng its management are Mrs. st.
George Bryan. Mrs. Edward Darlington
Mayo. Mrs. Thomas Pnckney Bryan. Miss
Nellie Tompkins. Miss Elizabeth Daven-
fipc n..,1 1Iar 10
Meredith. Miss Posie Meredith Miss Ro-
berta Wexford. Miss Katherine Hawes
Miss Sue Spilman Miss Evelyn Gordon
Miss Nora Leary, Miss Maude Morgan
Miss Mary Hickok and Miss Ellen Bagby.
Mrs James Brown Potter. who spent
February at Hot Springs. this state, is
in Richmond for this week. Her sister,
Mrs Frank Powers. lives here. and little
Margaret Powers. Mrs. Potter's niece. is
an especial favorite with her lovely aunt.
Mr.. Potter has been in Mexico for the
last six weeks on his plantation. He will
come north to join his wife later in the
spring.
Mrs. T. Moncure Perkins and Mrs John
Enders will leave this week for Europe.
1t is probable that Mrs. Perkins will join
her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson in
Paris. and spend most of her time there
though she will. of course, visit Mrs AS
tor at Cliveden.
The pan-Anslican convention of the
English Church will take large party
from Richmond to London. Bishop Glib
son and the Misses Gibson will 60 to be
the guests of the Bishop of London. Mr..
Joseph Bryan will take over a party of
friends with him, and Mrs. George w.
BaSby and Miss Ellen Bagby. her daugh-
ter who is an intimate friend of Mrs.
Waldorf Aston, jr, will be among those
going.
Mrs. Swanson gives the second of a Sc
ries of luncheons to wives Of members of
the general assembly of Virginia today.
Covers will be laid for eighteen and dain-
ty table decorations will be in white lilacs
and lilies of the valley.
A memorial window was unveiled yes
terday in the Church of the Redeemer at
Biloxi, Miss. by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy to Mrs. Varina Anne
Howell Davis. wife of Jefferson Davis,
who died in New York in October of
1906, and is buried here in Hollywood
cemetery beside her distinguished hus-
band. The Confederate Museum Society
of Richmond sent telegram expressing
sympathy and congratulations on the fin
ished work to Mrs. Cornelia Branch
Stone. president general of the daughters,
under whose direction the memorial serv-
ices were conducted.