Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MISS FRANCES MOVES WILL
MAKE HER DEBUT TODAY.
Other Hospitalities in Official and
Resident Society for Buds
and Others-Notes.


and Others-Notes.
Miss Frances Noyes. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank B. Noyes. will make her
debut today at a tea at the home OF her
parents on Vermont avenue. The receiving
party will include Miss Gladys Hinckley,
Miss Sophy Johnston. Miss Eudora Clo-
yer. Miss Margaret Preston Draper, Miss
Catharine Britton, Miss Mary McCauley
and Miss Dorothy Gardner Williams of
this city, and Miss Maria Landreth or
Philadelphia. and Miss Myra Hall of San
Francisco, cousins of the debutante.
Mrs. Leutze, wife of the commandant
of the navy yard. and Mrs. Fleming
Newbold will be at the tea table.
At nearly all the embassies and lega-
tionS last night there were informal din
ner parties given in honor of the day. At
the Italian embassy the officers of the
Italian ship Etruria, the members of the
embassy staff. with a few young women
from among the personal friends of the
hostess, formed a party at table with
Ambassador and Baroness Mayer des
Planches.
Mrs. Norman Williams entertained at
dinner last evening the Secretary Of the
Treasury, the Postmaster General. the
assistant secretary Of the Treasury and
rotary of the Treasury and Mrs. Hilles
and DR.. and Mrs. Harlan.
Mrs. James Pinchot was at home yes
terday in compliment to her daughter,
Lady tombstone, wife of tlfe British min
lister to Denmark. She was assisted by
Miss Margaret Montgomery of Portland,
Ore, also her guest, and Miss Morgan.
Mrs. George Becker and Mrs. Randolph
poured tea.
Mr.. Blackstone Williams had number
of his friends at stag dinner last night
at his home on . street. Among those
who replied to toasts were Messrs. VIII
liam Taggart and Francis Grove.
Mrs. Sankey Bacon, wife of DR.. Bacon,
L. S. n, entertained at luncheon We'd
nesday.
Miss Margaret L. yesterday is giving a
tea this afternoon in honor of Miss Pen
nebaker, a debutante this season. Miss
Winship. Miss Mary Womble and Miss
Helen Williams will assist.
Cards have been received from Texar-
kama, Tex, announcing the approaching
marriage of Representative Norris Shep-
pard of the first Texas district and Miss
Lucille Sanderson. also of Texarkana. The
marriage will take place at o'clock the
evening of December ] at the First Pres
byterian Church and they will leave inn
mediately for this city. The bride-elect
TeXarkana. She graduated last year
from Randolph Macon College, Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donnell Swami of Balti-
more gave a theater party at the Mary
land last evening, followed by supper at
the Belvedere in honor of their guest,
Miss Louise Cromwell, debutante OF the
winter here. The other guests were Mr..
and Mrs. John Sawyer Wilson, jr.; Mrs.
Dallett Fl Wilson, Misses Lippett, Provi-
dence, r. L.; Frances Brooks, Katharine
Daingerfield: Messrs. Walter B. Brooks,
jr.; John Gilmor and Frank Key Howard.
Miss Nettie l.. Brooke, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs j. F. Brooke of Capitol Hill,
left for New York today, where she will
stay with her aunt.
Among the dinner givers last night was
Mrs. Guidet Duryee, whose guests were
Maj and Mrs. David D. Porter. Miss
Marguerite Barbour, Miss MARI Duryee,
Mr.. Jack Siebert, Baron Hardenbroeck
of the German embassy staff, Mr.. Will
liam Bowie Clarke and Mr.. Brewster
Reamey. The entire party went later to
the Noel House ball.
Representative and Mrs. Thetus w.
Sims have sent out invitations for the
marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth
Virginia, and Mr. Louis Brownlow We'd
nesday December %, at o'clock, at
1f1O Massachusetts, avenue.
Miss Reba S. Fisher, the charming
young daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
II. Fisher of 1907 r street northwest, is
visiting the southern cities of Norfolk
Richmond. Pinehurst. Savannah and
Tampa. She expects to return home for
the Christmas holidays
Mrs. Emile Karst of ST. Louis, Mo-, is
visiting her cousin. Mr.. Edward A. Tay-
Tor. at his home in this city. Mr.. Emile
Karst is quite well known in Washington
and was the French consul at ST. Louis
for several years. He is also well known
in musical circles.
Ambassador and Mrs. David Jayne Hill,
who We're at home to callers yesterday
afternoon at the Arlington. had the pleas
ure OF seeing scores and scores OF old
friends, to whom the opportunity of pay
ing their respects came just along with
the pleasant sentiment of the day. They
received in the II street annex, and had
with them for the afternoon their guest,
Miss Dorothy Van Dyke of Princeton, n.
j., and Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Foster.
There was a tea table and it's accompany
ing cheer to add to the sociability of
the occasion, which brought together
IldHy Hluludl lTleuuS Ill DOlH OlilCldI dHu
resident circles. Ambassador and Mrs.
Hill are going to New York in few
days, and their stay there will be the
counterpart of what it has been here-a
series of lunches, dinners, etc, with nota-
bies in public and private life. They have
arranged to sail within two weeks for Eu-
rope to resume life in Berlin. Yesterday
they lunched with Mr.. and Mrs. James
Brown Scott and dined with Mr.. and
Mrs. George w. Brown last night.
The minister of Switzerland. DR.. Paul
Ritter, and Nine. Ritter entertained at a
dinner last evening, when their guests
were the minister of the Netherlands and
Nine. Loudon, the counselor of the Ger
Stumm, Herr Won PrittwitZ and Lieut..
Won Bruening of the German embassy
and Mr.. Henry Martin, secretary of the
legation of Switzerland.
The pleasur which would naturally at
tend an entertainment in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Merriam so
long and prominently connected with pub
lie affairs in Minnesota and in this city,
was enhanced yesterday by their Thanks
giving hospitality, which was to present
their attractive young daughter, Miss
Laura Merriam, to society. The nosegays
sent the debutante and the floral adorn-
real bower. The hostess, in a becoming
gown of pink charmeuse with silver and
rhinestone garntture and bertha of old
point lace and the debutante who wore
white liberty satin and chiffon and car
rled white roses. met the guests in the
first drawing room. Mrs. Clarence Ed
wards, Mrs. John Merriam and Miss Cook
presided at the tea table. and also as
sisting were Miss Helen Taft, Miss Eu-
dora Glover, Miss GLADYS HinckIev Miss