Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05
SOCIETY.
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forward to as an important and interest
ing event of the. new year.

| forward to as an important and interest
ing event Of the. new year.
| Another announcement coming from
Smithfield. Va. has aroused much inter-
est In Richmond, as 1t relates to the en-
| gagement of Miss Grace Day and Mr..
| Henry Gould Ralston Of Miami. Fla.
Miss Day is the sister of Mrs. Thomas
8. Martin. wife of the Virginia senator.
| and has frequently been with Mrs. Mar
| tin In Washington during the winter. She
! is the daughter of Col. Fenton Day of
| Smithfield, and is a tall slender girl,
very graceful with a charming manner
| and personnel.
Prominent among the events Of next
| week in the social world of Richmond
| will be a reception rendered by Mrs. Gran
| vile g. Valentine of Il East Franklin
| street to two of this winters prettiest
LIDS. Misses Rosalie and Cary Valentine
nieces Of Mrs. Valentine. The reception.
| from to pm, will be succeeded by
| dinner and dance in the evening. spe-
cially for the young people: Mrs Val
| entine has lovely colonial home, and is
| q young hostess famous for the beauty
| Of her entertainments. So the reception
| and dance is already reckoned among the
| smartest functions on the December cal
| endar.
The house guests and buds like herself.
Miss Margery Pearson Of Asheville, N.
c., and Miss Eleanor Rabe OF Canton.
Ohio, stood in line with Miss Gwendolyn
| Rutherford and the debutante's parents
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Rutherford. at the
old-fashioned dancing ball which, In
stead Of the conventional tea. marked
Mss Rutherfoord's coming out on We'd
nesday evening Of this week. Mr.. and
Mrs. George D. Mayo, Miss Jane Ruther-
foord. Mrs. Lewis Wheat and the Misses
Wheat assisted in doing the honors at
this extremely pretty revival of old-time
Virginia ways and manners the enter
q OF a. in an
elegant supper In a dining room decorated
with pink roses and mignonette. Miss
Pearson is the daughter of the United
States minister to the Persian court and
| Mrs. Gay Thomas Pearson. a sister OF
Mrs. rutherford, and a former Rich
mond beauty. Therefore, Mrs. Pearson's
old friends here are doing all they can to
render Miss Margerys visit to Richmond
tea In her honor Tuesday afternoon, with
Mrs. and Miss Buck, Mrs. Allen Donnan.
Mrs. Ashton Starke and Mrs. A. D. VII
liams to assist. Decorations were the
Golden Gate roses and lilies or the valley.
The debutante teas have quite engrcssed
the attention of society people this week
Miss Mary Ball Saunders. who was In
troduced Monday afternoon In the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. A.
Saunders, jr.. stood with her mother and
grandmother. and looked quite fetching
in frock OF pink marauisette over satin.
She carried a grandmother's nosegay OF
little pink rosebuds. Mr.. and Mrs. W.
Gray Watson gave a beautiful cotillon In
the ballroom Of the Jefferson Hotel Mon
day evening. when their daughter. Helen
| Gray. was presented. Miss Wattson's
house guest. Miss Bessie Kelley of Nor
| folk, stood with her In the receiving line.
SO did Misses Rosalie and Cary Valentine
and Katherine Gum.
That formidable ordeal, the first dance
Of the Monday german, is now safely
past. and the buds are still talking OF
how we'll Miss Katherine Gum, who led
the dance with Col ]. Lane Stern, looked
in her white chiffon gown embroidered
with silver, contrasting so effectively with
her bouquet of American beauty roses
Miss Mary Saunders, dancing with Mr.
Pope Nash. was in pink and white and
carried orchids; Miss Nancy Patton. In
white lace and pink roses, with Mr.. Ohio
G. Kean: Mrs. Rosalie Valentine in pink
and silver. with Mr.. Otis Alfred: Miss
Lettuce Woodward. In white. with Ameri-
can beauties. and Mr. Charles Bruce;
Miss Lucy Ford Workman. in white and
pearls. with Mr.. Philip st. George Cooke;
Miss Gwendolyn Rutherford. in white
satin, with Mr.. Walter Claiborne; Miss
Margery Pearson, in white crepe, with
Mr.. George Mayo; Miss Elsie Miles Of
the University of Virginia, in pink and
white. with Mr.. Gessner Harrison. Other
visiting girls present were Miss Phinizy
OF Athens, Ga: Miss Caskie of Lynch
burg; Misses Townsend OF Philadelphia:
Miss Dudley Powers Of Detroit; Miss
Virginia Means of Birmingham, Ala.
Miss Mamie Darlington Of South Boston,
Va; Miss Strange Of Greenville. N. c.;
and Miss Dodge OF New York. Mr and
Mrs. Lucy Dabney Robinson of King
William. Va. announce the engagement
of their daughter. Sophie Chapman. to
DR.. William Edward Croxton Of King
William county, the wedding to be cele-
brated late in December.
A ueddrpu NJ dooidad INTEREST IN MANY
people in Richmond will be celebrated
Tuesday evening, December Z, in st.
Pauis Episcopal Church, when Miss
Aiine Jennings, daughter Of Mr.. Leslie
Jennings of Richmond. will be given in
marriage to Mr.. Ernest Campbell Mead,
son of the late E. C. Mead of Keswick.
Va. The Rev. Robert w. Forsyth. rector
of ST. Pauls, will officiate, and Miss
brother. Mr. Robert Jennings. Mrs.
James ]. Pollard, gowned in pale pink,
will be matron of honor. and the Rev.
Otis Mead his brothers best man. The
satin and carry lilies Of the valley. After
the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Mead will
leave at once for a northern wedding
trip. They will have an apartment on
Mr.. Mead will entertain his ushers at
Lakeside Country Club tonight. Several
entert ailments have been given Miss
Jennings this week by Miss Baughman,
the misses Money ana Others Mrs. T..
Lee Morrison Of Buffalo. N. Y, arrived
yesterday, to remain until after the we'd
ding. She was formerly Miss Emily
Jennings. and is sister of the bride.
One Of the prettiest young girls in Rich
mond, who has not yet come out, but
who Is taking preliminary peep at Rich
mond society this season, la Miss Gay
Montague, daughter Of former Gov. Mon
tague and Mrs. Montague. Miss Monta-
que is a very unusual type, combining
auburn hair and brown eyes with a COM
plexiOn like rose leaf. She is very
clearly destined to future belIedom. A
very handsome cotillon was given in the
ballroom of the Jefferson Hotel last even
Ing, in honor of Miss Mary Saunders,
who has just made her debut. The beau
tiful ballroom decorations were in palms,
smilax and Killarney roses. The debu-
tante wore white and carried sheaf of
pink buds. All the young girls con-
shutting Miss Saunders special set in
society were present. After the dance
guests were seated around small tables
at supper. the debutantes' table occu-
plying the center of the room. The Misses
Townsend of Philadelphia and Miss Cas-
kie OF Lynchburg were guests of honor
at a tea given Monday afternoon by Mrs.
Granville Gray. Misses Brent and Ellen
Witt and their house guests, Misses
Mary Stuart Cooke and Elsie Miles Of
the University of Virginia, leave today
to be the weekend guests Of Miss Patty
Lois Hobson of Mount Airy. PowLaian.