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Senator Kean and Miss Kean were din.
ner hosts last night for Secretary and
Mrs. Knox and large party.
Mrs E. H. G. Slater entertained at
dinner last night In honor of the Secre-
tary OF the Treasury and Mrs. Mac
Veagh.
Mr.. Justice and Mrs Harlan enter
tained at dinner last evening for the
Secretary Of War and Mrs. Dickinson,
when their other guests were Mr.. Justice
Wickersham. the Postmaster General.
Mrs. Pullman, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Hunt. Miss Bryan, Miss Harlan and DR.
Radcliffe.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Meyer met a large party at dinner given
in their honor at the Country Club last
night, with Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Story as
hosts.
Gen. Buchanan and Miss Buchanan had
a company at dinner last night to meet
the former Governor OF Montana ana
Mrs. Toole. who are here on visit. The
latter was Miss Rosecrans, daughter OF
Gen. Rosecrans. and lived here before
her marriage. Mr.. and Mrs. William B.
Ridgely. Mrs. Harlow. Miss Helen Hunt,
Davis, Capt. Davis and Mr.. Samuel Mad
dox were the other guests.
Mr. John Barrett save a dinner last
night. when his guests were the Mexican
! Sonora de Cortes, Sonora de la Tore,
the Bolivian minister and Sonora de Cal
deron, Senorita Calderon, the Peruvian
minister Mime. Thierry and Mr. and Mrs.
Yanes. Mr.. Barrett will give dinner
tomorrow night. with a hundred guests,
including the Vice President, the Secre-
tary OF State and the Latin-American
ambassadors and ministers, who consti-
tute the governing board OF the bureau
OF American republics.
Mr.. and Mrs Nathaniel Simpkins gave
a young peoples dinner last night. when
their guests were Miss Louise HELEN, Miss
Dorothy Gardner Williams. Miss Alice
Damrosch of New York. Miss Evelyn
Peters. Miss Faith Simpkins. Mr.. Arthur
HELEN. Mr.. Edgar Mum and Mr.. James
Dennis of New York.
Gen. and Mrs. Oliver and Miss Oliver
were in Albany yesterday for the we'd
ding of their relative, Miss Alice R.
Bow wditch. to Mr.. Charles Francis Sturgis.
The couple will sail Saturday for Europe.
One of the most noted weddings of the
New York season is likely to be that of
Miss Nora Langhorne. daughter of Col
Chiswell D. Langhorne. OF Albemarle
county, Va, to Mr.. Paul Phipps Of Lon
don, England. The ceremony will be at
ST. James Church. Madison avenue and
list street, April 28. Miss Langhorne's 8
attendants will be the Misses Gertrude
Sheldon, Nathalie Howland and Kath-
crime Atterbury of this city. Ella Durck
Of Richmond, Va. and Julia Biddle OF
Philadelphia. There will also be two
children in attendance, Irene Gibson and
| Nancy Perkins. Mr.. Richard Phipps will
act as his brothers best sman.
Mr. and Mrs Thomas Nelson Page are
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night at the American embassy.
| The Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs.
Meyer are taking possession OF the Nor
| gan house on Rhode Island avenue. The
house. which was built by former Senator
]. Donald Cameron. was subsequently
| purchased by Mrs. d. p. Morgan. who
made 1T her residence while she lived
| here. Other temporary tenants have been
Mr.. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and the
Chinese special ENJOYS last fall. and for
! several years Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Bel
mont.
Mrs. ]. W. Pilling gave luncheon to-
day.
The former Vice President and Mrs.
Levi p. Morton are making a stay at their
/ home on Rhode Island avenue. which Mr..
John Hays Hammond has leased for next
season.
| Senator and Mrs. Depew have issued in
vitations to large dinner party on April
q to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday
Of the former.
i Mr.. and Mrs George E. Hamilton have
dinner invitations out for April 80. to
meet the Vice President and Mrs. Sher-
man.
Mrs. James Robert Mckee and her
daughter. Miss Mary Lodge Mckee, one
of the Washington debutantes OF last
season. is expected today from Atlantic
City, to be the guests of Mrs. Arthur Lee,
Mrs. Elkins will entertain at luncheon
In honor of Mrs. Mckee tomorrow.
Capt. and Mrs. Warren Beach OF New
York and Washington gave their first
dinner party of the spring season last
evening at their home here. Music fol-
lowed the dinner. Capt. and Mrs Beach
will entertain house party OF New
Miss Elizabeth Howry entertained at
cards yesterday in honor OF her house
guests, Miss Ottley OF Atlanta and Miss
Borden of Raleigh, N. c. Mrs. Howry
will entertain at bridge Saturday after
noon in honor of her house guest,
Mrs Charles Barnard of Syracuse. n. Y,
who is visiting here with Mr.. Barnard
Secretary Dickinson accompanied by
Mrs Dickinson and Maj. Gen. j. Franklin
4 Bell, chlef or SLaH. VIII leaNc next Sun-
| day evening for Charleston, s. c.. where
| they will embark next Tuesday afternoon
on the Mayf1ower for a cruise to Colon to
personally inspect the Panama canal.
| On the way south the party will spend
next Monday at Fort Monroe to inspect
the batteries installed at that military
post.
Lieut.. Col and Mrs. Erasmus NJ.
Weaver have issued invitations for the
marriage of their daughter. Leize
| Holmes, to Lieut.. Watts Rose, United
States Coast Artillery Corps, at ST. Johns
| Church, at noon Tuesday, April 20.
| The engagement has been announced of
Miss Helen Gill, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Gill of this city. and
niece of Prof. Theodore Nicholas Gill, to
Dr. Charles Edward Lyon of Princeton
University. DR.. Lyon is the son of Mrs.
and the late James w. Lyon OF Balti-
| more, and is nephew of Mr.. Samuel II.
| Lyon also of that city.
| The wedding will take place early in
the autumn and the couple will live In
Worcester, Mass, where DIR. Lyon has
accepted professorship- In Clark College.
Miss Roma Clarke Of the Northampton
| entertained at a tea yesterday in honor
of her guest. Miss Effie McAilister of
Greensville. s.. c. Mrs. John Gheen and
Mrs. Webster presided at the tea table
and Miss Fenwick. Miss Kondrup and
Miss Johnson assisted.