Evening star., 1909-04-30
N THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MRS. TAFT TO GIVE FOUR GAR
DEN PARTIES NEXT MONTH.
Cards for the First Sent Out Today.
Other Sociabilities-Per-
sonal Notes.

Mrs Taft sent out cards today for a
garden party Friday, May Z. from 5 to T..
She will give three other Friday garden
parties. May IA. 21 and 2S.
Mrs. Taft received yesterday afternoon
the members of the Womans Civic Fed
Grafton. now holding its meetings here.
Some OF those present were Mrs. Samuel
Spencer. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Miss
Tuckerman, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs.
Brock of Philadelphia and Mrs. George
Hartman of New York.
Mrs. Willi0m A. Edwards of California,
sister of the President, is q guest at the
White House
The President and Mrs. Taft and Mrs
Edwards will attend the theater tonight.
The French ambassador and Nine Jus
serand entertained at dinner last night
in honor of the Secretary of State and
Mrs. Knox. The other guests were the
Attorney General and Mrs. Wickersham.
Justice and Mrs Holmes. Senator and
Mrs. Lodge. Senator Root. the Persian
| minister. the Danish minister and Coun-
tess MOltke, Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Fos-
ter, the assistant secretary of state and
Mrs. Huntington Wilson, MIR. and Mrs.
Nelson 'Shaughnessy, ex-Gov. John Lee
Carroll and the French counselor and
Nine. Lefevre-POntalis.
Miss Foraker and Miss Cockrell were
hostesses at dinner given last night at
Great Falls in honor of Miss Ide. soon
to leave this country for Spain, and Miss
Emory. bride Of the coming week. In
the party were Representative and Mrs.
and Mrs. Preston Gibson. Miss Katherine
Elkins, Miss Eleanor Terry, Miss Cam
eron, Miss Fay, Mr.. William Hit, Mr..
c. r. Simpkins, Mr.. Oden Horstmann.
Mr.. Ovey of the British embassy and
Lieut.. Camperio Of the Italian embassy.
Mrs. Bryce wife of the British am
bassador, was hostess at a small tea yes
terday. Pink and white roses and carna-
tions with maidenhair ferns adorned the
drawing rooms. Mrs. kennard. wife of
the third secretary of the embassy. and
Miss Adams presided at the tea table.
Miss Josephine Durand. daughter Of
Sir Mortimer Durand. former British am
bassador, was entertained at a dinner of
eighteen last night by Miss Marion Oliver.
daughter of the assistant secretary of war
and Mrs. Robert Shaw Oliver. whose
guest she is. The guests were all young,
and were chaperoned by Representative
Mrs. Sherman was the guest of honor
at. luncheon given yesterday by Mrs.
Frank Moss.
Mrs. John c. Fremonts tea yesterday
for her cousin. Mrs. Frederick Amy OF
New York. was one cf the happiest events
of the spring. bringing together. as 1t did,
number of congenial friends OF the
hostess and the guest of honor, who. as
VNoc ofn
quaintances here. Mrs. Anderson OF Phila-
delphia, mother of the hostess. who is on
visit to her daughter. and the Misses
Fremont also assisted. The drawing room
and dining room were decked with 1ow-
ers.
Mrs. James F. Hood entertained at
luncheon yesterday in honor Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick c. Collins and Miss Liv-
ingston Of Caldwell n. j.
Miss May Jameson. daughter of DR..
and Mrs. A. B. Jameson of this city,
has just returned from Peking, China.
where she has been residing for the
past year with her brother. Mr.. J. Paul
Jameson. at the American legation. The
announcement is made OF her engage
ment to Prof. William Evans Bryant "
England. now head of the English de-
partment in the College of Languages
at Tientsin. North China. The wedding
will take place in the early autumn.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Buhrig of this
city are among the passengers VINO VIII
sail tomorrow aboard the steamship
Grosser Kurfuerst of the North German
Lloyd line from New York to Bremen
Mrs. Edward Lloyd. 26O4 Connecticut
avenue, will be at home tomorrow,
May 1.
The marriage of Miss Susie F. Jones.
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones OF
Dickerson, Md. to Mr.. Albert d. Vein
never of Washington took place We'd
nesday evening. April IS. at the home
of the brides sister, Mrs. William L.
Mockbee. 1416 18th street northwest.
Miss Flora Shinn has recently return
cd to her home from Denver. Col. where
she has been since last October. she
also visited in Cleveland. Ohio. and Pitts
burg. Pa upon the return trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Cannon have
returned from their wedding trip. and
will be with Mrs. Gannon's parents. MIR.
and Mrs. Tallmadge A. Lambert. 2sD
Massachusetts avenue. until the middle
OF June, when they leave for Deer Park.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Emmert have as
their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Marx Stern of
New York for a weeks stay.
Mr.. George W. Firor and family of
1898 w street northwest have moved to
Graceham Md. and will make their fu-
ture home in that village.
A surprise birthday party was given
last Tuesday in honor of Mr.. A. Allen at
his residence $50 street southeast.
Music was rendered by Misses Ruth May.
Katie Taylor and Annie kienle. Those
present were Misses Katie Taylor. Lena
Taylor. Irene Havener. Ethel Milstead.
Ruth Sands. Ivis Duty. Annie kienle,
Pauline Duty. Ruth May. Elsie Taylor.
Lillian Mulloy. Thurl Lowe, Messrs.
Leroy Naylor Ernest Volt Willard
Ross. Percy Davis. Parker Kienle. James
Norfolk, Henry kienle. Windsor Taylor.
Raymond Mulloy. Frank Taylor. Mr.. and
Mrs. Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes. Mr.
and Mrs. Allen. Mr.. and Mrs. Lowe. Mr..
and Mrs. Mulloy and Mr.. and Mrs.
kienle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gof and Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Henry Butler were among the
dinner hosts Of last night
Miss Ethel Roosevelt will be here next
week on a visit to her sister. Mrs. Long
worth
Mrs. James Robert Mckee and her
daughter. Miss Mary Lodge Mckee, left
yesterday for India napolis. after visit
of ten days with Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Lee.
Mrs. Newgarden. wife of Maj. George j.
from until : o'clock. at their home on
Massachusetts avenue. The tea table
had a dainty centerpiece Of ferns and
white roses. Mrs. Mcintyre poured tea