Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-24
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
CHRISTMAS PLEASURES FOR
PRESIDENT AND CABINET.
Miss Diapers Debut Ball Brilliant
Triumph-Dinners-Per-
sonal Notes.

The President and Mrs. Taft and their
family circle will spend Christmas to-
gether at the White House. With Mrs.
Tafts improving health, which evidently
permits her every enjoyment save the
fatigue of social affairs, the holiday as
sumes an Importance in the family calen-
dar which outweighs every other con-
sideration with the first one in the White
House
The Vice President and Mrs. Sherman
are at their Utica home among their
| family and old friends.
The Speaker and his granddaughters are
rival attractions of his family circle at
Danville, ILL.,. where Miss Cannon and
her sister, Mrs. lie Seure, will entertain
throughout the week.
The cabinet families are mostly here
today, and will be tomorrow. This is
true of Secretary and Mrs. Knox, whose
! family party was completed by the ar
rival of Phlander c. Knox, jr., from
college; Secretary and Mrs. Ballinger.
| whose son, Edward Bradley Ballinger,
just returned from college. is at the
Shoreham with them: Secretary and Mrs.
| MacVeagh, who are at their 10th street
home: Secretary and Mrs. Dickinson,
whose Christmas cheer will revolve about
| their baby grandchild; Secretary and
Miss Wilson. the latter just back for the
holidays from a concert tour, and Secre-
tary and Mrs. Nagel. with a family party
of youngsters to enjoy the day with them.
The Attorney General and Mrs Wicker
sham and their young daughter have gone
to Cedarhurst, L. L.. to spend week
with their son and his wife. Postmaster
General Hitchcock, the bachelor Of the
IN the World TO choose
from for the place and time OF his
Christmas dinner.
Cen and Mrs. Diapers debut ball last
night for their young daughter, Miss
Margaret Preston Draper. warranted all
the advance enthusiasm which the young
er set and others Of their friends have
been INDUCING in since 1t was first men
suished one which is only possible at
the capital, and the occasion established
q precedent In the way OF ball giving
| for the season Lovely flowers, many OF
| which Were sent the debutante from
among the wealthiest OF the resident
| families, adorned the house. The holiday
| spirit was in evidence in the mistletoe
| and holly sprays. The cotillon favors, OF
| which there were five sets, all Paris
novelties and conceits. included fans and
bonbon boxes, silver desk furnishings.
fancy and most. artistic hats or paper
with small banners decorated In mar
guerites and the debutante's name IN
gold, parasols and canes and fairy wands
and stafrs. made a bewildering mass of
color arranged on a screen In the pail
ROOM There was general dancing from
10 o'clock until after the first supper was
served, at midnight. The cotiiion began
at 1 o'clock, Capt. John Curtis Gilmore,
U. S. A., leading with Miss Draper.
The hostess wore a splendid gown OF
green satin and velvet. on which there
was braided a pattern Of morning glories'
which were outlined with tiny rnlne-
stones.
The debutante wore Paris gown also.
white satin nearly covered with a white
illusion overdress which had a border or
marguerites In silver and crystal beads.
Her necklace string of pearls was the
souvenir of the occasion given her by
| her parents. She wore her name flower
in a corsage bouquet and had half
| garland of marguerites in her hair.
The invited company consisted OF the
Italian amba ssador and Baroness Mayor
des Planches, the Austrian ambassador
and Baroness Hengelmuller. the French
ambassador and Nine. Jusserand. the
Russian ambassador and Baroness ROsen,
tie Brazilian ambassador and Nine. Ma
buoo. the Swedish minister and Nine. de
LagercrantZ, the Norwegian minister and
Nine. GUIDE, the Dutch minister and Nine.
Loudon, the Swiss minister and Nine.
Ritter, the Argentine minister and Nine.
Portela, the Spanish minister. Prince
Kondoeheff. Baroness Bode. Maj. and
Nine. Won Livonius. Count and Countess
. Won Wedel, Miss Helen Taft, Countess
Luise Alexandra Won Bernstorn. Baron
ess Elizabeth Rosen. Miss Nabuco, the
Misses GUIDE. Miss Hildegarde Nagel.
Miss Matilde Townsend. Miss Katherine
Elkins, Miss Jennings. Miss Parish: the
Miss Clover, Miss Dorothy Gardner Will
liams, Miss Gladys Hinckley, Miss Kath-
crime Brown, Miss Mary .McCauley, Miss
Laura Merriam, Miss Sophy Johnston, Miss
10 r1,r{-<
Alice Boutell. Miss Jean Crosby. Miss Mir
/ lam Crosby, Miss Katherine Weeks. Miss
Mary Chew. Miss Chew, Miss Lillian Chew.
Miss Elizabeth Howry, Miss Martha Bow
Miss Carrie Mum. Miss Elsie Downing.
| Miss Mary Carlisle, Miss Finley, Miss
Marion Leutze, Miss Jessie Krogstad, the
| Misses Schroeder. the Misses May, Miss
johnson. the Misses Aldrich. Miss Yvonne
! Townsend. the Misses Sands. Miss Hays
Hammond, Miss Hoyle, Miss Margaretta
Symons. Miss Katherine Britton. Miss
Mclean: Miss Marshall. Miss Esther
Denny, Miss PARROT, Miss Ferolina Per-
| kins. the Misses Goldsborough, Miss
Katherine Putnam. Miss Rebecca Wilmer.
Postmaster General Hitchcock. Mr..
| Robert Taft, Senator and Mrs. Elkins.
the former ambassador to France. Mr..
Henry White: Gen. and Mrs. Edwards,
Admiral and Mrs. Schroeder, Admiral and
Mrs. Rixey, Admiral and Mrs. Clover,
Capt. and Mrs. Switzerland, Commander
and Mrs. Reamey. Mr.. John Barrett, Mrs.
Richard Townsend Miss Boardman, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Weeks, Mr. and
Mrs. Glover, former Gov and Mrs. Mer-
Ram, Mrs. Stanley Mathews Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Marion Johnston. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hennen Jennings, Rev. Roland Cotton
Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Legare.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Legare, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward McCauley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Tuckerman, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Wylie. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Andrews.
Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery Blair Admiral
and Mrs: Emory. Lieut.. and Mrs. Ulysses
8. Grant. Sd. Lieut.. and Mrs. Sherman
Miles, Mr.. and Mrs: Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs.
born. Senator and Mrs. Newlands. Mrs.
and Mrs. Howry, Mr.. and Mrs Sands,
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Francis, Col.
and Mrs. MacOmb, Col. and Mrs. Lay. the
Misses Kean, Gen. and Mrs Oliver Capt
and Mrs. Mclean. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Wadsworth. Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Brad
| ley, Mr.. and Mrs. John Avery McIlhen-
ny. DR.. and Mrs. Fremont Smith. Mr..
and Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Mr. Arthur
Lee, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Weightman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Corcoran Hill, Mr.. and
Mrs. Calf. Mrs. Ludlow, Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Bugher. Mrs. Robert Hinckley.
Mrs. Rayburn. Miss Patten, Mr..
Arthur Goldsborough. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry May, Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler
| Hale, Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitredge, Mr.. and Mrs.
Vaudeville Carlisle. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred