Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-17
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
MRS. ROOSEVELT WILL BE
} HOSTESS TONIGHT.
A Number of Dinners Will Precede
Weddings-Travel Plans.
Personal Notes

| Mrs. Roosevelt will receive the guests
| tonight at the third and last Bachelors
cOtillon. 1t will be held as usual at
the New Willard, and there will be quite
a number of out-of-town guests. Col.
Charles L. McCawley will lead. About
80 couples will dance.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall Hagner will en-
terrain at a large dinner tonight at Rau-
scher's in compliment to Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, all the party going on later
| to the ball.
! Mrs. Taft, wife of the President-eIect.
| who arrived here with him yesterday, left
for New York this morning. She spent
restful day yesterday at the Boardman
residence. 1t was partly her intention
last night to stop in Philadelphia today
| to meet Miss Taft and have her go on to
New York with her, but the latter will
| join her shortly. Mrs. Tafts special bust
ness in New York is to have the fitting
of her inaugural ball gown begun. Miss
Tafts ball dress and other accessories
/ required for the 4th of March are also
objects which will receive attention this
week from Mrs. Taft.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore H. Tiller of 1870
| Massachusetts avenue northwest leave
Friday for Norfolk to witness the return
Of the fleet. While there they will be
guests of Miss Minnie Quinn.
twenty young people at dinner tonight
taking the party afterward to the Beche-
lors' cotillon.
| The Japanese ambassador and Baroness
Takahira will give a dinner tonight
|
| Mr. and Mrs LIE Baron Carleton Colt
of Bristol. r. L., are at the Shoreham
They are here to attend the wedding to-
morrow of Miss Shelby Converse, Mrs.
Colts sister. and Mr.. Huntington VOL
colt Jackson.
| The Secretary of Agriculture and Miss
Wilson entertained at dinner last evening
at the New Willard in honor of the Presi-
| dent and Mrs. Roosevelt. The guests
were Senator Francis T.. Warren, Senator
| and Mrs j. P. Dolliver. Senator and Mrs.
| Philander G. Knox. Senator and Mrs.
| Robert J. Gamble. Senator and Mrs. AL
| bert B. Cummins, Miss Cannon, Miss
| Boardman. Mrs NJ. A. Hanna, Mrs James
W. Pinchot Mrs. Stanley Matthews, the
| former Postmaster General and Mrs.
| James A. Gary of Baltimore, Representa-
! tive and Mrs. Charles F. Scott. Repre-
| sentative and Mrs. William p Hepburn,
Representative and Mrs. f. NJ. Pollard,
Representative G. A. Kennedy. Prof. and
Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, Prof. and Mrs.
! Willis l.. Moore, Mr. and Mrs William e.
| Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Wallace of
| Des Moines, Iowa: Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
| Ingham of Des Moines, Iowa: Mr. Louis
| Lombard of New York. Mr.. Clifford Pin
chot and Mr. Jasper Wilson.
The Italian ambassador and Baroness
Mayor des PlancheS were dinner hosts
last night for Miss Ethel Roosevelt. In
the company to meet her We're Countess
TJ,ic MD fnrff
eSS Marguerite Moncheur. Miss Martha
Bacon and Miss Corinne Robinson, niece
| of the President: Miss Dorothy Tucker
| man and Miss Helen Coster. who are
guests at the White House: Miss Rogers,
Miss Carrie Louise Mum. Miss Mathilde
Townsend. Miss Katherine Elkins, Messrs.
| William L. Wood and Fairfield Osborne,
| White House guests: Capt. Cheney. Lieut..
Shackford: Mr.. Ovey, Count Iorok ana
| Prince Windisch-Graetz, Mr.. Won Pritt-
witt und Gaffron, Mr.. Janssens, Signor
Centaro and Signor Cora.
The Brazilian ambassador and Nine.
Nabuco had dining with them last night
the Secretary of State and Mrs. Bacon,
the Japanese ambassador and Baroness
Takahira, Justice and Mrs. Holmes, Wis.
count de Alte, Portuguese minister: the
Argentine minister and Sonora de POrtela,
| the assistant secretary Of state and Mrs
o Laughlin. the assistant SECRETARY of war
and Mrs. Oliver. Mrs. Bayard. the Austrian
naval attache and Baroness PreuSchen
Won und I'll Liebenstein, Miss de Lager
crantz, Miss Nabuco, the second Brazilian
secretary and Nine. Chermont, Prince
Kouda chef, the Hon. II. F. Charters, Mr..
do Amaral and Mr. Vianna-kelsch.
| ron entertained at dinner last night the
Colombian minister and Sonora de CorteS
Justice and Mrs. Brewer, Representative
and Mrs. Lamar. Mr. and Mrs. Oxnard,
Miss Perie Anderson, Miss Calderon
Charles II. Butler and Manuel de Freyre y
Santander, Peruvian charge affaireS
! Representative and Mrs. Dwight gave a
dinner last night. when their guests were
| the Secretary of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs. Strauss the Belgian minister and
Baroness Moncheur. the Greek minister,
Representative and Mrs. Bourke Cochran.
Miss Margaret Cameron. Miss Maud Wet
more and Representative DENLY.
Gen. Arson Mills entertained at dinner
last night in honor of the Speaker, the ad-
ditional guests being Commissioner West.
Senator Culberson, Mr.. Justice Shepard,
Mr.. c. c. Glover. Gen. Goodloe, Admiral
Casey Gen Johnston. Gen. Harries. Gen
Woodruff, Maj. Phillips, Col Thompson.
Lieut.. Lahm, Capt. Hagood, Mr.. kehlin-
ger and Capt. Overton.
Nine Cruz wife of the minister of
Chile. entertained a large party at lunch
con today a farewell compliment to
Nine. Godoy, wife of the Mexican min
lister to Cuba.
The marriage of Miss Blanche Naomi
Thompson. daughter of DIR. and Mrs
Henry c. Thompson. and Mr.. Fred White
Holt, passed assistant paymaster, US. N.
will take place tonight at Calvary Baptist
Church. The officiating clergymen will
be Rev. A. F. Anderson of Harrisburg.
Pa, uncle Of the bride, and Rev Mr.
SpOoner of this city. The brides attend
ants will be Miss katherine Gusts, maid
of honor. and Misses Leila Belle Heron
Edna Roberts and Helen Thompson of
this city and Miss Effie May Wagner of
Montgomery. Ala, as bridesmaids. Little
Miss Josephine Anderson of Harrisburg
Pa, will be flower girl. Mr.. Seaborn Holt
will attend his brother best man, and
Paymasters Macdonald. Browning, Adee
| and Nesbitt will be ushers.
The former minister of Haiti and Nine
Leger and their nieces, the Misses Bourke
went to New York yesterday, and will
sail the last of the week for Haiti. A
large party of South and Central Ameri-
can diplomats and their wives and daugh-
tiers, as we'll as other friends, were at the
station to bid them goodbye Nine.
Leger and the Misses Bourke were show
cred with flowers and parting gifts, and
the occasion was one of genuine feeling
on all sides. The Mexican minister to
Cuba and Nine. GodOy, and their daugh-
ter, Miss Godoy; the minister of Bolivia
and Nine. Calderon, Miss Calderon, the
Mr.. and Nine GuZman, Mr.. John Barrett,
Mr. nd