New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-27
BROOKLYN SOCIETY
Headings, Engagements and
announcements.

Of ten covers on Friday at her home. No
Z Pierrepont street The table appoint
ments were in yellow. jonquils and MI
gnonette being artistically combined in the
decorations. The company comprised Mrs.
Frederick A. Dwight, Mrs. Elmer Gioh,
Mrs. John Gibo. Mrs. Simeon r. Chitten-
den. Mrs. Edward H. Litchfed. Mrs. Sam
uel B. Duryea. Mrs. Edward c. Ward. Mrs
Robert Low Perepont and Mrs. John S.
rockingham.
Pink tiger lilies were the uncommon
flowers used in the attractive decorations
at Mrs. Walter ST. John Benedict's second
bridge party. which she gave on Friday
afternoon at her home. No rs Columbia
Heights. Engraved silver backed brushes
were the prizes Among the guests We're
Mrs. A. A. Low, Mrs. John Hill Morgan.
Mrs. George Chauncey, Mrs. Thomas Or
mission Calender, Mrs. William c. Beacher.
Mrs. William Harris Cory, Mrs Maxwell
Lester Mrs. Charles Francis Park, jr. (nee
Beecher1. of Englewood. n. J.; Mrs Sidney
Lowell. Mrs. Camden Crosby Dixie, Miss
Simpson. Miss Keresey. Mrs Edwin Carrie
ton Cranberry. Miss HaXton. Miss AL
niran Mrs. Russell Prentiss, Mrs. George
S Frank, Miss Alice Brinsnade, Miss
Marjorie Prentiss. Miss Frances Williams
Mrs Logan Patteson. Mrs. Wendell Col
ton Miss Adele Bull. Miss Beatrice
Barnes Mrs. William Good. Mrs. Sheldon
Chauncey, Miss Adelaide Chauncey. Mrs
Lowndes Rhctt and Mrs. Sterlin Peters, of
Brooklyn; Mrs. J. Berry Harpending, Mrs.
Henry Knox, Mrs. Medwn Leale Mrs.
Thomas Hopper Beardsley, Miss Bertha
Benedict. Mrs Thayer Adams. Mrs. Charles
Emerson Bigelow, Mrs. William G. Nc
Adoo and Mrs. Martin Ldttleton, of Man
haitian. Mrs John Hill Morgan and Mrs.
Herbert Logan Patteson presided over the
tea table.
The tea given on Wednesday afternoon
by Miss Elizabeth Tousey, daughter Of Mrs.
John Z. Tousey, of No. 80 Henry street,
was a very small and informal affair, Miss
Tousey having asked just few friends in
to meet her sisters. Mrs. Sinclair Tousey,
who before her wedding a few years ago
was Miss Harriet Fowler; Mrs Ralph
Tousey and Mrs. Thomas Hopper Boards
ley tnAe 1oUSey).
Mrs. S Edwin Buchanan, Of No. 100 VIII
/ low street, gave luncheon of eight covers,
! followed by bridge, on Friday. and on the
previous day she was hostess at large
fridge party
! street. was the hostess at large recep-
tion Tuesday afternoon and evening. Being
Wsshington's Birthday. the decorations
were appropriately of red. white and blue
roses carnations and violets being the
flowers used In carrying out the general
color scheme. Music was a feature of the
evening. Paul Dufauit, tenor, gave the
national hymns of the different countries,
the guests joining in when he sang the
American anthem. The hostess, who was
gowned in white satin messaline, with a
garniture Of pearls, was assisted in receiv-
ing by Mrs. Wendell P. Cotton, Mrs. Will
lam II. Good, Mrs. Arthur S. Goodwin,
Mrs. Roscoe c. E. Brown. Miss Elizabeth
butcher. Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt, Miss
Adele Frank, Miss Florence Frank. Mrs.
Edwin l. Snedeker. Mrs. Frank Van An
/ den, Mrs Edward H. Dreier, Mrs William
! NJ Van Anden, Mrs. Augustus Holly. Mrs.
/ Frank D. futile. Mrs. Howard Hadden
! and Mrs William Harris Cary.
4 noteworthy wedding of the last week,
/ though rather quietly solemnized. was that
/ on Tuesday evening of Miss Hazel Colyer,
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs Joseph Henry
Colyer. OF No. $50 ST. Marks avenue, and
Charles Howell German. The bride was
gowned in white satin, deliberately en-
broidered with point lace. Her veil. was
also of point lace. and she carried bride
roses. orchids and Iilies-of-t he-valley. Miss
Marjorie Dennison was the maid of honor,
and Mrs. George Duncan Perry and Mrs
Samuel Care, sisters of the bride, attended
as matrons of honor They wore white
gowns and carried arm bouquets of pink
roses. Robert German his brothers
best man, but there We're no ushers It
was a home ceremony, the rooms being
/ decorated with pink roses and Southern
smiax. A post-nuptial reception will be
given at the Coiyer home on Tuesday
March s, from until O'clock The bride
will be assisted in receiving by her mother
and sisters
An engagement just announced of de-
cded interest on the Park Slope and Hill
is that OF Miss Mildred OBrien. daughter
! Of DR. and Mrs Henry L. O'Brien, of No
! l04 Prospect Park. and De Witt Peterkin.
son Of MIR. and Mrs. Gilbert Peterkin, also
of Brooklyn. Miss O'Brien is a graduate
| OF Dana Hill and was presented to society
at q large reception two years ago
On Friday Of next week Mrs. Cornelius
Zabriskie will give a dinner and the
/ atre party of twelve for her daughter
| Miss Elvia Zabriskie, who has not yet been
formally introduced TO society. The young
! people will see William Collier
! Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Scoyille COrlena
Zabriskie) who went abroad shortly after
their wedding on October %. were In Cairo
Ola Washington's Birthday They are not
expected home until the middle of April
On Thursday afternoon of next week Mrs
Cornelius Zabriskie, Mrs Goodwin, wife of
/ DR.. Goodwin, who succeeded the late DR.
Truman Jay Backus as the president of
| Packer Institute, and Mrs. r. Hunting
| Woodnlan are to receive Informally the
members OF the chorus who are to sing
in the Packer concert on Thursday, March
10. Mrs. Corinre Rider-Kelsey soprano
who, with Dinh Gilly, barytone of the Met
/ ropolitan company, is to assist the club,
/ has been asked the guest of honor. The
reception will be held in the alumnse room
ara the chairmen of the different commit
tees will assist in receiving. The concert
which is to be given in the opera house
of the Academy of Music promises 10 be
most successful from musical as well a s
! social point of view. r. Huntington
WCodman and A chorus of two hundred
have been practising for the affair since
early winter. and the patroness list in
/ ciudes the names of prominent women
! from all sections OF the borough. The