Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

| OM1NGS and goings have been of
more interest the past week. and
are this than doings of a social
~ description. which except in iso-
/ lated cases have been largely
official, and the dates of which have been
regulated by necessity rather than choice.
In a week it will all pop again merrily
with few prelminaries for the home
! for Easter contingency Saturday, the real
| parade Sunday of new gowns and nil
| linery if the weather serves, and a siren
uous time for the popular bellies and
| heaux for the fortnight thereafter There
| were many absentees from official ranks
| the past week, little trips here and there,
either for health or shopping interests,
/ and there will be many more the next
| few days.
| Mrs. Taft and her sister, Mrs More.
spent several days in New York. very
quiet ones, in a social sense. bat busy
with shopping and other outings. In
few days more Miss Helen Taft. Mr.
| Robert Taft and their college friends Will
be at the White House. and from Easter
/ Monday night for which their dance is
| planned. until the last hour of their non
| day their participation in the spring
| gayetes will be frequent
| The American ambassador to England
/ and Mrs. Whiteaw Reid are at Cannes,
where they have villa for the season.
! A large house party will assemble at
Wrest Park at Whitsuntide with Mr..
and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. who will then
entertain ex-President and Mrs. Roose-
/ Welt and their daughter, Miss Ethel
| Roosevelt
A roller skating craze which has
| amused a number of the younger set
/ throughout the I.enten season has day
| as indoor plea sures are no longer to be
considered by the athletically minded If
spring weather attracts. Recently in
Rome thirty young people danced quad
| rifle on skates before the king and
queen with a charming effect, as all the
| young ladies wore white with becoming
Cossack caps edged with fur. and the
men wore similar caps with colored
/ sashes worn decoration-wise.
| Mr. and Mrs Francis j. Carolan. SON
| in-law and daughter of Mrs. Pullman,
are entertaining Miss Eleanor Sears of
/ California. She has electrified the coun-
| tryside by choosing ) am. for her first
horseback ride each day.
| Mrs. Thackara. wife of the American
consul in Berlin. who has been in Paris
lately visit to Mrs. George B. New
ton was given tea by her hostess. NJ
Jules Boeufve, formerly of the French
embassy here. and more latterly French
consul in Berlin, was among the guests.
/ The marriage of Miss Mildred Carter,
daughter of the American minister at
/ Bucharest. and Lord AchesOn will take
place in June in London, the exact date
not being settled yet. Mrs. Carter
| and her daughter have followed Mr.. Car
| ter TO his new post. staying in Paris en-
| route. The arrangements for the we'd
| ding hinge in a certain degree on the
marriage of Miss Margaretta Drexel, which
| is also to be in London after the latter's
return there from attendance at the mar
| riage of her brother Anthony Drexel, jr..
with Miss Marjorie Gould. Mr.. and Mrs.
/ Drexel and their daughter will sail from
England April .. and the wedding will be
ten days later in New York. Their stay
/ in this country will be only five days.
As far as Miss Carter and Miss Drexel
are concerned. the first married is to
claim the other as bridesmaid.
| Lady Theo Acheson, sister of Miss Car
| ters tiance will be bridesmaid at both
weddings. Miss Drexel has also chosen
| Lady Hastings. and Miss Constance
Combe, daughter of Lady Constance
Combe.
Miss Mabel Louise Haskin. daughter of
| Mr. and Mrs John Bussing HaSkin of
| New York, whose engagement has just
been announced, is a granddaughter of
Representative John B. Haskin. and
counted one of the most attractive women
| in New York. The Haskin family is
widely known socially. and is prominent
In society affairs at Washington as we'll
as New York. Miss Haskin has an
nounced her engagement to William Ar
thur Finn, wealthy Pittsburger.
Senator du Points window lodges at his
| Massachusetts avenue home have their
usual spring filling of bright-hued jon
quils.
| Mrs. l.. Z. Letter will go abroad In June
to remain until September, when she will
return to spend the fall in her new place,
at Beverly, Mass.
/ Mr. and Mrs Herbert Wadsworth en-
tertained at dinner Thursday night, fol-
| lowed by musical, for which a number
of additional guests were invited
| Mrs. Harriet DENLY Wilkes, sister of
Representative DENLY, who has been
| hostess for her brother for several sea-
sons. and who was chairman of the enter
| tainment committee of the Congressional
| Club the past winter Is arranging a
tableau from political life for the series
to be given for the benefit building fund
of the House of Mercy, at Continental
Hall early in April.
Now that the work of completing Con-
| tinental Hall is drawing to a splendid
finish and the annual congress almost at
| hand. a certain amount of mild excite
| ment reigns among the u. A. r. of the
District, and anything written the
| subject is of interest to the many who
comprise this wonderful organization of
| women. In reading of the many gifts
presented TO Continental Hall the writer
! has failed to mention of one of the
most important we'll one of the
| most beautiful that has been made thus
/ far, namely the beautiful mahogany
| chair donated by the Continental Danes