The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-09

j CIub-Wickershams Are Hosts.
Vice President Sherman was the guest
OF honor at dinner last evening of Mr..
S. p. Neale. Mrs Sherman. who came
here last week TO attend the debut tea
of Miss Taft at the White House and
to open her own home in Sixteenth
street returned to Utica last Sunday 10
be with her mother. Mrs Babcock. for
a few days. She spent the week-ends
with her mother last year, and will
probably do the same this year, so long
as Mrs Babcock remains in feeble
health She has been i'll this week. and
Mrs. sherman will not return be-
fore next Tuesday.
Miss Helen Taft viii so to Baltimore
to-day for a round OF entertainments
planned in her honor. and TO attend the
first Monday German, next Monday
evening, when the forty or more
debutantes in BaIumores smart circle
viii make their first bows to society.
Miss Taft will be the guest of Miss
Christine Marburg, daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs Theodore Marburg. who will enter
tain at dinner dance for her this even
ing. Miss Marhurg's aunt, Miss Marburg,
will entertain at a dinner and theater
party for her tomorrow evening.
Miss Taft was among the guests of
Miss Julia Whiting yesterday afternoon.
at her coming-out tea, and last evening
she was the guest for whom Mr. Oden
Horstman entertained a dinner com
pany al the quaint and exclusive Alibi
Club.
on Sunday Walter n. Poultney will
give a dinner in Miss Tafts honor. A
number OF guests viii be asked for a
musicale following the dinner.
The Attorney General and Mrs. Wick
ersham entertained at dinner last even
ing, with the Secretary Of the Interior
and Mrs. Ballinser as guests of honor.
The others were Postmaster General
| Hitchcock Assistant Secretary OF War
and Mrs. Oliver, Rear Admiral VAIN
wright, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Brown
son. Gen and Mrs. Henry G. Sharpe,
Mrs. l. z. Letter. Miss Mary Carlisle,
and Mr.. Benjamin NJ Cable, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce and Labor.
Mrs. James Pinchot entertained a COM
PAM at dinner last evening in honor OF
her daughter. Lady tombstone. wife Of
the British Minister to Denmark. who is
spending a few weeks with her mother
and brother, Mr. Clifford Pinchot
Col and Mrs. Albert c. Hilton. OF New
York. are in Washington for a month.
and have taken an apartment at the
Highlands for that time. They have with
them Miss Barbara Carroll Trego and
Mr.. Carroll Trego. children OF Mrs.
Hilton by her first marriage. She was
the widow OF Mr. Albert Trego. OF Bal
timore, and was married TO Col Hilton
several years ago in New. York He is
a son OF the late Judge Hilton. of New
York.
Mrs. Theodore H Tiller win be at
home on Fridays during the season In
her apartments at the Dresden.
/ Miss Lota Robinson. who spends q part
Of every season in Washington, is es-
tablished in her apartment in New York
for the winter, but will spend the Christ
mas holidays with her sisters. Mrs. Rich
ard North and Mrs George Mordecai,
in Baltimore.
Mrs Frank Chisholm spent the early
part of the week in Baltimore as the
guest Of Mrs. Frank Martin
Nine. Camperio wife of Lieut. Fiiippo
Camperio. who was formerly Miss FL
eanor Terry, was seen at the opera in
New York on Tuesday evening, and
much admired. She wore a gown OF
fNart7f
lace. and looked extremely we'll Lieut.
and Mrs. Camperio will sail for the for
mer's home, in Italy. Tomorrow. and
| spend the winter in Venice and at the
home Of Lieut.. Camperio's mother near
Milan.
Col. George Barnett, q. S. NJ c., has
taken an apartment at the Clinton in
Philadelphia for the wintef. where he
will be joined by Mrs. Barnett shortly.
] He is now commanding officer of the
marine barracks at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard. Mrs. Barnett was well known in
society here as Mrs. Basil Gordon. and
was married TO Col Barnett on the eve
OF his departure for Japan, where he
was stationed for several years
Mrs Matthew T. Scott president gen.
eral of the D. A r.. will go TO Detroit
next month, and will be the guest of
honor at a banquet TO be given by the
Louisa st. Clair Chapter. d. A r.. on
January 70, at the Pontchartrain She
viii be the guest of Mrs. James p. Bray
ton, former State regent of Michigan.
Mr.. Clarence B. Rheem will leave to-
day for Princeton TO visit his son, Ed
uund Domer Rheem. sophomore, who
contained the freshman baseball team
last year They will go to New York to
be the guests OF Mr. Charles B. Han
ford, leading man with Olga Nethersole
at the New Theater. Mr.. Rheem viii re-
turn TO Washington some time next week
He has but recently recovered from a
/ serious Illness. Mrs. Rheem returned
early this week from Philadelphia, where
she was the guest Of Mrs. Frank Sorger.
She also made visits to her son at
Princeton and to Mr. Bernard Shir-CHff,
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Shir-
| Cliff, at the University of Pennsylvania,
a scholarship pupil there.