Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-08
in THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
Observation-Disclosures WE'D
DING FIXED FOR JUNE.
A Fifty-Seventh Marriage Anniver-
sary With Kith and Kin.
Other Events.

June oD has been selected as the date
for the marriage of Miss Eleanor But
Ter Alexander. daughter of Mrs. Henry
Addison Alexander. to Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt, ir. The ceremony will be per-
formed in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
Church, New York city. Mr.. and Mrs
Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roose-
welt will leave England June 10. The date
of the wedding has been awaiting their
plans.
1t will be an afternoon wedding, and
the reception which viii be held by Mrs.
Alexander will he in the H; of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles 4. Alexander. No. 4 West
5Sth street. this being much more spacious
than her own house in West iIth street.
The list of invitations for this will be
large No details of the wedding are yet
ready TO be told.
The ambassor from Japan and Baroness
Uchida entertained at dinner last night
in honor of Vice President and Mrs. Sher-
man. Their other guests included the
minister from Portugal. Senator and Mrs
RayneT the secretary of the Senate and
Mrs. Bennett, Prof. Henry c. Emery,
Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Crownnshield,
Mr.. and Mrs. William Phelps Emo, DR.
and Mrs. Takamine of New YORK. Mr.
Odagiri of Japan the Japanese counselor
rotary of the embassy.
Mrs. Julian James gave. a supper
party last night to all the participants in
the historical tabIeauX. Mrs James is
the president of the board of managers
OF the House of Mercy. for which the
entertainment was given. Mr.. Gist Blair
gave a dinner earlier in the evening to the
men who assisted him as uSners.
Rear Admiral Terry and Miss Terry en-
tertained at dinner at the Alibi Club last
night, their guests being Gen. and Mrs.
Clarence Edwards. Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Parsons Mr.. and Mrs Preston Glib
son, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont, Miss
Hagner, MISS Elkns. Miss Parrish. Lieut..
Camperio of the. Italian embassy, Mr..
Simpkins and Mr. Curtis
Mrs. Wyeth gave dinner last night
in honor of her sister, Mrs. Beach Grant,
to meet whom were present Gen. and
Mrs. George l.. Gillespie, Col and Mrs.
Charles c. McCauley. Gen: and Mrs.
F'itzhugh., Miss Sheriff.. Miss Patten,
Count d 'Ademar MIR. William Hayes Ack-
land and Mr. Nathan Wyeth
Mrs. j. Eakn Gadsby gave a pretty
tea yesterday afternoon in honor of Can
on and Mrs Austin. The house was dec
Grated with spring flowers, and Mrs
Charles Buck Mrs. Walter Acker. Mrs.
Forrest Dodge, Miss Watkins and Miss
/ Nellie Acker assisted In the dlnlng room
Mr.. G. c. Cole and Miss Cole have re-
turned to the city and are a the High
lands Miss Coles marriage to Mr.. Rob
ert S. Belknap will take place April p
Mr. and Mrs John Poore were given a
delightful surprise party last night at
their home. 21291a Pennsylvania avenue.
by their children and grandchildren, on
the occasion of their tifty-seventh we'd
inc yaiX- of
grandchildren. numbering seven and
twenty respectively, were on hand to eX-
tend congratulations and to hep the old
folks enjoy the evening. Mr.. and Mrs
Poore are the great grandparents of
eight children. They have been very for
tunate i'll recent years in maintaining
good health They are among the early
risers and are remarkably active consid-
ering their advanced age. Mr.. Poore is
eighty-tWo and Mrs. Poore is seventy
nine At the time of their marriage Mr..
Poore twenty-five and Mrs. Poore
twenty-two They We're the recipients OF
many presents. prominent among them
being many varieties of flowers. of which
they are very fond. The children, namely,
Mrs William Ffyles. Mrs. John Lipscomb,
Mrs. Fred Sommervlle, Mrs Rudolph
Worch, the Misses Loula and Rose Poore
and Mr.. Walter Poore. arranged the af-
fair
MI. How ard Moler and Nh. \. Walter
Collier gave Il dance W enneSUdS night
The dancing room was decorated with
spring flowers and the gathering was
large and a merry one.
Refreshments We're served at intermis-
sion.
Among those present were the Misses
Sheridan. Lyles. Williams, Webster. Tigh.
T. Hines. Meyer. Carey, Morgan. v.
Hines Nelson. Erwin, Hudgel, Belts
Hall, Harris. Hebberd, Burgess. PLACER
Pfeifer. Abbott Mastin and PLACER. and
the Messrs. Becker, Bischoff, Carter,
Erwin Estes Gaddis. Gibbs Horner.
Kimmel Miller, Richie, Rghtstein, Ro-
der. Schaefer, Smoot, Taylor, Thies.
Bailey Osterhout, Dunn, Moler Nolan,
Collier, Cleveland. Munsey and Flood.
The eighth and last of the series OF
.'parlor talks given by Mrs. Kossuth
Niles for the benefit Of st. Thomas
Church will be held tomorrow evening,
Arril a. s % clock, at the residence of Ad
miral and Mrs. e. p. LambertOn. 1919 n
street northwest. Subject, Sweden, Den
| mark, Norway and the Midnight sun
The third annual dance of the Merry
BOYS Club was given last night in the
! Pythian Temple and was the most sue
/ cessful yet In the history of the organza-
| ton. One hundred couples attended, in
| Guiding a number of out-of-town guests.
| The hall was appropriately decorated with
| cut flowers and palms and toward the lat
| ter part of the evening light supper was
| served Browns orchestra furnished the
music for program of twenty-four dance
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