Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-04

Graham. Fred J. Nichols. !. +. Howard.
V. l. Richards. George c. Fiickinger and
Arthur NJ. keefer.
The Beta Iota Club held its regular
meeting Saturday. February 70 at the
residence. OF Miss Eleanor Capers. 4u u
| street northeast. After discussing bust
ness. games and music were INDUCED In.
| Miss Kraft won the lady's prize in
smelling contest and Mr.. Kraft the
gentleman's. The Misses F. Schultz. u
Marvin and II. Richmond gave instru.
| mental solos and Miss {. Capers ana
| F.. Campbell vocal The table decora-
tons were in red. white and blue. and
| the favors George Washington hatchets
!, Mr. r. e. Fauntleroy. an examiner IN
| the United States patent Office. and Miss
Mary l.. Pugh were married at noon
March = at the home of the brides par
| ents in Hyattsvil'e, Md. by the Rev
Argo. Mr.. and Mrs. Fauntleroy will be
| at home to their friends after March ~.
on Melrose avenue. Hyattsville.
Mr. and Mrs. James II. sayille and
Miss Saville have gone to Florida to
spend the remainder Of this month.
| n. .. Bond entertained the whist club
| of Fairfax Court House, Va "Wednesday
Light refreshments were served and
social time enjoyed by all.
! A dance will he given by the Architec-
turaI Club OF the George Washington
! University this evening. On the commit
: tee are Messrs. Elmon A. Miller. 7. Ba-
ker Robinson. Meade Bolton. Walter s.
| Simpson and William T. Conboye-
Miss Jessie Krogstad left today to
spend the next three weeks at Owego.
/ n. Y.
Mrs. Evan Sinclair Cameron expects to
| have Miss Dollie Lynch OF Lakewood,
n. j., her guest on March 20.
While travelling through Italy recently.
Mrs. Henry Darlington Bolton secured
large number Of pictures OF old castles
and shrines in the valley OF the Casgu-
ttno These pictures Mrs. Bolton uses to
illustrate a very interesting lecture on
| that romantic part of Italy. Under the
auspices OF the Rector's Guild Of Epi-
phany Church and for the benefit of the
work in Southwest Washington. Mrs.
Bolton Will give her lecture at Rauscher's
| tomorrow evening at O'Clock.
Col John Jacob Astor had $50 guests
| dining with him last night in his recon-
structed home on 9Th avenue. New York.
| and had his sister. Mrs. Orme Wilson. to
do the honors for him. He has lately
added his mothers house to his own.
| changing the character o. tueU uses ~
make one mansion. Lady Paget sat at
! the right of the host and Mrs. Stuyvesant
| Fish at his left.
| After dinner the guests adjourned to
the ballroom. which has been little
| changed. The dining room OF Col Aston 5
own house is now the library. and In ii
| on one side of the door leading to the re-
ception room hangs the famous portrait
| of his mother, and his fathers is on the
other side.
There was Informal dancing until mid
night. when a seated supper was served,
which was followed by the cotillon, to
which a few additional guests were in
vited. 1t was led by Phoenix lngraham
from one end of the room and by Harry
S. Lehr from the other end. The favors
included directoire mirrors of gilt and gilt
cigar lighters. Louis Seize opera bags
and pigskin jewel cases. Pompadour rib
bon scarfs marked "Mi-Careme. 181O.''
| for the women. and similar sashes for the
men were given in another figure. Other
| favors included Louis XVI fans, baskets
| filled with scented artificial flowers,
in leather cases. match boxes of antique
brocade. French electric light Screens,
paper weights, antique gilt spoons and
/ table bells, as we'll as bridge scores and
| flashlights. In the last figure French
parasols with parrot handles were given
| to the women and their partners received
pipes.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth's Mi
Careme ball last night was one Of the
most brilliant they have given, arousing
not only the general interest of the
friends in the dancing contingent. but
esnecislly that of the debutantes Several
dinners were given. at which groups OF
the debutantes were present and all in
costumes. the ball being a bewildering
| finish to the evening.
Mrs Barney gave debutante dinner
| for Miss Mary McCauley, having Miss
Whiting. Miss Merriam, Miss Frances
Moves. Miss Sophy Johnston and Miss
Gladys Hinckley also in the party. with
Messrs. Hackett. Emory, Merriam. Per
| rim, Johnson and Long all going to the
ball. Mrs. Barney wore a Spanish
dancers costume. and her girl guests
were also fancifully arrayed- Miss Nc
Cauley was flower girl of Venice; Miss
Moves was in an 1891 frock. Miss Hinck
| ley was Cleopatra. Miss Merriam wore a
Louis Quinze costume and Miss Johnston
was an evening star.
Miss Eudora Glover. the debutante
daughter of Rear Admiral and Mrs
| Clover. who was at one of the young
peoples dinners. wore to it and TO the
| ball the lovely dress in which she was
presented at court last spring III London.
/ She wore the train, too and made a
charming figure. Miss Dorothy Will
liams. who had few guests In to din
ner. appeared as Winter. the only touch
of color in her glittering dress being
that of the holly berries. Nine. Ritter
who lived SO long in Japan while her
husband was Swiss minister there. wore
a lovely costume from the land of
/ chrysanthemums. Niscountess Benoist
day was a charming butterfly in
| costume of shaded green tissue The
Hon. Mrs. James was Angelica Kauf
man. Miss Harriet Sutherland was Night,
Miss Mary Southerland a Dresden figure.
Miss Eleanor Terry Colonial Dame
and Miss Aldrich Spanish lady.
Mime. Guide as Turkish lady and her
daughters as cowgirls represented two
widely separated ideas of life Miss Grace
Parrish was a Spanish lady: Miss Olga
/ Spanish dress in red and black: Mrs
Walter Scott Andrews an Egyptian lady
| Miss Jennings. costume from a Gains
borough portrait. the material of her
dress being blue brocade.
| Miss Marion Oliver went as an Eng
lish milkmaid and made quaint figure
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