The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-04

President Taft's first of the annual re-
cept!ons at the White House viii be
given tonight to the diplomatic corps.
The Vice President and Mrs Sherman
were the dinner guests last night of
Senator and Mrs Chauncey Depew, who
had TO meet them the German Ambas-
sador and Countess Won Bernstorff, Mrs.
Wickersham wife of the Attorney Gen
eral: Senator Brandegee. Representative
and Mrs. Dwight, Representative and
Mrs Herbert Parsons the Assistant Sec
rotary OF the Navy and Mrs. Beekman
Winthrop, former Representative and
Mrs. Henry Klrke Porter. Baron Am
brozy. OF the Austrian Embassy STAFF;
Col. and Mrs Cosby, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Legare Miss Marion Wise. niece Of Sena-
tor Newlands: Miss Anne Paulding. niece
OF Senator Depew; Mr.. Frederic Huide-
koper, and Gen. and Mrs. Howard
Carroll. OF New York. house guests OF
Senator and Mrs Depew.
The CHIEF Justice entertained at dinner
last evening in honor Of the new asso-
clate justice, Judge Lurton. according TO
the custom Of the Chief Justice 10 enter
tain each new member of that body, He
had the Attorney General and a large
company Of men Of legal prominence.
IIr John Barrett, director Of the Blu
reau of the American Republics. was host
at dinner last night in his apartment in
the Connecticut. His guests were POST
master General Hitchcock. Mr.. and Mrs.
Larz Anderson, Mrs. Joseph Stickney. Of
New York; MIR and Mrs. F. b. Crownln-
shield Miss Du Pont. OF Wilmington; Miss
Isabel May, OF this city; Miss Carolyn
! Reynolds. Of Providence. r. l. Mr. Oden
Horstmann, and Mr.. F. Foster Reynolds,
| of Providence, r. l. Dir. Barrett took
his guests to the BeIasco. where they
occupied two boxes 10 see Mr. SotheTn
and Miss Marlowe In Romeo and Juliet"
Afterwerd they went 10 the charity ball
al the New willard
Mrs. Joseph stickney. of New York.
and her niece. Miss Carolyn Reynolds,
and her nephew. Mr. Foster Reynolds,
/ OF Providence, r. l.. are the house guests
/ OF Mr. and Mrs. F. y. Crowninshield, In
/ the home OF the Iatter's father. Senator
/ Du Pout, OF Delaware. They came to at
/ tend the Diplomatic reception tonight al
| the White House. and the Bachelors Co
tlnlon at the New Willard tomorrow
/ night.
Hiss Helen Taft and her house guest.
| Miss Parsons, with Mr. Robert TAFT and
/ his house guest. Mr.. Jewett. Yale man.
were dinner guests last night Of Rev.
and Mrs Roland Cotton Smith, the
! former the rector OF ST Johns Church.
Mrs. Smith was unable to appear at din
ner and the company was chaperoned by
( Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Hichborn. Those
asked TO meet the guests OF honor were
! Miss Clover. Miss Frances Noyes. Miss
/ Guldet-Duryee, Miss Margaret Cotton
Smith, Mr. Harry Blagden, and Mr. John
Cotton Smith. These guests went after
ward TO the charity bail, chaperoned by
Mr. and Mrs. Hichborn
/ Miss Margaret Preston Draper, debut
/ tante daughter Of the former United
/ States Ambassador to Italy, Gen. Will
lam F. Draper. who was presented to So
Ciety al a beautiful cotillion on Deem
/ Der 9. has been obliged to cancel her
! social engagements because OF the seri-
/ Gus illness OF her father The large tea
| which Mrs. Draper had announced for
tomorrow afternoon. for her daughter,
will not be given, as the invitations were
not sent out until after Gen. Draper
! health became the subject OF some anx-
iety to them. Consequently the tea will
not be given just now.
Mr.. and Mrs Richard Weightman en-
| tertained at dinner last evening for young
people, their guests being asked to meet
| Miss Draper, who. however. was not able
/ to be present because OF her fathers
illness. The guests were Miss Sophy
! Johnston, Miss Mary McCauley. Miss
Laura Merriam, Miss Gladys Hinckley,
Miss Adelaide Heath. Mr.. Frederick
| Carpenter, secretary 20 the President;
Mr.. J. B. Henderson, jr., Mr.. Frederick
Faust. Mr.. Hugh Roland, Mr.. c. r.
Simpkins, and Mr.. Arthur Peter. The
guests went later 10 the charity ball.
Mrs. John Rodgers entertained large
dinner company last night, preceding the
charity ball
Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard were
hosts at dinner, the guests and hosts go
ing TO the ball afterward
Mr.. and Mrs Alexander Legare enter
tanned a dinner company preceding the
charity ball
Mrs. Meyer and the Misses Meyer wife
and daughters Of the Secretary OF the
Navy, entertained at luncheon yesterday
in honor of Miss Helen Taft. The guests
| asked 10 meet her were Miss Caroline
Nabuco, daughter of the Brazilian Am
! hassador: Baroness Elizabeth Rosen,
| daughter of the Russian Ambassador;
Countess Won BernstorT. daughter of the
| German Ambassador; Hon. Rachel Kay
shuttleworth, Of England; Miss Kinen,
| niece of the Minister from the Neither
| lands: Miss Laura Merriam. Miss Mary
| McCauley, Miss Eudora Glover. Miss Mar
| garet Cotton Smith. Miss Katherine Jen-
| nings. Miss Gladys Parrish. Miss Gladys
| Hinckley, Miss Carrie Louise Mum, Miss
! Frances Noyes, Miss Elsie Aldrich. Miss
| Joanna Schroeder. Miss Dorothy VIII
liams. Miss Elizabeth Parsons, and Miss
Yvonne Townsend.
| Mrs. Russell B. Harrison and daughter
/ Miss Marthena Harrison, and Mrs. Harri-
sons mother. the widow of Senator
/ Saunders, of Nebraska will be 81 home