Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
PRESIDENT TAFT DIMES AT
ATTORNEY GENERALS HOME.
The Vice President and the Cardi-
nal Also Guests of Honor.
Other Events-Notes.

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/ President Taft dined last night with
| the Attorney General and Mrs. Wicker
| sham. The guests present to meet him
| were Mrs. Charles Anderson, Senator and
! Mrs. Depew, Rear Admiral and Mrs. Eva
| ans, Justice and Mrs. Loring of Boston
and Mr.. and Mrs. George Riggs Mr. and
Mrs. W. Church Osborn, Mr.. and Mrs
| Walter Denegre, Mr. and Mrs. A w.
Read and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Simpson,
| all of New York
| The Vice President and Mrs. Sherman
! were guests of honor last evening at a
| dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs. S. c.
Neale, whose other guests were MIR. Glenn
ent Griscom of Philadelphia, Mr.. and
Mrs. William r.. Merriam, Mr.. and Mrs
| Edison Bradley, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith or
New York, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Legare,
| Mrs Ten Eyck Wendell, Mrs. Bates, Mr.
| and Mrs. Hemphill, Mr.. and Mrs. Thropp
and Mr.. Ellis.
! or at a large dinner given last night 10y
| the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
| MacVeagh. The company present In
cluded the Postmaster General. Mr..
|
Mrs. Meyer, the American minister to
China and Mrs Calhoun, Mrs. Giere-
| Mason of Chicago. Prof. Henry William
Schofield of Harvard University and Mrs.
Richard Townsend, Mrs. Henderson of
England, Mrs. Wesley Merritt, Miss Pat
| ten, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Keep, Mr.
and Mrs. James H. Kidder IF New York.
| Mrs. John L. Gardner of Boston, Miss
Georgianna Hopkins of Boston. Mr.. A.
| Parsons the treasurer of the 1 nit ed
States, Mr.. McClung: the director of the
| mint A. p. Andrews; DIR. Thomas Lee,
! Rev. Father Gavin. chancellor of the
archdiocese of Baltimore, and Mr.. Eames
| MacVeagh of Chicago, son Of the most
| and hostess.
The German ambassador, Count Bern
| storff, entertained the staff of the en-
bassy and other guests at dinner In cell
ebration of the fifty-frst birthday of the
German emperor last night. The other
guests were Representative Bartholdt.
Representative kustermann, Reginald
Schroeder, Julian Dittmar, Ernest e.
Brunck, Mr.. Won Schwerdner and Mr..
Volkner.
The Italian ambassador and Baroness
| Mayor des Planches entertained at dinner
| last night the French ambassador and
| Nine. Jusserand, the Japanese ambassa-
dor and Baroness Uchida. Senator and
Mrs. Burrows. the minister OF Chile and
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| Countess Moltke, the counselor OF the
British embassy. Mr.. Mitchell 1nnes: MIR.
and Mrs. Bennett, the naval attache OF
| the French embassy and Countess de
| ess Luise-Alexandra Won Bernstorff. Mr..
Centaro of the Italian embassy and the
| new attache of the embassy, Mr.. De
Duca.
Representative John w. Dwight of New
York and Mrs. Dwight entertained at
dinner last evening in compliment to Sen
| ator and Mrs. Root. Asked to meet them
were Mr.. Justice Lurton and Mrs. Lur-
ton, Senator and Mrs. Crane, Representa-
tive, Hamilton Fish, the assistant secre-
| tary of the navy and Mrs. Beekman
Winthrop. Lieut.. !. Col. and Mrs. Charles
McCawley, Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson
and Miss Josephine Patten.
Gen. John c. Black and his daughter,
Mrs. Vrooman. entertained at dinner last
evening in honor of Speaker Cannon and
Miss Cannon.
Gen. Buchanan was host at dinner
last evening when his guests were Mr..
and Mrs. George Meyers. Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Harlow, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Barrett Ridgely, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Peyton
Russell, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward McCauley.
DIR. and Mrs. Chatard, DR.. and Mrs.
Ralph Jenkins, Miss Elise Davis, Miss
Matte Scott and Miss Ruggles.
Rev William T. Russell, D. D.. pastor
of ST. Fatrick's Church, was the guest
at dinner at Rauscher's last night. Rep
| resentative J. A. Goulden acted as toast
master. Addresses were made by Repre-
sentative c. V. Fornes> and Judge II. NJ.
| Goldfcgle. Other guests were Represent
| alive Van Vechten Olcott. Judge John ].
| Fitzpatrick. Gerald w. Willett, jr., John
| .. Crirnmins. Richard Young, Gov. NAL
colin Rice Patterson of Tennessee, Daniel
A. Driscoll of Buffalo. William s. Ben
net. Rev. William Carroll, DR.. Joseph
Himmel, president of Georgetown Uni
versity: Rev. Joseph Smyth, Rev. NJ Y.
Yingling and Joseph P. Burg.
The British military attache and the
| Hon. Mrs. Bernard James entertained a
number of young people at dinner last
| night for the sister of the latter, the
Hon. Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth. All the
guests afterward attended the dance at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wads-
worth.
The British ambassador dined with a
party last night at the home of DIR. and
| Mrs. Fremont Smith.
and Mrs. A. c. Barney were others hav-
ing dinner parties last night
The first celebration of the kaiser's
|
| by Herr Won Strumm and Lieut.. Won
Bruening of the embassy staff at their
! home on P street. The German flag
waved from the housetop and after
o'clock merry party drank the kaiser S
| health in champagne punch. The Count
ess Won Bernstorff and Frau Won Levon-
| Jus received for the hosts, and Mrs.
| Philip Hichborn did the honors at the
| tea table.
Among the guests were the minister
| of Denmark and Countess Moltke, the
! minister of Switzerland and Nine. Ritter,
! Baroness Elizabeth Rosen, daughter
| of the Russian ambassador: Countess
| Luise-AleXandra Won Bernstorff, daughter
of the German ambassador: the naval
| attaclle of the Austro-Hungarian en-
bassy and Baroness Preuschen the mill
| tary attache of the French embassy and
Countess de Chambrun, the naval at
| tache of the French embassy and Wis.,
countess Benoist day, the military at
tache of the British embassy and the
! Hon. Mrs. James and her sister the
| Hon. Miss Shuttleworth; the second sec
| rotary of the British embassy and Mrs.
H. W. Kennard. the second secretary and
| Mrs. Esmond Ovey, Representative and
| Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Col. anu Mrs.
Spencer Cosby. the Misses Meyer, daugh-
tiers of the Secretary of the Navy; the
/ Misses Switzerland. Miss Constance
] Hoyt, Miss Crosby. Miss Mathilde Towns
end, Miss Yvonne ToWnsend, Miss kath-
crime Elkins. the counselor Of the Italian
embassy, Marchese di Montagliari: Mr.
| Centaro and Lieut.. Camperio of the Ital-
! ha