Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-17
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
MR.. AND MRS. TAFT DINNER
GUESTS OF MRS. MCMILLAN.
Mrs. Mcclellan Returns From Nan.
tucket With Misses Birney.
Personal Mention.

President and Mfs Taft were special
guests at a dinner party given by Mrs.
James Mcmillan last evening at her sum-
mer home at Observation-Disclosures
Mass The other guests included: Mr.. and
Mrs. Preston Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs Philip
Mcmillan, Mrs. Mum. Miss Boardman
and Capt. A. w. Butt.
Mr.. Charles II. Sheriff., American min
lister to Argentine, and family embarked
yesterday at Buenos Aires for this coun-
try.
Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock closed
their villa yesterday and left for Wash
ington.
Mr.. and Mrs William Phillips, who
haye been in this country for several
weeks. dividing their time between Bar
Harbor. where they were the guests of
Mrs. Phillips father. Mr. J. Coleman
Drayton. and Beverly. Mass, as the
guests of MIR. Phillips mother, Mrs. John
c. Phillips. sailed for Europe today. Mr..
Phillips is secretary of the American en-
bassy in London
Announcement of the wedding Of Miss
Esteiie r. Ecklon and Dr.. Edwin c..
Hunter, both of Washington, September
.. was made today. The off1cjating
clergyman was Rev. DIR. David r. Neelv'
They are now on a wedding trip in the
east.
Mrs. George westinghouse will give a
large dinner party at Erskine Park.
Lenox, Mass, this evening.
Mrs Oliver II. p. Belmont, who has
rPfl1rnnd Sc
Newport shortly.
Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore, wife of.
senator Wetmore. and Mrs. Hugh c.
Auchincloss are in New York
Mrx. Harriet \. Mcclellan of Atlanta,
who has arrived in Washington from
Nantucket. where size spent the sum-.
Katherine and Lillian Birney, will return
to her home in the south after short
stay at the Birney home in Chevy Chase
The Misses Birney. plan to attend semi
naries in the east this fall, Miss Kath-
crime going to Briar CIiffe in New York
and Miss Lillian to Ogontz in Pennsyl-
vania -
Mrs. Joseph Stickney is entertaining a
party at Breton Woods. n. III. Mr.. John
Barrett Of Washington will arrive there
shortly to join the party.
Maj. John Augustus Dapray. L. S. A.,
and Mrs. Dapray have returned to Wash
ington from Eentnor near Atlantic City,
n. j., where they spent the summer.
Nine. de Riano, wife Of the Spanish
minister, has returned to Washington.
and has Joined the minister at the lega-
ton in New Hampshire avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. stuyvesant Fish. who are
info mill %,
their place on the Hudson September 80.
They will give a breakfast there October
20 for their niece, Miss Rosalind Fish,
and Mr.. John Cutler, whose marriage will
take place that day.
The first secretary of the French en-
bassy and Nine. Peretti de la Rocca. who
have been in Mexico during the summer
will return to Washington the last Of this
month.
Mrs. Ezra l.. koon and Miss Koon of
Washington are at Breton Woods, in the
White mountains Of New Hampshire, for
the month of September. Many Of the
Newport colony are visiting Breton
Woods this month. Mrs. French Wander
bilt, Mrs Amos Tuck French and Miss
North, with Master William H. Wander
bilt, are spending week at the Mount
and Mr.. William Watts Sher-
man and Senator George Peabody Wet
more lONOEcu up 1fOiIl NEWPORT. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry SymeS Lehr and several 9TH
ers of the colony arrived today to spend
the week end.
Rear Admiral Switzerland has arrived
here from cruise that took him as far
as Honolulu. Mrs. Switzerland and Miss
Mary Switzerland returned Thursday
from Magnolia to meet the admiral They
have opened their home in n street.
Miss Switzerland is making some visits,
and will arrive later in the month.
Miss r. Louise Galeski of Washington,
who motored to the White mountains this
week. is at Breton Woods with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. /. Atwood Of Amesbury, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs F. R. W. Reh have re-
turned from a six-week trip to southern
Maryland.
Mrs. W. B. Boyden is in Atlantic City. |
Miss Mary. Phillips entertained a large