Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26


| give them throughout the next seven
i weeks. The season closes as l1 oesah
with dance for Miss Taft, the POST
4 master General being her host, tomorrow
night at Rauscher's, dinner preceding
The series Of cotillons and dances Tor the
Presidents daughter began January ;.
/ when Mrs. Letter was hostess, ana was
preceded by dinner given by Miss
Boardman. Others who entertained at
dances for Miss Taft were Miss Britton
Secretary and Mrs Meyer. Mr.. and Mrs.
John r. Mel can. Senator and Mrs. Car
ter. Mrs Richard Townsend, the German
ambassador and Countess Bernstorff. Mr..
and Mrs. Preston Gibson. Mrs James f.
Barbour and Mr. and Mrs. Edison Brad
ley. OF those who gave dinners there Is
one for almost every date since the LIST
of last December.
Announcement of the engagement of
Miss Helen Mills Rogers and Ogden Minis
Reid. son of mbasSador and Mrs. White
law Reid, which was made last week by
the mother of the hride-elect. Mrs D.
Talbot Rogers, at her home in Wisconsin,
has been followed by the statement that
the wedding will take place in March De-
fore the return of Ambassador and Mrs.
Reid to their home in England. The
Reds are now at Millbrae, their Cali
fOrnia estate.
II Mss Rogers comes from a we'll known
Wisconsin family and is graduate OF
Barnard College She was Mrs. Reds
secretary for several years and has taken
part in social affairs in New York and
London during that time. Ogden Reid
and Mrs. John Ward. who was formerly
Miss Jean Reid, are the only children of
Ambassador and Mrs. Reid. Mrs. Ward
is visitor this month with her parents
at Millbrae. Ogden Reid Is a director
of A.
ton, publisher OF the New York Tribune.
a Yale graduate of the law school and
a prominent member of the New YORK
bar. He is member of the Union and
Union League clubs of New York. The
wedding will be marked with simplicity
and will be attended only By the rela-
I tives and a few close friends of the cou-
pie.
The engagement of Miss Ruth Simons
and Capt. Jay NJ. Salladay of the Marine
Corps was told at a card party given
by the mother of the bride-elect, Mrs
1 Mare Island navy yard. The house was
attractively decorated for the affair, red
predominating in the color scheme or
both drawing room and dining room.
Seven tables of progressive bridge were
played during the afternoon and the
prizes were carried off by Mrs Edmund
w. Bonnaffon, formerly Miss Gag -
this city; Mrs. Samuel Gordon and 3
prize. The latter trophy disguised the
/ secret of the day, for attached to the
immense cluster Of Violets awarded to
/ Mrs Potts was a card bearing the names
of Miss S.mons and her fiance. The an
nouncement of the engagement was
quickly followed by the news that Miss
Simons has selected March IL as her Wed-
ding day, and the pretty ceremony Will
Peters chapel. The bride-elect is. the
eldest daughter of Medical Director and
Mrs. Simons and is the third girl in the
family who will be married into the
became the bride of Ensign Frank O.
Branch a few years ago, and the mar
rage of Miss Sarah Spauldlng Slmons
and Passed Assistant Paymaster Rob.
December Capt sa,laday has recently
been ordered to Mare Island
Col. and Mrs. Ogden Rafferty, have an
nouneed the engagement geins pa Of tne TT
Lieut.. David Grover Cleveland Garrison
of the 10Th Infantry. at Fort Wayne
Lieut.. Garrison was graduated from
| West Point Military ACADEMY in 1907
Mrs. Duncan L. Fletcher and Misses
| Nell and Louise Fletcher, wife and
daughters of the senator from Florida.
received at pretty tea last week, at
| their home on Massachusetts avenue.
| Mrs. Fletcher was handsomely gowned in
! black marquisette. Miss Fletcher wore
| embroidered French blue chiffon over
! pink, with touches of gold and bands
| of sable and Miss Louise Fletcher was
becomingly costumed In pale green chif-
| fon.
Mrs. Whitehead of Atlanta, Ga, who
| spent last winter at the Cochran, is at
! the Willard for an indefinite stay.
| Miss Hendy Johnson, daughter of Rep
! resentative Johnson, and Miss Catherine
i Overman. daughter of Senator Overman,
i are spending the week end at Annapolis,
| where they attended the ball last night
at the Naval Academy
/ Mrs. Boyd Hgginson of Morganfield,
/ KY, will return to Kentucky Wednesday.
| Mrs William F. Dennis entertained at
| bridge luncheon last week in honor
| of her house guest, Mrs. Charles Nieid
! of Louisville Ky. Mrs. Ben Johnson.
/ wife of Representative Johnson of Ken
| lucky, won the first prize. d handsome
| piece of cut glass.
i Senator and Mrs. La Toilette enter
/ tanned at dinner, the 22d in honor of
/ Wisconsin friends.
Gen and Mrs. Hoxie were the hosts at
| a handsome reception the evening of the
I'D at their home on street Among
the guests were DR.. Harvey Wiley. who
| ClS11nS uiSneQ do q ioSoieCui :,
Mrs. Sherwood, wife of Representative
| Sherwood who gave reading; Mrs.
Parker. who gave some piano selections:
Mrs. d. T. Fletcher and the Misses
| Fletcher wife and daughters of Senator
| Fletcher Miss Nell Fletcher giving some
| clever recitations. and playing the ac-
| compartments for her sister, and Miss
! Louise Fletcher, who sang quaint south
ern folk songs.
Misses Nell and Louise Fletcher will
go over to Annapolis Tuesday TO be
among the dancers at a masquerade ball
| at the Naval Academy
Miss Annie Keith Frazier, daughter Of
Senator Frazier of Tennessee, is having
delightful visit to New York. where
she is the house guest of Miss Harrison,
a school chum, and of other friends on
Riverside drive. With a party of young
people and their chaperon Miss Frazier
went to West Point to spend several
days. and to attend the Tooth night"
ball. On her way home she has been
invited to stop in Philadelphia, where
dinner and dance will be given in her
honor by the young officers on board the
Iowa.
Mrs. Reed Smoot, wife of the senator
from Utah, received Thursday. She was
assisted by her daughter-in-law. Mrs
Harold Smoot. and her young daughter
Miss Anna Smoot.
Mrs John Glover South of Frankfort,
KY. has arrived for visit to her father,
Senator William o. Bradley. going later
for u short stay in New York city.
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