The Washington herald., 1911-12-01


The President and his family spent
yesterday in the typical American way,
and dined at 7:3O o'clock in the evening.
with no other guests than the house
party of girl friends Of Miss Taft. Mrs.
Taft accompanied the President yester-
day morning to the Pan-American
Thanksgiving mass OF st. Patrick s
Church, while Miss Taft and her guests
Mrs. Taft and her daughter are both
members. In the afternoon Miss Taft
and her friends took a sail down the
| Potomac in the Sylph. ana greatly en-
| joyed the perfect weather on the his
! toric stream. Her guests are Miss Isabel
Vincent, of Minnesota; Miss Marion
| Crane, of Baltimore; Miss Eleanor Bonte-
con. of New Jersey; Miss Phyllis Rice,
OF Massachusetts,, and Miss Amy Hamil-
ton. of New Jersey. The President and
Mrs Taft and Maj. Archibald w. Butt
went for a brisk walk in the afternoon.
The. prettiest and most practical gift to
/ the President yesterday, next to the
| famous Vose turkey, was the handsomest
| basket of apples ever collected in this
country. 1t was a sample Of every prize
winner in the Apple Show now in progress
I
actual prize winners. The President s
| fathers family were great apple eaters,
and II is said that his house was never
without a good collection. of this beauti-
full fruit, and that the President and all
his brothers have the same habit.
Gen. and Mrs. George L. Gillespie en-
tertained at dinner last evening in honor
OF Gen. and Mrs. J. r. Brooke, who are
guests were Gen. and Mrs. Michael
Sheridan. Gen. and Mrs. McCrae, Gen.
George w. Davis, Miss Elise Davis, Mrs.
A. z. Bates, and Mrs. Baker.
Nine. Crespo, wife of the Mexican Am
bassador, who expected to join the Am
bassador here next month, accompanied
by their children, has decided to remain
with them in Vienna, where they have
been for some years past and where the
Ambassador represented his country.
! The Russian Ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmetieff were entertained at break
fast yesterday morning by Mr.. and Mrs.
John R. Mclean. brother-in-law and sis
Ger of the latter. at their beautiful coun-
| try place, Friendship" The guests in
| cluded a large company of official, diplo-
matte, and residential society in Wash
Ington.
! Mrs. Calderon Carlisle announces the
engagement of her daughter, Mary, to
Mr.. Walter Bruce Howe, of New York
and Washington.
Former United States Minister to Bel
gium and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend en-
tertained at a musicale yesterday after
noon and had a small company to hear
charming programme of songs by NJ.
Nabokoff. the first secretary OF the Rus
| sian Embassy, assisted by Mrs. Town
| send. NJ. Nabokoff has a barytone voice
| of excellent quality and sings with good
| style and finish in several languages.
| Among the guests were the German Am
\ bassador and Countess Won Bernstorff,
the Spanish Minister and Mime. Riano,
| the Secretary OF the Navy and Mrs
Meyer and the Misses Meyer: Mr.. Piatt
Andrew, Miss Elsie AIdrich, Miss South
erland, the Charge d'Affaires Of Austria
Hungary and Mime. Loewenthal-Linau,
Mr.. Horstmann, of the Germany En-
| bassy staff; Mr.. and Mrs. George How
ard. Mr.. and Mrs. Olney, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Ellis, Miss Marion Wise, and Mr.
William Bowie Clarke.
Miss AmaryIlis GiIlett entertained a
company at luncheon yesterday in honor
Of Mrs Matthew T. Scott, president gen.
eral of the National Society, d. A. R.,
in her home in Sheridan circle.
Mrs. A. NJ Blair spent Thanksgiving
in New York. She went over on We'd
nesday to attend the opera and will re-
turn here Sunday.
Former Representative and Mrs. Davis
Brodhead, of Pennsylvania, spent
Thanksgiving with their son-in-Iaw and
daughter, MI and Mrs N Maxwell Kerr
Gilmour, at their home IN this city.
Miss Edith Oracle, daughter of Col
and Mrs. Archibald Oracle, Of New York
and Washington, was the Thanksgiving
bud this year and was presented to So
ciety at brilliant tea yesterday after
noon by her parents in their Sixteenth
street home. Mrs. Oracle was assisted
in the dining-room by Miss Margaret
Gale and Mrs. Lorimer Graham and Miss
Anna Portner, Miss Adaline Culp, and
Miss Mildred Bacon, buds of last season
and the one before, and the following
debutantes Of this year: Miss Carrie Lee
Chamberlain, Miss Mary Howry, Miss
Marguerite Caperton, Miss Dorothy Tay-
lor, Miss Eleanor Fillebrown. Miss
Elizabeth Noyes, Miss Dorothy
Brooks, Miss Estelle Crane, Miss
Lemir Gillett-HiIl, Miss Elizabeth
Mccartney, Miss Elizabeth Crenshaw.
and Miss Louise Walsh. The house was
gay with the floral offerings of friends
and admirers OF the bud, and a decora-
ton of asparagus vines and La France
roses pertained in the drawing-room. An
orchestra played throughout the after
noon and evening Mrs Oracle wore an
imported gown of gray embroidered chif-
fon of pearl gray over pale blue satin
and a corsage bouquet Of violets. Miss
Oracle wore an elaborate gown Of white
satin veiled with white chiffon cloth,
trimmed with pearls. Her hair was
charmingly dressed and ornamented with
diamonds. and she carried a shower of
lilies OF the valley and white orchids. The
receiving party was entertained at dinner
and a number Of men were asked later for
dancing. Miss Oracle is an attractive
and accomplished girl with much musical