Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-19
.HIS week will be glOrified by
a White House musical next
Friday night, and dinner for


ing their marriage, will also have a
mart. The receptions at the French en-
bassy Thursday night and at Rauscher's
Wednesday for Admiral de la Jarte and
the officers of the French squadron Will
also be interesting to a large diplomatic
and resident contingent. Courtesies to
the Mexican ambassador and Sonora de
la Barra will continue to be reason of
other dinner parties this week. Generally
speaking, however, society must look up
other means of pleasure to occupy its
leisure and will find it In the Skating
Club matinee tomorrow and similar in
formal enjoyments. Short out-of-town
stays or arranging for longer ones have
had an effect on social life in addition
to the usual quiet which obtains at this
time of the year. Last weeks frivolities
were largely in the name of charity. al
though a series of important dinners were
attractions to limited circle.
Today Mrs. Letter will give welcome
home breakfast to her daughter, Mrs.
Colin Campbell who arrived on the Lusi-
| tania Friday, and who came at once to
this city. Maj. Colin Campbell hopes to
join his wife here before long. Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Longworth will give
a dinner party tonight.
The French ambassador and Nine. Jus
! serand will give a dinner and reception
in honor of Admiral de la Jarte and the
and the night preceding Lieut.. Comman-
| der and Viscountess Benoist d Any will
give a dinner and reception in their
! honor at Rauscher's.
The latter will go to Annapolis tomor-
row to meet the officers of the two ships
(the third in the squadron having been
| ordered to southern waterS) and to at
tend the ball which will be given in their
honor there.
Miss Lima Walsh, granddaughter of the
late Col. Charles H. Laub. U. s. A. and
| Richard Lee Fearn, jr., who is a great
Wilson, L. S. N, were married last even
ing at the roctory of Trinity Church.
Georgetown, by Rev. Father Corbett, S. J.
The bride wore travelling dress of dark
blue CLOTH
Mrs Carleton l. Wood of Utica, n. Y.
will arrive today to spend most of the
spring with her parents, Maj and Mrs.
Richard Sylvester. Mr.. Wood is going
to Europe for a short business trip. and
will be accompanied by Mrs. Woods
brother, Mr.. Hubbard Sylvester.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth have.
| according to a New England authority,
abandoned their usual mi-careme ball.
and after closing their Washington home
will go to their country home in Genesee,
! n. Y. AS soon as the roads permit they
will leave for Alaska, where they will
| engage pack horses and with a small
party take a trip far into the interior.
Miss Eliza McMulIin, who made her
| debut here at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
John Hays Hammond during the early
winter and has been staying lately in
New York, is now visiting her cousin at
| Piedmont, Cal
| Mr. and Mrs S. Abramson announce
the engagement of their daughter Bertha
to Mr.. hurry c. Raffel, from New York
city.
! Mai. and Mrs Sturgis will leave St
| Paul for Washington in April, as Mai
| Sturgis. who has been chief of staff in
| the Department of Dakota headquarters
| L. S. A. has been ordered for duty to
| the adjutant generals department in
Washington, and will leave early in
April.
Apropos of the liberality of Washington
business men and others at each recur-
| ring inauguration and the financial re-
| suits accruing from the inaugural ball
is the contrast of the amount of money
required for the coming coronation of
| King George. The estimate which parlia-
| ment has already granted is G1So,OOO.
The expenses incurred by the depart
| ments of the lord steward, the lord cham
| berlain and the master of the horse will
| be rendered to the auditors of the civil
! list. while the accounts of expenditure
| incurred by the Office Of works and other
government departments will be submit
| ted to the controller and auditor general.
Any unexpended balance of the grant
| will be surrendered to the exchequer.
Mrs Meyer, wife of the Secretary of
| the Navy, entertained the following
guests at dinner last night: Countess
Bernstorff, Miss
Taft, Miss Switzerland, Miss May South
erland, Miss Elsie Aldrich. Miss Wales
l Nj Nv
Mrs. Preston Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
colt Tuckerman, Count Pourtales, Mr.
van Weede. Mr.. A. c. Horstmann, Com
mander Retzmann. Mr.. Basil Miles, Mr.
Cady.
Mr.. and Mrs Clarence Moore gave a
dinner last night.
Baron de Bode entertained at dinner last
night.
| The Mexican ambassador, Senior de la
Barra, held his official reception yesterday
at the embassy from to and had the
| pleasure also of presenting to the diplo-
matte circle and to his friends in official
and resident society his bride, the double
celebration being a most unusual one,
even in house where the predecessors
Of it's present handsome hostess exerted
each in turn a delightful influence So
cially and every other way.
/
was elegantly gowned in a brussels lace
dress made over white satin, with touches
| of blue in the trimming, had the assist
ance of all the members of the embassy
staff in receiving and entertaining their
| guests The drawing rooms, through
| which several generations of resident
| Westinghouse have passed and where
| visiting notables and official personages
| have so often been entertained, were deco
rated with roses and spring flowers. The
| refreshment table was arranged in the
| ballroom. Mrs. Sherman, Miss Taft, sew
| eral members of the cabinet and other
| representatives of the official world and
i the entire diplomatic circle were present
and the occasion was an extremely pleas
ant one.
Mr. Charles Collie is home from a trip
by sea to Jacksonville and st. Augustine,
Fla.
Mrs Henry X. Scheer of zoos Q street
northwest was the recent guest of Mrs.
J. III. Norton.
| The Brookland Brotherhood issued very
unique invitations to their meeting Tues
day last in the form of Interrogation and
| exclamation marks, and those who We're
present at the entertainment enjoyed the
key to the puzzle in the program. which
consisted of topical songs with local appli-
cation and the presentation of some token
referring to some fad of the recipient Presi-
dent jackson received an immense gayel
and the energetic secretary, Mr.. Fred
Barnes, a fountain pen Of like proportions