The Washington herald., 1911-01-08
a SHORT season and a merry one
~ is the motto for this year.
~ THE season" proper is by ac-
tual count only eight and one

The season proper is Dy &c.
tual count only eight and one
half weeks, and much must be crowded
into that short space. The seven days
past have given the keynote of the win
ter-dancing and dining. Each night so
far there have been from two TO five
dances in various circles for various ages
in society, and the dinners and lunch
cons are impossible to count Miss Taft
set the dancing ball rolling with her
vefy pretty party in the White House,
and since then there have been balls and
cotiIlions to make one wonder
Mrs. Letter had a very stately ball on
Tuesday evening for Miss Taft, which
followed a dinner given in her honor by
Miss Mabel Boardman. Mrs. Letters s
well-arranged home, which reflects the
tastes and habits of its mistress, was a
bower of blossoms, all from her own con-
servatories, for she makes it a point al
ways to use only flowers grown on her
own place at all entertainments.
This week will have an auspicious
opening in the charity ball at the New
Willard, the greatest event for charity
during a Washington season. Mrs. Hor-
ace Westcott, Mrs. MCGUIRE, Mrs. George
Howard Miss Sheriff. Mrs. Clarence
Wilson, Mrs. Walcott Tuckerman, and
Miss Oliver will be in the receiving party.
The boxes will be occupied by President
and Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Letter, Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Brownson. Mr.. and Mrs.
Larz Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Moore, and Col Robert N. Thompson. all
with distinguished parties The beauty
of the women, the gowns, and the jewels
will be well worth seeing and being a
part Of And it is all for sick children.
Baltimore and Washington have ex-
changed guests frequently the past week.
and will do it more and more, as the two
cities are more closely connected socially
every year On Friday evening the As
sembly ball in Baltimore took many of
the guests from the Hunt ball at Chevy
Chase, including Postmaster General
Hitchcock, Mrs. Huntington Wilson, wife
of the Assistant Secretary of State, Mrs.
Albert Akin, daughter of the Attorney
General; Mr.. Constantine Nabokoff, of
the Russian Embassy staff, and Miss
Louise Cromwell and her house guest,
Miss Suzanne Carroll, all of whom were
dinner guests preceding the ball of Mr..
John Philip Hill. of Baltimore, who is
frequent dinner and ball guest in Wash
ington.
One of the most interesting affairs of
this month will be the silver wedding an
niversary of Rev. and Mrs. Allen Macy
Dulles, in the home of Mrs. Dulles par
entS, Gen. and Mrs. John w. Foster,
which will take place on January Ii, to be
followed by the presentation of their
daughter Margaret to Washington
ciety on the day following, by her grand
mother. at a brilliant tea. Rev. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dulles We're married from the Foster
home here when Mr.. Dulles was a resi-
dent of Detroit They have lived for
some years in Auburn, where they in
troduced their daughter to society few
weeks ago. She arrived two weeks ago in
time for the debutante festivities here ar
ranged for Miss Taft, her schoolmate at
Bryn Mawr. Gen. and Mrs. Foster will
entertain at large dinner party on JAN
uary Ii. with as many of the wedding
party of Mr.. and Mrs. Dulles as are liv-
ing. and can come to Washington at this
time.
Miss Taft has a busy week before her,
beginning with the charity ball Monday
evening. Tuesday evening is the diplo-
matte reception the first of this years
series of evening functions at the White
House. Wednesday evening she was to
have been the guest of honor at a cotil-
lion given by Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Brad
ley, but they were obliged to recall the
invitations because of their daughters
illness. Thursday evening the Secretary
of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer will enter
tain at dinner dance for her. Saturday
evening Mrs. Mclean will give a bril-
1i,n in hoy h,,
a dinner party. Verify, the young people
OF this season are dancing.
Miss Catherine Anderson, niece of Mrs.
Taft, joined her sister at the White
House during the past week, after few
days visit with Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth.
An interesting reminder of the engage
ment of Miss Eleanor Thackara, daugh-
ter of the United States consul general
at Berlin. to Mr.. Frederick W. Caldwell,
OF Philadelphia, comes in the transfer of
Mr.. Cauldwell formerly deputy and vice
consul general at Berlin, to this city for
duty in the Diplomatic Bureau of
tho State Department. The engage
ment was announced in the early
autumn. and Mr. Cauldwell has been the
object of special entertaining during his
Thackara is granddaughter of Gen.
Tecumseh Sherman, and her mother, who
was Miss Ella Sherman, belle in WASH
ington society twenty-five years ago. has
hosts of friends who hope her daughters
fance may be kept in Washington until
after the marriage. that Washington may
have an opportunity to know her.
Politics of their own is interesting the
large membership of the Congressional
Club. composed of the wives or hostesses
of the Senators and Representatives in
Congress. They are soon to have an
election, and as Mrs. Cravens. Of Ar
kansas. has dropped out of the race. |
Mrs. Roberts, Of Massachusetts, is now
being talked of for president
Many of the dinners and other affairs |
were postponed toward the end Of last
week. out of respect to the memory of |
the late Senator Ellxins. whose wife and
daughter have been such important fac
tors in the social season in Washington
for many seasons. Mrs. Arthur Lee, SIS
ter Of Mrs. Elkins, who has charge Of one |