New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
fFrom Tie Tribune Bureau. !

Washington, Dec. 27.-The list Of guests
asked to the fancy dress ball given by Mrs
william f. Draper and Miss Margaret
Draper tonight included Washington's most
exclusive social roster, numbering about
three hundred The ball was the most brill
liant affair Of the winter so far ew now
ers were used i'm the banquet room and
drawing rooms. Mrs. Draper wore a gown
OF soft black satin and her diamonds. and
Miss Draper's costume was copied from
Bottcellis Spring" the dress being of
silver tissue and gauZe, with wreath OF
roses and butterflies I'm her hair and many
coored butterfly wings f:-m the shoulders.
Miss Tafts gown was OF the Louis
XIII period, with a pink satin petticoat, a
brocaded pink bodice and ichu of real lace.
Her hair was powdered Robert ami
Charles Taft wore conventional evening
clothes Viscountess Benoist d Azy repre-
sented green butterfly. silver gauze being
used I'm combination and green gauze wings
from the shoulders and smaller ones in her
hair Nine. Vassilieff, wife Of the Russian
naval attache, represented Russian wom-
an of the sixteenth century; Nine. Loew-
enthal-Linau, "A Vienna washerwoman cos
tune, and her sister, Countess Nostitz, a
French peasant Mrs. Edward Beale Nc
Lean represented Mile. de Lamballe; Miss
Harriet Switzerland, Pirouette; Miss Alice
Whiting, Night, in a costume of black and
silver; Miss Julia Whiting. a costume cop
led from miniature of Lady Ord, by Cos
way: Miss Laura Merriam, Alice in Won
derland: Miss Esther Slater a Norwegian
maid Miss Martha Bowers, a Dutch cos
tune Thomas Bowers, a cavalier; Mrs.
Hinckley, an Irishw oman, in white and
green. and Miss Gladys Hinckley, Dawn.
Among the guests We're Miss Helen Taft.
Robert Taft Miss Anderson, Mr.. Jones and
Mr. Townsend White House guests. Others
were the Russian Ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmeteff. the Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs MacVeagh. Ames MacVeagh, the
Secretary of Commerce and Labor and Mrs.
Nagel, Miss Nagel, the Postmaster Cen
eral, the Belgian Minister and Nine.
Havenith, the Spanish Minister and Sefiora
de Riano, the Russian military attache and
Baroness Elizabeth de Bode, the British
military attache and Mrs. McLachan. Mr..
and Mrs John r. Mclean. Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Glover, Major Archibald Butt,
Baron Hardenbroek, Miss Margery Cotton,
the Hon. Kathleen Beresford. Of England;
Mr. and Mrs Stephen Pell. of New York;
Mr.. Nabokoff, Of the Russian Embassy;
NJ Maugras, of the French Embassy; Henri
Martin, Swiss charge daffatres; Colonel
and Mrs John r. Williams. Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Letter. MIR and Mrs. Henry White,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Clarence
Hay the Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. Huntington Wilson, the Assistant Sec
retary OF the Navy and Mrs. Beekman
Winthrop, Colonel and Mrs. Spencer Cosby
and Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Anderson.
Miss Martha Bowers entertained Miss
Taft, Robert Taft and his house guests
j. c. Townsend of New York, and Stan
hope Vane Jones, of New Oreans-and
others at dinner tonight the party after
ward attending the Draper ball
Charles Taft spent a busy day socially
first going TO luncheon with Henry f. But
ler son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler, and later TO a school girl and boy