Evening star., 1911-01-20

| The President will attend the PennSyl-
vania Society dinner i'm New York tomor-
row night and will be accompanied from
here by Secretary Knox, Attorney Gen.
Wickersham, Secretary Norton, and
others.
| Last night the President and Mrs. Taft
| dined at the home of the Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. MacVeagh. The
guests to meet them were Mr.. and Mrs
| Henry Clews, Mr.. and Mrs. f. II. Gary,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles MacVeagh and Mel
Vile E. Stone of New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Armour of Princeton Mr..
and Mrs. W. A. Slater Mrs. Richard
| Townsend, .Irs. Z. II. G. Slater, Mrs.
Eames of Chicago, Mrs. John l.. Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. {. D. Hlles, Mr.. and Mrs.
Watson Blair of Chicago. Col. Charles
| McCawley. A. Piatt Andrew and Capt.
Butt.
Col. and Mrs. John r. Williams enter
tanned at dinner last night for Miss Helen
| Taft. The other guests were Miss Nor
gan, who is visiting Miss Taft at the
White House; Miss Alys Meyer. Miss
Hinckley, Miss Dorothy Williams, Mr.
and Mrs. Palmer. Mrs. Joseph Letter, Dr.
and Mrs. James F. Mitchell the naval
| attache of the British embassy, Capt
Sowerby; the military attache of the
German embassy, Maj Won Herwarth;
| Mr.. Carroll Glover. Lieut.. Courtney, Z.
| 8. N: Maj. Horton. u. S. A., and Mr..
John Philip Hill Of Baltimore.
| The Belgian minister and countess de
Buisseret entertained at dinner last even
| ing the Italian ambassador and Marchesa
| Cusani, Senator Wetmore and Miss Wet
more, Senator kean. the Assistant Secre-
| tary of State and Mrs. Huntington Will
son, Miss Doardman, and Mr.. and Mrs.
| Crowninshield.
| The Austrian ambassador and Baroness
| Hengelmuller will entertain at dinner
| February 8 for Count Apponyi, who will
arrive in New York February ) to give
| a series Of lectures on peace at Carnegie
| Hail. the first of which will be given
| February 15 He sails for home again
March 4.
| Besides seeing the best social side of
! life here, he will be entertained by Col.
| and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt at luncheon
| at Oyster Bay. Long Island, February
| IA. Mrs. Vanderbilt, who made the ac-
| quaintance of the count while visiting
| her youngest daughter in Hungary. will
| give a dinner in his honor February Ii
at her house on 9th avenue, New York,
and Frederick Townsend Martin will give
dinner at the Union League Club in
February for him. Count Apponyi is
Austrian ambassador in London. and has
| filled many high Offices at Pesth. includ-
| ing those of minister of the interior and
| president Of the national legislature of
| Hungary.
! The British ambassador is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur H. Lea, 2O04 Walnut
street. Philadelphia, today. He will make
| an address at the memorial to Henry {.
| Lea at the College of Physicians tonight.
| Miss Louise Cromwell will return from
New York this afternoon, after visit to
Al,
| latter's debut ball last night. She will
| be accompanied by Miss GwendOlyn Bur-
den. Miss Lila Gilbert and Miss Dorothy
Sanford of New York and Miss Frances
Bruce Of Philadelphia. for whom Mrs.
| Cromwell will give a dinner tonight be-
| fore her daughters debut ball al
Rauschers. Mrs. George Howard will
| receive the guests tonight for Mrs Crom-
well, whose mourning precludes her par
| ticipa ton in social life. Mr.. George HOW
| ard will lead the cotillOn with Miss Crom-
| well and seventy-five couples will dance
| The ballroom at Rauscher mas peeh
transformed into an Italian garden. Will
electric lighting effects also. in which a
| moon" will be the feature, as 1t was
| lately at the Baltimore assembly one
of the cotillon figures VIII be danced IN
! the moonbeams. the dancers CARRYING
| wands with electric lights. Inc other ID
| yors are exceedingly Frenchy and pretty
Miss Cromwell. whose debut VIII De maze
| under such brilliant auspices mas peeii
already the guest of honor at many ue-
liehtful events here and in New YORK.
She will he among the bridesmaids to at
| tend Miss Vivien Gould al her coming
wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. George Jay Gould issued
Yesterday the invitations for the marriage
Of their daughter. Helen Vivien, 10 Col:
Lord Decies Tuesday. FEBRUARY =, al
| O. clock in st. BartholomeW's Church.
Miss Gould has chosen for her attend
ants her sister, Miss Edith Gould. who
will be her maid of honor, and Miss Hope
Hamilton. Miss Beatrice Claf1in. Miss
Louise Cromwell Of washington, MISS
Hannah Randolph of Philadelphia, Miss
Emeiina Holmes and Miss Allison Pierce
for her bridesmaids. She will have two
| little flower girls-her sister. Gloria, and
Diana DaIziel, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick G. Dalziel.
Miss Gould's cOming-out party was
given last night at her parents New
York residence. The house was decorated
with. tall tree ferns, mauve orchids.
American beauty roses and southern smi-
lax Mrs. Gould and her daughter re-
ceiyed the guests. numbering 140. in the
mar rbIe hall on the second floor. Dinner
was served at two large tables. one in
the dining room and the other in the
regency room. the latter being decorated
with American beauty roses and ropes of
green strung across the ceiling. while i'm
the dining room the same scheme was
carried out with mauve orchids and ropes
of green.
The dinner was followed by cotillon
invited. j. Harry Alexandra. jr., led the
a oln nd a hn f1ev,rv