Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-01
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
SUPREME COURT GUESTS AT
WHITE HOUSE TABLE.
Other Events and Coming Ones.
Dinners Tonight-Personal
Notes.

! Dinners Tonight-Personal
Notes. .....
The President and Mrs. Taft gave thei
annual state dinner in honor Of the Su
preme Court last night The decoration;
OF the table in the state dining room
were of Windsor carnations and maiden
hair ferns. The company consisted Of
! The Chief Justice and Mrs. White.
| Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Harlan:
| Mr.. Justice and Mrs McKenna.
Mr. Justice and Mrs. Holmes.
Mr. Justice and Mrs. Day.
| Mr.. Justice and Mrs Lprton.
| Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Hughes.
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Van Devanter.
l. Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Lamar
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Brown.
| The Attorney General and Mrs. Wicker
sham.
| Senator and Mrs. .knute Nelson
Senator William P. Dillingham;.
| Senator and Mrs. George Sutherland.
Senator Samuel H. Piles.
| Senator and Mrs. Isidor Rayner.
Senator and Mrs. William E. Borah.
| Senator and Mrs. Albert B. .Cummins.
| Representative and Mrs. R. Wayne Par.
| ker.
Representative and Mrs Henry D. Clay.
| ton.
| Representative Walter /. Smith.
| Representative and Mrs. heuben o.
Moon.
| The solicitor general
The chancellor of the supreme court OF
Delaware and Mrs. Curtis.
/ The chief justice of the supreme court
of Pennsylvania and Mrs. Fell.
The chief judge Of the court Of appeals
iof Maryland and Mrs. Boyd
! The president of the supreme court OF
appeals of Virginia.
| The president of the supreme court of
appeals of West Virginia an. Mrs. Will
| liams
| Presiding Judge and Mrs. Knapp
| Presiding Judge and Mrs. Montgomery.
Chief Justice and Mrs. Shepard.
Chief Justice Peelle.
Former Senator and Mrs. J. B. Foraker.
! Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Francis.
| Miss Baldwin.
Miss Taft.
Lieut. Commander Leigh G. Palmer.
President Arthur 7. Hadley. the chair
man of. the railroad securities commits
SION. and Mrs. Hadley, will arrive in
Washington tomorrow. President Hadley
will be one of the speakers at the Yale
banquet, which is to he held Saturday
night. During their stay in Washington
President and Mrs. Hadley will be the
house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Xavier McLanahan.
Usually when President Taft makes a
social call his host knows about il. but
il became known today that the Presi-
dent had little surprise party of his
own Monday night at the German en-
iassy. where Count Won Bernstorff. the
German ambassador. was giving a dance
in honor of Miss Helen Taft.
Following the banquet Of the Ohio So
ciety the President was Whisked away
in his automobile to the German en-
tassy. The butler, who knew the list of
guests, was astonished. several couples
passing from the ballroom to corridors
also were astOnished, and finally Count
Won Bernstorff himself caught sight of
the President. and greeted him with min
gled curiosity and surprise. The Presi-
dent allayed the fiutter of excitement by
confidins to the ambassador that he mere
IL wanted TO have peek at the affair,
which was one of the most brilliant So
cial events of the season.
The ambassador Of France and Nine
Jnsserand had as dinner guests last night
the Speaker of the House and Miss Cam
non. the Secretary of the Interior and
Mrs Ballinger. Senator and Mrs. William
Alden Smith, Senator Burton, Repre-
sentative Gilett. Representative and Mrs.
D. J. Foster, Representative and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, Representative and
Mrs. Fassett. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles u.
Wolcott. Mrs. John Hay. Mrs. Long
worth, Mr.. John Barrett and the military
attache OF the embassy and Comtesse de
Chambrun.
Mrs. John Chopper entertained at dinner
nst evening In compliment to her cous-
As Mr.. and Mrs Gordon Abbott of
Hbston The other guests were the Bel
GAN minister and Countess de Buisseret,
t1e counselor of the Austro- Hungarian
Embassy and Nine. Won LOwenthal-Linau,
Mss Hegeman. Mrs. Hinckley. Mrs. Grin
All Capt. and Mrs. Spencer Wood, Mr.
AID Mrs George Becker. Gen. Ernst, Mr.
Hair Lee, Mr.. Richardson and Mr.. Craw-
3D.
FOL. Robert NJ Thompson of Sheridan
CfcIe inaugurated his Inequalities by a
diner and a cotillon last night. The
d1ner guests included the assistant sec
rdary OF the navy and Mrs. Beekman
Winthrop, Lieut. and Mrs. Train. Miss
NHrgery Smith. Miss Dorothy Williams
Mss Eudora Glover, Miss Mary Souther-
laid, Miss Cecilia May. Miss Julia Wood
od New York, Rear Admiral and Mrs
lin Cannmhc CnnMc lllI|