The Washington herald., 1911-01-31

The Vice President and Mrs. Sherman
were the guests of honor at dinner last
night of the Secretary of Commerce and
Labor and Mrs. Nagel. The guests asked
| to meet them were the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives and Miss Can
| non Senator and Mrs. Depew. Senator
! Rrandegee, Senator Burton. Senator Du
Pont Senator Kean. Miss Kean, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Dwight. Solicitor Gen.
eral and Mrs. Lehman. Mrs. Wilmer
and Miss Laura Harlan.
The British Ambassador and Mrs.
Bryce entertained at dinner last night
and had as their guests the Secretary OF
| the Navy and Mrs. Meyer, Mr.. Justice
and Mrs. Holmes. Mr.. Justice Van De-
vanter the Minister from the Neither
lands. Mr.. I.oudon; former United States
| Ambassador to France White, the Pres
| ident of the Carnegie Institution and
Mrs. Woodward, Sir John and Lady Har-
| rngton, house guests of the latter's $
mother, Mrs. Mcmillan; Sir Robert and
Lady Hadfeld, the latter the sister of
the Attorney General; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Francis Adams. Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Wadsworth. Miss Harlan. Miss
Elizabeth Adams. Miss Eileen Gorgas.
| Miss Ashton. niece of Mrs. Bryce; Mr..
Innes. counselor of the embassy: Capt.
! Sowerby, naval attache of the embassy,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Willard.
Sir John and Lady Harrington. who
have been making a visit Of some weeks
| in Washington, will sail for their home
| in England February IS.
| DIR. and Mrs. Dudley Morgan enter
tained ut a Maryland breakfast Sunday
in their Washington home. The guests
were Senator Bacon. Col. and Mrs. Archi-
| bald Hopkins, Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale,
Mr.. S. c. Neale, First Secretary of the
| Siamese Legation and Mrs. Edward Loft
us. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l. Preston.
! Mrs. T. Rtchie Stone. Mrs. James
MoSher. Representative 5. W. Smith, Mrs.
]. H. Hampden, and Mr.. Frank A Rich
ardson.
! Miss Helen Taft was the guest OF honor
at a cotillion last night given by the
BernStorff in the embassy.
The house was taStefully and effectively
decorated with trailing asparagus. South
| e-n smilax, and fresh blossoms. and a
| section Of the Marine Band orchestra
played. The guests were asked for 10
o'clock, and the cotillior began at II.
Count Pourtales and his tiancee, the
young countess Luisa-AleXandra, led
assisted by Mr.. HOrstmann, of the en-
bassy staff. with Miss Taft.
Among the favors, which were more
than usually beautiful and picturesque,
were. for the girls. large feather wings,
which tapped gracefully when set upon
the shoulders of the dancers; the dainu-
est of china bells. which tinkled Gayly
and were clever baubles: pretty baskets,
as useful ornamental; pretty trays.
stamp boxes. horns. wands topped with
poppies, Sandalwood boxes, and pretty
and tasteful fans, and for the men sro-
tesque playthings in the shape of fans
and many trinkets of tinsel and silk, in
rose. pink and French blue. making a
collection of favors among the prettiest
of the season. and not outShone by any
of the imported things.
TIE Countess Won BernstorT wore a
trailing gown of heavy pink and silver
brocade satin with ornaments of pearls
and diamonds. The Countess Luisa-
Alexandra was in pink satin and silver
tissue. with pearls. y buffet supper was
served throughout the late evening.
Among the guests were Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock. the Danish minister and
Countess Moltke, Lieut.. and Mrs. L.
$. Grant, the naval attache of the Aus
tro-Hungaran Embassy and Baroness
Preuschen, the naval attache of the
French Embassy and ViscountesS day
Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Miss Julia Meyer. Miss Alys Mey-
e-. Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard. MIR.
and Mrs. Preston Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Wadsworth, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Goelet Gerry. Miss Mabel Gerry. Mr.. and
Mrs. H Wadsworth, Miss de Smirnoff
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville r. Fortescue,
Lieut. and Mrs. Sherman Miles. Capt
and Mrs. Bulmer, Representative and
Mrs. Andrew Peters, the counselor of the
Austro-Hungarian Embassy and Mme
Loewenthal-Linau, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald
Cassels. Mr.. and Mrs. Vaudeville Carlisle.
Mt. and Mrs. de Struve. Mr.. and Mrs
Alexander Legare, Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Legare, NJ. and Mrs. Kennard. Mr. and
Mrs. Murray Cobb. Mr.. and Mrs Crown
inshield, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Mum,
Representative and Mrs. Augustus Pea
body Gardner, Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Story,
Maj. and Mrs. Spencer Cosby, Viscount ahd
Viscountess de Sibour, Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Townsend. the Misses Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Moore, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Peabody Eustis. Mrs. Tevis
and her sister, Miss Baxter. house guests
Of the Secretary Of War and Mrs. Dick
inson: Miss HaSner, Miss Harriet Wads-
worth. Mr.. Hamilton Fish, jr., Miss Janet
Fish, Miss Hammond. Miss May Ham
mond, Miss Glover, Miss Yvonne Townsend,
Miss Evelyn Chew, Miss Alice Whiting,
Miss Julia Whiting, Miss katherine Jen-
nings, Miss Mary Carlisle, Miss Marion
Oliver. Miss Eleanor Parker, Miss Hinck-
ley, Miss Carrie Louise Mum, Miss Mary
McCauley. Miss Louise Foraker, Donna
Beatrice Cusani. daughter of the Italian
Ambassador: Miss Marion Wise, Miss
Sophy Johnston, Miss Tuckerman, Miss
Isabel May, Miss Celia May, Miss Fran
ces Noyes, Miss Catherine Britton, Miss
Harriet Switzerland, Miss Mary Souther-
land, Miss Dorothy Gardner Williams,
Miss Dorothy Williams, Miss Gertrude |
Williams, Miss Elsie Aldrich, Mr.. Larz
Miss Louise Cromwell, Miss
Laura Merriam, Mr.. Harry Merriam. jr.,
Miss Georgianna Hopkins, Miss Katherine |
Brown, Miss Margaret Cotton Smith, Mr.. |
John Cotton Smith, Miss Miriam Crosby, |
Miss Georgia Todd, Mr.. Gable, Assistant |
Secretary Of Commerce and Labor; Mr. I
Charles c. Glover. jr.. Maj. Squier. Mr.. |
Dmitrow, of the Russian Embassy staff;
DR.. Davis, Mr.. William Bowie Clarke,
Count d'Ademar. Mr.. Charles H. Davis, |
jr., Lieut.. Col McLachlan, military at |
tache of the British Embassy staff; Capt |
Of the special Mexican Embassy |
staff: Mr.. Esteva, Of the special Mexican |
Embassy staff: Mr.. Carreno and Mr.. /
Canalizo. Of the special Mexican Embassy /
stan; Mr.. Parrot, Lord Eustace Suther-