Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-23
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
DINNER SEASON rs ON AT THE
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Prospective Dates and Hosts-Horse
Show Notes-Personal
Items.
". BAKHMETIEFF.

President Taft will give a dinner De-
cember Z for the western governors who
are touring the east, and December IL for
the members of the republican national
committee who will open their meeting
here the following day.
Mr. and Mrs Ten Eyck Wendell enter
tanned at dinner last night. Their guests
were the British ambassador and Mrs.
Bryce the Attorney General and Mrs.
Wickersham, Senator and Mrs. Rayner,
Nine. Hauge, Mr.. Robert Roosevelt, DR..
and Mrs Wilmer and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
| liam Kearney Carr. There were addl-
tional guests after dinner, when Mr.. Carr
gave an informal talk on radium.
Mrs. Wendell had a party lunching with
her today She will go abroad shortly fof
trip to Egypt.
Miss Helen Taft was dinner guest
last night of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Glib
son at the Playhouse, when these hosts
also entertained Gen. and MIS- clarence
Edwards, Miss Meyer, Miss Alys Never,
Mr.. and Mrs. Esmond Ovey. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wolcott Tuckerman, Mr.. and Mrs Ed
ward Mitchell, Viscount and Vlscountess
de Sibour, Miss Mary Switzerland, Miss
Margery Cotton Col. Charles McCaWley,
Lieut.. EOWdEO ACSduiCS, AZ. oeA.AA
Mr.. Cotton Smith and Mr.. William Nor
row.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
entertained at dinner last night at nis
residence on X street the heads OF the
various bureaus of his department.. Ills
guests were Mr.. Benjamin S. Cable, as
sistant secretary of Commerce ana La
Dor: Mr. Herbert Knox Smith. commas
sioner of corporations; MIR. AtDeftuS H.
;afr e
features; Mr.. Charles Z. NELL, colninis-
sioner of labor: Mr.. George r. Putnam
commissioner of lighthouses; Mr. T..
Dana Durand. director of the bureau Oh
the census; Mr.. Otto II. Ilttinahn' sH-
perintendent of the coast and geodetic
survey; Mr. Oscar p. Austin. chief OF
the bureau of statistics; Mr. George
Uhler, supervising inspector general OF
the steamboat inspection service; MT
George M Bowers. commissioner OF
fisheries; Mr.. Eugene Tyler Chamber
lain, commissioner of navigation; MT.
Daniel J. Keefe, commissioner OF lmml-
grafton; Mr. S. w. Stratton. director or
the bureau of standards; Mr.; Cnari es
Commerce and Labor: Mr.. Robert M.
PindeIl jr. chief clerk of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor; DR.. George
w. Leadley, appointment clerk: MI MI
George Johannes, disbursing omcer; MT.
George c. Havenner, chief OF the print
ing and publication division; Mr.. wilbur
w Fowler, chief or the division or sup
plies.
A dispatch to The Star from New York
says that the wedding OF Lora CaA 10y.
and Miss Mildred Sherman of that city,
which is set for December 2, may have to
he postponed owing to the serious illness
of Miss Sherman's father, w. Watts
Sherman. Several of the pre-nuptial
festivities announced for TINS week nave
nCalod
The engagement of Miss Sherman and
Lord CamoyS was announced In Newport
last August Lord Camoys came here
last January to act as one of the ushers
at the wedding Of Lord Decies and Miss
Vivien Gould.
LADY Decies wore a beautiful gown Of
gray satin yelled with royal purple chit
fon and over this an opera coat OF black
velvet with collar of white swansdown. at
the horse show last night. 1t was her
first appearance there. She also wore a
chain of large pearls and corsage
ornament of diamonds. Her large hat of
black felt was topped with gray and
white plumes.
/ Mrs George Won L. Meyer and the
Misses Meyer, wife and daughters of the
Secretary of the Navy, have joined him
at their home. on Scott circle. They have
closed their house at Hamilton, Mass,
anu dir mere LII IhO s'Se~O--'
Mrs. G. c. Reid, wife of Gen. Reid. will
give a tea December II at her residence,
POLL Columbia road. to present her niece.
Miss Nina Stockton. who will be debu-
tante of the season.
Mr.. Charles M. Pepper entertained at
dinner last night. at his apartments in the
wyoming, Mr. Fausto Davila, the new
minister from Honduras. who was his col
league in the Pan-Amerfcan conference.
Mr.. Davila has recently arrived in Wash
ington, and was presented to the Presl-
dent Tuesday. Other guests were Minis
ter Calvo Of Costa RIGA, Mr.. Joaquin
Mendez the Guatemalan envoy, now IN
Washington on a special mission: Mr.. T..
c. Dawson, resident diplomatic officer of
the State Department; Gen. George ~.
Davis and Mr.. John Ball Osborne
The British ambassador and Mrs. Bryce
have taken box for the foot pail game
at Georgetown Tuesday afternoon. No
vember %.
The French ambassador and Nine. JUS
serand will give a dinner tomorrow night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Harper Walsh
have invitations out for Thursday after
noon, December Z, when Miss Louise
Walsh will make her debut
Capt. Kellogg of the United States bat
tleship Maine. now at League Island, Is
giving a dinner on board the ship tonight.
His guests are to be Mrs. John p. Rey-
burn, Miss Eleanor Reyburn, MI. and
Mrs. Henry S. Grove. Lieut.. Commander
and Mrs. Arthur B. Heating, Miss Helen
Ferguson. William H. Baw. Miss Marie
Louise Baird. Lieut.. Commander r. n.
Crank and Lieut.. Commander E. 7. Com
stien.
Nine Serrao of Italy, a sculptress. who
is now engaged on a statue Of Henry M.
Rice, formerly United States senator from
Minnesota. which will be placed In the
Capitol, is in this city for day or two
and is staying at the Dewey Hotel. She
is accompanied by her son, Baron Serrao.
Miss Louise Cashell has returned to her
home in the country for Thanksgiving
ffar visiting her aunt. Mrs Ramsay on