Evening star., 1911-01-08

will be at home Monday afternoons and
evenings in January at 1852 Irving
street northwest.
Mrs A. H. Baldwin will be at home
7. +. the oe''' foe'oas'' January y anu
Mrs. William II. Walker. Miss Laura
| V. walker and Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Brit
ton are with Mrs Grace w. Nettleton,
1746 Euclid street. for the. winter.
Miss Helen Taft was the guest of Miss
Catharine Britton last night at the Brit
ton home on Connecticut avenue. There
| were fifty guests at dinner and to enjoy
an informal dance which followed.
Gen. and Mrs. Macomb. who have
started for the Pacific coast. will visit
Gen. and Mrs. Tasker II. Bliss at Fort
| Mason for a week before sailing for
Honolulu.
Miss Eliza McMullin, who has been the
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hays Hammond for the past two months,
in New ,tn York ber to vlz, Snr
| John McMullin. she will return to san
| Francisco in March.
| President and Mrs. Taft, Miss Helen
Taft. Mrs. John r. Mclean, Mrs. Joseph
| Thropp, Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth and
| Mrs. Jeffreys Parsons have taken boxes
for the performance of Oscar Wide $
play, "The Importance OF Being Earnest,
which will be given by we'll known Bal
timore amateurs at the Columbia The
ater at 43O o'clock Wednesday, January
1S for the endowment fund of the House
of Mercy.
Mrs Randall Hoes is chairman of the
committee for the sale of tickets, which
may also be secured from Mrs. Arthur
Lee, Mrs Lee Phillips, Mrs. Percival
Dodge and Mrs. Talbot.
Mrs. Robert Lansing. and Miss Mar
garet Dulles and Miss Beth Hiboen of
Princeton, house guest. will receive
with Mrs. John w. Foster Monday, her
usual day at home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont will give
a dinner dance Friday, January %. Over
hundred will attend the dinner.
Mrs. Brinton Stone will be at home
tomorrow and January 1G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lansing and
DIR. and Mrs. Allen Nj. Dulles will arrive
this week to visit Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Foster, the former to spend a month
with their parents and the latter to cele-
brate their silver wedding anniversary
Friday next Mr.. and Mrs Foster will
give a silver wedding dinner that even
ing for their son-in-law ard daughter
at which all the bridal party. save two
members, VIII Dc picScHl 0dluAdy <AAS
Foster will give large tea TO introduce
her granddaughter, Miss Margaret Dulles
to her friends here. Miss dulles was
presented in the, early winter at her
parents home in Auburn, N. Y.
The French ambassador went to New
York yesterday to attend the annual din
ner given by the National Association
of Professors of French in America last
night.
The Japanese ambassador and Baroness
Uchida will give q dinner January IA.
Mr. Edward III. Lotus, first secretary
| OF the Siamese legation, and Mrs. Lotus
have returned from visit of several
| months In England
(, The charity ball and the diplomatic re-
ception are the events on this weeks
| card anticipated by hundreds. Mrs. John
| r. McLean's ball for Miss Helen Taft
| will take place Saturday next.
dinner and dance for Miss Taft Thursday
night. Mrs. Edison Bradiey's cotillon for
Miss Taft. which was to have been given
| wednesday. has been postponed.
| The German ambassador and Countess
! Won Bernstorff have cards out for re-
| ception January q at 0 O'Clock In honor
| of the kaiser's birthday anniversary, and
| OH January 30 will give ball in Miss
| Taft's honor.
/ Mrs. Oliver. Cromwell viii give a debut
4 ball for her daughter. Miss Louise Crom-
1 we'll. January 20, at Rauscher's.
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