The Washington herald., 1911-12-14

Ill Mrs. Sherman has Joined the Vice Pres
ident here. She is in mourning for hel
mother, who died recently. Mrs. Sher
man will take no part in the socta
activities of the season for the present.
The Attorney General and Mrs. Wick
ersham. who will be dinner hosts or
Monday evening, will sail from New
York on December % for Panama for g
three weeks trip. They will have dis
tinguished party accompanying them, in
GLIDING the French Ambassador and
Nine. Jusserand and the Minister from
the Netherlands and Nine. Loudon, one
of the most -congenial Of companies.
The Washington friends Of Mrs. D. p
MacCartney are deeply interested in the
rumors of her forthcoming marriage
ton, which is expected to take place
in this city on December q. Mrs
MacCartney makes her home with
her brother-in-law and sister, Com
mander and Mrs. William Manning IT.
win. in this city and is well known in So
ciety, both residential and official. She
is also a sister of Mrs James F. Bar
bour Mrs MacCartney is now in New
York on a short shopping trip. Com
mander Norton is well known and pop
ular here, and has an apartment al
Stoneleigh Court, where he has lived
several years.
The First Secretary of the American
Embassy at ST Petersburg and Mrs.
George Post Wheeler arrived at the New
Willard yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler
will be the luncheon guests of President
and Mrs. Taft at the White House to-
day They will leave this evening for
Cincinnati, where dramatization Of Mrs.
Wheeler's book, Satan Sanderson," Is
being played.
Mrs. Wheeler Is known In the literary
world as Halle Erminie Rives, which
was her name before her marriage.
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernstorff entertained at dinner last
evening in honor of the new Russian
Ambassador and Nine. Bakhmeteff. The
other guests were Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
! Holmes, Senator Lippitt the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Beck
man Winthrop, Mrs. B. H. Warder, Mrs.
Merrill, Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard,
Count NostItz, the Charge dAnaires Of
Sweden and Nine Ekengren, the First
Secretary Of the German Embassy and
Nine Haniel Won Haimhausen.
The weekly exhibition drills have been
resumed at Fort Myer and will be given
! every Friday until the latter part of
March, 1912. Tickets may be obtained by
writing The Adtutant, Fort Myer, Va"
Mr.. Francis G. Cotton and his daughter,
Miss Cotton, entertained at dinner last
evening in honor Of Miss Helen Taft
| The guests asked to meet her were Post
master General Hitchcock, Representa-
tive Theron Catlin, Gen. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Edwards, Commander and Mrs
| Archibald Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Wolcott
Tuckerman, Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Glib
| son, Miss Janet Mann, Of New York,
house guest of Mrs Edison Bradley; Miss
Mary Sheridan, Miss Dorothy Williams
| Miss Laura Merriam, Mai. Blanton Win
| ship, Lieut.. Adolphus Andrews, and Mr..
| Samuel Eliot.
The Secretary Of State and Mrs. Knox
went over to New York yesterday to
attend the marriage to-day of Miss
Katherine McCook. daughter Of Gen. and
Mrs. Arson McCook, u. 8. A, and their
son, Hugh Knox. The ceremony will be
attended by only small family party. Mr..
Knox will bring his bride to Washington
after January 1, when they Will occupy
the house at 1901 Seventeenth street, the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson
last season, for the winter.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Pepper and Miss Pepper
were dinner hosts last evening at their
apartments in the Wyoming for Col.
John G. Foster, the American consul
general at Ottawa. The other guests in
cluded Mr.. A. NJ. Gottschalk, consul gen.
eral at large; Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Hol-
lister Chapman. and Mr.. and Mrs. r. H.
Patchen Col. Foster arrived Tuesday
from his post in Canada. Mr.. GottschaIk
has recently returned from a two-year
official trip through Persia and the
Orient.
The Assistant Secretary of War and
Mrs. Oliver will be hosts at dinner
for young people Tuesday evening, De-
cember 26.
Mrs. Henry B. Brown, wife of Mr..
Justice Brown, of the Supreme Court,
retired, was hostess at a tea yesterday
afternoon from to o'clock, when her
guests were asked to meet her niece, Mrs.
Francis E. Warren, wIre of Senator
Warren, of Wyoming. Mrs. Warren was
formerly Miss Clara lie Barron Morgan.
her marriage to Senator Warren taking
place in New York last spring. She is
well known in Washington, where she
has spent several seasons with Justice
and Mrs. Brown.
Miss Cotton will entertain a company
at breakfast Sunday. December "a, in
honor Of Miss Mary Southerland and Mr..
Louis Bacon, of Boston, who will be mar
ried January 3.
Nine. Riano, wife Of the Spanish Min
lister, will entertain a company at lunch
con to-day.
Mrs. w. R. Montgomery will be hostess
at debutante luncheon December g for
her daughter, Miss Leita Montgomery.
Mrs. L. w. Eugster entertained at a
bridge party yesterday afternoon. Mrs
A. Waller and Mrs. Thomas Henry pre-
sided in the dining-room, assisted by
Miss Mary Madison Homes, Miss Estelle
Crane, Miss Anne Seymour Jones, Miss
Emily Beatty. Miss Carrie Loudon, and
Miss Louise Walsh