Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-08
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
HOSPITALITIES ARE RESUMED
AT WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT.
Wedding Cards Out for July Events.
Travel Plans.
Notes.


daughters were among those on the COM
mittee who received President and Mrs.
Taft upon their arrival in Beverly, Mass,
| last week. Miss Alice Meyer presented
Mrs. Taft with basket of flowers as she
stepped from the train. George Won l..
Meyer, jr., represented his father, the
Secretary Of the Navy, unable to be pres
ent from illness, in the mems committee.
President and Mrs. Taft had luncheon
| with Mr.. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond
| and later the President and Mr.. Ham
mond played golf on the Myopia course.
The President will be dinner host to-
night at the White House for the repub-
lIcan national committee. A reception
will follow.
Mrs. Larz Anderson and her mother,
Mrs. George II. Perkins, are for July
and August at the Perkins home in
New Hampshire. where Mr.. Anderson,
minister to Belgium. will join them next
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury,
the latter formerly Miss Cromwell Of this
city. who are in London and greatly in
evidence at all the smart functions to
which Americans are hidden, were honor
guests at a dinner which Mrs. Anthony
j. DreXel gave last week. Among the
guests were the Duchess of Marlborough,
who wore a yellow and blue chiffon gown
and ropes of pearls; the Marchioness Of
Ripon, VINO was in black brocade; Mrs.
Cecil Bingham, in blue brocade and tur-
quoises: Lady Alastair Innes-ker Anne
Breese of New York;. in white and gold,
with diamond band in her hair and
high dog collar of pearls; Lady .Paget,
Sir John and Lady Lister-Kaye, Mrs.
George West, Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, j.
Pierpont Morgan, the Countess of Craven
(Cornelia Martin of New York;, the
Countess OF Essex adele Grant of New
York;. and many prominent English peo-
pie.
Mrs Stotesbury at the last court wore
gown of Venetian red and gold, with
chains of emeralds reaching to her knees
and emeralds massed at the corsage of
her bodice. Every, one is talking OF her
and she is invited everywhere.
Mrs. William F. Dismer and son Will
liam and Miss Ruth Tappan are spending
the summer at Bluemont Va
Mrs Clarence Moore and family were in
New York last week to await the arrival
of her mother, Mrs. L. C. Swift, from
Europe. It will be remembered that Mrs.
abroad at about the time the ill-sta rred
Titanic left England for New York with
the late Mr. Moore on board. Mrs. Swift
and Mrs. Moore will pass the remainder
Many pleasant things have been done
for Miss Margaret Cotton Smith in Bos-
ton. who arrived early in the week to
pay visit to her aunt and cousin, Mrs.
William Grenough Thayer and Miss
Violet Otis Thayer before joining her
parents. the Rev. and Mrs Roland Cotton
Smith, at their Ipswich country home.
Miss Helen Wiesner of New York is
here on a visit to her sister, Mrs. E.
Hartstall of 800 E street northwest
Mr.. and Mrs. Brainard H. Warner are
registered at the Dennis. Atlantic CITY.
Mrs. Harry N. Boss and children are
spending the summer at Atlantic City
Miss Margaret Mccall of Greenback
East Tennessee. is visiting Miss Louise
Davis of 9TH street. Congress Heights.
Mr. and Mrs. Orion E. Darnall re-
turned this week after visiting Chicago
and Pittsburg, attending the conference
on children and national conference of
charities and correction in Cleveland,
Ohio Mr.. and Mrs. Darnall also visited
relatives in West Virginia.
Miss Maud E. Mcpherson of 1850 Gerard
street, was among the passengers who
sailed from New York on July on the
month stay in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Lindgren will leave
Washington for Bar Harbor, Me-, next
Thursday for the summer.
DR.. D. Robinson and wife Of Hartford,
Conn, are the guests of Mr.. Benjamin
Sherman of 327 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest.
Capt. and Mrs. j.. II. Lee, Kalorama
road, are in Atlantic City for July.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Ernest A. Gar
lington have cards out for the marriage
of their daughter, Sally Darlington, and
Lieut.. Harry Dwight Chamberlain. 7th
United States Cavalry. Wednesday aft
ernoon. July "a. at 5 O'Clock. in ST.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church. A
small reception will follow at the home
Of Gen. and Mrs. Darlington. The en-
gagement OF Miss Darlington and Lieut..
Chamberlain was announced in February
upon her return from the Philippines,