Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-23

Edward Gheen. the. newly elected presi-
dent. will receive and will have with her
Mrs. William Reed of Baltimore, presd-
dent of the Colonial Danes.
Assisting at the tea tables will be Mrs.
Munford. Mrs. Hughes Oliphant, newly
elected governors. and Miss Mary Am
bier, vice president, and Miss Ellen
Wood, treasurer.
The decorations of the clubrooms will
be In yellow and blue.
Mrs. Nourse and Miss Nourse and
Miss Ramsburg will be at home Thurs
days, January 70 and February s.
Mrs. Thomas A. Kearney and Mrs.
Charles A. Thompson, at the Dresden,
will not be at home tomorrow. but will
receive Wednesday, January 81.
Brig. Gen. w. w. Wotherspoon, who
has been detailed to command the De-
partment of the Gulf. will leave with Mrs.
Wotherspoon early next month.
Miss Alice vandergrift, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel II. Vandergrift. will
leave here this week to visit Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Leutze, at the Brooklyn
navy yard.
Mrs. A. w. Wells, 1909 I'd street north
west, has returned after a stay of five
weeks with her mother in Wallace, N. C..
The latter, who has been seriously Ill, is
now convalescing satisfactorily.
Mrs. Margaret E. Ballantyne of 13oS
Vermont avenue, will not be at home to-
morrow.
Miss T. NJ. E. LAWYER. who has been
seriously i'll for some time, is much i'm
proved.
Mr. and Mrs. John c. Rau of Columbia
road, this city. have left for a thirty-day
cruise to the West Indies. Spanish Main.
Panama canal and Bermuda, by the
steamship Moltke.
Mrs Harry F.. Hodges, wife Of Lieut.
Col. Hodges. entertained yesterday at a
tea, at which there was dancing for her
house guest, Miss Gorgas, daughter OF
Col. Gorgas at which there were about
seventy young people, Miss Elizabeth
Noyes. Miss Frances Brooks and Miss
Mary Webb presided at the tea table.
The minister of Venezuela entertained
at a small dinner last night in honor Of
the American minister to Venezuela and
Mrs. Elliott Northcott. Among the
guests We're the Cuban minister and
Nine Rivero, the assistant director
Yanes, and Mrs. Caldwell.
Miss Elizabeth Crenshaw has invita-
tions out for an afternoon card party
February 2 in honor Of Miss MILAN.
There will be a large card party at the
Washington Club, ITO I street. on the
evening of Wednesday. February II, at
o'clock. Each table is at liberty to Sc
lect the game preferred-whist. bridge.
auction, euchre or five hundred. Quite
number of tables have been already
engaged. The party is given by the
Washington branch of the Association for
the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
Mr. and Mrs Beale r. Howard are en-
PERTAINING at dinner of twenty-four COW
erS tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard J. Earnshaw
have issued invitations to tea to be
given Thursday. January 70, at their
home on Clifton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kearsley Mitchell,
3d. OF 227 East Rittenhouse square. Phil
adelphia, will entertain at a dinner at the
Bellevue-Stratford. in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward L. Stotesbury. now in Flor
Ida on their honeymoon, on Friday night.
February Is, after which the guests will
attend the Assembly ball.
A farewell dinner. at which forty lead
ing citizens, members of the Capital City
Club, will entertain tomorrow evening in
honor of Gen. and Mrs. Albert Mills. ~
be an eve.. of 7er.ab.e social interest in
Atlanta. There will be eighty in the
party, these being among the friends
with whom Gen. and Mrs. Mills have
been associated during their residence in
Atlanta. where they have contributed so
much to the social life of the community.
The guests will be received in the sa-
Ion on the ballroom floor, the receiving
party to include President Grant and
Mrs. Grant, Col. and Mrs. Robert }.
Lowry and Col. and Mrs. William Law
son Peel. Gen. Albert Mills has been re-
Gently ordered to this city.
Mrs. James \. Fitzpatrick will Dc at
home Thursday afternoon at l243 Ken
yOn street.
Sales of Boston are here on Il visit To
Mrs Gillette Hill. who is entertaining
at dinner tonight in their honor, and
box party tomorrow night.
Senator and Mrs. Owen entertained al
a box party last night in honor of Miss
Mary Howry, the debutante daughter OF
Judge Howry. Their guests We're Miss
berlain. Miss Elizabeth Howry, Miss Julia
Whiting, DIR. Julian NJ Cabell, Com
mander Charles +. Jewell, Commander
Emmett Tulloch. DIR. Taylor Boyd Dixon
and DR. W. T. Davis. A supper followed
at the New Willard.
Mrs Arthur j. Parsons gave luncheon
today, when her guests We're Nine Riano,
Mrs. Charles Nhlte anu MISS whitney
of Boston Mrs. Andrew Biddle and Miss
Biddle of Philadelphia. Mrs. Biddle Por-
ter Miss Sophy Stanton, Mrs. Myron
whitney, Miss Sarah Lee and Miss Hob
son.
Mrs. Alfred +. Taylor will be at home
Wednesdays. February Z and IL.
Miss Mary McCeney will give a large
tea this afternoon at the Washington
Club when She will be assisted by Mrs.
Lotus, Mrs. Thropp. Mrs. Woodward.
Mrs. A. Il. Eddy, Mrs. Heaton. Mrs.
Ross Perry. Mrs. Narnell. the Misses
Hill and Miss Frances Brooks
Mrs. William s. Washburn and the
Misses Graves will be mt home. 123s: NJ
street northwest, Fridays in February.
Mrs. John David Robnett will not be
at home tomorrow.
Marriage Licenses.
Marriage licenses have been issued TO
the following:
Lewis Young and Agnes L. Maxwell,