Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-07
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY.
TO ATTEND THE
HAMMOND RECEPTION.
News of Others in Past and Coming
Social Events-Per-
sonals.

The President and Mrs. Taft went to
the theater last night, but have made no
social engagements for today.
Mrs. John Hays Hammond will enter
| tain tonight at a reception in compliment
to the officers of the National Civic Fed
GRAFTON, which is now holding sessions
here.
Secretary and Mrs. Nagel will give
| luncheon party tomorrow.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. MacVeagh will give a dinner tomor-
row night. and the Attorney General and
Mrs. Wickersham will entertain at din
4 ner Wednesday, March 49,
The counselor of the German embassy
and Nine. Hanel Won Haimhausen en-
tertained at dinner last night in honor
| of the Italian ambassador and Mar
| chioness Cusani and the Brazilian am
bassador. Their other guests were Nine.
Christian Hauge. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilkins,
Viscount and Viscountess de Sibour the
| German second secretary and Nine.
kienlin and Mr.. Dmitrow, Russian Sec
| Ond secretary
Mr. and Mrs Theodore w. Noyes enter
| tanned at q small dinner last night In
compliment to Miss Frances Hodges and
/ .. A.,
| ment was announced this week. Mrs.
Hodges and Miss Hodges will leave next
Wednesday for Panama.
The informal dance which was to have
been given at Fort Myer Saturday night
| has been postponed on account of the
kirmess until March Is.
| Miss Mabel Boardman entertained at a
| tea yesterday afternoon in honor of the
| members of the Congressional Club. She
was assisted in receiving by Mrs Champ
Clark, Mrs E. w. Roberts, president of
| the club; Mrs. James r. Mann, Mrs. Os-
car Underwood, Miss Cannon and Mrs.
w. Murray Crane.
The second meeting of the Wednesday
afternoon Skating Club took place yes
terday at the Arcade, and was largely
Catherine Cameron received and an
orchestra furnished music. Tea was
served at small tables.
Representative Patten, is the guest at
the Plaza, New York, of Mrs. Arthur
Hearn, who has just returned from
three-week visit in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Patten lent
their home to the members of the Audu-
bon Society last night for a social meet
ing Short talks were given by Mr.. L.
Gilbert FedrSOn, secretary OF the NATIONAL
Association of the Society for the Protec-
ton of Migratory Birds, and by DR.. Sled,
president of the Massachusetts Fish and
Game Society, on the disappearance of
the white heron
Miss Lucy Brickenstein sang several
| times, and Interesting literature was dis
| tributed on bird protection.
Representative and Mrs. Richard w.
Austin Of Tennessee have taken an apart
| ment at the Brighton for the season.
The Colonial Danes will be addressed
at their clubrooms Saturday evening by
Mr. Glenn Brown, who will speak on the
| Identification of Washington and the
Lincoln memorial. Fine pictures will be
| shown.
Mrs Millhouser and son of Baltimore
are spending a few days with Mrs. May
er of the Woodwork apartment
Mrs. B. F. Reeves of Waynesburg, Pa,
is visiting her daughters, Mrs. ]. s. Lyon
and Miss Reeves, on Nichols avenue,
Congress Heights.
Miss Mary McCeney has returned from
a short visit to Atlantic City.
Mrs. Katherine Collins and her moth
| er, Mrs. Pelouze, will spend March at Old
Point. They will not return to Wash
ington until the autumn.
The Washington section of the wom-
| ans welfare department of the National
Civic Federation will give tea at Rau-
scher's today at o'clock to meet the
visiting delegates to the national coun-
| Gill; Short addresses will be given by
Mrs. Linden ". Bates Of New York,
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman of New York
| and Mrs. Bartlett Crane of Michigan.
Members may bring guests. Mrs. Archi-
bald Hopkins will receive the guests.
| Mrs. Selden Allen Day of 1888 Lamont
street will give Japanese luncheon Sat
| urday, March 9, in honor of her house
guest, Miss Margaret Peale of Virginia,
liams. Following the luncheon Mrs. Day
| will be at home informally from to 6.
when the group of luncheon guests will
serve Japanese tea "teahouse style
Miss Helen Varick Boswell of New
| York is spending the week with Miss
Elizabeth F. Pierce at the Portner. Miss
Boswell is attending the sessions of the
National Civic Federation.
| Mrs. Lyle Hansborough of Front Royal,
Va, is the guest of Mrs. 7. l.. Shelton at
the Victoria.
Miss Valerie Padelford who is a men,
Der of the Irish dance group at the kir-
mess tonight, will entertain her associates
at a supper of twenty covers afterWard
supper with decorations and favors in
keeping. Mrs. Pilling, the chaperon of
the dance. and Mrs. Ordway will be with
the young people
Owing to the illness of her mother, Mrs
Edward s. Munford, 1926 1 street, Miss
Elizabeth Henry Munford has returned
from a short stay in Baltimore and has
postponed her visit to Atlanta until later
in the spring.
Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper of New York
is to deliver a lecture on Twentieth
Century Suffrage" at the home of Mrs.
Arthur j. Parsons. 18th and r streets,
Friday March 8, at IL am
Mr. Nagakage Okabe, attache OF the
Japanese embassy, has gomez to Seattle
and will sail next Tuesday for Japan.
| Washingtonians now at st. Augustine,
Fla include Mr.. and Mrs. IL. b. Leary,
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Norment, Miss
Judith Norment, Clarence Norment, Jr.,
S. Bliss, Mrs. A. H. Snow Miss Wright,
lS B. Haycock, Mr.. and Mrs. 0. q.
Phillips, Mrs. f. Hodge and Miss M. F.
Phelps.
The Russian ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmeteff are a point nearer taking
possession of their newly leased home at
18th and streets. Ten steel lift vans
containing their household furniture and
belongings arrived yesterday in New
York from ST. Petersburg on the EtOn1an