Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-05
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
SOUTHERN RELIEF BALL AT
NEW WILLARD TONIGHT.
Miss Harrison and Mr.. Williams to
Be Married This Evening.
Other Events-Notes.

With the President and Mrs Taft in
attendance, and every suspicious circum-
stance pointing to q brilliant and sue
cessful event, the annual ball of the
Southern Relief Society will be held to-
night at the New Willard.
Miss Mamie Randolph Heth, president
| of the society. and Mrs. John Hays HAM
mond will receive the guests.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Denegre, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mitchell Harrison, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Thropp, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott,
Mrs. Cole Of Tennessee, Mrs. John Miller
Horton, Mrs. Pierce, DR.. and Mrs. Walter
Wells and DR.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Poole
have taken boxes and will entertain large
parties.
season are to dance in the minuet. This
especially interesting number on the pro-
gram Is to be danced Immediately after
the arrival Of the President and Mrs.
Taft, and, as at the ball last year, 1t is
expected to prove an enjoyable innova-
| ton in the dancing.
| With the full Marine Band playing in
the ballroom Of the New Willard at II
o'clock today. the figures of the dance
| were rehearsed for the last time.
| The list Of those dancing includes Miss
Kathryn Mcconnell Hitchcock and Mr..
Harold Hayes Of California, Miss Lucy
Hoke Smith and Mr.. William NJ. Con-
rad, Miss. Anne Seymour Jones and Mr..
Bennett Champ Clark, Miss Carrie Lee
Chamberlain and Mr.. CASTOR Bulloch,
Miss Helen Hardy and Mr.. Oliver Owen
| Kuhn, Miss Lucinda Carpenter Penne-
baker and Mr.. Douglass st. Cloud Bull
lOch, Miss Evelyn. Lee FitZhugh and Mr..
James Ely Bready and Miss Nell Fletcher
| and Mr.. Singleton.
Miss Della Torrey, President Taft's
Mt ho ia
day to spend week. She was met at the
station by Maj A. w. Butt, who escorted
her to the White House. Miss Emerson
Lamb of Baltimore and Miss Helen Bar
Taft, are also guests at the White House.
The French amba ssador and Nine
| Jusserand entertained at luncheon to-
Luetzow of Bohemia. There were present
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, at whose
home the count and his wife are now
staying: former Gov. Herrick of Ohio.
| and Nine. vassilief, Commander Retz-
man of the German embassy, Miss Eliza
beth Adams, Mr.: l. DmitrOw of the Rus
san embassy and Lieut.. Commander
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Smith are entertain
ing at a tea today to meet Mrs. Ernest
w. Roberts and Mrs. E. B. Grandin. They
u
Mrs. Ellis Logan, Miss Mary Temple
Miss Norcross. Miss Elizabeth Day, Miss
Mary e. Liggtns. Miss Margaret Paine,
Miss Abel Of New York, Miss Edna
Mrs. A. Mitchell Palmer, wife of Rep
resentative Palmer of Pennsylvania, viii
be at home at the Hotel Grafton tomor-
row afternoon, from to o'clock.
Mrs. William T. Glover and Miss Emily
Glover, 1341 3Oth street, will be at home
tomorrow.
Mrs. Marion W. Dougherty Of PhiladeI-
phia will be here today for visit to Adj
miral and Mrs. Nicholson, who are leav-
ing the end of March for a two-year stay
in the east. where Admiral Nicholson will
have command of the Asiatic squadron
Col. and Mrs. Robert NJ. Thompson,
with their guests. Mrs. ]. West Roose-
welt and Rear Admiral Willard H. Brown
sen, Z. s. n. retired, arrived yesterday
morning in Col Thompsons private car.
the Constitution, at Miami. Fla, and will
go aboard his houseboat, the Everglades,
in a few days for fishing cruise along
the coast. The party was entertained at
tea yesterday by Mrs. Lewis Quentin
Jones at Ravenala cottage.
Lieut.. Gov and Mrs. John NJ. Reynolds
of Pennsylvania have announced the COM
Ing marriage OF LUcu daughter, N1lSS
judith Reynolds and Capt. George Good
rich of the 3Oth United States Infantry.
The marriage will take place February
10, at o'clock, at the Bellevue-Stratford,
Philadelphia.
Mrs William E. Humphrey. wife of
Representative Humphrey of Washing
ton, will be at home tomorrow at the
Royalton.
Society was brilliantly represented at
Father vaughan's lecture last night.
Among the box holders were Mrs w. "a
Montgomery, whose guests were the
counselor of the Austro-Hungarian en-
| bassy and Mime Loewenthal-Linau. Mrs.
Robert Hinckley, Mr. Charles Bonaparte
of Baltimore. former Secretary of the
Navy; Prof. Hemmelt, Mr.. George How
ard and Miss Montgomery.
| Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, who had
| with her Mrs. Pinchot, Miss Emo Of Bos-
| ton, Miss Morgan, Mr.. Lawrence 0. Muir
| ray, Mr.. Henry Cotton and Mr.. William
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Johnson. whose
guests were Mr.. and Mrs: Christian Hem
mick and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox.
Commander and Mrs. William Irwin,
| who had with them the Misses Irwin,
Mr.. Harry D. Irwin, Mrs. Richard Vain
wright. jr. Miss Schroeder and Miss
Mrs. Henley-Smith, who had with her
Miss Lewis Of Baltimore. Miss Henriques
and Miss Buchanan, and capt and MIS-.
Norton. who had with them Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Twining, Mrs. Hosley and
DR.. McClurg.
| Mr. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean
gave another large dinner party last
night served amid floral surroundings of
unusual beauty arranged in the dining
| room of the Walsh mansion on five round
| tables. A fountain played In the center
of the room. where tropical plants gave
| table was tall umbrella. covered with
yellow lilies and orchids. Great bouquets
| of American beauty roses were in place
| in the library and drawing rooms. and
the hall was prettily set with azalea and
| lilac bushes.
| The Marine Band played during the din
ner and following 1t. Mime Stevens-Law.
soprano; Nine. Wakefield, contralto; Sc
nor uuetry. tenor, and Oscar Seagle,
baritone, gave program. Mr.. and Mrs.
McLean's dinner guests were the Austro-
! Hungarian ambassador the Russian am
bassador and Nine. Bakhmeteff, the Sec
rotary OF State and Mrs. Knox, the Post
master General, Representative and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, the chief of staff OF
the army and Mrs. Leonard Wood for
, Andrew, the naval attache of the Rus
| sian embassy and Mime. Vasselieff, the
| military attache of the Russian embassy
and Baroness Elizabeth de Bode, Col.
and Mrs Spencer Cosby, Gen. Clarence
Edwards, Mrs. Richard Townsend. Mrs.
Robert Patterson, Mr.. and Mrs. Bourke
|