Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-03

country place at Warwick Neck. r. l.,
from New York, where they were Joined
by other members of the family to spend
Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Duryea and the
latter's sister. Mrs. Edward Sanford of
on for the wedding of Miss Isabel Martin
of this city. a cousin of Mrs Duryea,
and Mr.. Clifford Lewis OF Cincinnati,
which will take place tomorrow at the
Stafford.
Miss Catherine Birney gave a tea yes
terday afternoon in honor of Miss Adams
and Miss McCumber. At the tea table
were Mrs Narela and Miss Cameron.
while assisting in receiving were Miss
Doris Drain, Miss Florence Schneider.
Miss Hazel Cox and Miss Josephine
Mitchell of Baltimore
Miss Doris Drain gave a luncheon to-
day, when those who will assist at her
debutante tea on the 9TH We're enter
tanned.
A Christmas shop under the patronage
or the League of the Covenant is being
conducted this week at 1918 Connecticut
avenue. where a multitude of useful and
fancy articles will be found on sale. The
tea hours. to &, are made especially at
Miss Edith Goode. chairman. are the
Misses Seymour. Needham. Grandin. Car
penter and Wightman who have others
also to assist them.
The proceeds of the sale will go to the
support of a visiting District nurse.
Miss Margaret r. Paine has returned
home after a visit of five months at
Akron, Ohio, with Miss Eleanor Francis
The Aid Association of the Blind will
give a luncheon at Old Masonic Hall
Thursday. Friday and Saturday, Decem-
Der D. q and q, from u to ,. Tickets. -
cents, for the building fund. They now
have beautiful lot on r street between
3Oth and 31st streets. in Georgetown. and
are hoping to erect a large building where
the blind people of the District may have
better advantages for caring for them
selves than ever before. Mrs. Charlotte
Emerson Main is the president: Mrs. Jo-
sephlne Jacobs secretary: Maj. Richard
sylvester is treasurer, and among the
hostesses at this luncheon are Mesdames
Young. Dobyns. Kaufman. Sylvester.
Mullett, Simpson. Brown. Nordlinger. Nc
Grew, Myers. MetZerott Kondrup. Ras-
ter. Callahan, Fishback. Hanay and
Schmeckebier.
Miss Eleanor Francis of Akron. Ohio. is
spending month with Mr. and Mrs L.
to Fairport, Ala, where she will spend
the winter.
tea and Christmas sale will be held
at Rauscher's Thursday next. from 3 to 4
O'Clock pm. the proceeds of which will
be devoted to the work for poor
churches.
The officers of the association are:
President. Mrs. George Bliss; vice presi-
dents. Mrs. Reid and Nine. Ramp. SUI
perior of the religious of the perpetual
alteration; secretary. Mrs. Harold r.
Norton. and treasurer. Nine. Martin.
religious of the perpetual alteration. The
honorary members of the board are her
Nine. Jusserand. and Mrs. Thomas +.
Ryan, and the lady managers include
Mrs. Robert Hinckley, Mrs. Henry May.
LIS. William X. Carr, Miss Alice Riggs,
Mrs. Thomas H. Carter. Miss r. Har-
rington, Mrs. d. X. Mccarthy. Mrs r. s.
Pescia. Mrs. HenleySmith. Mrs. A
Willett. Miss S. Lee. Mrs. A. Cooper.
Mrs Lennox. Mrs r. Y. Haynes, Mrs.
Preston Sands, Mrs. George G.. Hill and
Miss +. Stickney.
The managers, with the assistance of
other well known women and the de-
butantes of this and last year, will have
tables for the sale of useful and pretty
articles for the Christmas season and the
Miss Evelyn c. Lewis of Bowling Green
Seminary, Bowling Green. Va, who has
been spending the holidays with her
motner on Eucild street. was hostess at
a dance for her small friends Friday
evening. Among those present were the
Misses Mabel Kirby. Elizabeth Harr LYDIA
Shepard, Wilma Jerman. Clara Dolphin.
Bernice Talbot. Evelyn Lewis, and
Messrs. Edward Warrener. Lydon White
and Whitmore Harr. and Mrs. Brooks.
Mrs. Corbett. Mrs. Lewis and Miss NJ
Carrico and Mrs. Gardiner. Miss Lewis
returned to Bowling Green Monday.
The regular dance of the enlisted men
of the LIST Battalion of Engineers at
Washington barracks. d. c., foot of Az
street southwest (Old ArsenaD. will be
held in the post gymnasium Thursday
evening, December ). Dancing commences
at $50 pm.
benefits intended for the post children s
holiday party.
Col and Mrs. Selden Allen Day, L s. A.,
have returned and opened their home on
Lamont street, where they will be at
home informally as usual to their friends
Sunday afternoons in January and Feb
|ruary.
The Ladies of Charity of Saint Roses
Technical School, Phelps place and Cali
fornia street are giving their third
annual sale and tea, Wednesday, Decem-
Der II, from to q.
Nine. Jusserand will preside in the tea
room with other ladies of the diplomatic
corps. The fancy table will be in charge
of Mrs. w. E. Montgomery: the apron
table, Mrs. T. w. Stubblefield; the utility
table. Mrs. Mullett; the doll table. Miss
Lee: the Mrs. Wigs cabbage patch Miss
Wade: the Rebecca at the well, Miss
Helen Lee. and the domestic science, Mrs
Coombs.
A number of the debutantes as well as
0J1f- of fnyI OF ri tr-i1 he, ;v,