The Washington times., 1912-06-09
Many Entertainments IS Are
Given in Honor Of the
=. Kaiser's S Officers.

Warships of friendly nations have
| been frequent visitors to American
| shores In recent years, and on each
occasion the visit has served to enliven
considerably q dull or waning season
at the National Capital.
During the week just past the official
visit of Prince Christian Won Hessen-
hilippsthal-Barchfeld and the officers
| of the German squadron anchored off
Hampton Roads, restored the closing
season to even more than its wonted
| brilliancy.
Though the visit to Washington was cf
short duration, the social program was
crowded to the utmost. From the tine
OF their arrival Wednesday morning on
| one of the Government ships sent to
meet them, until their return to Hamp-
ton Roads Friday evening. the officers
were rushed from one function to all
other on close schedule time.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German am
6assador, asked practically all social
| at luncheon at Rauscher's "Wednesday,
such function at this time of the
year coming as an oasis In the desert
to those who have not yet departed for
cooler climes.
The ambassadors guest list included
about twenty OF the most charming and
attractive girls in society, whom he took
tsre care to have seated en- tete tete with
kalsers navy. IN fact, all the guests
were seated at small tables, an ar
rangement always much more condu-
Give to satisfactory conversation than
the large and more formal festal board.
Secretary and Mrs.
Meyer Hosts to Officers.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Meyer are always the most conspicu-
Gus entertainers Of foreign celebrities
In the Capital, and on Friday they were
hosts to the officers at a gay party,
| taking them down the Potomac to Mt.
Vernon on the Mayfower, just prior
to their departure for Hampton Roads.
On this occasion practically the same
group of girls invited to the luncheon
Wednesday-the Misses Meyer. MISS
Miss Catherine Britton, Miss Gladys
Hinckley, Miss Mary McCauley. Miss
Marie Stevens, Miss Harriet Wads-
worth. Miss Caryl Crawford, and sew
were Included in the party.
Many of these young women will meet
the officers again at Newport. where
,, the fleet is scheduled for a more lengthy
would not be surprising IL some of the
acquaintances thus formed under most
auspicious circumstances developed to
a romantic stage
which was in no way occasioned by the
visit of the German officers was the
reception at the British embassy Mon
day evening In celebration of the
! England, George V.
Several hundred invitations for the
reception at 10 o'clock were sent out
by the charge d'affsires, Alfred Mitchell
bers of the embassy stan and few
| other British Aubjects at dinner earlier
! in the evening.
! Not for years has such brilliant
OF the embassy, the present ambassa-
! dor, James Bryce. ana his wife caring
but little for the social side of life.
Quantities Of potted green plants and n,
halls Of the embassy a gala appearance.
| but the guests were really received in
! the garden in the rear of the house.
/ TIE iron picket fence which surrounds
occasion with an awning fence and
| row of potted dwarf tres screening the
view from the street. A portion of the
! Marine Band stationed on rear porch
music throughout the evening and the
| guests danced or wandered at will
through the garden, illuminated for the
occasion with Japanese lanterns.
Young MIS- Grant, wife of the new
naval attache. Capt. II. S. Grant, r.
| N. received with Mr.. 1nnes, the recep-
| ton affording an excellent opportunity
| for the newcomers to meet Washing
ton society under particularly happy
| circumstances, and only scant tWen-
| ty-four hours after their arrival.
Capt Grant scceeds Capt. G. F. G..
| Sowerby, who departed yesterday. He
has been fixture here as naval attache
| conspicuous bachelor host of the corps
| with the possible exception of A. C..
Horstman. Of the German embassy, of
| Sunday night dance fame, or the new
| Brazilian ambassador Senior de Cana.
New Attache at
German Embassy.
| The personnel of the German embassy
! STAFF has been recently augmented by
| the arrival of a new attache. Baron
! Won Reibnitz, and his attractive young
wife, Baroness Won Reibnitz. Since their
arrival in Washington they have occu-
! pied apartments at the Grafton, from
| whence they departed yesterday for a
brief sojourn at Boston, before locating
| for the summer at Newport, where the
] embassy Is to be established. They will
| be a decided acquisition to the younger
married set of the Diplomatic Corps
next winter.
Not in many moons has society ex-
perienced such thrill as that occa-
! stoned by the ban which the authorities
| at the Chevy Chase Club placed on the
Turkey Trot," the Bunny Wisgle,"
and all the Otner tancy dances OF the
modern type, the other day. Heretofore
these fancy steps have run riot at Chevy
| Chase, the younger set indulging in
| great abandonment, and the sudden
/ and decisive stand taken by the board
of governors was a matter of great sur
prise.
Rumor has it that the governors and
members of the club are still not above
| indulging when surrounded only by
| friends, but that the ultimatum was
I forced by the unwelcome presence of