Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-17
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
PRESIDENT AND WIFE WILL GO
TO THEATER TONIGHT.
An Army Bud Will Be Presented To.
day-Personal
Notes.

The President and Mrs Taft will go to
the theater tonight and will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Laughlin and Maj.
Rhoads.
Miss Helen Taft will be honor guest at
Reyburn will give for young people, aft
erward going on to Mrs. Richard Reid
Rogers dance. Charles Taft is to dine
at Justice Pttney's house and go on to
the theater afterward with that party.
Mrs. Bryce, wife of the British ambas-
sador. is at home this afternoon at the
embassy to an invited company, the oc-
caSiOn being arranged for Mrs. Grant,
wife of the naval attache Of the embassy
and Mrs Gage, wife of the military at
tache.
The social world Of the capital was
brilliantly represented at the Corcoran
Gallery last night, several thousand per-
sons accepting the invitations sent out
some time ago. Tonight a part of the
younger set will be guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Reid Rogers at a dance.
which will be preceded by several din
ners.
Miss Dorothy Aleshire. younger daugh-
ter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Aleshire, will
be presented at a large tea today. Mrs.
Aleshire will have the following army
matrons receiving with her: Mrs. Leon
ard Wood, Mrs. Albert l.. Mills. Mrs.
Dana, Mrs. Cloman, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs.
Macdonald. Mrs. Darlington Mrs. Har-
Der and Mrs. DOWney.
Other assistants of the occasion will be
Misses Katherine Weeks. Virginia lie
Seure, Rebekah Wilmer, Leila Harrison,
Josephine Jeffries, Mary Webb, Oven
phia and Miss Keyser of Pensacola, Fla.
house guests of the Misses Aleshire.
The French military attache and Count
ess de Chambrun. with their children,
will go to Cincinnati to spend the Christ
worth, the countess mother. Mrs. Buck
ner Wallingford. who is with her sister.
the countess, will return to Cincinnati
with hem.
Mr.. John w. Garrett, United States
minister to Argentina, and Mrs. Garrett
will arrive shortly in Lisbon. Portugal,
and are expected to reach the former S
home in Baltimore about January 1.
Miss Alice Eversman of this city, a So
prano of the Chicago Grand Opera Com
pany, will be guest of honor at the recep-
ton and housewarming Sunday afternoon,
from until & o'clock, at the Home for
Business Mothers, in Chicago, which is
under the auspices of the Cooperative
League Of that city. Of which Mrs. Jo-
seph Fish is president. Members of the
board of directors will serve tea during
the afternoon. A general invitation has
been extended to the public, especially
those who are Interested in conserving
the family. The home provides shelter for
children while mothers are at their bust
ness in the city, and at night the mother
and child are together, minimum rate
being charged for their board, which
makes them Independent of charity.
Senator and Mrs. John d. Works of
California are at the kenesaw for the
winter. Mrs. Works and Mrs. Stephens,
wife Of Representative William B. Ste
phens of California, will give a reception
Tuesday, January Z, at the Congressional
Cub to introduce Miss Barbara Stephens.
Col and Mrs. George Barnett will give
a farewell dinner tonight in Philadelphia
for Capt. and Mrs. Bryan, who will leave
for this city next week. The guests will
afterward attend the navy ball. Covers
will be laid for twenty-five guests and
among those present will be Miss Marga-
ret Freel. Maj. and Mrs. Smedley Butler,
Miss Catherine Judge of New York, Mr.
and Mrs. c. Wheaton Vaughan and Mr..
McClintock of Baltimore.
Mr. and Mrs. James Lansburgh have
issued invitations for the marriage of
their daughter Beatrice and Mr.. Leonard
Weinberg Wednesday night, January 1,
at o'clock, at the Eighth Street Tenn
pie.
Mrs. Charles II. Stockton, Mrs. William
Cline Borden. Mrs. Eugene Byrnes. Mrs.
Martin A. Knapp, Mrs. William Bruce
King Mrs. Charles j. Bell. Mrs. George
Deering, Mrs. b. NJ. Randolph, Mrs. Bar
ret Ridgley, Mrs. Robert Roosevelt, Mrs.
Fremont Smith, Mrs. Charles w. Richard
son, Mrs Tom A. Williams. Mrs. ]. 3.
Kendall. Mrs. W.. P. Hepburn, Mrs. Frank
Carpenter, Mrs. III. c. Yarrow, Mrs E.
A. Balloch, Mrs. Edgar Russell, Mrs. John
D. Patten, Mrs. Frederick w True, Miss
Lucy Brickenstein, Mrs. Henry A. Rob-
bins, Miss Aileen Bell, Miss Roberta Allen,
Mrs. Richard Dean. Mrs. Arthur Day,
Mrs. Hugh A. Brown, Mrs. A. w. Span
hoofd, Mrs. Richard Rathbun. Miss Mary
Brickenstein, Mrs. Spencer Prentiss, Mrs.
w. X. Butler, Mrs. w. J. Mallory, Mrs. G.
L. Spencer, Mrs. D. w: Prentiss, Mrs.
George H. Brown, Mrs. H C. Clark, Miss
Hooper. Mrs. w. C. Prentiss, Mrs. c. W
Riley, Mrs. Leonhard Stejneger, Mrs. r.
A. Phillips and Mrs. Owen B. French are
the patronesses of the concert which will
be given Thursday night at $50 at the
Raleigh Hotel for the benefit of the
George Washington University Hospital.
The cantata ''Sir Oluf' and other compost
tons will be sung by the following SOLO
lists. Miss Harriet Ware. Mrs. GaWler