Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-15
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
SECRETARY WILSON WILL BE
PRESIDENTS HOST TONIGHT.
Old-Fashioned Dance at Officers
Club-Weddings.
Notes.

The President and Mrs. Tai. will dine
with Secretary Wilson at his annual din
ner in their honor tonight, at the New
Willard. Miss Flora Wilson is in Cali
| fornia.
| Miss Helen Taft will take dinner with
party at Mr.. and Mrs Merriam's tonight
Last night she dined with Mr.. and Mrs.
Murray Cobb.
Lieut.. Yates Sterling, Lieut.. Rienan
and Mr.. William Bowie Clarke were in
Baltimore last night attending the valen-
tine dance given by Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Marburg for about 100 guests.
| Secretary Hilles announced today that
the number already invited to the recep-
ton to be held at the White House
| Tuesday evening. February 20, had at
tanned such proportions that it had be-
come necessary to close the list. No more
invitations will be issued.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Marshall's valen-
tine party last night for their daughter
Miss Maitland Marshall and some HgO
of their friends was a delightful event, In
which the charm of the olden time ex-
pressed in dress and customs was in full
evidence 1t was held in the Officers
| Club at the Washington Barracks where
a decoration of southern smilax and red
| flowers was in place and rows of candles
across the windows and at other points
formed the only Illumination save the
| Pickering lights from the log fire on the
hearth during the hour while the guests
We're assembling and being received by
the host and hostess. and incidentally
giving each other much pleasurable ex-
citement over their appearance. Supper
Il l,nyv
table literally ''groaned'' under big roast
ed turkeys, roasted Virginia cured hams.
| tall pyramids Of cake and fruits and
made Il picture of substantial hospi-
tally.
| For the first dance four negro fiddlers
| formed the orchestra, and later on schot-
| tiSches, polkas, maZurkas and the Nir-
| ginia reel were danced. A figure Carried
out the valentine idea, four hearts meas
| uring six feet in height being wheeled
| into the ballroom. From them hung gay
scarfs. which were seized by the dancers,
who later drew them from the hearts, only
| to find they led to valentines giving the
names of their partners.
The event, which revived the traditional
| hospitality of Kentucky and Georgia,
| since the host is a nephew Of Chief JUS
| tice Marshall, and Mrs. Marshall
| granddaughter of the late Senator Col
quit of Georgia, who was succeeded in
the Senate by her father, made the wear
| ing of the dress by the hostess particu-
| larry interesting, since it was the same
worn by her aunt. Miss Elizabeth FELL
| Colquitt at the Pierce inaugural ball. The
| Point lace fichu worn with the brocade
| gown was a part of its first adornment
also, as were the cameo and pearl brooch
| and hish-backed comb.
| Miss Marshall's costume was of white
| silk, ruffied to the waist, and worn under
| a much-draped overskirt and bodice of
| yellow brocade. Her hair was combed
| low in front and parted, done into a high
| coil at the back, and finished by clusters
| of curls and big red roses behind her ears.
Mss Gladys Lord, Miss Marshall's
| house guest, wore a lace ruffied skirt,
with a pink satin bodice and panniers.
| and her hair powdered and dressed high.
| All the guests, save the army officers
who Wore their uniforms, were in old
fashioned costumes, some going back
| several centuries and veritablea heirlooms.
| Miss Garrard S dress showed the colonial
period and was of lowered blue muslin
| She wore powdered hair and patches.
| Miss Beatty had an 1880 dress Of
| Powered chiffon over blue satin. Miss
Moves was in colonial costume. PAN
| niers of Powered null over a petticoat
powdered hair. Miss Elizabeth Noyes
wore an 1865 dress in lowered pink satin.
Miss Annie Irwin. white satin petit
coat, fiounced to the waist with lace
ruff1es; waist, panniers and train Of or
| child satin.
! Miss Mary Irwin, a white satin petit
| coat. with two lace fiounces. and dress
of blue satin, with a disappointed waist
| Her hair was powdered.
| Miss Ruth Pilling wore her grand
mothers dress, 40 style, of pale green
| silk over hoopskirt. with stripes above
| the hem of white satin lowered In pink
roses and fichu of green silk.
| Miss Harriet BaNne, a colonial cos
| tune of changeable pink and green silk
| with powdered hair and patches.
! Miss Frances Effinger. yellow bro
| caded satin with bodice and panniers
of purple velvet. Her hair was powdered,
| with janice Meredith curls and patches.
Miss Margaret Smith. 1880 costume of
yellow taffeta, ruffied to the waist, and
panniers and waist of lavender silk Pow
dered hair and clusters Of tiny curls.
| Miss Natalie Magruder, a dress of the
civil war period of pink roses on a white
ground.
Miss Lena Hitchcock, rufiied gown of
soft pink silk of the period of 1870.
Miss Kathryn Hitchcock. a Josephine
dress of white silk figured in violets,
with ficliu of white lace
| Mrs. Summerlin, an 1850 dress of pink
taffeta, with lace ruffies on the skirt and
bodice, trimmed with small punches of
pink roses and forset-me-nots. Her hair
was parted and dressed high, with curls
on each side of her face.
| Miss Margaret knight recalled 1865 In
her dress of lowered muslin, with a full
skirt trimmed in graduated ruff1es, each
edged with black velvet. Around her
throat she wore an old cameo brooch on
a black velvet band.
| Miss Ruth Bliss, a colonial dress of
| blue satin and Powered brocade.
Miss Dorothy Gatewood, blue tarletan
of the period of 1860. Her full skirt was
looped up with tiny punches of rosebuds
Miss Ruth Hitchcock. white tarletan.
| the ruffies caught with pink roses and
worn over d hoOpskirt.
| Miss Edmonia ADAMS. pink satin, with
white satin panniers trimmed with pink