The Washington times., 1913-12-14
! JEAN ELIOT%
81 LETTER

= ing lOI So HUGH SoOu-IlatuISu Iull ldS lS-
suited from the announcement of the prize
dances that all the young tango artists are
practicing up for Monday and I'm told that
it is going to be funny when they do the (
dancing. All sorts of extra special steps are
being originated for the occasion and they
say the music is going to be special, too.
Mrs. Lawrence Heap has been working
her dear little self almost to death in the in
terest of the dance and she will be largely
responsible for the success it is bound to be.
Elizabeth and were saying just the other
night when she was over spending the even
ing with me that We wished you were going
to be here for Christmas. There are more
things that would interest you. Can't you
come down. Now, on Wednesday night your
beloved Rubnstein Club will hold its even-
ing concert in the ballroom of the Raleigh
Hotel. Isn't that enough to persuade you to
come? Elizabeth is member of the club
now, you know, and she has taken up her
vocal work at Peabody again this winter.
Her voice becomes more beautiful all the
time.
Virginia Hammond is going to have two
house guests, Miss Gertrude Dougles of Al
bany, and Miss Baum, of Omaha, next week.
They are two girls who were classmates of
Virginia in Paris year before last and they
are planning all sorts of things to do while
they are here. They arrive Tuesday, think.
Irene Barry has arrived in town from
New York to visit Nellie Claire Howard over
in Georgetown. They are spending the
weekend in Annapolis going down for the
basketball game and the hop tonight. On
Friday Nellie will give tea for Miss Barry
and then there are any number of teas and
luncheons being given that will keep them
busy. ,, .- .
The pre-nuptial parties for Robyn Young
are starting to be given already. Pretty Nina
Van Arsdale gives tea on the 29th that I'm 7
going to and then there are several other
Things that cannot remember now.
s.
Did you know that Lucie Hoke Smiths
fanee, Lieutenant Simpson, was ordered off
to Santo Domingo last week. Some one said
that was the touch of romance, but l think
it was great nuisance and | guess Lucie
thinks so too Maitland Marshal's suitor,
Paymaster Knapp, was ordered off on the
same trip, but of course it is not so bad be-
cause they are not going to be married yet
awhile. Not until spring anyway. All the
parties that had been planned in their honor
had to be postponed, or turned into dove"
parties, and it makes the few days before
the wedding, which is December 80, just
awfully crowded. Lucies good-nature is TN
bounded, however, and she just laughs,
shrugs her shoulders, and-well, that's all
there is to it.
Miss Boardman entertained at her annual
reception in compliment to the members of
the National Red Cross Society on Wednes-
day evening at her home in P street. AS
her entertainments are always, so was this
one. The most interesting and charming
folks in town were there, and everyone en-
joyed Being there. The guests were asked
for\ 10 o'clock, and many dinner parties were
arranged for the early part of the evening.
BY the way, did you ever see the Red
Cross brooch which Miss Boardman wears?
At the White House wedding just couldn't
help but admire it when was talking to her.
She wears it always, she says. 1t is rather
square in shape and about three-fourths of
an inch in diameter. The center is red
cross formed of four oblong shaped rubies
set in cluster of diamonds
Capital society, official and non-offcia1
moved along with such elan in the past six
days, that hostesses became alarmed lest
they might not be able to secure suitable
dates for entertaining and few got their
heads together and announced Easter Mon
day as the date for ball to benefit the
Army and Navy Relief Society. But this
was useless alarm for the wild rush for
things social died natural death several
years ago, and invitations issued one month
ahead are now thought sufficient safeguard
for any event worth while, and those not