New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
NEW YORK SOCIETY

MANY Mid.Lent Festivities Are
Planned for Week.
Mi-Car6me this week will be the occa-
sion OF even more dancing ana other les
tivities than have taken place mere sihce
Ash Wednesday. Mi-Caremc was orig
inally instituted to afford twenty-foar
hours relief from the fasting. sackclotn
and the ashes prescribed In oidcn times
for the penitentia season OF forty days.
But there has been no gloom or inter-
ruption Of gayeties in New York since the
beginning OF Lent. and while therefore
there Is no urgent necessity for q days
intermission and relief from fasting, MI
Careme IL nevertheless to be observed
with an increased zest In entertainment
and hospitality, not only on Mid-Lent day
itself, but throughout the entire week.
Private dances. subscription dances and
dances. as we'll as other forms OF enter
tainmcnt for the sake Of charity, cro"o
the programme from now until Sunday
and there are weddings scheduled OF peo-
pie careless about the oldtime dislike to
the celebration Of marriages in Lent
Mrs William *. Vanderbilt leads on to-
morrow night with dinner. followed ny
a dance at her house in Fifth avenue. ana
Mrs Edward Manice has invitations out
for a Mi-Caremc dance on wednesday
night. at her home, in East s4th street
III bat Of no
dances set for this week.
Brilliant among the charity entertain
ments on the list is the masked ball to-
morrow night at the Plaza for the bene-
ut OF the South Side Hospital. on Long
Island Mrs. George l.. Rives, Mrs. sam
uel stevens Sands. Mrs. Henry W. Bull,
Mrs Stephen II. =. Pell Mrs. Amos TUCK
French and Mrs. Archibald c. Thatcher
are moving spirits in the affair. There will
be a floor committee consisting Of Aym1r
Johnson. August Belmont, jr.. Robert L.
Watson. Theodore Grain and William
Wood
Another fete Of the same nature takes
place on Thursday at Sherrys for the
benefit Of the West Side Junior Club. OF
which Rowland Davis IS president The
patroncsses OF this dance and vaudeville,
in which the members OF the Junior
League will take part. include Mrs c.
Ledyard Blair. Mrs. j. Pierpont Morgan,
jr Mrs. Lindley Hoffman Chaplin, Mrs.
Goodhue Livingston and Mrs. Moses Taylor
Pyne. while the committee in charge COM
prises Miss Esther Cleveland Miss Agnes
I.andon. Miss Josephine Nicol. Miss Mar
garet Trevor. Miss Betty Carson and Miss
Cornelia and Miss Catherine Chaplin.
Ysayes violin playing will be the prin
cipal feature of the concert al the Wal
dorf- Astoria on Tuesday afternoon for
the benefit of the American Seamen's
Friends Society Institute. Tickets can be
obtained from Miss Florence Doane, No.
IS West Gath street. Among the patron
esses are Mrs. Morris * Jesup. Mrs.
John W Minturn, MIS-. Alfred Seton, Mrs.
Newbold lie Roy Edgar. Mrs Frank s.
Witherbee and Mrs. Charles Scribner. The
programmes will be distributed by young
seamen and shipboys in uniform
Mrs NJ Orme Wilson. Mrs Stuyvtsant
Fish. Mrs. Livingston Pel Mrs. Walden
Pell Mrs. David Lydig, Mrs. j. Mullen
berg Bailey and Mrs. John Porter Shan
non are among the patronesses OF an
amateur performance OF the operetta
Marching Through Georgia which IS
10 be given on Tuesday night in the ball
room OF the Plaza for the benefit OF the
international Animal Protection Congress.
Several % the winters debutantes are in
the cast which includes Miss Vera Van
Buren,. Miss Suzanne Warren. Miss Gro
vene Converse. Miss Marjorie shannon.
Miss Abby Morrison. Miss Ruth and Miss
Dorothy Gibo and Miss Louise Putnam.
The performance. for which tickets can
he obtained from Mrs. Pierre Crosby
Warns. AT No. IA East 5sth street. will
be followed by supper and a dance.
Delmonico's will be the scene tomorrow
afternoon and evening OF an Indian en-
tertainment for the benefit OF Auxiliary D
OF the Stony Void Sanatorium al Lake
kushaqua. y. Y. The features OF the
entertainment will be the Indian dances
in costume by Pe-Ahm- E-sQueet Float-
ing Cloud while Edwin ". Demins.
painter OF Indian subjects. whose works
figure in the Indian Hall OF Mrs. f.. II.
liarrmans country place at Arden and
In the Plains Room OF the Museum OF
Natural History. will give lecture on the
ceremonial and domestic life OF the old
time Indians. illustrated by stereoptcon
views. Mrs. James e. Curtis. Mrs. julius
H. Seymour. Mrs J. Bryant Leake and
charge. ana tickets can be obtained from
them.
Mrs. j. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs. Moses
Taylor Pyne. Mrs Henry Fairfield Osborn
and Mrs James Roosevelt are among the
patronesses of special performance OF
The Magic r'lute" which is 10 be given
at the Metropolitan opera House on April
l. for the benefit OF the Legal Aid Soci-
ETY.. Tickets may be obtained from Miss
Doane. No IS West 3ith street.
Mrs Charles II. Costsr has given the
use OF her house. in East S7th street.
Thursday afternoon. from TO o'clock.
for "A fair In aid OF the Mount Ivy sum-
mer Home. Mr. and Mrs. Castle will
dance during the fair. The committee In
charge Of the entertainment includes Miss
Elizabeth Cutting. Miss Gladys Pell. Miss
Leonard NJ. Thomas and Miss Helen Cos
ter.
The Stony Void sanatorium will have