The Washington herald., 1913-01-27
SOCIETY

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The President and Mrs. Taft were the
guests of honor at a luncheon yesterday
given by the Misses Patton. at their
residence in Massachusetts Avenue.
The President and Mrs. Taft will at
| tend the Southern Relief Charity Ball. at
| the New Willard, this evening, and will
occupy one OF the boxes. Miss Mamie
Randolph Heth. president of the South
ern Relief Society, will receive the
GUESTS. and the others in the receiving
| line are to be Mrs. White. wife Of the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Mrs.
William Corcoran Eustis, Miss Mary Gus
| tbs Lee, Mrs. Claude Swanson. Mrs.
Lindsay Lomax. Mrs. Marcus Wright.
| Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Horton, and Mrs. Oscar
| Underwood.
| Additional patronesses are Mrs. John
Timmons, Mrs. Nathaniel Adams, Mrs.
John l.. Blair. Mrs Sims Garrett, Mrs.
F. b. Moran, Mrs. John Mason Ball, Mrs.
Philander CIaxton, Mrs. Lee Overman.
! Mrs Beverley Randolph Mason, Mrs.
| William Barrett Ridgely. Mrs. Andrew
| Miss Marion oliver, daughter of the As
sistant Secretary of War and Mrs. Rob
ert Shaw Oliver. has gone to New York
to visit her sister. Mrs. Joseph Choate.
jr. She will be away about ten days.
! Mrs. Buckner Randolph will give a
small tea on Thursday afternoon at her
| residence. in r Street, from until s
o'clock. in honor OF Nine. Loudon. wife
Of the Minister of the Netherlands.
| Among those who entertained luncheon
parties at the Chevy Chase Club yester-
day were Senator and Mrs. Hitchcock.
| Mrs. Whitman Cross Mrs. Henry Wells, |
| Viscount and Viscountess de Sibour, Mai.
Gen. and Mrs. w. w. Wotherspoon. Mrs.
| Samuel Milliken. Mrs. Louis Lehr. and
Col. Frederick S. Foltz.
Mrs. William ID. Chandler. jr.. who is
visiting her parents, DIR. and Mrs. Charles |
W. Richardson. will he at home at 1877
! Connecticut Avenue this afternoon for
| the last time this season.
DR. Cary T. Grayson. l. $. n. gave
luncheon yesterday at the Country Club |
in honor OF Miss Helen Taft and her |
house guest. Miss Isabel Vincent
Mrs. John l.. Dudley. of 1ni Harvard |
Street. will not he at home until Monday |
afternoon, February ).
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter were hosts |
at informal luncheon yesterday at
their country home.
Representative and Mrs. Ira Coplcy en- |
tertained at a luncheon yesterday at the |
Chevy Chase Club
Mrs. William Chatfield LOCKER will he |
at home informally on Wednesday after
noon.
Mrs. John u. Henderson was hostess
at an informal luncheon yesterday.
Mrs. William Carol Rafferty, gave
luncheon at Sherry's in New York Sat-
urday in honor of Mrs Thomas H. |
Barry. wife OF Mai Gen. Barry, L. S. A.
The guests included Miss Annie Leary.
Mrs. ClermOnt L. Best, Mrs Garret A |
Hobart. Mrs. Lewis Nixon, Mrs. Beverley
Ward, Mrs. Walter Rutherford. Mrs |
Carl Won Mayhof. Mrs Patten Glover,
Miss Mary Howell Bouvier. Mrs. Pinckney
Warral, Mrs. William II. Sheehy, Mrs. |
Francis \. Dugro. Mrs. John westervelt.
and Mrs. Eastman johnson.
The st. stephens Dramatic Club. un-
der the direction of Mr. Edward c.
Townsend. will present Bell Locke's
The Great Catastrophe" at the Parish
Han. Fourteenth Street and Columbia
Road, January 81. 81 and February ]. at
N.l3. The cast includes the Messrs
Oswald Camp. Westley Peckham.
Claude owen. Mason Wilhelm the Misses
Helen Macleod. Josephine Peckham and
Mary Minnix.
Mrs. David +. Finley and Miss Frances
Finley will receive tomorrow afternoon
at the Rochambcau.
Mrs. William p Borland. Of Missouri.
will be at home at 1ll3 sixteenth Street
Tomorrow, from until o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice s Vilsack are
receiving congratulations on the birth of
a son. Mrs. Visack was formerly Miss
Marie Ray. of Georgetown.
Mrs. Henry Winthrop Grey. formerly
Miss Frelinghuysen. "f New York Is
visiting her brothcr-in-Iaw and. sister,
Col. and Mrs. Charles McCawlcy.
Judge Walter Van Rensselaer, Berry
who is now practicing law in Paris. is
spending a short time in Washington.
Mrs. J. V. Il. Bleecker and her daush-
tiers. Mrs. L. p. Wheeler and Miss NJ. n.
Bleecker, have given up their apartment
in Georgetown. and are at Ulster Inn,
1927 Nineteenth Street Northwest. for the
winter.
Mai. Gen. Adolphus Grecly. L. s. A..
retired. and Mrs. Greedy are now in
fIorence, ltalS, where they are being
entertained.
Miss Alexandrine Fitch Is spending sew
eral weeks in New Haven, Conn, visit
ing friends
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Slocum will leave
in February for Panama and
Cuba. They will return TO Washington
in April.
Col Robert NJ. Thompson left Wash
ington yesterday for Panama with a party
Of men. He will join Mrs Thompson in ,
Florida later on.
Capt and Mrs. James F. Robinson gave
a dinner on Saturday evening at the .
Chevy Chase Club for Mr. and Mrs. Ord
Preston.
Mrs. Dan Thew Wright. wife of Mr..
Justice Wright, OF the District Supreme
Court, will not be at home this after
noon, but will receive for the last time
Of the season next Monday afternoon.
BAND CONCERTS TO-DAY.
By the United States Soldiers Home Band |