New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-14
WASHINGTON.
fFrom Tho Tribune Bureau
Washington. February -.
At the White House.

At the White House.
President and Mrs Taft were enter,
tanned at dinner tonight by Senator and
Mrs. George Peabody Wetmorc.
! Mrs. Taft occupied a box at the New
J National Theatre this afternoon for the
| Philadelphia symphony concert, and had
with her Mrs. Mahlon Ptney, Mrs. Joseph
! r.. Lamar. Mrs. Bernard r. Mmmack.
Miss Catherine Anderson and Miss Taft.
I Miss Taft was entertained at dinner to-
night by Mr.. and Mrs. George Howard.
The Diplomatic Corps.
The British Ambassador and Mis-. Bryce
went to New York to-day to meet social
engagements.
Nine de Peretti de la Rocca, wife Of the
counsellor of the French Embassy, was
! hostess at a tea this afternoon, receiving
visitors from the diplomatic corps and
resident and official society. Mrs How
ard Chase and Mile. de la Garde poured
tea. .
Yuan Ko-shuan. Chinese attache has
been detached from the legation IN wash
ington and sent to a new post. Lu Ping
! Tien, interpreter has also been detached.
/ II is no longer necessary TO keep an IN
terpreter here as the minister ana MS
| family have mastered English
In Washington Society.
Senator and Mrs. George Peabody Wet
more. who entertained the President and
| Ms Taft 1T dinner to-da;, asked TO olcet
item Justice and Mrs Oliver Wendell
! Holmes, Senator and Mrs. Winthrop Mvr-
ray Crane. Senator and Mrs. Elihu Root,
| Mr.. and Mrs James W. wadsworth. ST..
Mrs Richard -. Townsend. Count ami
Countess de Chambrun. Miss Mar
Guynne. Captain Thomas S. Rodgers.
Beekman Winthrop. Assistant Secretary
OF the Navy. and Miss Maud Wetmore
1 Mrs. Henry r. Dimock entertained ~
dinner tonight complimentary 10 her
house guests, Judge and Mrs. Francis NJ
scott Of New York. Her other guests
were Justice and Mrs. Charles T.. Hughes
Justice and Mrs. Horace II. Lurton. the
Attorney General. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Z White Senator du Pont Mrs. VI. \. Hanna
Mrs Marshall Field. MIS-. Dimock Hutch
nson. Mrs. Darragh. of New York; Miss
| Mary Emo. Mr. and Mrs Morse, Brigadier
General Crozier and Rear Admiral O'Neill
The New National Theatre was filed
! this afternoon with a fashionable audi
ence 10 hear the Philadelphia SYMPHONY
! Orchestra. The French Ambassador and
! Nine. Jusserand were guests in the box or
Mrs John T.. Reyburn. who entertained
! Miss Eleanor Reyburn. the swedish Min
ister Colonel John Biddle and Genera !
Crozier. Others entertaining parties were
! Mrs. l. 4. Letter. Mrs Lawrence Town
sond. Nine. Leopold Stokowski. Of Phila-
! dclphia Nine. Havenith wife Of the Bel
gian Minister; Mrs. Il. Il. Hit Mis-
May Williams and Mrs. Alexander Van
Rensselaer,. Of Philadelphia. Mrs T.. T
I Stotesbury and Mrs Andrew Wheeler also
came from Philadelphia for the affair
Almost the entire younger element OF
, the diplomatic corps and hundred o.
more young members Of official and resi-
dent society attended to-day the first Of a
series OF skating teas TO be given az the
( Arcade in Lent Flags ard palms and
! music gave a gay air TO the place. ant
small tables were placed along the paNii-
! ion, where the olde~ members Of society
rested and slipped tea Viscountess Be
/ moist dAzy and Mrs. George Howard rc-
, ce!yed the guests.
The ladies committee of the Washing
! ton Riding and Hunt Club has sent our
! invitations for series Of teas 10 be given
on Friday afternoons at the clubhouse
I During the exhibitions Of fancy riding to-
will be SERVED on the balconies. The COM
mittee is composed Of Mrs. Walter Tuck
erman. chairman: Mrs. Leonard Woo.
I Mrs W. Sinclair Bowen. Niscountess de
! Sibour. Mrs. Richard y. Harlow. Mrs.
! Cary d. Langhorne. Mrs Arthur Lee.
! Mrs Robert Il. Roosevelt and Mrs.. Robert
| NJ. Thompson.
! Ms Robert W Patterson entertained At
luncheon to-day.
Miss Patten also entertained at lunch
! con