The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-01-31

MRS. HOOKER RECEIVES
Hostess at a Beautiful Orange Bios
som and Rose Tea Friday After
noon at Her Lovely Home on
OkIaWaha Avenue

Prominent among the social events
of the winter season was the beautiful
tea which Mrs. William Hooker gave
Friday afternoon between the hours
of three and five o'clock at her beau
tiful home on Oklawaha avenue.
The flower-decked rooms of the
Hooker home were thronged during
the afternoon with hundreds of guests
wearing attractive afternoon frocks,
which, against background of guam
titles of exquisite asparagus ferns
and hundreds of beautiful pink and
white roses and many bowls of fra
grant and delicious orange blossoms,
created an effect indescribably love
~ Mrs. Hooker is as notably artis-
tic as can be, and in everything she
plans her exquisite taste is evident,
and the decorations for her afternoon
tea were a revelation of beauty. On
all the mantels were banks of the as
| aaragus ferns, in which vases and
bowls of roses were embedded, and
every chandelier was twned with the
ferns, ard On the tables, piano, book
case, etc, we're other bowls and bas-
!Iets of roses and orange blossoms.
Mrs. c. r. Tydings and Mrs. G. T..
! Naughs received in the hall, and dur
ire the first receiving hour Mrs. Will
liam Wolff, Mrs. Jake Brown, Mrs.
". A. Coin, and Mrs. D. NJ. Smith
served punch. They were followed
for the second hour by Mrs ]. D. Rob
ertson, Mrs. r. 3. Bullock, Mrs. Sid
ney Halle and Mrs. Marcus Frank
Receiving in the hall. standing
against a background of lovely ferns
ard flowers, were Mrs. B. w. Mimms
of Kentucky, Mrs. Leon Fishel, Mrs.
H. F. Watt, Mrs. Bunyan Stephens
and Mrs. E. NJ Howard, all beautiful
" gowned, and lovely in their cordial
ity to the callers Introducing them
was Mrs e. L. Carney.
In the living room Mrs. NJ. Fishel
and Mrs. G. W. Richardson assisted,
and in the reception room Mrs. Clar-
ence Camp, Mrs Charles Lloyd, Mrs.
L. F. Blalock and Mrs. S. T. Sistrunk.
Mrs. Hooker received her guests
wearing very handsome and ex-
tremely becoming gown of black vel
vet, with trimmings of gold lace, Irish
lace and touches of green. Receiving
9TH Mrs. Hooker were the two hon
or guests, Mrs. T. S. Kyle of Ala
bama and Mrs. w. H Jackson of Tam
pa, and two very charming young
brides, who are lovely visitors in the
city, Mrs. Richard Alexander Harris
of Valdosta, and Mrs. Carney Mimms
of Kentucky.
Mrs. Kyle, who is here for her sec
ond winter, has already made a num-
Der of friends in Ocala, and Friday
added many other admirers to her
list. She was beautifully gowned in
a decollette canary-colored brocaded
charmeuse gown, handsomely trim
med with shadow lace and pearls.
Mrs Jackson, who visited in Ocala
number of times as Miss Lutte Mote
Hansbrough, renewed many pleasant
acquaintance Friday. She was very
lovely in a gown of white charmeuse
with trimmings of imported lace and
brown maribou, with a touch of &C.
rise satin on the corsage.
Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Mimms are
both extremely pretty, and perfect
foil for each other. Mrs. Harris is
very petite and a striking brunette,
and Mrs. Mimms is an equally lovely
blonde. Both wore beautiful white
gowns, made decollette and beautiful
| ly fashioned with lace, pearls, ETC.,
and each wore lovely necklets.
The dining room was presided over
by Mrs. w. T. Gary, and some of
Ocala's most attractive young girls
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Minnie Stovall, Janet Weathers, Mary
Burford, Sara Davis, Beulah Hall, An
ME Davis, Marguerite Porter, Eliza
beth Newsom, Josephine Bullock, An
ME Atkinson, Bessie MacKay, Clara
Johnson, Ophelia Sawtell and Betty
| McIvef.
Mrs. R. A. Burford and Mrs. D. E.
i McIver sat at the table during the
first hour and poured the coffee and
tea, and during the second hour this
pleasant duty was in the hands Of
| Mrs Richard Hall and Mrs. ]. c. B.
Koonce.
The table was covered with a hand
some damask cloth with a Renais-
sance lace clot e.. and almost covering
/ tho fable from edge IN edge was a