Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
IN THE WORLD Of SOCIETY
PRESIDENT AND MRS. TAFT
KEEP MANY ENGAGEMENTS.
Mrs. Cleveland's Arrival Signal for
Social Ovation-Dinners.
Teas-Notes.

dine tonight with the Attorney Cen
eral and Mrs. Wickersham, and Miss
| Helen Taft will be honor guest at a
dinner which Mr. and Mrs. John Will
kins will give tonight. Mrs. James
| Parmalee, who was Miss Maury of
| this city, gave luncheon for Miss
Taft today.
Mrs. c. p Taft who is guest at
the White House, and Mrs. More. Mrs.
| Taft's sister, will also dine at the
Wickersham home. Mrs. c. p. Taft
will attend Mrs Hammond's tea for
Mrs. Cleveland this afternoon.
} The President and Mrs. Taft went to
| the Congressional Club last night to at
| tend the reception given there in compll-
ment to the Speaker and Mrs. Champ
| Clark. The Speaker, however, was the
| only member of his family present, as
Mrs. and Miss Clark's return from Pana-
| ma last night was too late to permit their
presence.
Mrs. Ernest W. Roberts. president OF
the club, elegantly gowned in heliotrope
| net over white charmeuse, with rhine
| stone trimmings, received with the
Speaker
lette, Mrs. James A. Reed. Miss Cannon
| Mrs. Ebenezer Hill, Mrs. Crumpacker
Mrs. Lloyd, Mrs. Shackleford, Mrs: Bor-
land and Mrs. J. ]. Russell, all of Mis-
| souri,, assisted III the HLSpitdiltlcS VI lIe
evening. An orchestra played and buff
| fet supper was served
| Mrs. Taft was gowned in black char
| meuse, the upper part of the bodice be-
| ing of black lace over white.
| The occasion brought together a bril-
| liant and representative company from
| official society.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland. accompanied by
her fiance, Prof. Thomas j. Preston OF
| Wells College, who arrived here yeSter-
day afternoon, was entertained at din
ner last night at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, at which the
President and Mrs. Taft and few other
guests were present.
| Mrs. Cleveland since the announcement
of her engagement to marry Prof. Pres
ton has been much in the public eye. For
the first time since the death of former
President Cleveland, she has taken her
place in social life, accepting invitations
from her old friends both in Princeton,
her present home, and in New York city,
Albany and Buffalo, where she has also
lived Her present visit here gives ar
opportunity for the social world of the
capital to meet her in home pleasantly
identified with a gracious side of life, and
the company invited by Mr.. and Mrs
Hammond for this afternoon from to
is probably the largest of the winter.
Mrs Cleveland found no social engage
ments awaiting her for this morning OF
early afternoon. The disposition of hel
| time was eHtlTely dl leI OWL plcdSuI e
The neighborhood of the Hays Hammond
home where so many palatial residences
have been built. was quite a different
section as Mrs. Cleveland remembers it
Miss Esther Cleveland is expected dur
ing the afternoon. She remained over
in New York to keep social engagements
| At the tea which Mrs. Hammond will
give this afternoon she will be assisted
by Misses Frances Hoar, Rebekah VIII
mer, Ethel Noyes, Sophie Johnston
| Caroline Ogden Jones. Frances Brooks,
Eleanor Reyburn. Feroline Perkins, Helen
Hunt. Katherine Jennings. Louise HELEN
Marion Wise and Dorothy Williams
Among others Mrs. Mary NJ. Haywood
Miss Hoyle and Mrs. Core will also assist
Mrs. Cleveland's social engagements for
the rest of her stay include luncheon
tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Thomas +.
Bayard, whose late husband was the Sec
rotary of State in the Cleveland admin
| istration; tea at the Congressional
| Club. dinner at the home Of the Score
| tary of the Treasury and Mrs. MacVeagh
and a reception later at the Hammond
| home.
Saturday Mrs. Hugh Wallace will give
luncheon for Mrs Cleveland, and In
| the evening President and Mrs. Taft a
dinner at which Prof. Preston will also
be present.
Monday Mrs. Letter will be her lunch.
con hostess. and that evening Mrs
lockwood Hoar will give her a dinner
| which will be followed by a musical al
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| in her honor.
Mrs Dimock is occupying the Slater
house on street which was formerly the
| residence of her brother, the late William
| C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy in
the Cleveland administration, who with
his wife extended largely the official hos
pitality of that period.
| Tuesday night next Mrs. Richard Town
| send will give a dinner for Mrs. Cleve-
| land and Wednesday Mrs. Benjamin
| Micou, whose father. Mr.. Herbert, was
| also a member of a Cleveland cabinet
| will be her luncheon hostess. That night
| Mrs. Dimock will give dinner for Mrs.
Cleveland.
Mr. Hammond met his guest at the
| Union station late yesterday afternoon on
| the arrival of the train from New York.
Prof. Preston is staying at a hotel dur
ing his visit.
Last night the President and Mrs Taft
were present at the dinner which Mr.. and
| Mrs Hammond gave for Mrs. Cleveland
and Prof. Preston, whose marriage, 1t is
inferred will be an event of the coming
spring.
| 1t is nearly two years past quarter of
a century since the marriage of President
| Cleveland and Miss Frances Folsom took
| place in the blue room of the White
House. The ceremony was in the early
| evening of a lovely June day in 1886. The
ringing of the church bells and the blow
ling of steam whistles proclaimed the mar
| rage to the waiting city. Rev. DR.. Sum
| derland performed the ceremony in pres
ence of the relatives Of the couple and