The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-05-14

Mrs. Wilson received a number Of
friends at $50 o'clock yesterday after
noon by appointment, assisted by the
Misses Wilson and Miss Bones. Miss
Hagner presided at the tea table In the
Red Room.
Mrs. Wilson. accompanied by her three
daughters. the Misses Wilson, spent the
early part of yesterday in Baltimore, re-
turning to the White House in the after
noon.
The Italian Ambassador, Marquis Gu
sani Confalonieri, was host at dinner
last night at the embassy In New Hamp-
shire Avenue. when he entertained in
honor of the three attractive daughters
of the President and Mrs. Wilson-Miss
WILSON, Miss Jessie Wilson, and Miss
Eleanor Wilson.
The handsomely appointed table was
decorated with buttercups and maiden
hair ferns.
The other guests invited to meet the
Misses Wilson were Mrs Mccormick
Miss Harriet Sutherland, Miss Isabella
Hagner, Miss Ethel Noyes. Miss Hide
garde Nagel, Miss Margaretta Symons,
Miss Gladys Ingalls,, Miss Frances Hoar
Miss Eudora Clover, Miss Staderman,
guest at the White House; the Danish
Minister, Mr.. Brun; Maj. Blanton Win
ship. U. S. A; Capt. Louis Little, U. 8.
M. c.; DIR. Cary Grayson, q. s. Al
Lieut. st. John Greble, jr., u. S. A; Mr.
Freyre, first secretary of the Peruvian
Legation; Mr.. Won Masirovich, first Sec
rotary of the Austrian Embassy; Mr.,
Lyssakovsky, first secretary Of the Rus.
sian Embassy; DR.. Baumann, first secre.
tary of the Swiss Legation; Baron Kurt
Won Lersner, third secretary of the Ger
man Embassy; Baron Horst Won Lersner,
attache of the German Embassy; DIR.
Serrati, and Mr.. Ceccato, commercial
delegate of the Italian Embassy.
The dinner was followed by informal
dancing in the beautiful ballroom of the
embassy.
Mrs Henry Dimock, whose generous
hospitality throughout the winter did
so much to make the past season a bril-
liant one, has leased the ID. p. Morgan
residence in Scott Circle for next winter.
The Morgan residence has until re.
Gently been the home of the former
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. George
Won L. Meyer, and is an ideal house in
which to entertain.
DR.. Edward Emory Morse has taken
possession of the residence. 1706 NJ Street,
which he has recently leased.
Mrs w. b. Ladue, wife of Maj. La
due, U. S. A., gave a luncheon yester-
day complimentary to Mrs. Garrison
wife of the Secretary of War, at her
residence in o Street.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Willard H
Brownson took a number of friends on
a motor trip to Annapolis Junction, Md,
TO visit the Junior Republic, yesterday.
tn, he he Minister of the
Netherlands and Nine. Loudon and
Mrs Franklin X. Lane, wife of the
Secretary of the Interior.
Mrs. Marshall Field, who has closed
her winter residence here and is al
present in Chicago, will sail for Europe
on May Y.
An attractive tea and sale took place
yesterday afternoon at Portledge, the
suburban home of DR.. and Mrs. Ryan
Devereux at Chevy Chase, for the bene-
fit of the Church of the Blessed Sacra-
ment One of the interesting features
of the afternoon was the dancing OF
the minuet in costume by a number OF
little girls, accompanied by Mrs. Bra
sius on the harp.
Other features was general dancing on
the porch, music and silhouette taking
James Dudley Morgan, Miss Alice Riggs,
the Misses Worthingtos, Miss Resale
Sands, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Coombs Mrs
j. Nota McGill, and Mrs. O'Reilly, OF
New Orleans, who is a guest of Mrs.
Devereux this month.
Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall, wife of the
Vice President. will keep her day at home
this afternoon at the Shoreham Hotel,
Ia h,a oil he
spring.
Mrs. Burleson, wife of the Postmaster
General, will receive this afternoon at
the Hotel Powhatan. II is the first time
since her husband accepted the portfolio
of Postmaster General that she has kept
her day at home
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, who has just
returned TO Washington from a trip
through the South with her husband the
Secretary of the Navy, will receive call
ers this afternoon at her hospitable home,
Single Oak" in Woodley Lane.
Mrs Redfield, wife of the Secretary of
Commerce, is another Cabinet hostess who
will receive informally this afternoon at
her apartment in the Highlands
Mrs Champ Clark will receive inform
ally this afternoon from to clock,
at her apartment in Sixteenth Street,
and will have with her her sister and
niece, Mrs Pitzer and Miss Pitzer, who
are saying good-by to their friends pre-
paratory to going to their home at Col
orado Springs. They have spent the
winter in Washington with Mrs. Clark
and are leaving many friends in the
Capital.
Mrs. William Cumming Story. recently
elected president general of the Society
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton will assist Mrs. Clark and Mrs.
Pitzer.
Senator and Mrs. Claude A. Swanson
gave a dinner last night at their resi-
dence in r Street.
Mr.. and Mrs Hennen Jennings enter
tanned Miss Feroline Perkins and the
members of her wedding party at a
large dinner at their residence in Sher.
dan Circle last night.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Todd Lincoln have
closed their residence in N Street and
gone to New York They will spend the
summer in Manchester.
Much interest in being taken in the en-.
tertainment on Friday evening at the
New Willard, which is given under the
auspices of the District branch of the
woman's National Rivers and Harbo:s
Congress Mrs. Evelyn Gurley-Kane viii
give a recital of her own dramatizatior
of IF / Were King" and musical pro-
gramme will also be given. and one OF
the features will be the playing Of the