Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-10
IN THE World OF SOCIETY
MISS WILSON PRESIDED AT DIN.
NER LAST NIGHT.
Other Recent Parties of Note-Navy
Relief Tea Dance.
Personals.

The President and Miss Wilson enter
tanned at dinner last night Representa-
1--WE and Mrs. us .ar W. t'nderw oed Rep
resentative and Mrs. Carter Glass. Rep
resentative aid Mrs. Swagar Sherley,
Representative and Mrs. 4. Mitchell Pal
mer, the assistant secretary Of war and
MIS- breckenridge the chief of STAFF of
the army. MI. Frank P. Walsh, MIR.
and Mrs. Joseph f.. Davies. Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. William l.. Marshall, Mr.. and
Mrs. T. ". Gregory. Mr.. and Mrs. John
a. Wilson. aIiss Ruth Hall, Miss Eleanor
Wilson. Miss Helen w Zones. Miss lisa
bella l., Hagner, Or. cary r. Grayson
and Lieut. Bcs"rly G. Dunn.
The table decorations were OF yellow
tulips and m;tidcnhair ferns.
Senator and Mrs Willard Salisbury en-
tertained at timer last night Senator
Brandegee. the assistant secretary of the
navy and Mrs. Roosevelt, the assistant
attorney general and Mrs. Graham. the
counselor of the British embassy and
Mrs. Colvillc barclay. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bassett Moore. Mr.. and Mrs. T. 7. Gaff,
Mr.. and Mrs William Bailey Lamar
Miss Annie Wheeler of Alabama and Miss
Bissell of Wilmington.
Representative and Mrs. Peter Gerry
entertained at dinner last night, when
their guests We're the German ambassa-
dor and Countess Won Bernstcrff. the
Spanish ambassador and Nine. Riaro,
the Secretary Of tic Navy and Mrs. Dan
ies. the minister OF Portugal Nfscount
dAItc: Scnatcr and Mrs. Colt. Represent
alive and Mrs. Thacher. Representative
and Mrs. Peters. Mrs. Slater. Mr.. and
Mrs George Howard. Mrs Marshall Field
Co Charles l.. McCawley, Mr.. and Mrs.
eiist Blair. Representative Giliett and
Mrs. Townsend.
Mrs. Clarence Corson left last Thurs
day for Franklin Ohio where she will
spend about month with her sister, Mrs.
Annie Spinning.
Miss Bernce Corson is spending the
month of March at South Orange. n. j..
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William c.
Cowles have arrived at the Shoreham, to
remain some time.
Mrs. Burleson, wife of the Postmaster
General. vii. not receive tomorrow nor
will she accept any invitations during tie
rest of the LeEten season.
Representative and Mrs. J. Willard
Ragsdale of South Carolina have moved
into their home at 1898 Connecticut ave-
nue.. Mrs. Ragsdale will receive Tuesdays
In April
Miss Frances G. Adams Of this city will
speak to the women of the University of
Michigan at Arm Arbor March Is.
The Congressional Club will entertain
DR.. Groszmann as the guest Of honor
Friday afternoon. March IL, at O'Clock.
His topic will be why Do Children Grow
Up to Be Failures?'
Miss Margaret Wilson will be a guest
at the benefit concert for the Clearing
House for Mental Detectives March % at
the Longacre Theater New York. At an
auction sale of the boxes for this benefit
yesterday Mrs Sarah Mcdonald Sheridan
obtained box for her party. which will
include the Presidents daughter.
The Secretary of Commerce and Mrs.
Redfield will leave Friday for trip to
California to be gone several weeks.
The marriage of Norman Gaynor,
youngest son OF the late Mayor and Mrs.
Gaynor. and Miss Elizabeth Berwell
Page. a daughter of the Rev. Frank
Thomas Nelson Page. ambassador to
Italy, will take place at Fairfax April
16. The engagement was formally an
nounced March ;. Immediately after the
sail for Europe to spend several months
in travel. They will visit Ambassador
Page in Rome. and after further Euro
pean travel will return to New York in
the late summer or the early autumn.
Miss Pages father. the Rev. Frank
Page. was at one time pastor of st.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church, in
Brooklyn. where Mayor Gaynor and his
family attended service.
Mr.. Gaynor is brother of Mrs. Harry
Vingut. Mrs. William Seward Webb. jr.;
Mrs. Ralph Isham, whose marriage took
place in Trinity Church January %. and
Miss Helen Gaynor. whose engagement to
E. T. Bedford, I'd. has just been an
nounced.
DR.. and Mrs NJ. L. Rheim of New
York city have announced the engage
ment of their daughter. Miss Ernestine
Van Wyck Rhein. to Lieut.. John Strong
Abbott, U. S. y. Lieut.. Abbott is the
is stationed OF the Dixie. The marriage
will take place early in June.
Mr.. and Mrs Larcomb have returned
to Washington having spent the past
month in ST. Petersburg and Pass-a-
Grille. Fla.
Mrs. Sterling. wife of Senator Sterling,
will not receive until after Easter.
Mrs. John c. Rau entertained the Delta
Sigma Kappa Friday evening. in compli-
ment to her niece, Miss Ruth Corder. The
members present were Misses Anna Gibbs.
Florence Gervais, Ruth Corder, Elizabeth
Hershey, Lydia Canode. Emma Corder.
May Andrews and Edna Colburn, Messrs.
Harry Newman, Stacey Reed. Bayne
Brown. Herbert Bursley. Roland Jones,
Chester Morgan and Howard Haines.
Mrs Delos A. Blodgett left yesterday
to spend ten days with her brother-in-
law and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B.
Porcher. at Indian river, Fla.
Mrs. Horatio Nelson Slater and her
daughters MISC Esther Slater and Miss
Ray Slater. and two servants. have
started OH their trip to China and
Japan. They left Boston last Thursday
for San Francisco, where they will take
steamer for the orient. According to
their present plans, they will not return
home until next fall. After visiting
China and Japan, they will travel in
European countries, among which will