Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-20
SOCIAL CALENDAR WILL
CENTRE ABOUT CHRISTMAS
Many Girls and Boys Coming Homo
From Schools and
Colleges.
GOVERNOR is GOING NORTH
Will Spend Holidays With Mrs. Stuart
In Observation-Disclosures Man.
sion TO BE Opened I'm January.
Receptions at Clubs.

The entire social calendar for this
week viii centre about the celebration
OF Christmas Day. Girls and boys have
come trooping home from schools and
colleges all over the State and country
10 spend the holidays with their par
ents and relatives here. and most of
the entertaining planned for this week
is to be in honor of the younger So
ciety set. Nearly every one in the
fashionable district keeps omen house
on Christmas Day, and stream Of
callers VIII go from one hospitable
home 10 another, paying holiday calls.
ooth in the morning and afternoon OF
that date There will be family din
ings and buffet lunchcons and several
big stag parties of note. The clubs
VIII also keep open house, and many
visitors will be entertained at functions
Of interest.
For weeks the shops have been gay
with their fulctidc decorations of little
REQ bells and !nakc-belicvc chimneys
and fantastic and wonderfully made
kriss RrinSles, as n final touch to the
christmas celebration and good
natured and bright faced people have
thronged Broad Street for the purchase
of gifts. Christmas Eve smart society,
the shopping well over. will spend the
most OF the day delivering fas:.ratinr-
looking parcels done up in tissue paper
and scarlet ribbon. BY virtue Of the
red holly and the berrics that grow
on the miStletoe bough, all should be
happiness and content. and ca ch OF the
y functions given this week will partakc
of the spirit of the Yuletide season
The Governor Of Virginia will join
Mrs Henry Carter Stuart and their
dnushter Miss Mary Fulton Stuart.
near Boston, Mass, for Christmas,
where they will spend the holiday
quietly together. Miss Stuart has been
at the Dana School. fashionable sem
mary for young girls in New England,
this session, and Mrs Stuart has been
in the North for some time in order
to be near her. The Executive Man
sion. which has been undergoing ex-
tensive redecoratinG and remodelling
during the past several months, will be
ready for occupancy January 4, and
Governor Stuart expects to move his
residence from s2l West Franklin
street at that time. II Is said that tho
new decorations for the historic Gov
ernor's Mansion are OF unusual beauty
and taste. and fashionable society Is
looking forward with interest to Its
completion.
son Montague and their family Will
spend the holiday season In Wash
ington. where they have recently taken
an apartment Senator and Mrs CLAUDIO
a. Swanson Will also spend Christmas
! in Washington.
Besides numerous informal affairs of.
interest, there are several functions OF
more formal nature planned for this
week The first dance OF the Bachelors
Cotillion Club Will be held in the ball
room OF the Jefferson Hotel Wednesday
evening at o'clock, and the younger
dancing set Will be out In full force
to attend II.
On Thursday Mrs Thomas Burton
-Snead. OF 81 North Harrison Street,
is entertaining at luncheon In honor
or Miss Mary Stafford Mdnford, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Beverley B. Munford, who
is student at Bryn Mawr, Pa, this
session. Miss Munford Is spending
Christmas in Richmond. and the guests
invited to meet her Thursday include
some OF the younger society girls.
Tuesday Mrs. James Gordon Smith.
formerly Miss Ella Williams Buck. will
given by Mrs. Coleman Workman at
the Commonwealth Club.
Luncheon for Mis-. Minor
Mrs. John 7. Anderson was hostess
at luncheon yesterday at her home,
90S West Franklin Street, In honor Of
Miss Caroline Minor, whose marriage
10 Richard Sterling Ely, nephew OF
Mr. Anderson will be celebrated In
St Paul's Church on December 30
Mrs. Anderson's guests for luncheon
yesterday included n number Of Miss
Minors friends. Miss Susie Mcclure,
Miss Ophclia Minor. Miss Margaret
Freeman. Miss Martha Purcell, Miss
Elizabeth wheat, Miss Rachel Urau-
hart. Mrs JAMES Gordon Smith, Miss
Roberta Trigg. Miss Parke Taylor and
Miss julia Grant Moore:
Return From Boarding School
Miss Nellie Rennoids has returned to
Richmond from Chestnut Hill, Pa.
where she has been at school for the
past half-sess!on. and Is with her
mother, Mrs. Robert G. Rennolds, at
2o2 East Franklin street, for the
Christmas holidays
Misses Helen and Nicketti Johnston
who are also Mt Chestnut Hill as stu
dents this year, returned to the city
this week for the holidays. They will
be with their parents, DIR. and Mrs
George Ben Johnston.
Miss Powers and Miss Ammo Warren
have just returned from Miss Noland's
School. FoNcroft, in FauQuier County,
and are In Richmond with their rela-
tives for Christmas.
New Year Receptions.
One of the biggest society functions
OF the late winter season Is the annual
New Years party. given at the Coun-
try Club of Virginia. Hundreds OF
members go to the club TO spend the
afternoon and evening and the deco
iations for the affair are always most
unique and elaborate. The beautiful
rooms OF the clubhouse will be thrown
open everywhere 10 the guests and dec
Grated In evergrecns and red flowers
and an orchestra will play for the
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