Evening star., 1914-10-25
Society Folk to Promote In
terest in Staple Product
of the South. "A
0LD-TIME DANCES AMONG
FEATURES OF PROGRAM
Committees Named for Function to
Take Place at the New Will
lard Hotel.

the Southern Society of Washington is
to give at the New Willard in Novem-
Der. serve to show that it Will be one of
the most elaborate dancing functions
ever given in this city. 1t was origi-
nally announced that the ball would
be held at the Raleigh Hotel but in
terest in 1t has grown to such an ex-
tent that 1t has been necessary for the
society to lease both ballrooms of the
New willard Hotel. and 1t will be held
in these two rooms.
The Southern Society has determined
upon this occasion to make an effort
to popularize the south's principal
staple-cotton-in view OF the fact that
because of the European war the cotton
crop is not being purchased. The ball
rooms are to be elaborately decorated
with cotton stalks and cotton bolls.
the Southern railway having agreed
to furnish all the decorations.
King Cotton" Is to be represented
by man we'll known In social circles.
whose name will not be revealed until
With sim @ 70 Se
dies-in-wafting, knights and cour-
tiers. to form a court, all of these to be
dressed in cotton instead OF silks and
sattns.
Features Of Dance Program.
The larger ballroom will be given
| over during part OF the evening to
those who prefer the old dances, the
stately minuet, etc, while those who
prefer the maxixe, the tango. the one
step. etc. may indulge in them to their
| hearts content in the small ballroom
during the whole evening.
Mrs. R. D. Shepherd. who is Odette
Tyler on the stage. is drilling some
young girls In a classic dance which
| She heads the committee on fancy
dances. There will also be committees
| on old-fashioned dances and on mod
ern DANCES:
of former Senator Colquitt of Georgia.
| is chairman of the committee on deco
| rations. upon the success of whose
| work much of the distinctive flavor of
| the evenings entertainment will de-
pend. At the cotton exposition in At
lanta in 1881. Senator Colquitt, then
governor of the state, appeared at a
grand ball in the evening dressed in a
been growing in the fields. 1t was
picked. ginned, made up into yarn.
| woven and a suit fashioned for him all
within the daylight hours of one day.
All Costumes Of Cotton.
at the ball either in present day dress.
or in costumes typifying historical char
acters, heroines of fiction or as allegorical
figures. The only requirement is that
their costumes shall be made from the
| heecy staple. In the case Of the men.
either cotton clothes are to be worn. or
some covering Of cotton over their even
ing clothes. There will be no masks.
The number of specially invited guests
| will be limited to about one score and will
| include justices of the Supreme Court
who are OF southern birth and members
of the diplomatic corps from PAN
America.
The general committee on arrangements
appointed to take charge Of the details
Gorgas Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN.
pa ymaster general of the navy; Henry
S. Breckinridge. assistant secretary of
| war: Neyle {. Colquftt, clerk to the
R. Price, Robert n. Harper and DIR. Clar-
ence ]. Owens.
This committee. which will also con-
stitute the floor committee at the ball.
Mrs. Maude Howell Smith. Mrs. Will
liam L. Marshall, Mrs. Joseph Il. Rams
dell, Mrs. Duncan U.-Fletcher. Mrs. X
D. Shepherd. Mrs. Clara q. Crumpton.
Mrs. Harriet Graves, Miss Mary Dund-
ridge Spiers, Mrs. Robert l.. Taylor.
Miss Sallie Williams. Mrs. Milton ".
Johnson and Mrs. J. Franklin Little.
List of the Committees.
Following are the other committees:
Old-time dances-Mrs. Clara G.
Crumpton, Mrs NJ. w. Johnson. Mrs.
Morgan W. Shuster. Mrs. Howard Suth-
erland, Conrad H. Sy:ae. Wallace
Streater and Bestor r. Walters.
Decorations-Mrs. William L. Mar
shall, Miss Helen H. Hardin. Miss Bess
Boyd. Mrs. william A. Cullop. DR..
Lewis j. Battle and G. Grosvenor
Dave.
Modern dance (debutantes)-Mrs
Harry F. Cary, Miss Sallie Williams.
Misses Saunders. Miss Callie Hoke
Smith. Miss Genevieve Clark and Mrs.
Theodore Shuey- A..
Program-Mrs. Harriet Graves. Mrs.
Champ Clark, DIR. p. Lee Hodges. Mrs.
Lisle Lipscomb, Mrs. w. J. Showalter
and Miss Mary Bringhurst.
Press-John Corrigan. John J. Daley.
Theodore Tiller, J. Stewart Price, Mrs.
Cecilia R. Robertson, Miss Mary X
Brookes, Watterson Stealey and Arthur
B. Krock.
Music-Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell, Miss
Lillian Chenoweth, Miss Mary d. Spiers.
Senator j. Hamilton Lewis. Crittenden
Marriott, Mrs. Louise Fletcher Kemp.
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