The Washington times., 1914-03-15


that the exhibition dancer was the daughter
of very dear friend of her best friend in
New York
Do you remember Betsy Page, that stun
ming looking girl some one pointed out
to us at the Alexandria german at Christmas
time? Well, my dear, her engagement has
just been announced to Norman Gaynor, son
of the late mayor of New York, and they are
to be married April l6. 1t seems Miss Pages
father was for years rector of the Brooklyn
church that the Gaynors attended, and the
young people have known each other a long
time. The wedding will take place at :air-
fax, Va, where the brides family is now
living, and will be quite a large affair. On
their wedding trip they will 60 abroad and
young Mrs. Gaynor will be presented at the
Court of St. James. She should certainly
make a beautiful bride and be even Iovelier
in court dress.
Have you received any engraved regret
cards?" Down here they are necessary, so
they say, and they are like this: Mime. -
regrets her inability to accept the kind invi-
tation of Nine. for on -" |
suppose that official folks just mus, use
them? There is fine opportunity for the
social climber to be impressive there, don't
you think?
This reminds me of another little thing |
must tell you about. | cannot tell the name
Of the hostess, because she would not like
it, but she is very popular member of the
Diplomatic Corps. Anyway she asked the
society editors not to mention a dance she
was giving until after it was over, simply
and solely because she did not want an ava
lanche of requests for invitations. She said,
of course, she would be glad to send them,
but she did not have the room for more
than she had asked
Now, Susan, in Washington it has become
so that folks ask for invitations for every
one, starting in with house guests down to
their fifth cousin, who lives in Swampy Dell
or some other remote place. Hostesses are
getting so they prepare for l~rce as many
folks as the cards originally sent out, and
they only send out one-haf of the cards they
order. That is they send out the first half
and the others TO order 1t is not nice, but
people do it. At luncheon the other day
some Congressional women were talking
about the calling code and things like that,
and one woman said in the course of her
remarks: well, you know when one stops
to consider the number of uninvited folks
who come to everybody's parties in Wash
in Ind 1oou ;f &c ;ttIo
to return all calls
A couple of days after Genevieve Clark
returned from her visit to New Orleans,
was chatting with her, and her description of
the Mardi Gras was so alluring that know |
will just have to go down there next year. 1t
was Genevieve's first visit and she said
amazing" was the only word in her vocabu-
larry that came near conveying her impress
sion She brought home oodles of souvenirs
given by the various organizations, to say
nothing of bad cold, which she is trying to
lose. She went every moment and attended
so many balls and parties that when she
reached Washington she was tired-out little
wreck
While think of it, must tell you that
Genevieve told me, too that the returns of
the first night performance of "Fanny's First
Play" brought in more than S70O dollars,
which went to the kindergarten of the Neigh
borhood House. The members of the auxil-
iary worked hard; but they certainly reaped
a regard and they thank everyone for help
ing them.
Wasn't it too bad that Callie Hoke Smith
had to call her party off? You know she
had planned for the loveliest sort of dance
on Monday, the 23d, but just when she had
about made her plans, off went the Mayflow-
er with her brother-in-law, Ensign Aston
r. Simpson on board She will wait now u1-
I'll it returns before having the party, be-
cause Caie wouldn't have any fun uni ess
her handsome big brother-n-law was home
Shush, Susan! I'll tell you a little secret
There is dancing class meeting Wednesday
evenings during Lent at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles c. McChord A number
of the younger married folks of the official
and residential circles be1opu and thew are