Evening star., 1914-12-20
Gossip of Society.

With the approach of the holiday
season the future bellies and beaux of
Washington are coming in to their
own, and, judging from the list OF en-
tertainments so far planned for their
enjoyment. they are going to have the
times of their young lives.
The dances that have been arranged
for the school boys and girls ara
numerous enough to make the most
popular debutante envious.
The dance Mrs. Monroe Hopkins is
to give for Miss Anne SO far leads the
list. 1t will be on December % and
will be followed by Mrs. Symons' dance
on Christmas day. That night the as
sistant secretary of agriculture and
Mrs. Erooman will give a dance for
Scott Bromwell. the young son of Col
and Mrs Bromwell, who are at Homo
lulu, where the colonel is stationed
Scott Bromwell is a student at St Paul's
and Will spend his holidays with his
uncle and aunt here.
BY the way. Mrs. Matthew T Scott,
former president general of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution, ar
rived Monday to spend some time with
her daughter, Mrs. Vrooman. But to
return to the young fry, another dance
will follow for them the night after
Christmas. when Mrs. Arthur Lee gives
a dance for Ellen Bruce Lee. Two
nights later Mrs. Lees sister, Mrs.
stephen B. Elkins, will entertain for
Miss Halle Davis.
Mrs. Paul Evarts Johnson follows
with her party December %. and on
New Year eve there are two dances.
one given by Mrs. Ralph Jenkins and
the other for Miss Mary Duncan Glib
son by Mrs. Richardson.
January Mrs. lie Roy Tuttle and
Mrs. Montgomery Blair give a joint
dance for the young. the very young
set
The assistant secretary of agriculture
and Mrs. Vrooman will give a dinner
for his chief, the Secretary of Agri-
culture, Mr.. Houston. and Mrs. Hous
I entertain for some other members of
the cabinet. Mrs. Vrooman will also
| give several entertainments for her
cousin. the Baroness de Nagell. who
was recently married in New York and
who with her husband, is due here
about the 22d. to remain until early
in January. when they will said for
| The Hague.
I IN Tic OIueTliS VI ItI SCOll, lHe
new chief Of staff. to Mexico. Mrs
Scott finds herself
Starting a Home with the task of
| - IA rr getting established
| Va in her new home in
| Fort Myer alone. She can find conso-
lation. however. from the fact that
she is now mistress of one of the
most attractive houses about Wash
i no iS
larly lovely with its walls covered with
blue silk, and makes one of the finest
settings for entertaining imaginable.
| Since Mrs. Bells time the wives of
other chiefs Of staff have chosen also
to live in Fort Myer
| The teas after the Friday cavalry
drills are, by the way. very attractive
and large numbers of guests go over
| for them.
| The recent announcement that Mrs.
| Payne Whitney is now the owner of
| Sargents portrait of
Told of Former Robert Louis Steven
| r.,1 son, VIII ic h was
nome folhs. bought in at the sale
of the Stevenson collection for $14,S 800
/ and which Sargent painted Of Steven
son while visiting him in England, is
good news to Mrs. Whitney's friends,
for all know how devoted she is to
| art and literature, taking after her
| illustrious father, the late John Hay,
in that respect. Like her father, Mrs.
Whitney is a poet, and some charming
verses have come from her gifted pen.
| While many of her poems have
strain of the pathetic and sad about
them. she has a keen sense of the
t,j6 the LITTLE 0neninS
off the big hall in the Hay mansion
| used to be covered as to it's walls with
| framed cartoons of Mr.. Hay and carl
| catures printed in the newspapers.
| Mrs. Whitney is expected here to
visit once or twice during the winter,
as her sister, Mrs. James Wadsworth.
! jr., and the senator-elect are now resi-
| dents of the capital. and will spend
1 18th street.
i Young Mr. ]. B. Foraker and his
bride were of those who entertained
at the Chevy Chase Club the other
! evening at dinner, and the sight of
young Foraker taking an active part
in the doings of society reminds one
of how his father. when senator. was
obliged TO go about socially and how
he hated II as a story told on him
proves. When he and Mrs. Foraker
We're leaving their home on 18th street
on one of those nights that seem
hardly long enough to crowd in the
various entertainments. he told the
coachman to Drive first to Mrs So
and-So's and then to Mrs Blanks, then
to the White House and then drive us
to the mad house
4 =
At his recent visit here the former
Vice President Mr.. Fairbanks. told
story of how he was
Best He Had interviewed while
r travelling with Mrs
~ Fairbanks in Japan
They were on ship, just landing at
| Yokohama, when q group of Japanese