Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-11-20
MISS DOUW PRESENTED
IN LOCAL SOCIETY
Debutante Reception at Which Miss
Julia A. Douw is introduced.
ONE OF THE SEASONS BUDS.
Fashionable Society Event at Murray
Hill in Honor Of Young Lady's
Coming Out.


From to z o'clock yesterday after
noon all roads led TO Murray Hill, that
beautiful residential section that
fringes Annapolis on the Spa creek
side of the city
The occasion is one Of the happiest
that comes into a young girls life, for,
next TO her wedding day there is moth
ing like her debut, her introduction
into society. when she is privileged to
go calling with her mother. to receive
with her, and to enjoy all the delights
of social life which are hers to claim
after her coming out.
This happy occasion was a noted
event yesterday afternoon in the life of
Miss Julia A. Douw, elder daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John dePeyster Douw.
who were hosts at a debutante recep-
ton in her honor Several hundred
cards were sent tnd the house was
thronged with guests all afternoon
Miss Douw was the recipient OF num-
berless bouquets of exquisite flowers,
from friends not only in this city and
the Naval Academy, but from Wash
ington Baltimore, New York. Philadel-
phia and other cities were flowers sent
to the fair debutante These and
other beautiful flowers comprised the
floral decorations of the rooms on the
lower floor and they were veritable
bower of roses of all kinds. chrysan-
themums, carnations, violets, lilies-of-
the valley, orchids and other beauti-
full flowers.
Mrs. Douw received, introducing her
daughter under an archway banked
NUNS Mrs. Douw wore an elegant
gown of black messaline veiled with
black and white lace. She carried red
Killarney roses. Her daughter wore a
youthful but beautiful girlish dress of
white peau de soire combined with
white net, and silver tissue. The pan
nieres were of pointed white satin and
the bodice was Of silver tissue and soft
touches OF white tulle
a string of pearls were her only or
nament and the costume was a combi-
natio nof simplicity and elegance that
added to the charm of her girlishness.
She carried Killarney pink roses and
lilies-of-the-yalley.
Mrs. James c. Crecap assisted Mrs.
Douw to receive. The young girls of
the receiving party were Miss Nancy
Dashiell Misses Margaret and Eliza
beth Claude: Miss Marie Brooke, Misses
Gladys and Dorothy Christy, Miss
Louise Magruder, Miss Frances Beard
Miss Annie Perrine, of Trenton, N. j.,
Miss Christine Bowie Mackall, of Bal
timore, both this seasons debutantes: !:
Miss Julia Peyton, of Charlestown,
w. Va, Miss Josephine d'Heur, of
New Orleans
In the drawing room Mrs Nicholas
II. Green served punch, and in the
dining room Mrs Ralph 0. Davis, U. s.
n, sat Wis Wis at table with Miss
Mary Brooke Tate. Mrs. Davis served
hot chocolate, and Miss Tate served ice
cream. Mrs. Davis wore an exquisite
gown of pink taffeta and white lace
with large picture hat of lace and pink
roses and touch of black. Miss Tate
was gowned in white lace over white
tatfeta with touches Of blue.
Thee entire piece was a mound Of La
France roses, and the lights were
shaded with pink, which color scheme
was carried out in flowers, lights, bon
bons and ices-a pink tea.
The young girls assisting all wore
dainty afternoon costumes. Most ofthe
dresses were pink or white. or a com
bination of both. AS far as possible
the color was carried out in the gowns
of the receiving party as well as in the
decorations
The reception was beautiful in all OF
its appointments A large number of
friends left cards
The event was not only a happy one
in the young life of the young debu-
tante, but an event Of interest in that
of her many friends who did her honor
on this especially happy eventful oc-
casion.