Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-04
Thursday
Summer Plans.

Mrs. |. r. Mann has just returned
from trip to New York, where she
has been selecting some wonderful fur
nishings for her new home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mann have lived for some years
in the house on the southeast corner
of 18th and o streets. formerly occu-
pied by Senator and Mrs. Elihu Root
and Representa- tive and Mrs. Bourke
Cochran, and which some years ago
was the Chilean legation.
The Manns have recently purchased
the house and it is to undergo extern
sive and elaborate repairs and remodel
ing.
Mrs. Mann plans to have each room
furnished in the handsomest of period
furniture and the dining room is par
ticularly to be very ornate with ma
hogany furniture and antique tapes
tries.
In the meanwhile, Mrs. Mann will
spend much of the summer at Blue
field, w. Va, so that she can easily
go back and forth from there to Wash
Ington to keep her eye on architects
and builders. Later she and Mr.. Mann
will go to -the-sea, and
will finish the summer at Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs.
The ballot box which has all winter
miral and Mrs. Gheen has been opened
and the votes counted and the result is
a motor trip through the New England
states.
1t was the clever idea of Miss Mary
Gheen the second daughter of the
family, TO have blk and once week
to pass it around among the family,
each one of whom dropped piece of
paper in it, on which was written the
name of the place or the way in which
he INN Tor
For while it seemed as If the Pacific
coast and the eXpositions there would
get the most votes. for the ballotlng
was not secret, but finally that idea
seems to have been abandoned, and
they are now off for a tour through
New England and its many resorts by
motor car.
In spite of the depleted ranks of So
ciety many interesting little affairs are
gomery County Club, whose attractive
clubhouse still possesses the charm of
novelty.
Among these wat a little dinner
given there Thursday night by Mr.. and
Mrs. Murray Cobb, and another when
Maj. Gulick pleyed the part of host.
honor at a dinner given the first OF
the week by MIR. John B. Henderson,
jr., whose other guests included Mr..
and Mrs Clarke Waggaman. The COM
pany numbered ten. and was just large
enough to give each guest a chance
to hear Miss McAdoo tell some of her
interesting hospital experiences in
Mrs. Harlan. widow of Justice Harlan
Of the Supreme Court, with her daugh-
ter, Miss Laura Harlan. left Washing
ton a week ago and has opened their
cottage at Murray Bay, a picturesque
little gabled house which nestles In
pine grove.
Miss Mary E. Bond and her sister. Mrs.
Robert c. Gotta. both of 1741 Oregon ave-
nue., this city. leave Tuesday for a months
visit to Port Williams. Nova. Scotia, stop
ping on the return trip at various points
on the New England coast.
Mr.. Robert Bond Gotta is spending the
summer at Saranac Lake, Saranac, N. Y.
Mr. Russell Whyte left last week for
Mystic. Conn, to be the guest until Oc-
tober Of William K. Wilbur. son of Dean
William A. Wilbur of George Washing
ton University.
Mr. B. Baer. jr.. of Alexandra, Va.
accompa by his niece, Miss Edna
Dreyfuss of the Warrington Apartments,
have left for an extended trip of two
months to the San Francisco exposition.