Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-15
SOCIETY WELCOMES
Mss EDITH MCCORMICK
Daughter Of Naval Medical Director
Makes Bow to Local Society
at Large Reception.
AMID HUNDREDS OF ROSES
Navy Girl Fairest Bud Of Them All, is
Formally Introduced -ShOwered
With BOUQUETS.

Hnsv gOWned in wonderful cos
and giittering with jewels, storm
...t.a home of Medical Director Albert
t Mccormick. U. S. ~, and Mrs.
0.mick at No. s Porter Row, Ma
... Academy, yesterday afternoon, and
welcomed ATS latest devotee Miss
...H Fctt Mccormick, who was intro
..... uvuor mother
.... Mccormick. a handsome young
...u. of The navy set, wore an eIe-
... gown on taupe velvet with chiffon
u.Ics and carried a bouquet of or
... and lilies of the valley. Miss
Mccormick wore dainty gown OF
white aauze with threads of silver over
white crepe meteor. with touches OF
ue and silver irredescent. She wore
"a cor. age bouquet of pink orchids and
l. of the valley, and carried an arm
u OF pink Killarney roses, tied with
reamcrs OF pink satin ribbon, the
ends of each strcamer being finished
with % pink rosebud like the bouquet
Tine rooms were banked with the
most beautiful flowers. of every vari-
..y known to the florist There were
hundreds of American Beauty roses,
Iacauemiuot. Killarney. La France
and other kinds
The mantle was banked with the
most exquisite LaFrance rose buds,
mat were SO natural they seemed arti-
fetal Sprays of stephania lent a del
.eafo charm to the mantle decoration.
On tue opposite side OF the drawing
room. pink chrysanthemums nodded
.beir tbree-score blooms to the grace
ul iestom of smilaX that hung from
the chandelier
ON side tables and taberets white
lyacmths and American Beauty roses
Grcathcd their fragrance. In the Ii
Hary more roses, violets. orchids,
white chrysanthemums and lilies
decorated every nook. Indeed. ali the
rooms we're laden with perfume from
the quantities of flowers showered
4p0n the fair debutante.
In the dining room there were more
towers but here white was the prevail
Wg color and white roses were used I'm
'lo table decorations with white hya-
Inths
1lrs Edward w Eberle, wife of the
superintendent. served hot chocolate,
sitting Wis a Wis to Mrs. Hoogewerff,,
who poured coffee Mrs. Hines. wife
of Capt j, Fore Hines, sat opposite
Mrs. Kurtz. wife of the aid to the SUI
nerlu.eudent Mrs. Hines served pis-
achio cream; Mrs. Kurtz served
rappe
Other matrons assisting in the din
uc room were Mrs, Chandler. Mrs.
nungle Mrs Kindelberger, Mrs. Thos.
Johnson and Mrs. George T. Neale.
me ml,rons were handsomely and
..ahoratcly gownod. The young girls
.stng wore dainty girlish dresses,
pink. blue, canary or white, and the
der dcbutautes of this season, Miss
HHgw and Miss Christy assisted, to-
settler with the following young girls:
Miss Dorothy Christy, Miss Mildred
North airs. Eberle's guest, Miss
Ammo Fore Hines, OF kentucky; Miss
Louise Nagruder. Misses Margaret and
elizabeth claude, Miss Elizabeth Steele.
Miss Marie Brooke, Miss Nancy Dash
.I Miss Katharine Ramsay Miss Mary
.H.uag Miss Ramsay's gues), Miss
r-en.a Nouot. Miss Mary Frances
'or ol ST. Louis, Mo- Miss Julia Hall.
.. '..re is anything in legendary
".# a.aa. there being luck in threes'
'a GODDESS who presides over destiny
..' shower good fortune on the third
.. This seasons debutantes, who made
.. .." go society yesterday afternoon
.. EaFaI Academy.
Tic FIRST time for many seasons
Annapolis and the Naval Acadmey has
- .. eocd fortune of three young
mixing their bow to society the
r-a season. within a few days OF
other.
..s Edith Mccormick coming out
"g. closely upon that of Miss
a n."W and Miss Gladys Christy.
Oh. buds" have made a delight
.-rE season in local society life.
promises TO be gayer and
-.sr as the season progresses. and
..uneuts are given in honor of
..es tair debutantes
C.aude's Phone, No. $50 (chang
#"a o22-m) for taking orders. dis.
-s
.".na. Wednesday Frank Dan
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