The Washington times., 1915-12-14
Items Of Interest and lmpor-
tance of Past, Present, and
Future Among Official and
Fashionable Folk.


The Secretary OF State and Mira
Lansing will be the honor guests at
= dinner which Maj. Gen. and Mrs
George Barnett are giving this even
Ing et the Comfnandants House, Ma
rihe Barracks There will be sixteen
guests, among them Charlemagne
Tower. former ambassador.t to Austria
Hungary. Germany. and Russia, and
Mrs. Tower. and Charles Mccain. OF
Baltimore, who will come to Wash
ington for the occasion. Mrs. Barnett
WIN entertain at luncheon tomorrow
in compliment to Mrs. Tower.
Mrs. Barnett's son, Basil Gordon,
VIII come to Washington from Prince
ton for the holidays, as will her
Young daughters, Miss Leila Gordon
ana Miss Anne Gordon, who are stu
dents at Miss McCulloughs school
near Baltimore. Although Miss Leila
Gordon will not be presented to So
ciety FOR two years or more, she will
haSu an Informal introduction to her
inother's friends during the Christ
attend the small and early" furc.
tlons given for the younger set.
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Col ana Mrs. Robert M. Thompson
VIII be hosts at young peoples
dinner this evening, entertaining in
honor Of Miss Margaret Read, daugh-
ter OF Col. and Mrs. George Read, y.
s. A.. and granddaughter of Lieut.. Ger
~ b Young. The dinner win be
fellowed by dancing, for which a
number of additional guests have
been asked.
Miss. Margaret Wilson will be one of
the box holders at the National Thea
ter this afternoon for the second con-
cert Of the. season of the Philadelphia
symphony Orchestra and she will have
several quests with her. Senator and
Mrs4 Willard Salisbury will entertain
Judge and Mrs. Sidney Ballou. Col and
Mrs. Charles G. Walcutt, U. s. A., and
Miss Bissell, of Wilmington. Del, who
is MIS-. Ssnlseury's guest Lady Spring
win be In the box with Mrs. Caideron
Carlisle, who will also entertain Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Randolph and Mrs: Walter
Bruce Howe. Others who will have
guests with them are Mrs. Marshall
Field and Mrs. William Crozier.
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Mrs George r. Clark and Miss Louise
and the second Tuesday OF each month
during the season at their apartment
in the Westmoreland. They will be as
sisted today by Mrs. Charles Doyen,
Mrs. Carlo Britain, and Miss Harmon
Bailey. Of Chicago, who is Miss Clark's
guest.
Miss Clark and Miss Bailey will be
entertained at dinner at the Chevy
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Mrs: Cherries Laird as hostess; and on
Friday they will go to Annapolis to
spend tho Weekend. They will be the
guests OF DR.. and Mrs. James G, Field.
the Naval Academy:
The senii-monthly dances at the. Kene-
saw. which were an interesting feature
season, Beginning on Saturday evening.
The guests are confined to the people
having apartments in the building ana
their friends.
Mrs. stephen B. Elkins will be host
ess at dinner this evening, entertain
ing In compliment to His Bminence,
Cardinal Gibbons. Mrs. Elkins' din
ner for the Cardinal has become an
annual event and always Is one OF
the most distinguished gatherings OF
the season. This evening there VIII
be twenty@four guests.
Mrs. Elkins will entertain young
peoples house party during the
Christmas holidays when she wili
have with her the late Senator Ell
kins' grandchildren, Elkins, Robert
and Alexander Oiiphant. and Miss
Emely May Holden. On December u
Mrs. EIkins will give a dinner fer
her young guests at which Miss Edith
Blair, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Mont
goInery Blair, will be the guest or
honor.
Mr.. and Mrs William F. r. Hit are
planning to spend most of the winter
at their farm near Middleburg, Va. g.
but come to Washington frequently
for snort visits and to be guests at
many of the more important social
functions of the season.
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The Speaker. and Mrs Champ Clark
accompanied by their son, Bennett
Clark, will go to New Orleans as
soon as Congress adjourns. to spend
the Christmas holidays with Mr.: and
Mrs James M. Thomson. Mrs. Thom-
son. who as Miss GeneVieve Clark.
made q unique place for herself in
society in the Capital, will return to
Washington with her parents and
win be with them most of the winter.
Speaker and Mrs. Clark are now oc :
cupYing apartments in Congress Hall,
hut II Is probable that after their re-
turn and Mrs. Thomsonis arrival,
they WIN take an apartment or a
house in the northwest section 70:
the remainder of the winter Later
they will have as their guest Bennett