The Washington times., 1915-04-07
Dinners and Dances.

At the dance at the Cairo April 49, by
which Miss Nellie Claire Howard will
act as sponsor, and Miss Margaret
Trimble as maid of honor, the ladies
who will serve as chaperones are Mrs.
Maude Howell Smith, Mrs. $. r. How
ard, Mrs. w. T. Baggett,N Mrs. Jerry
South, and Mrs. George $. Covington.
James Hunter Roper, chairman Of the
floor committee, and DR.. w. b. Hicks.
vice chairman. I'm addition to the gentle
men whose names have been previously
Reese. Hosea T.. Skinner, b. r. Ilutler,
Mr.. Shreeve, w. c. Wheeler. r. l..
Strawn, F. l.. Elliott, Wallace Mulcare,
J. ". Morgan, Sim T. Price, II. l.. Cot
Collcy Bell, Thomas c. Adams, d. NJ.
McLeran. Ralph j. Sterling, Carleton
Proctor, Paul Hedge. James Burch,
George Smithson, and Joseph kingsbury.
The Ohio Society of WASHINGTON will
entertain at lecture and dance ut
Rauschers on Monday night.
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The Postmaster General and Mrs. A.
S. Burleson will be hosts at dinner to-
night.
Miss Katherine white, daughter Of
Mrs. X. G. White and granddaughter Of
Gen. Horatio Gibson, was hostess at an
informal dinner last night at her resi-
dence in N street. Among the guests
were Miss Dorothy Mason. Miss Max
well, of Montgomery, Ala; Miss Fran
Ben Weissblatt, Gordon Mason, and Mr..
Carroll
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The officers and ladies' stationed at
Fort Mycr will entertain at the last
formal hop of the season in tho Admin
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wife of Gen. Hugh l.. Scott. Mrs. Manus
McCloskey and Mrs. Charles 7. Mencher
will receive.
An informal hop will take place at the
Officers Club at Fort Myer on April 16,
and will be repeated every Friday night
during the summer.
Mrs. Frederick A. Keep will give q
dinner tonight in honor of Mr.. ard Mrs.
Chatfield Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Anderson will
entertain at dinner on April IA.
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The Chinese Minister and Madame
Shah will entertain this evening at
the second of a series of official din
ners and the guests of honor will be the
Attorney General and Mrs. Gregory.
Last evening they entertained In compli-
ment to the Secretary of state and Mrs.
Bryan, this being the first formal
function they have given since their
arrival in Washington a year ago, and
tomorrow evening there will be another
dinner, when the guests will be invited
to meet the secretary of Commerce aud
Mrs. Redfield and the Postmaster Cen
eral and Mrs. Burleson.
Invited to meet the Secretary of
State and Mrs. Bryan were the Cuban
Minis ter and Nine. de ,Cespedes: the
Secretary of Labor and Miss Agnes
Hart Wilson. Senator Duncan Y. Fletch-
er. Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Foster. Mrs.
John B. Henderson. DR.. and Mrs. c. j.
Owens. Yung Kwai. counselor of the
legation. and Mrs. Yung Kwai. and
John Ford.
Following the ideas of new China
the Minister and Madame Shah depart
ed from the elaborate Oriental decora-
tions and service which have distin-
Euished other dinners at the legation,
and the table was laid in American
fashion. with handsome new silver
made in America and bearing the mono.
gram of the minister. Rare chinese por'
celains. however. and a number OF
Chinese delicacies made the service
distinctive.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson
! Glover were hosts last evening at one
| Of the most attractive of the spring
, dances when thev entertained in com
! pliment to their debutante daughter
/ Miss Beatrice Glover. The guests in
| cluded about $50 young folk and mum
| ber of dinners preceded the dance
! which took plaCp a the Cpnptry C1uD