The Washington herald., 1916-01-02

Warren. Mrs. Charles Grayson Dulin,
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, Mrs. Eleanor
Black, Of New York: Miss Mary Temple,
Mrs. Z. w. Cole and Mrs. Delos Biodgett
The committee in charge, headed by
Mrs. Claude Swanson, wife of Senator
Swanson, have disposed Of most of the
boxes.
The advance sale Of tickets to the ball,
which Is society event producing an
nually goodly sum for charity, is also
progressing rapidly, and hundreds of
persons prominent in the social and Of
hcial life of Washington and nearby
cities viii attend
The Southern Relief Society's commit
tee on arrangements for the ball COM
prises Mrs. Swanson, Mrs. Francis CHS
holm Mrs. Arthur Lee, Mrs. Bates War
ren, Mrs. l. NJ. Qulrollo, Mrs. Theodore
Tiler, Mr.. C. c. Calhoun, treasurer. and
MT. Horace Westcott, chairman of the
floor committee.
In accordance with its annual Gus
tom, the Ell Dorado Club, incorporated,
gave the third New Years watch
party on Friday evening. The affair
was held at the home of the retiring
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Eckert. acting as host and hostess.
Several attractions featured the eyen-
ing's entertainment. Mr.. Charles Ag-
new and Miss NJ. Riley gave an ex-
htbttion dance which won the hearty
applause of the audience. The Ell Do
rado Club quartet rendered several
selections Dancing and the playing
Of games were the chief forms of
amusement Promptly at midnight all
the members and their guests filed out
on the street armed with every known.
devise of noise makers and marched
through the streets of Chevy Chase.
welcoming the New Year.
The new officers electeds ass-Leon D..
Cooper. president; Charles Nickels,
vice president; Leopold v. Freud berg,
secretary. and R. E. Glessner, treas
urer. John Costello was made chair
man of the entertainment committee.
+ The Ell Dorado Club has recently
moved into their new home at 1411 G
street. occupying there the whole of
the third floor.
Mrs. Charles Ray Dean, 1906 Twenty
third street, will be at home Saturdays
during the season.
A surprise party for Miss Florence
Caplan, of st. MichaeIs, Nd, the house
guest of Mrs. Rose Davis, was given
last Wednesday evening, about twenty
tions of the home were in pink and
the favors were small models of the
Buick automobile,
The Decimus entertained its friends and
members last Thursday evening at the
Masonic Temple, Brookland. d. C., at
dance, one of the most delightful of the
holiday season. The hall was a mass of
color and beauty and was brillianti:- dec
u,
OF roses, carnations, and lilies. The walls
were tastefully draped with flags and the
whole artistic effect enhanced by a
changing system of colored lights A
unique feature of the decorative scheme
was the use of the club seal in gold md
blue, these being hung between the win
dows with a large eight-foot seal at the
upper end Of the hall, hanked by masses
OF holly. -
Wallace Nairn. Mrs. Charles E. Molster,
Mrs. MiIlard J. Holmes, and Mrs. John
T. Williams.
The members of the club, who were the
hosts for the evening, were Messrs Clay
c. Holmes. Joseph McPhauI, Charles B.
Molster, Geoffrey MacD. Nairn, w. Wal
lace Nairn, Jr.. harold OiConnell, Francis
Ward Herbert Williams, Ralph Wilson,
and Morrison Barr.
AulOuB muse present were A1r. Gay
Holmes and Miss Dorothy Gooch, Mr..
Joseph McPhaul and Miss Virginia Lyons,
Mr. Charles B. holster and Miss Helen
Molster, Mr.. Czeoffrey Nalrn and Miss
Helen Haas, Mr.. Wallace Nairn and Miss
Mae Rowe. Mr. Harold O'Connell and
Miss Mary Darling. Mr.. Francis Ward
and Miss Anna knight, Mr.. Herbert VIII
liams and Miss Leta Hawkins, Mr. Ralph
Wilson and Miss Cymbelme Dentler, Mr..
Robert Gooch and Miss Laura Rems-
berg, Mr.. Jack Bond and Miss Jean A.oI-
ster, Mr.. Clyde Atwell and Miss Eleanor
Washington, Mr.. Robert McCreight and
Miss Lottie Knight Mr.. Harold Clayton
and Miss Gertrude Swingle, Mr.. Don
Holmes and Miss Helen viemeyer, Mr..
Frank Meyers and Miss Lucy Clark, Mr..
Clyde Talbert and Miss Grace Bell. Mr.
Elmer Burgess and Miss Ruth Wilson.
Mr.. Troy Nubson and Miss Elizabeth
Molster, Mr.. Robert Broclxman and Miss
Ada Howell. Mr.. Allison Chaplin and Miss
Margaret Barnholt. Mr. Thomas David
son and Miss Lucy Louthan, and Messrs.
Leo Lanahan, William Gwin, and David
Schaeffer and ladies'