The Washington herald., 1916-12-26

Christmas Day festivities eliminated
last evening with a ball Of exceptional
brilliance at Rauschers. when society
danced until the small hours for the
benefit of the Children's Country Home.
The dinner and supper parties Of the
evening wound I'D the ball. which was
not In full swing until nearly II o'clock.
and the attendance was augmented about
midnight by numerous theater parties.
The most exclusive circle Of residential
society was represented among the
guests, who also included q number OF
prominent diplomatic and Official folk and
practically the entire debutante coteriss
Mrs. Joseph Letter welcomed the guests.
assisted by Mrs Charles Carroll Clio
yer. Jr.
The ballroom suite at Rauscher's was
converted into q veritable forest Of fra
grant pine. The walls were yelled In
smilax and the ceilings were covered
with pine boughs studded with scarlet
shaded electric lights. Tiny evergreen
trees marked the boxes. which were ar
ranged at either end Of the large ball
room, and the balcony. where the orches-
ira played, was screened with palms and
sctta- Supper was served at small tables
in the supper room on the hrst floor.
Among those who occupied boxes and
entertained guests were Mrs. Stephen
Slocum. who had with her Mr.. and Mrs.
william n. Bliss and Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Townsend. Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson
Fahnestock had as their guests Assistant
Secretary OF Agriculture and Mrs Carl
vrooman, Miss Margaret Fahnestock.
Richardson and Mr.. Sylvanus Stokes.
Mr.. and Mrs William Corcoran Hill were
among the guests OF Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh. who had also with her her house
guest. Mrs Osborne. Among the other
boxholders were Mrs. James w. Wads-
worth. jr.. Mrs. Joseph Letter. who had
with her her mother, Mrs. John r. Will
Jams and her sister and brother-in-law,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ballentine Pitney;
Mrs. Robert R. Hit, Mrs Eugene Hale.
Mrs. II. Campbell Graef, Mrs. James
Mcmillan, Mrs. James FcDonald. Mrs.
Thomas Symons. Mrs. Delos Blodgett
and Mrs. Marshall Field.
Others among the guests were the Sec
retary Of State and Mrs. Lansing. the
French Ambassador and Nine. Jusser-
and. the Spanish Ambassador and Mime.
Riano, the Ambassador of Brazil and
Nine. da CANA, Chief Justice and Mrs
White. Mr. Justice and Mrs. Pitney, Mr..
Justice McReynolds, Judge and Mrs.
Charles Howry. Judge and Mrs. William
Bailey Lamar, Capt. C. c. Calhoun, Miss
Louisa Hoar, Miss Kane. Miss Lillian
Hendricks. the Misses Edith and Minna
Blair, Miss Carolyn Nash. Miss Jane
Gregory. Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Hagner,
Miss Ethel Hartman, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter WILCOX, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles s.
Hamlin, Mr.. Charles ]. Bell. Miss Helen
Ernst, Mr.. W. P. G. Harding, Of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, and Miss Elizabeth
Harding. Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Charles
McCawIey. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Garrison Nc
Clintock, Mr.. and Mrs. T. T. Gan, Mrs.
Robert Patterson, Senator and Mrs
Henry F. Lippitt. Assistant Secretary of
the Navy and Mrs Franklin D. Roose-
welt. Mr.. Harold Keats
Mr.. and Mrs. William LIttauer, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Warburg, Miss Mary
CrOzier, Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Westcott,
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury and
Mrs. Andrews Peters, Mr.. and Mrs. War
wick Emile Montgomery. Miss Anna
montgomery. Miss Anne Hopkins, Mrs.
Norman Williams. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Z. Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs Cary T. Gray
son, Mrs. +. II. G. Slater, Mr. and Mrs
Lawrence Townsend. Mrs. George w.
Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs Henry May,
MFS. fSODSEI MCOOrmlCh, hrS. JOnn
Wyeth, Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Noyes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kirke Porter, Sena-
tor and Mrs. Hoke Smith, Senator and
Mrs. James D. Phelan, Capt. and Mrs.
John Fl. Gibbons, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic
A DelanO. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Brecken-
ridge, Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman. and DR..
and Mrs. William Holland Wilmer.
The ushers were Messrs. Randall Hag-
ner, Clarke Waggaman, Walter Wilcox.
Fleming Newbold, Nathan Wyeth, and c.
e. Glover, Jr.
Christmas Day was celebrated very
quietly in official circles. The President
and Mrs. Wilson entertained a family
party at the White House. There was q
Christmas tree for little Miss Ellen Will
son McAdoo and Miss Josephine Cothran,
from which gifts for all the members of
the family were distributed. Dinner was
served at o'clock, and dining with the
President and Mrs. Wilson were the Sec
retary Of the Treasury and Mrs. McAdoo,
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Bowes sayre, Miss
Margaret Wilson, Miss Helen Woodrow
Bones, Mrs. William H. Boiling, Miss
Bertha Boiling, Mr.. John Randolph Boil
ling, and Mr.. and Mrs. Rolfe Boiling.