Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-28
President Spends Birthday Morn
ing on Golf
Links.
Two Debutantes Make Bows-Hos-
FATALITIES for Serbian
Mission.

| with Mrs. Wilson. This evening there
will be u family dinner party, including
| the house guests. Mrs. Edward Elliott
of California, who has joined Mrs. FL
! lott, and Miss Lucy Marry and Miss
Ann Maury of Roanoke, Va, neces of
Mrs. Wilson, who arrived yesterday.
The assistant secretary of state and
Mrs. William Phillips viii entertain at
. luncheon sunday in honor of all the
! members of the Serbian mission.
This evening DIR. Nesnitch. the head
OF the mission. viii be the guest at
dinner of DR.. David Jayne Hill, who
has invited an interesting company to
meet him.
Tomorrow morning the members of
!! the mission will visit the headquarters
of the American Red Cross. Later Gen.
Rachitch and his suite will lunch with
Col. Collardet. assistant military at
tache of the French embassy and in
i the evening the Italian ambassador
Count d. Cellere will give a dinner
for DR.. Nesnitch.
The military members of the mission
Will dine with the Secretary of War
and Mrs. Baker tomorrow evening.
Mrs. George Vanderbilt will enter
tam number of young people at a
small dance to be given for her
daughter, Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt. on
Saturday evening, January 5, from to
IL.
Mrs. Armstead Davis entertained at
the first of two teas this afternoon, the
second to BE given tomorrow, when she
presented her debutante daughter, Miss
Halle Davis American beauty roses
were used throughout the drawing
rooms and clusters of red roses adorned
the tea table. Mrs. Stephen B. E,lkins
and Nine. Havenith poured tea. and Mrs
Mckenna Pultz and Miss Gladys Hinck
ley served the punch. Others assisting
included Miss Louise Theron, Miss Mar
garet futile and Miss Cecilia Nc
Callum.
Mr. and Mrs Frank w. Hill enter
tanned Al a large tea this afternoon at
their residence, in 18th street, when
their daughter, Miss Mary Hill, made
her formal debut. An elaborate deco
ration of red roses. holly and Christmas
green's was in place in various rooms
of the drawing room suite. Mrs. Hill
received in a handsome gown OF black
velvet trimmed with point lace, while
of white tulle and gold lace mounted
over white satin. and she carried
bouquet of red roses.
Miss Christabel Hill and Miss Hen
rietta Warning Hill, sisters of the debu-
tante, assisted in receiving, the former
W aring a pink satin gown with blue
velvet bodice and silver trimming, while
the latter wore yellow taffeta caught
up with roses.
A centerpiece of red roses and holly
and red-capped candelabra adorned the
tea table, at which Mrs. Charles X.
koones. Mrs. Richardson Gibson, Mrs.
Howard Sasscer and Mrs. Ryan Dever-
eux presided
Those assisting in the hospitality in
lcluded Miss Elizabeth Koones. Miss
Mary Duncan Gibson, Miss Margaret
Devereux, Miss Daviette Ficklen. Miss
Agnes Messick and Miss Champe Barry
l 10 not
over the week end of Miss Hill.
A dinner for the receiving party will
follow, when some young men Will JONI
the party.
Mrs. John Maynard Harlan and Mrs
John H. Russell will give small dance
this evening at the Woman's Suffrage
Association in Rhode Island avenue for
their young daughters, Miss Janet Har-
Ian and Miss Roberta Brooke Russell,
who are home from school for the holt
days.
Mrs Mark Bristol, wife of Capt. Bris-
FOL. L. S. N, is visiting Mrs. Russell.
She will leave Washington Sunday. I'm
mediately after the holidays Mrs Rus
sell will leave for Haiti to join her hus-
band. Maj. Russell. U. S. NJ. c.
The French ambassador and Nine.
Jusserand entertained at dinner last
evening at the embassy in honor of
Admiral de Grasset, in command of the
French battleship LIE Gloire. now in
American waters. and the officers of his
staff who accompanied him to Washing
ton. The guests asked to meet the ad-
miral were the Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Daniels. Admiral and Mrs Ben
son. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
and Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt. Ad-
miral MCGOWAN, Mr.. Nicol of the French
Gaunt of the British embassy staff and
Mrs. Gaunt: the naval attache of the
italian embassy. Capt. .Vannutelli: the
assistant to the assistant secretary of
the Navy and Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Stuart
Farrar Smith. the naval attache of the
French embassy, Commander de Blan-
pre- and Nine. de Blanpre, and Capt de
Chevigne of the embassy staff and Nine
de Chevigne.
Col. and Mrs. William Cary Sanger
have with them guests for the holi-
| days Col. Sanger's sister, Miss Sanger,
and Miss Grantham.
They entertained at dinner last even
Ing in honor of the Secretary of Agri-
culture and Mrs. Houston.
Mrs, James Marion Johnston enter
tanned 4 luncheon party today for her
| young daughter. Miss Eleanor Johnston.
the guests including a number of the
subdebutantes.
! Mrs. Stephen r. Elkins will entertain
at dinner this evening at her residence
| i'll h street.
, Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Bradley returned
/ to Washington last evening from New
! York, where they spent Christmas
! Their daughter, Mrs. Herbert Ship
man. and Mrs. William Disston will
come TO Washington tomorrow to spend
! New Years with them, and will assist
a their reception New Year afternoon
! ON, Sunday evening Mr.. and Mrs Brad
! ley will be hosts a. a large dinner party
I in compliment to Mrs. Disston who
will return to New York on Wednesday
/ Mrs. Shipman has been passing the
| holidays with her husband the Rev
| Herbert Shipman. at Spartanburg S C.
| Mrs. George Lathrop. president of the
I American fund for French wounded,
who has just arrived from France on
! business in connection with her work.
will make an address tomorrow after
noon at O'Clock at the headquarters
of the Washington branch 1884 NJ
street. Mrs. Lathrop is here for a few
days only, and stayed over to address
! tomorrows meeting. at which she will
/ give an account of the work the organ
The committee is inviting all inter
| ested in the work to hear her The
members of the Washington commit
| tees are Nine. de Sibour Mrs Blaine
/ Beale and Mrs Garrison McClintock
! Mrs. John Thomas Taylor gave a
| luncheon today at 24f0 18th street 10 e,,-
nounce the engagement of her daugh-
| ter, Frances Ella Betz, to Lieut. Will
| liam Irwin Mirki of Philadelphia
| The table decorations were pink roses
land cupids. Among the guests uaro