Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-12
Mrs. Townsend Entertaining Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall
at Dinner This Evening.
Many Dinner Parties Precede Wash
ington Diet Kitchen Ball at
Rauscher's Tonight.

The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
will be guests this evening of Mrs.
Richard Townsend, who will have a
company to meet them at dinner at her
home in Massachusetts, avenue. Sena-
tor-elect and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry
are arriving for a visit to Mrs. Towns
end and will be among the guests this
evening.
Mrs. Marshall will be at home Wednes-
day for the last time this season. at the
Willard. She will have assisting her
Mrs Swanson. Mrs. Carl Vrooman. Mrs.
Charles S. Hamin. Miss Stone, Miss
Pones and Mrs. William L. Marshall.
tt ball at Eauscher's tonight. under the
! auspices of the Washington Diet Kitchen
Association, will be among the smartest
of the winter. Mrs. Horace Westcott,
will receive and a number of prominent
women will have box parties.
Mr.. and Mrs William Littauer will be
hosts at dinner this evening, entertaining
in honor of their house guest Mrs Will
liam Greer of New York, the party later
attending the ball at Rauschers for the
benefit of the Washington Diet Kitchen.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont will have
| their house guest, Mrs. John r. DrexeI.
with them in their box at the ball at
Rauscher's this evening.
Representative William Mckinley and
Miss Maths will be among the dinner
hosts of this evening.
Mrs. Robert NJ. Thompson will leave
Washington tomorrow evening for
Miami, Fla, where she will join Col.
Thompson, who is aboard his house
boat. the Everglades.
Sykes and by Mr.. and Mrs. Poultney
Bigelow of New York, who arrive here
today to be the guests overnight of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Atherton.
Mrs. Delos Blodgett will have as her
guest Miss Mabel Perkins of Grand
Rapids, Mich. who will reach Wash
ington Wednesday morning.
Miss Helen Blodgett, who is visiting
Mrs. Leonard Swain at Providence,
! r. T., will go to Chicago for a short
visit before returning to Washington
the latter part of the month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary will en-
| tertan at dinner this evening, going
later to the ball at Rauschers.
Mr.. William F. Dennis has received
the commission of major of engineers
in the officers reserve corps, L. S. A
The commission is the highest in the
gift of the President to confer in the
reserves under the act of Congress of
last year. Mr.: Dennis, who is well
known throughout this country as a
consulting civil engineer. is also a
member of the Institute of Civil Engi-
aeers of Great Britain.
The newly appointed second secretary
of the Japanese embassy and Nine
Fujii are expected to arrive at San
Francisco in a day or two, and they
probably will come direct to Washing
| ton.
| Mrs James Pryor Tarvin will be
| hostess at a dinner this evening given
| in honor of Senator and Mrs. Ollie
| James.
| Mrs. John II. Rice is hostess at a
large bridge party this afternoon. en-
tertaining al the Washington Club.
Mrs. James W Wadsworth. jr. who
| is visiting at Boston, will return 10
| Washington on Wednesday.
| Mrs. Sidney c. Neale and Miss Bur
dette have postponed the tea which
they ha j planned for Wednesday.
| Miss Burdette is spending several
weeks at New York visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. King Stone.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard S. Reside,
| who will be hosts at a large dance at
the Congressional Club tomorrow
night, will entertain house party for
the occasion. Their guests will in
! clude Mr.. and Mrs. Hazard Lippincott,
| Miss Lucille Lippncott Mr.. and Mrs.
! Alfred Lippincott and Miss Estelie Lip
| pincott, all of Philadelphia. and Mr..
| Harmer Reside. son of the hosts. who
is returning from st. Luke's School ac-
COMMANDED by Mr.. John Owen of Wis
consin.
Col. Myron NJ Parker will give a
| mems dinner on February % at his
| home in Vermont avenue.
| Mrs. Malcolm S. McConihe is enter
| tanning at card party of five tables
| this afternoon in compliment to Mrs.
| George Marye. wife of the former am
| bassador to Russia.
| f'rimroses and frezia form the deco
ration in the drawing room and dining
room. and at the tea. which will follow
| later in the afternoon. Miss Francois
| Berger Moran. Mrs Milton c. Elliott
and Mrs. Horace G. Mcfarland will do
| the honors at the tea table.
Mrs. Newton d. Baker, wife of the
| Secretary of War. will be a guest at
the banquet to be given this evening