Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-29

sister, the Secretary of State and Mrs.
Baker, for the Christmas holidays,
will return to his home in Pittsburgh
! tomorrow.
Mrs. William Gerry Morgan will
. chaperone a party of young girls, in
| GLIDING her daughters, the Misses
Myra and Ruth Morgan, and their
house guest, Miss Eleanor Hopkins of
the Hot Springs. Va, at the New Year
ball at Annapolis.
Mrs. Stephen Millett has gone to
| New York for visit of several days.
| Miss Eleanor Fillebrown of Phila-
| delphia is the guest of Lieut.. Com
mander and Mrs. A. NJ. Charlton at
1858 California street for the week.
| The ball at Rauscher's on Wednes-
day night brought back a fashion of
the civil war in the large shell or sill
yer combs used as a finishing touch
| to almost every costume and worn by
the Young girls, the style being quite
| in accord with the long pendant ear
rings worn by many of the women.
| Miss Elizabeth Stevenson will enter
Shoreham for Miss Elizabeth Hamlin
Young, and will have as additional
| guests other debutantes.
| The members of the Congressional
| Club will keep open house on New
Year day. from + to Z. when their
! friends at Washington will take the
opportunity to extend to them the
greetings of the season.
| i. the evening, following the re-
ception. there will be New Year
ball with Mrs. Joe Henry Engle. wife
! of Representative Eagle of Texas.
| acting as chairman of the ball COM
mittee. Assisting Mrs. Eagle are Mrs.
! John A. Peters, Mrs. John B. Ken
| drick, Mrs. Thomas P. Gore. Mrs.
bins, Mrs. Charles B. Ward. Miss Page
and Mrs Wallace H. White, jr.
! Col. NJ. a. De Laney and Mrs. De
Laney have come to Washington for
! the winter. the former having been
assigned to duty with the surgeon
| generals office.
| Col. De Laney is among the first Of
| flcerS to arrive here wearing three
gold chevrons. He went to France
| from Mexico in May 1877. taking the
Pennsylvania Hospital unit for duty
with the British army He was mon
| toned in dispatches by Field Marshal
Sir Douglas Haig, for meritorious
services in France and afterward
served on the staff of Lieut. Gen. T.
/ II. Goodwin, director general, Army
, medical services, who was on duty
| here with the Balfour commission.
Representative and Mrs. Charles B.
Ward will entertain a dinner party
at the Chevy Chase Club on New Year
! eve.
| Announcement is made of the mar
| riage of Col. Otway Calvert Berry
| man. U. S. NJ. c.. formerly of WASH
| ington, to Miss Mary A. Sullivan. The
| wedding took place on December II,
| in the Chapel of Our Lady of Qua
delupe at Los Angeles. Cal. Col. and
| Mrs. Bergman will make their home
! in Los Angeles.
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly, presi-
dent of the Y. w. c. A. will be the
hostess for the open house at the
association building, 619 18th street
New Year afternoon. and will be as
sisted by Miss Mignonette o. Buck
| ingham. Miss Nellie S. Gist Miss
Helen McQuillan. Miss Grace Titus,
Miss Elizabeth Keferstein, Miss Mira
adams and Miss Virginia Sanborn,
secretaries.
The Legion of Loyal Women will
hold reception New Year day from 1
to 4 o'clock. at the residence of Mrs.
Mary Logan Tucker, the president.
and Mrs. John A. Logan. 1923 18th