The Washington herald., 1919-01-12
in the Social Worlo

By MAUD NsDoUGALL.

Mrs. Barnet gave a reception in the
afternoon to Introduce her daugh-
ter. and followed IL up with a dance
in the evening. At least that was
the program. There were cards for
the tea, and cards for the dance
and there were cards which In
cluded both. Fortunate in getting
the last, I went to the tea, quite
decided that I couldn't possibly go
down there IN the dead of night to
a dance. But. bless you. the tea was
so attractive that it was an urgent
invitation to the dance. Though,
as a matter of fact, the tea was a
dance also.
You see they had both affairs in
the band room of the barracks, and,
of course, the Marine Band was very
much on the job, and the place was
swarming with the entire bunch OF
this years buds, and a goodly bou-
Quet of those of recent seasons,
and of course uniforms on all sides.
So 1t was inevitable that the recep-
ton should merge into an i'm
promptu dance: with frequent 'ex-
cursfons to the tea tables and the
punch bowls-alas, fruit punch
and grape juice, and such innocuous
beverages: but family suggestive
of the champagne the Barnets would
have had a year or two ago-which
were scattered around the edges of
the room.
The band room is one OF the incest
places in town to have a party. 1t
was gay with flags and Christmas
green's Behind the little receiving
party was a huge American flag,
fianked by the flag of the Marine
Corps, most effective background.
The band, in its gay red coats, occu-
pied a platform at one end of the
room against a sort of dado Of young
frs, a perfect forest of them, COM
pletely hiding the bare wall behind.
The room has a little gallery run
ming around two sides, and here the
supper was served for the dance,
which was the second chapter of the
party. differing mainly from the aft
ernoon function in that it was decid-
edly dressier-all the guests naturally
coming in evening dress and dance
frocks-and that the supper was not
a continuous performance served from
three or four large tables, but def
mite seated supper served at midnight
at little tables, after which dancing
was resumed indefinitely.
Little Miss Macy Lane, who is not
"out" and who has been allowed to
go to all the holiday dances as a spe-
cial Indulgence. was there with her
parents and her tall young aviator
brother just back from overseas, hav-
ing as she said the next day. "a
simply heavenly time And she
wasn't the only one-not by a long
shot. Mrs. Charles Fellowes Gordon.
Sarah Collier-the bride of last week.
was there with Lieut.. Gordon-and
they were. as the newest of newly
weds, dividing interest with Lillian
Birney and her flance, Capt. Finken-
staedt, the most recently engaged
couple. And there were several others
OF the recent brides-Catherine Har-
low, CMrs. Wilkinson and 'Eleanora
Morgan. CMrs. Day.. and Halle Elk
ins Davis, though as she has been
Mrs. Percy Almy, fo- six whole
months she Is quite used to the name
oy now. and Margaret Fahnestock
Stokes. who was married few weeks
earlier-really monopolizing a good
deal of the attention that rightly be-
longed TO the debutanteS.
Everybody seemed to be having a
simply heavenly time-none heaven
lier than Mrs. Barnett herself. She
was all in white and looked more like
bride hersef than like the mother
OF two fair daughters, the elder of
whom was the rightful heroine OF the
occasion. I believe she danced every
dance, and had to divide most OF
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would-be partners. And she danced
so much with a certain good-lookinG
major general that 1t might have
started a scandal-if he hadn't hap
pened to be her husband One man
who was looking for her to claim
a dance said as he plunged across the
room, Il don't see Mrs. Barnett. but
there's the general, and if I steer
for him. I'm pretty sure to fetch up
in her neighborhood," which he ac-
cordingly did.
Next time 1 ran into Mrs. Barnett
was at the tea of the League OF
American Penwomen on Friday
where she was functioning as the hero
inc of Meteor something like that
telling her adventures and experiences
on the French front, and in the re-
Gently occupied territory-she having
been the first American woman to en-
ter Metz, in the wake of, and not very
much behind-the army of occupation
Did l say that Lieut.. and Mrs.
Charles Fellowes Gordon-the latter
formerly Sarah Price Collier-were
back from their very short little
wedding trip? They were only away
about a week, and are with Mrs, Col
lier until the end of the month, when
they expect to sail for "home"-Lieut.
Gordon's home-and-well, his very
attractive bride is almost equally at
home in any OF the European capitals
as she is in Washington. l haven't
heard of the Warriors sailing as yet,
but the crew had their farewell dance
a week ago-they neglected to ask me
but I'm told it was some dance!
/ understand that the little warshir
is due to sail tomorrow. I had thought
1t was to have gone yesterday, but
conSude l must have been wrong, as
am told the crew were very largely
present-as guests, not as hosts-a,
another dance last night, at the Ash
lar Club.
Although practically all of her eff.
GERS who have added so much to lie
gayety of nations in Washington for
the last year. will start for home
about the same time. they are not