The sun., 1919-02-23
TIME Lenten season is fast APP
preaching. and while the win

from the standpoint Of society, there
has been considerable to chronicle.
Dancing, which last year was more or
less prohibitive, has come to the fore
again. and there is much in store for
the coming ten days, but with q Wow
to good purposes.
There will be given on Friday night
at the home of Mrs. A. Barton Hep
burn, $40 Park avenue, q Father
Knickerbocker dance of welcome to
allied officers in this city, and the pro-
ceeds win be devoted to the City His
tory Club. in which Mrs. Hepburn is
deeply interested. This club has been
referred to as the kindergarten for
American citizenship. and II has at
least forty self-governing clubs. which
have been formed for friendship and
the making of good citizens and good
Americans Of the forty nationalities
living in our midst.
The club has a definite and practical
way in accomplishing its ends by
by means Of illustrated lectures. pag-
eants and visits to historic places and
city departments. It gives to the boys
and girls who live in the streets most
Of the time their first idea OF what a
home is, also fighting anarchy and
Bolshevism. 1t seems to the founders
and members Of the club that there
never has been a time when this work
IL more needed than at present.
The board Of trustees Of the club in
cludes Mrs. Robert Able, Cabot Ward,
DR.. George r. Kunz. Mrs. Frederick
w. Longfellow, Mrs. Carr Van Anda,
Mrs. H. Schuyler Cammann, Miss
Charlotte Delafield. Mrs. Clough Cosby
Overton. Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt, Mrs.
John King Van Rensselaer,. Mrs.
. Schuyler N. Warren. Mrs. Christopher
Wyatt, Mrs. Richard Aldrlch, Mrs.
Edward Ringwood Hewitt, Mrs. James
Speyer. Mrs. Robert r. NJ. Emmett,
Mrs. v. Everit Macy. Mrs. Frederick
r. Thompson, Mrs. Thomas W. La
mont, Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne. Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, and Mrs.
William Jay Schieffelin.
The dance will bring together the
younger members OF society, and Miss
Eymphorosa Bristed Is acting as the
chairman of the committee. Asso-
ciated with her are Mrs. Lewis Gouver-
neur Morris, Mrs. John E. P. Morgan,
Mrs. Sylvanus L. Stokes. Jr.. Mrs.
Richard 8. Emmett, Mrs. James B. Tay-
lor, Jr., Mrs. Francis H. Geer. the
Misses Grace Bristed. Carol Read,
Marion Tiffany, Nina Ryan. Isabel
Stettinius, Leila Burden, Sylvia Holt,
Lucille Baldwin, Alice and Ruth Mar
den, Elizabeth Manning, Helen Cam
eron, Adrlenne Iselin, Janc Gourd,
Audrey Hoffman, Margaret Schroeder,
Alice Warren, Margaret Flint, Katha-
rine Emmett. Sylvia Van Rensselaer,,
Edith Pratt and Katharine Temple
Z Keogh.
: "a Tickets at IS each. including supper.
may be obtained Of Mrs. Robert r. NJ.
Emmett, $50 Park avenue.
Another dance OF Friday night will
be for the benefit Of the Darrach Home
for Crippled Children, and it will be
held under the auspices OF the Sewers,
an organization connected with the
work OF the home, which until last
year had given for some winters
similar entertainment. This dance
will be held in the main ballroom OF
the Ritz-Carlton. Among those Inter-
ested in its success are Mrs. Frank
Milton Black, Miss Lufburrow, Mrs.
Frank Dodd. Mrs. Edwin w. Lancas-
ter, Mrs. James Reginald Foster. Miss
! Juliet Smith, Mrs. Charles Henry
\ Guye, Mrs. Frederic West Macdonald,
Mrs. Montague Howard, Mrs. e. Car
q son Pennal, Mrs. E. Wyckoff Harris.
Mrs. Walter Wood Parson, Mrs. Louis
Sayre Kerr, Mrs. Henry B. slayback'
Mrs. Christopher NJ. Lowther and Mrs,
z. De Forest Simmons.
Tickets have been secured by Mrs. Ed
ward B. Close, Mrs. Reid Sell, Mrs. Henry
Wise Wood, Capt. and Mrs. Marion
MoMillin, Mrs. Robert Major. Mr.. and
Mrs. Sterling Beardsley. Mrs. Ralph
Underhill, Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ,
Pynchon, Miss Marie J. Leary. Lieut.
william John warburton, U. s. A;
Mr.. and Mrs Ross Wood, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter w. Parsons, Miss Mary Lam
caster, Ralph Cerrero, Mrs. James b
Mcclure, Mr. and Mrs. Emil ]. Stehli
|, Mr.. and Mrs. Bedell Harmed, Miss
Marie BALM. Mrs. Henry B. Guthrie
Miss Julia Stanley. Mrs. Charles B
Ortiz, Miss Beth Leary and Mrs. Cliff
ford Putnam. There are expected al
the dance most OF the debutantes OF
the winter and some of the young
army and navy officers now relieved
from duty. Tickets at $3.50 may be
obtained Of Mrs Frank NJ. Black al
the Hotel Gotham.
One OF the largest dances OF the
aeason for debutantes wasR at given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson
OF 903 Park avenue, at Sherrys dur
ing the Christmas holidays for their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth S. Thomp-
son. Another debutante Of the season
is Miss Catherine Noyes, who was
introduced to society at a reception
given yesterday for her by her mother.
Mrs. Walter Chadwick Noyes. ut her
home, Al East Fifty-first street.
Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryea who in
stituted the Secours Duryea in France
just after the outbreak of the war,
while she was in Dinard, Is to give a
lecture in the ballroom Of the Colony
Club on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs,
Duryen has received several marks OF
distinction from the French Govern
ment in recognition OF her work and
her lecture Of wednesday will be the
" first for which there will be a charge
OF admission. Her subject will be THE
Last Chapter" and she will be intro
duced by Ernest Guy Of the French