The Washington times., 1919-12-25

Ball for Country Home.
Mrs. James w. wadsworth, jr., and
Mrs. Randall Hagner, members of the
board of the Children's Country Home.
will receive the guests at the ball to
be given tonight at Rauscher's for the
benefit of that ever-appealing chari-
ty. The ball is always one of the most
delightful of the season and will be a
fitting wind-up to the Christmas fes-
tivities.
Mrs. Joseph Letter, who is chairman
OF the ball committee. is in mourning
and will not be present, so she has
turned her box over to a group of
convalescent men from Walter Reed
Hospital, an example which has been
followed by Mrs. John r. Williams
and Mrs. William A. Slater. Other
box holders, most of whom will en-
tertain parties of guests, are Mrs.
William F. r. Hit, Mrs. Z. c. Walker,
Mrs. John A. Johnston, Mrs. Delos
Blodgett, and Col. William Eric
Fowler.
Forty At Dinner Party.
Commodore and Mrs. Ten Eyck De
Witt Veeder were hosts last night at
a dinner party Of forty guests at the
Army and Navy Club for their daugh-
ters, Misses Minnie and Susanne
Veeder, and their neice, Miss Mildred
Green. The dinner was given in
honor Of some Of the debutantes Of
this season, and the party later at
tended the debut ball which Mr.. and
Mrs. Rozier Dulany gave at Rausch-
ers for their daughter, Miss Anne
Willing Carter Dulany
The guests included Miss Nancy
Lane. Miss Anne Dulany, Miss
Frances Hampson. Miss Delphine
Heyl, Miss Mary HELEN. Miss Elliot
Peckham. Miss Silvia Appleton. Miss
Mary Custis Lee, Miss Jane Boyd.
Miss Eleanor Johnston. Miss Harriet
Bailey. Miss Beatrice Pollock. Miss
Mona Blodgett. Miss Agnes Scott.
Commodore Theodore Jewell, u. S. NJ,
Worth Bagley Daniels. Douglas
Mackall. Heath Davidson, John
Davidson, Ralph Jenkins. Capt. Gus
| tav Beauregard. Chester Lockwood.
Howland Chase, James E. Ellerson,
Arthur HELEN, Hugh Obea. Theodore
Dewey. Edward Dewey. William Mar
row, Major Lawrence Weeks, L. S. A.,
Hammond Winslow, Frances Wins
low. and Midshipnan Joseph Hamp-
SON, u. S. N.
Midshipman Joseph Hampson, Z. s.
NJ, who is attending the Naval Acad-
emy. Is the guest. over the holidays,
or his mother. Mrs. Blanche Wilson
aampson, at the Dresden.
Princess Andrea Boncompagni has
turned her box for the police benent
bali on the night Of Monday, -Decem-
Der ~. over to the boys at Walter
Reed Hospital, and Mrs. Thomas For
tune Ryan has sent her box to the
boys at the Naval Hospital. Princess
Boncompagni is in deep mourning for
her mother, the late Mrs. William f.
Draper and Mrs. Ryan is spending
the week at her country estate in
Virginia.
Mrs. J. A. Dougherty is fast COM
pleting plans for the ball, which Mrs.
Thomas F. Walsh is financing, and in
point of interest and number it will
quite equal any ball of the season.
The big Christmas tree, ablaze with
lights and laden with gifts, will b.
ready for the children of the Metro
poiitan police force Monday after
noon at Wardman Park Hotel, ut 8
o'clock i'll connection with the vaude-
Viile and movie show preceding the
ball on that night. Mrs. Effingham
townsend, chairman of the tree COM
mittee, has between 600 and 700 gifts
ready and wrapped, which have been
presented through the philanthropy
and benevolence of a generous-spirit-
eo woman. There is gift for every
policeman's child.
Blue Bird Masque Ball.
Miss Polly Brooks, who is taking
part in the festivities Of the debu-
har
among the group of New York birds
to be in the ballet OF the Blue Bird
masque ball tomorrow night at the
Waldorf. The ball is in honor of
Maurice Maeterlinck and is for the
benefit of home and foreign charities.
Maj. Gen. Emilio Guglielmotti. mill
tary attache of the Italian embassy.
was the guest of honor last night of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cummings Barr
at dinner which they gave at their
home. Mrs. Landon Humphreys re-
ceived with her mother. The guests
included Capt. Conte Enrico Luserna
di Campigl liene, assistant military at
tache OF the Italian embassy; Lady
IIethbridge, wife of Sir Alfred Swaine
Lethbridge; Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryca,
and Frederick T. Humphreys.
General Guglielmotti returned to
Washington last night.
The midshipmen from Washington
at the United States Naval Academy
and the cadets from the United
States Military Academy home for
the holidays and their guests were
the hosts at dance a the Congress
sional Club last evening. Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard S. Reeside, whose son.
Midshipman Harmer Eeeside, took
prominent part in arranging for the
dance, chaperoned the party, which
was one Of the largest and most beau
tiful of the holiday season. The
guests numbered about 200. The ball
room of the club was elabora.ely
decorated in smilax, ferns, poinsettias
and American Beauty roses. A large
orchestra from Baltimore furnished