Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-16
Hostess House Opened.


! list of women who Will be guests or
J honor at tho opening of the hostess
house at 2:3o o'clock at Camp Hum
! phreys, Va, tomorrow afternoon. MRS
" illiam NJ. Black and Mrs. Joseph Il.
| kChn will share honors with her ana
a boat from the Washington barracks
will carry officers and their wives
! and friends TO the camp. The hne
roads will also lure Automobiles.
while the electric lines will afford
/ transportation for others.
! Mrs. +. NJ. Townsend of New York,
chairman of the hostess house com
mittee, has arrived TO be present at
the opening. and Miss Budd, the wom-
! an architect, who has designed most
| of the houses, will be with her.
/ Miss Humphreys will be in Wash
/ ington today and tomorrow and viii
1 go TO the camp, which is named for
| her father. and a special review of
| troops viii be made in her honor.
Miss Jane Hunt is director of the
| new hostess house, which is said 10
| be one of the best equipped in this
| part of the country.
| The plans for the Mardi Gras ball.
which promises to be one of the smart
| est events of the season, to be given at
| Wardipan Park Inn Shroye Tuesday,
March 4, at 10 O'Clock. are complete. On
| the ball committee are Mrs. Breckenridge
! Long, Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, Mrs
Joseph Letter, Mrs. Arthur Glasgow,
Mrs. Walter Dillingham; and Mrs.
! George Draper.
| The boxes will represent pastures.
with a spreading apple tree in full
bloom, the grass plot inclosed in a
| blue picket fence. Each box holder
will locate his box pasture by the
rural mail box painted French blue
bearing his name.
| Buy a pasture for the Mardi Gras
Ball, BY so doing you will be sup
porting three little French babies for
| one whole year." is the cry of the pro-
4 moters.
Meyer Davis will play for the large
ballroom and the Wardrnan Park
Orchestra viii inspire the gay terp-
sichoreans at the ballroom at the end
| of the long corridor. This floor is ex-
cellent and is 119 feet long. Roomy.
| comfortable wicker chairs and sort
shaded lights make the spacious log
| gia an ideal place for tete-a-tete par
/ ties between dances.
The large dining room will be deco
rated to Represent the Pre-Catelan in
| the Bots de Bouiogne in Paris. Guests
will be served a delicious dairy sup
per consisting of eggs benedict
chicken salad, sandwiches. cafe par
fat, patisserie and coffee. The sup
per will he served by debutantes in
humble garb of milkmaids, under
Towering chestnut trees, on hare
round top iron tables such as are used
On the boulevards in Paris.
Miss Margaret Harding viii servo hot
chocolate made with the powdered
milk that is being shipped by the ton
to France. She will serve the choeo-
late from a quaint old well in Nor
mandy costume
On the junior ball committee are
Miss Courtney Let's, Miss Margaret
Harding Miss Olyve Graef, Miss Car
ter Mullikin and Miss Mildred Brom-
well. Other debutantes who will sell
favors to create a real carnival at
IL o'clock are Miss Margaret futile,
Miss Anita Henry, Miss Ruth Sturte
want. Miss Marjorie Wright. Miss Mar
garet Decide. Miss Tracy Lyons, Misses
Hoover. Miss Antoinette Graves. Miss
Anna Hamlin. Miss Leila Gordon, Miss
Nina Blair. Miss Cecilia McCallum,
Miss Elizabeth Grinnell and Mrs.
George Percy.
Mrs John Pitney is chairman for the
girls. all in fancy dress costume, who
will sell cigarettes. Assisting Mrs Pit
ney will be Mrs. Shelton Pitney, Mrs
Albert Hoffman, Mrs. Harry Davidson.
Mrs. Melville Wallace, Miss Sally
Beecher, Miss. Louisa Deiano, Misses
Louisa and Frances Hoar and Miss
Edith Wallach.
Miss Virginia Hunt, in Dutch cos
tune, will be chairman for the flower
girls, and will have with her Misses
Elsie and Alice Downing, Miss Caro-
Hume, as a Rose; Miss Adelaide
Heath. as Forget-me-not, and Miss
Whiting.
Among the patronesses are Mrs,
Larz Anderson. Mrs. Edison Bradley,
Nine. George Bakhmeteff, Mrs, COL
iviile Barclay. Mrs. Henry F. Dimock,
Mrs. j. $. Frelnghuysen, Mrs. j. Bor-
den Hartman, Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg,
Mrs. r. II. kimball. Mrs. Francis
Lloyd Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs.
iclx Charles
Mrs, Edgar Munson, Mrs. Fleming
Newbold Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Miss
Josephine Patten, Mrs. John Pitney,
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt, Mrs. Will
Taft. Mrs. Richard Townsend, Mrs.
John F.. wilkins. Mrs. Orme Wilson
and Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood.
Mime Foch, wife of Gen. Foch, is
chairman in Paris.
card party will be given by the
ladies OF Wardman Court on the
evening of Thursday February 20. for
| the benefit of the League for the En-
tertaiument of Wounded Soldiers. of
which Mrs. Zappone is president, and
many tables have already been Sc
| cured by the wives of officers, mem
| hers of the organization and those
| interested in helping the boys.
There are several handsome prizes
to be given. one of them being table
| linen.
| On the following afternoon tne
president officers and members of the
| league will give card party for the
same beneht
Robert e. Lee Chapter, No. ga,
| United Daughters of the Confederacy
! will give its third informal dance of
| the season at the New Willard We'd
nesday. February rs. The dance pro-
gram will be under the supervision of
| the following COMMITTEES: Mrs. j. Lee
Webb. chairman; Mrs. A. n. Plant,
vice chairman: Mrs. William l. Dem
ming. Mrs. Edwin Du Bose, Mrs. Noble
| wilt. Mrs George Horning, Miss
| Marion Smith, Mrs. E. III. Lynham,
| Mrs Theodore Judd. Miss Isla Will
| ioughby and Mrs. Julian Cabell
| These dances are the most successful
and enjoyable yet given by the chap
| ter.
! A delightful program has been ar
ranged for the social evening of Camp
| III u. c. ", on Tuesday, February Is.
/ al the Confederate Memorial Home.
1922 Vermont avenue. The following
artists will appear during the even
| ing: Mrs. Ida Offutt Treves. pianist:
Mrs. Evelyn Payne, soprano; Mr. T. A.
FLYNN, monologist: Mrs. Benjamin
souligantz, soprano; Mrs. Violet Fell
lows. reader; Miss Gladys Price, con-
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