The Washington herald., 1919-03-05
Crown Joyful Fete.

fashioned yokes worn on their
shoulders.
Miss Warmsley had a live dane
ing monkey and hurdy- gurdy, while
Miss Mae Laudenberg told fortunes.
Miss Courtney Let's, chairman for
debutantes, all dressed as milk
maids, sold favors out of a big hay
stack. Between trips to their hay
stack refuge the milkmaids patted
about in their wooden shoes and
distributed favors to the guests.
Miss Virginia Hunts flower girls
pushed around a wheel-barrow filled
with boutonnieres from an old-fash-
ioned garden. A rustic summer
house was the rendezvous for Miss
Hunts group of flower venders.
Each OF her assistants, Miss Alys
Downing, Miss Elsie Downing, Miss
Carolyn Nash, Miss Adelaide Heath,
and Mrs. Howard Hume, represented
different flower. Miss Hunt wore
a Dutch costume, and boxes of tulips
adorned her summer house.
At the country store candies and
cakes tempted the reyelers. while
Mrs. Theodore Wilkinson was chair
man of the cigarette vendors.
Whole families of quaint little
owls found their home in the
branches of>the apple trees. and the
touch of really rural life was car
ried out in dozens of similar sug-
gestions.
Capt. Arthur Snagge, naval attache
of the British Embassy. was auction
Ger when the dances of a group OF
the prettiest girls in town were dis
posed of to the highest bidder. Among
those whose favors were thus actioned
to the enrichment of the fund were
Miss Margaret Tuttle, Miss Anita
Henry. Miss Ruth Sturtevan, Miss
Marjorie Wright, Miss Margaret Dee
Bile. Miss Tracy Lyons, Miss Enid
Sims, Miss Marie Sims. Miss Eleanor
Hoover. Miss Mildred Brownwell. Miss
Olive Graef, Miss Margaret Marding,
Miss Antoinette Graves, Miss Anna
Hamlin, Miss Leila Gordon, Miss
Minna Blair, Miss Cecilia McCallum,
Mrs. George Almy Percy, Miss Brooke
Russell. Miss virginia Eckles, Miss
Eleanor johnson, and Miss Courtney
Let's.
The secretary of the British EN-
bassy. A Grieg, offered a singing and
dance number with Miss Margaret
Harding. They sang I'D Love To-"
Miss Virginia Eckles also gave a
dance, while Miss Enid Sims presented
a Spanish dance number, all features
of the British American War Relief
benefit recently given One OF the lit
tie sideshows was a performing cat, a
little animal which was put through
all of its PAGES for the spectators, and
a shooting gallery also added in
/ terest. Most of the guests did not fail
TO have their pictures taken in fancy
dress costumes. These photographs
were finished while you waited. Miss
Madeline Austin and Miss Cecile
Cook dressed as posters and acted as
barkers for the photographers. Guests
could buy tickets from them which
entitled them to one photograph. Miss
Austin wore a quaint Roman costume
that she brought from Rome, while
Miss Cook wore a Spanish costume
and spoke the native tongue.
The boxes in the ballroom on the
first floor represented pastures.
with a spreading apple tree in full
bloom, the grass plot inclosed by a
white picket fence Each box
holder located his box by the rural
mail box, painted French blue, bear
ing his name and entwined in morn
ing glories. Each pasture sold sup
piled three French babies for one
year and every single ticket will
feed a baby for one month.
Among the boxholders were: Mrs.
Richard T. Townsend, Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood. two boxes: Emile
Berliner, Mrs. w. T. Dillingham;,
Mrs. Arthur C. Glasgow, Mrs
George Mesta. Miss Alice Clapp.
Nine. George Bakhmeteff. Mrs. Mar
shall Field, Miss Amaryllis Gillette.
Mrs. Joseph Letter, Mrs. William S.
Whiting. Xavier NJ. Audibert, Mrs.
Albert B. Ruddock. Miss Mary B.
Adams, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Mrs.
Walter H. SchoeIkopf. Mrs. Frank
Allen West. Mrs. Charles Mum, Mrs.
Breckenridge Long. Maj. Eric Fow-
Ter. Mrs. William Mcclellan Ritter.
Mrs. William Belden Noble, Mrs.
Hugh Campbell Wallace. Mrs. Ray
mond Baker. His Excellency and
Mime. ]. T. Cremer and Mrs. Dennis
Upson.
The boxes were in charge of Mr..
Wells. Mr.. Zimmerman. attache of
the Netherlands Legation; Basil
Miles. Charles W. Richardson and
Capt. Partridge.
Practically every box holder en-
tertained at dinner before the ball.
The Spanish Ambassador and Mmc.
Riano entertained at dinner and
had among their guests the Minis
ter of the Netherlands and Mime.
Cremer. who entertained the party
in their box at the ball. In the
party were the Mexican Ambassador
and Nine. Bonillas, the Minister of
Colombia and Mime. Urueta, Mr..
Henskirk and Miss Symonds. Mr..
and Mrs. Hugh Wallace were in
New York so their box was occu-
pied by their niece. Miss SaIIie
Beecher. while their daughter-in-
law. Mrs. Melville Wallace chap
eroned the party. The other guests
were Miss Edith wailach, Capt. and
Mrs. Gibson, Mr.. Allen and Mr.. Ide.
With Mrs. Charles Bougton Wood
IN her box were Nine. NordvalI,
Mrs. George Fhle, Mrs. Victor Cuch-
man, Miss Antoinette Graves, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Halves and Miss
Morgan. The Third Assistant Sec
retary of State and Mrs. Brecken-
ridge Long had guests for dinner
before the ball. Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Ruddock were in the party
and entertained some of the dinner
guests in their box, while the
others occupied Mr.. and Mrs. Longs
box. Miss May Adams had a din
ner party and then took them all
to the ball to view the wondrous
spectacle from her box. With her
were Mrs. Robert Henderson, Mrs.
Julian Mason, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Remey. Mrs. Buchanan Merryman.
the naval attache of the japanese
Embassy, Commander Uyeda, Lieut.
Ceorroy, OF the French High Com
mission. Edwin Flather and Mil
tonbergcr SmuU