Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-07

Last evening. in the ballroom of the
Hotel du Pont. MIR. and Mrs. Irenee
du Pont., formally presented their oldest
daughter, Miss Sophie du Pont.
Among those in the receiving party
were: Mr. and Mrs. lrenee du Pont Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Copeland, Miss Estelle
Bard of St. Louis who is Miss Sophie
du Points guest. also Miss Margaret
Ogden, another guest of the du Pont
household Miss du Pont attended the
Baldwin School and has many of the at
tractive graces and charms of youth TO
bestow upon society," whose members
will greet her formal entrance with sin
cerest pleasure.
A large number of handsome dinners
were given before the ball. The largest
and most interesting was that extended by
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Felix du Pont, whose
guests included: MIR. and Mrs. lrenee
du Pont Miss Sophie du Pont and her
school friends, Miss Margaret Ogden and
Miss Bard; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur IL.
Brockle, Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Gilpln,
Miss Margaret Dunlap, A. r. Hickman
snd William Wayne, Jr., of Philadelphia;
Walter Downs, OF Dover; Belin du Pont,
Of Ardmore, and the Wilmington friends,
MIR. and Mrs. Philip ID. Laird, Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter j. Laird, Willis Shakelford,
John Packard, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene h.
du Pont. MIR and Mrs. Allen ]. Henry,
Miss Polly du Pont, Miss Jane Marvel,
Miss Mary Ramsay, Miss Esther Ward,
Miss Frost Miss Sarah Chichester, John
Coleman, Joseph Ramsay, Daniel Rem
hardt. Watt Taylor, Halleck du Pont,
George Elliott, Jr.; Jackson Marvel,
Willing Foulke and Amory Simmons.
Other attractive affairs were the din
ners given by Mrs. H. Fletcher Brown,
Mrs. Thomas W. Miller. and Miss Louise
Lea.
The presence of the Wesleyan Gee
Club in the city, today, is an event of
great interest TO members OF the alumni of
the college The club will be entertained
at luncheon by the local alumni, previous
to giving concert of glee songs at the
"the dansant" in the ballroom of the
Hotel du Pont.
The Wesleyan Glee Club is noted for
It's really excellent singing and the concert
will begin at o clock sharp. The dancing
will be In cabaret style between songs,
and will be enjoyed by large number of
dance-lovers. One of the novel features
of the afternoon is the sale of delicious
rnarmalades and cakes, the proceeds of
the sale and of the tickets to revert to
restoring the Episcopal clergy rest house
81 Rehoboth.
Mrs. Frank L. DeArmond has been the
working spirit OF the managing committee
for the ''the dansant." She has looked
after many OF the details, including the
sale of reserved seats, which have gone
we'll
The committee in full includes: Mrs
Thomas Woodruff Miller, treasurer: Mrs
Paul f. Wilson, Mrs. Arthur Gawthrop.
Mrs. Lawrence Gibson, Mrs. Harlan G.
scott, Mrs. Leonard A. Yerkes, Miss
Cornelia Draper. Miss Katharine Thomp-
son, Miss Jane Marvel.
There is still time this afternoon to Sc
:ure tickets for the ''the dansant."
This evening at $50 o'clock, at Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, viii take
place the wedding OF Miss Claire Winder
Dashiell Ellegood, daughter of DR. and
Mrs J. Atkinson Ellegood, and Alexander
Halliday Smith, son of Mr.. and Mrs
spencer Smith, of Nyack-on-Hudson
The ceremony will be observed quietly in