New-York tribune., 1920-12-11

Auchinc'oss, Miss Geneveve Cawthra,
MISS Molly Van Rensselaer,. Cogswell,
MISS Constance Nash, Miss Martha
U1tley, Miss Virginia de Haven. Miss
Virginia A Fox, Miss Mary Wistar
Morris, Miss Elizabeth Mosle, Miss
Margaret l.. Stout, Miss Helen Trevor
and Miss Melinda Tratford &
Among the men present we're John
Fl. Hall jr., William NJ. V. Hoffman jr.,
George 6. Haven jr., F. Burial Hoff-
man jr., J. Ellis Hoffman, Alexander L.
Vial R. Farr. Gilbert Francklyn, Henry
Ford, John H. French jr., James For
rest jr., Dexter G. Hawkins, Elliot
Holt and Eugene Holden.
Mrs. Henry C. Valentine, of ,131
East Sixty-sixth Street, gave recep-
ton yesterday afternoon at her home
TO introduce her granddaughter, Miss
Urling Valentine, daughter of Mrs.
Langdon B. Valentine. The debutante
was assisted in receiving by Mrs. J.
Henry Harper jr., Miss Alice Nicoll,
Miss Camilla Livingston and Miss
Pacie Bell Houston. In the evening
Mrs. Harper took the guests to see
Little Old New York"
Mrs. Henry McKeen Ferriday, Of 81
East Fiftieth Street, introduced her
daughter, Miss Carolyn Woolsey Ferri-
day. at a reception which she gave
yesterday afternoon at her home. In
the receiving party were Miss Georgina
l. Wells, Miss Katherine Rogers, Miss
Margaret Dawson and Miss Katherine
Watjen. A dinner followed.
The New York Social Register for
1921 is just out and shows, among
other things, that 789 persons married
curing the year, compared with 755
last year, and 216 women and 275 men
have died, as compared with tine deaths
of 282 women and 385 men last year, a
marked decrease in the mortality and
@ slight increase in the marriages:
The Register recoras the full name s
and addresses, of members Of promi-
rent families. grouped together with
the clubs and societies to which they
belong. The custom of affixing star
opposite the names Of those who have
been honorably discharged from serv-
ice in the late war che been continued.
Mrs. B. M. harrington, Of TenaAy,
n. j., announces the engagement of
her daughter, Miss Barbara Earring
ton. to Charles Treadway Lansing, son
IF DR.. and Mrs. J. 2. W. Lansing, also
of Tenafy. Mr.. Lansing is a graduate
of Cornell, and during the war served
rs a lieutenant in the navy. No date
has been set for the wedding.
The Junior League of the Catholic
Center for the Blind gave dance last
evening at the Hotel St. Regis. Mrs.
Dudley Field Malone, Mrs. William
Sh4nley and Mrs. ]. L. Phillips re-
ceived in the Louis XVI room, adjoin-
ing the iallroom. Supper was served
at midnight for 800 covers in the
oak dining room. Many dinners pre-
ceded the dance. Miss Agnes O'Gor-
man gave one for twenty at the st.
Regis.
Among the patronesses were Mrs
Nicholas Brady, Mrs. William M. Bar
rett, Mrs. Edward M. Burghard, Mrs
James Butler jr, Mrs. Pierce Butler,
Mrs. Robert F. Collier, Mrs. Michael
T. Gavin, Mrs Arthur J. Johnson, and
Mrs. Marion J. O'Brien.
Another of the Frieay evening
dances unde the auspices of The
Bachelors was given last night at the
Hotel Vanderbilt. The subscribers in
clude Mr.. and Mrs. J. Henry Alexandra
jr. Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward Babcock
Nj nd Mrs. Frederick T. Ere
linghuysen, Mr.. and Mrs. NewPold
Morris. Mr.. and Mrs Ogden Hammond
Mr. and Mrs. S. Bryce Wing, Percy R
Pyne, Richard Peters and many others.