New-York tribune., 1921-01-02
Dances. Receptions
And Dinners Mark
New Years Day
One of Largest Affairs Is
Ball Given BY MIR. and
Mrs. Sherman Flint for
Their Daughter Margaret

New Years Day was marked by q
number Of entertainments some Of
them small informal affairs and others
! taking the form Of large dances. One
Of the largest affairs was the dance
which Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Flint gave
last night in the ballroom Of the Ritz
Carlton for their daughter Miss Mar
garct Olivia Flint. 1t was preceded by
a number Of dinners and was attended
by many OF the debutantes and the
girls who have come out in the last
few years and their men friends. On
their arrival at the hotel they we're
received by Mrs. Flint and her daugh-
ter at the entrance to the ballroom.
The dancing was interrupted at mid
night, when supper was served. The
ballroom was decorated with Christ
mas greens. ferns and palms.
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Towne, who
are at their country place, Wingfield,
Mount Kisco, for the holidays, gave a
dance there last night for their daugh-
ter, Miss Eleanor Towne.
A dance fol-. young persons, boys and
girls, home from school and college
was given last night by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Chapman Potter of 6 East
Seventy Street, for their
daughter, Miss Jean Potter.
Mt. and Mrs. Rector z. Fox fave q
dance yesterday afternoon at their
country place at Mount Kisco for their
daughter, Miss Virginia Fox.
Mrs. Isaac McConihe rave a rscsp-
tion With dancing yesterday afternoon
to introduce her granddaughter. MISS
Elizabeth Warren Murphy, daushte,
Of Mr.. and MIRA. Richard +. Murphy
In the city. The dehutante VISA assist
ed in receiving by Miss Can,ills Liy.
ingston, Miss Susan Coppell. Mis-,
Ruth Anderton, Miss Margaret Starr
| Miss Rita Chamberlain and Miss
| Stephanie Rasmus.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Augustus
Youngs, of ASS North Broadway, Yonk
ers, gave a reception followed by
dinner and dance yesterday. to intro
duce their daughter, Miss Winifree
Youngs.
fashioned New Yesrs reception out oi
the archives of the past yesterday anc
revived the social usages Of two
decades ago. The punch might not hav,
been reminiscent of the '70s or '9Os, but
it was there, as were the tea and the
socability Of former years. The occa
sion was the old-fashioned New Year.
reception to their friends held by tht
officers and directors of the American
Committee for Devastated France a,
the Anderson Galleries. Park Avenue
and Fifty-nintb Street.
A picture Of "a Little Longer Ago.
was presented BY the 1850 gowns vorr
by the young women who served the tea
and punch. They were Mrs G. A. Pea
4 body, Misc Janet Brewer, Miss Lillia,
Eleanor Peabody, Miss Katherine Var
Rensselaer, and Miss Doris Trevor.
Among those who received were Misl
Mary Lincoln Aldrich, Miss Anne Nor
gan, Miss May Taylor Moulton, Mis-
Elizabeth Perkins, Miss Elizabeth Scar
borough and Miss Maudc .Wetmore.
The guests had tirst private vtsv
1 Of the paintings of Edmund Louyof. O
Lorraine, who was killed in battle Hi
two daughters are guests Of officers O.
the American Committee for Devastate,
France.
Several hundred soldiers. sailors an,
disabled ex-service men attended tn,
New Years dance given by the Over
seas League at the Red Cross Holida
House. 3 East Fifty third Street, las
night.
The patroncsses included Miss Allie
Hill Chttenden, Mrs. John French
Misc Mary Boxart Mrs. L. W. Phistel
Mrs. Louise Clark. Miss Florence S
Moore, Mrs. George B. Ford, Mis-
Anne Sherman Hoyt, Mrs. Ella Haggi
and Miss Enid Wilmerding.
The Holiday House, which 10 bein
conducted by the New York Count
Chapter Of the Red Cross, will re
main open for another week for tn
entertainment Of disabled service me
who wsrs unable 70 80 hems fer tA
holiday lsave- a. absence.