The Washington times., 1930-11-25
Capital Buds
Are Guests
Of Honor
Brilliant Parties lnaugurate
Official Debut of Girls in
Washington Society; Dis
tinuuiShed Persons Attend
By Anne Patten

and a halt dozen more sched-
uled for the week the holiday
calendar is far from lacking in
variety
Today's three buds are Miss
Adele TowrlSen Jahncke,
daughter of the Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy and Mrs.
Ernest Lee Jahncke; Miss Sally
Fairfax Harrison, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax Harrison,
and Miss Mary Eleanor Orme,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James William Orme.
Distinguished Family
Miss Jahncke is making her
bow to society at a reception at
the Mayflower Hote' this after
noon. The debutante is the
great-granddaughter of Edwin
M. Stanton, Secretary of War
in President Lincoln's cabinet,
and her great-grandmother on
her fathers side was Mary
Ashley Townsend, who wrote
under the pen name of "Xarif-
fa." Her three daughters were
toasts wherever they appeared,
particularly Cora, a famous
beauty of New Orleans, who be-
came the wife of Senor Rascon,
the Mexican Minister to Japan.
Miss Jahncke is the fourth
generation Of her family to be
presented in her home city of
New Orleans, having made her
debut at their home on Palmer
Avenue on November 2.
She graduated from New
comb College of New Orleans in
the spring with an A. B. de-
gree, and was selected queen
Of the Harlequin ball at the
last Mardi GraS. She has just
been chosen by the Washington
Bachelors Cotillion to be the
partner of the leader of the
cotillion figures at the first ball
Of the series to be given on
December 8 at the Mayflower.
The Reception
Mr.. and Mrs. Jahncke and
the debutante will receive their
guests in the Chinese room of
the Mayflower, a beautiful gar
den setting of Australian ferns
and forming the background.
Pink roses and tall pink can
dies with southern Smilax will
be used on the tea table placed
at one end of the grand ball
room where dancing will con-
tinue during the hours of the
reception. A section of the Navy
Band, under the direction of
Lieut.. Charles Benter, will fur
nish the music.
The debutante will wear a
frock Of white taffeta made
with a fitted bodice and long
full skirt and will carry a quaint
bouquet of pink rose buds and
forget-me-nots. Her mothers
gown of peach crepe georgette
is made on long lines with pic
turesque flowing sleeves.
Mrs. Jahncke will be as
sisted in receiving by Mrs. Pat
rick Hurley, wife Of the Secre-
tary of War; Mrs. Charles Fran
els Adams, wife of the Secre-
tary of the Navy; Mrs. Walter
E. Hope, wife of the Assistant
Secretary Of the Treasury: Mrs.
David s. Icgalls, wife of the AS
SiStant Secretary of the Navy
for Aeronautics: Mrs. George
Akerson, wife of the secretary
to the President; Mrs. Joel T.
Boone, Mrs. Russell Train, Mrs.
James M. johnson, Miss Sophy
Stanton, and Mrs. Weston P.
Chamberlain, the latter three
relatives of the hosts; also Miss
Ruth Jahncke, of New Orleans,
niece of the hosts.
Debutante Tea
Miss Harrison will be present
ed to society by her parents at
a tea at their home on Wyom-
ing Avenue. Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
riSon, who spend the greater
part of the year at their coun-
try place at The Plains, Va,
have leased the house for the
winter.
Miss Orme will, also, be a
home bud" and will make her
bow at a tea at her parents
residence on Georgia Avenue.
Miss Orme will wear for her
coming out party a frock of egg
shell lace with slippers of sap.
phire blue and an old-fashioned
bouquet of Sweetheart roses and
forget-me-nots. Her mother,
Mrs. Orme, will wear black chif-
fon with a flesh-colored yoke.
They Will Assist
Assisting Miss Orme will be
Miss Margene MuSser, Miss
Devereux Green, Miss Eliza
beth Edison. Miss Maud Blaine
Clark, Miss Eleanor Calvert,
Miss Margaret Calvert, Miss
Mary Stuart Birdsall, Miss Vir-
ginia Glazebrook. Miss Dorothy
Dodge, Miss Suzanne Wallace,
Miss June Cushing, Miss Mar.
guerite Orme and Miss Kathleen
Walsh Orme.
Serving at the tea tables with
Mrs. Orme will be Mrs. PeyCun
Gordon, Mrs. Edward BrouS-
seau, Mrs. Peter Drury, Mrs.
Charles j. Williamson, Mrs. T.
James Roberts, Mrs. James
Hayden, Mrs. Humphrey CisSel,
Mrs. Leon Ulman, Mrs. Peter
Becker, Mrs. Theodore Tiller,
. Mrs. Robert Bruce Emerson,
Mrs. Charles Orme and Mrs.