Evening star., 1934-04-17
SOCIETY

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ford, Conn, are stopping at the
Carlton. They include Mrs. Phineas
H. ingalls,, regent; Mrs. w. A. Country
man. Miss Inez Temple, Miss Kath-
arine Day, Mrs. William Haine, Mrs,
B. F. Allen, Mrs. Robert Lee .RoWley
and Mrs. Albert B. Keith, all OF
Hartford
Miss Reta Flaherty and Miss Vir-
ginia Pigg were joint hostesses at a
charmingly arranged brides shower
on Friday evening in the home OF
Miss Flaherty in Virginia Highlands,
Va. The shower was given in compli-
ment to Miss Katherine Irene Cross,
whose marriage to Mr.. John Abbott
Bartlett of Fort Atkinson, Wis, and
Washington will take place April 25
at 8 o'clock pm. in St. Paul's Epis-
copal Church in Alexandra.
The color scheme of yellow and
white was attractively carried out in
the home and from the archway be-
tween the living and dining room
hung an inverted silk umbrella, from
which fell a shower of ribbons, each
ribbon containing a card with verse,
giving a clue as to the donor, also a
gift, hidden away in some part of the
spacious room. Search for the gifts
by the bride-elect, amid a veritable
spiderweb of ribbons, consumed the
greater part of the evening and
brought from their hiding places
many lovely pieces of linen, china,
silver and pyreX.
Among the guests present were the
bride-elect'S mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Sydney c. Cross and Mrs. Jennie
Estey; also Mrs. Helen Alley, Mrs.
Joe Davis, Mrs. Mildred Davis. Mrs.
Monica Flaherty, Mrs EStelle Baxter,
Miss Audrey Newman. Miss Nancy
Pierpont, Miss Beatrice Mccoy, Miss
Grace Waldron, Miss Fay Mccoy, Miss
Alice Kaye, the Misses Thelma and
Dorothy Beach, Miss Phila Bell
Burke, Miss Edna Davis, the Misses
Ruth, Catherine and Monica Fla
herty, Miss Florence Sheehan of
Aurora Hills and Virginia Highlands
and Mrs. Freeman Sharpe, jr, and
Mrs. Patrick Flaherty of Washington.
On Saturday evening in Alexandria
Miss Cross was presented with a
sterling cream and sugar set by the
officers Of Martha Washington Chap
ter, No. AZ, o. E. S., of which she is
an officer.
Miss Adrian Odenthal will be
hostess to the members of Pheta
Chantpr Pnfo Dhi ~
evening at their bi-monthly meeting
in the home of her parents on Marion
avenue in Clarendon, Va. Plans for
the dance to be given by the chapter
on May 4 at Powhatan Springs Lodge
will be discussed and the evenings
program will conclude with a social
hour and refreshments.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Jean Reuter-
entertained members of the French
Soiree of the International Art Forum
in their home at $500 Sixteenth street
Sunday afternoon at a cocktail party.
the company including DR.. Alfred F.
Zahm, DR.. John Cabell Wilkinson,
Mr. Lyle A. Brookover, Mrs. Charles
Jackson Hite, Miss Marjorie Hite,
Miss Muriel Hite, Mrs. F. Serre An
derson, Miss Clelia Fioravanti, Mile.
D'Aigle, Mr.. and Mrs. Harradon, Miss
Yvonne E. Martin, Mile. Anita Privat,
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Ritzart, Mr.. and
Mrs. Aranoldo Berenguer, Marquise
San Germano, Mrs. Francis x. Nc
Kenna, Miss Corine Cotton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph L. Kelly, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Bentley and Mr.. George Bent
ley, jr.
Mrs. Mortimer Platt, Missouri State
regent of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, entertained at break
fast today at the Carlton, having as
her guests delegates to the D. A. r.
Congress from her State. The COM
pany numbered 100.
Mrs. T. w. Larkin and Mrs. George
H Davis of LIE Roy, N. Y. accom-
panied by Mrs. H. F. Tarbox Of
Batavia, N. Y. are in the Capital for
the D. A. r. Congress and are guests
at the Dodge while here.
The General Home Board Auxiliary
of the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home will give card party April 10
at the Willard Hotel. The home is
located at Lamond Station, Takoma
Park, and each Eastern Star chapter
in the District has committee of
81 women represented on this board.
During the year these committees
give concerts, teas, card parties in
their respective chapters for the bene-
fit of the home, but in this card
party to be held on Thursday after
noon all the committees have a part.
The proceeds will go toward the In
firmary Fund of the home.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements includes Mrs. Leila j.
Cooke, president of the General Home
Board Auxiliary; Mrs. Cleone R.
Champion, Mrs. Nora Riley, Mrs.
Pearl Henderson, Mrs. Leonor Ebert
Reed, Mrs. Selma Foster, Mrs.
Eleanora Watson, Mrs. Paul B.
Cromelin, Mrs. Anna Smitskamp and
Mrs. John E. Chase.