Evening star., 1938-12-03
Capital Debs
Will Attend
COtilliOn
Many to Be Honor
Guests at Dinner
In Baltimore

Several of Washington debutantes
have received invitations to be pre-
sented in Baltimore at the Batch
elor's Cotillion Monday night, and
are planning to go there for dinners
which will be held before the dance.
Miss Jacqueline Meredith, charm
ing daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Payne Meredith, will be the
guest of Dr. and Mrs. William Neill
and will be honored by DR.. and Mrs.
Neill at dinner before the dance.
Miss Meredith has many Maryland
connections, being related to the
Bowie families and the Snowdens,
and is a descendant of Lord Fairfax.
She is the granddaughter of the
former Sylvia Drayton Contee of
Maryland.
The debutante will wear a starched
white chiffon gown embroidered with
rhinestones, with very full skirt
and tight bodice, and she will carry
a bouquet of American beauty roses.
Miss Patricia Morris is another
debutante who will bow in Baltimore.
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Maurice Morris, and made
her debut here on Thanksgiving Day.
Miss Morris will attend the dinner
which Mr.. and Mrs. James Dixon
Bartlett will give for their debutante
niece, Miss Marjory Bartlett She
will be escorted to the dance by Mai.
Bruce Gotten, Mr. Charles Carroll
and Mr.. Morris Barroll, and will
wear an eggshell faille silk gown
with tight shirred bodice and very
full skirt, shirred into points at the
waist, and with puffed sleeves. She
Will carry an old-fashioned bouquet
in lace holder.
Miss Adelaide Chatfield- Taylor
To Attend Ball.
Miss Adelaide Chatfield- -Taylor.
debutante daughter of the Fiscal AS
sistant Secretary of the Treasury
and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor,
Will attend the ball with her cousins,
Mr.. and Mrs. John o. Needles, She
will go to the dinner which Mrs.
alexander will give before the ball,
The debutante's gown will be of
white tulle, with full skirt and tight
bodice, and will carry bouquet of
gardenias.
Miss Elise Hill, daughter of Mrs.
hiram Bingham and former Repre-
sentative John Philip, will go to
Baltimore for the dance, and her
father will give a dinner party for
ner earlier in the evening. The
debutante will wear a gown of heavy
white satin cut on princess lines.
Miss Lalla Harrison, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Powell Harrison
OF Leesburg, Va, and Washington.
Will be another debutante present
and will appear in a white tulle
gown of youthful design and will
carry bouquet of gardenias. Miss
Harrison will attend a pre-cotillion
dinner. which Mr.. and Mrs. Howard
Hamilton and Miss Elizabeth Ham
ilton will give.
Among the debutantes connected
with the Washington contingent
VINO are going is Miss Margaret
Lewis Byrd, daughter of Mr.. Thom-
as Boiling Byrd of Winchester, Va.
Miss Byrd has spent much time
here as the guest of Mrs. Henry
De La War; Flood and her daughter,
Miss Eleanor Flood, at the Shore
ham. She will be presented to Bal
timore at the cotillion after at
tending the dinner which Mrs. Alex
ander Gordon will give in her honor.
Miss Mary Fostor Pitney, who
is expected to be presented here this
season by her grandmother, Mrs.
Mahlon Pitney, will attend the ball
with DR.. Thomas R. Brown, Mr.. w,
Page Dame, jr., and DR.. I. Ridgeway
Irimble. She is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Shelton Pitney of Norris
town, N. Y, and is making her debut
in New York.