Evening star., 1938-11-25


Julie Cahill, Miss Elsie Hill, Miss
Nancy Hoskinson and Miss Mae
Ashby Proctor. Miss Jane Eustis
and Miss Peggy Townsend, who were
to assist Miss Henning, were un-
able to attend the party.
Debutante's Godmother
Assisted in Receiving.
Mrs. John o. Herrick, the debu-
tante's godmother, received with
Mrs. Henning and Barbara, Mrs.
Henry A. Wallace, Mrs. Henrik
6hipstead, Mrs William E. Borah,
Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, Nine.
Marc Peter, and others assist
ing in pouring were Mrs. Robert W..
Chambers, Mrs. Don Richberg, Mrs.
Henry j. Richardson, Mrs. Louis
Caldwell, Mrs. Carlton Holdredge
and Mrs. Fred J. Essary.
The tea table was enchanting,
covered with a dainty lace cloth, and
with silver bowl of Easter lilies in
candles and bowls of green fern
among silvered leaves. Throughout
the rooms the vases of chrysan-
themums and roses and many other
flowers enhanced the beauty of the
scene.
Seen among the guests were the
Secretary of Agriculture, Mr.. Henry
A. Wallace, and the retiring At
torney General and Mrs. Homer
S. Cummings, Mr. Robert Lincoln
OBrien, Mrs Hiram Bingham, Mr..
William MacCracken, Mrs. Emil
Hurja, Mrs. Richard Oulahan, Mr..
James Parks, Miss Sylvia Alexander,
Mrs. Lambert Jones, Miss Bambie
McKenna, Mr.. Clement Conger, 1t.
Edwin S. Hartshorn, jr., and many
others of Washington's official and
residential society.
Miss Morris Presented
In Colonial Setting.
The historic old house which Mr..
and Mrs. Morris brought from New
England gave picturesque back
ground for the debut of their daugh-
ter, especially with the out of doors
In a typical New England snow
storm.
Mrs. Morris, quite as petite as her
daughter, stood with the debutante
In the drawing room, the flicker of
the candlelight rejecting in the age
old paneling of the walls. Their
guests, many of them seeing the
interior of the interesting and his
toric old house for the first time,
numbered several hundred and were
representative of the many circles
Of Washington society.
Cabinet Couple Among
Guests at Reception.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
Homer S. Cummings, for whom
blizzards and icy streets should have
no terrors after living so many years
at Ruthven, with its narrow, winding
road on the crest of a hill attended
Miss Morris party. The Siamese
Minister, Phya Abhibal Rajamaitri,
was among those from the diplo-
matte corps to brave the storm to
welcome Miss Morris into formal
society. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hickey,
with the latter's brother-in-la and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Remey
of New York, who came down for
Thanksgiving and will stay over for
the debut tomorrow of Mrs. Hickey's
daughter, Miss Mary Manning, also
were at the Morris party.
Others who called during the
afternoon to greet Miss Morris were
the Solicitor General and Mrs.
Robert jackson, Justice and Mrs.
Justin Miller and their son, Mr..
Merrill Miller; Mrs. Charles Stanley
White with her debutante daughter,
Miss Mary Alice White; Admiral
and Mrs. Thomas c. Hart with their
daughter Miss Caroline Hart; the
Bishop of Washington, the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman; Mrs. Breck-
enridge Bayne, Mrs. Hiram Bing-
ham, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Grant
Meem, and their daughter, Miss
Eleanor Meem; Mrs. Emmett C..
Gudger, Mrs. Effingham Townsend.
Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman with her
sister, Countess de Castellane, and
Miss Alica Noel Tuckernnan Mrs