Evening star., 1947-12-27
Spotlight Held BY Debutantes
In Activities Of Younger Set
By Margaref Germond

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Washington's young socialites
light again yesterday as they race
merry whirl of debutante teas ane
never we're SO many debuts crowded
tations added five more young low,
son. buds.
One of the attractive young lac
Delano Houghteling, who was pres
James Lawrence Houghteling, at d
Trees scintillating with Christi
poinsettias made a gay background
for the pretty debutante who stood
with her mother to receive the hun
dred or so guests. And centering
each of the small tables at which
the dinner was served there was a
large lighted red candle fanked by
bouquets of silver leaves and red
berries. A profusion of corsages and
bouquets sent to the bud and music
by Sidney completed the note of
perfection.
Miss Houghteling looked charm
Ing in gown of white lace strapped
over the left shoulder and draped
around the neckline with a tulle
fichu. A cascade of American
beauty color flowers were fastened
at the waistline on the left, and she
wore a strand of pearls, pearl ear
rings and long white gloves. Her
flowers were a hand bouquet OF
gardenias and carnations.
Mrs. Houghteling was most at
tractive in a costume of turquoise
blue and gold fashioned from a
sari and made with a draped skirt
Miss Houghteling has two house
guests who came to Washington for
the debut, Miss Ann Dear of Bronx
vile, N. Y, and Miss Ruth Prof1tt
of New York, a classmate of the
debutante at Vassar College. Miss
Dear is student at Chatham Hall
of which Miss Hougteling is a grad
uate.
A dinner dance was chosen by Mr.
and Mrs. Houghteling for the debut
of their daughter so their guests
could attend the dance which Miss
Nancy Burdick gave last evening
for all of the debutantes of this
year. Miss Burdick was presented
by her parents. DR.. and Mrs. Will
liam Foster Burdick, last June.
Their home was decorated for the
dance last evening with silver trees
trimmed with silver Christmas balls
and strung with white and blue
lights, which gave the only illumi-
nation for the party. Miss Burdick
and her mother received the guests,
the former wearing ice blue satin
fashioned with an off e-shoulder
bodice and a full skirt featured by
an uneven hemline
Tea at Var COLLEGE
Down at the Army War College
another pretty bud, Miss Mary
Elizabeth Blakeney, made her bow
to society at a S to tea given by
ner parents, Col. and Mrs. Charles
Creswell Blakeney.
Christmas decorations also pre-
vailed at this party, for which the
debutante wore white chiffon velvet
made with the popular off-the-
shoulder neckline and a very full
skirt with side puffs at the hipline
She carried a Colonial bouquet of
white carnations centered with la
vender baby orchids matching an
amethyst pendant, bracelet and ring
that belonged to her grandmother,
Mrs. George N. LIE Roux.
Col. and Mrs. Blakeney stood with
their daughter and Mrs. LIE RouX
also was in the line. Mrs. Blakeney
was becomingly gowned in blue
velvet dinner dress, the back of the
bodice trimmed with rhinestones,
and Mrs. LIE Roux wore black velvet.
Alternating at the tea table were
Mrs. j. Oren Weaver, Mrs. Adeline
Abbott, Miss Anna Burchard and
Mrs. Charles Lowry, and others as
sisting were Mrs. Stanley K. Horn
beck, Mrs. Elise Richardson, Mrs.
Sidney Morgan, Mrs. P. E. Nc
Dowell, Mrs. Leslie ]. McNair and
Mrs. Albert c. Wedemeyer
Miss Blakeney's assistants in
cluded her two house guests, Miss
Lias FiSke of New York and Miss
Matilda Kimerer of Pittsburgh, and
also the Misses Patricia Emery,
Jane Hickenlooper, Betty Jones,
Ann Carter and Betsy Bassett.
Double Debut
Gross country, so to speak, from
the War College two other young
ladies were making their bows to
society at a tea dance at the Co.
lumbia Country Club. The debu-
tantes were Miss Ann Sterling Put
Xxi, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Paul
Stirling Putzki, and Miss Joan Rus
sell Cooke, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Dwight Russell Cooke.
Again Christmas greens and the
masses of flowers sent by friends
OF the attractive buds, made beau
tiful background for the dancing
and chatter of the large group of
gay young people.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooke and Dr. and
Mrs. Putzki received with their
daughters, both of whom were in
white. Miss Cookies costume having
bouffant SKIRT of tulle and a
bodice of lace trimmed with tiny
silver sequins with slightly off
the-shoulder neckline. She wore
long white kid gloves and carried
bouquet of orchids and carnations
fashioned Colonial style. Mrs Cooke
was in blue crepe made with a full
draped skirt and wore an orchid
corsage, the whole set off by a pearl
necklace and diamond earrings.
Miss Putzki's dress of tulle also
was bouffant style, the bodice being
off shoulder and trimmed with
gold and silver beads. She also
wore long white gloves and carried
white carnations and orchids. Her
mother was in gray crepe dinner
gown and wore a corsage of pale
lavender orchids.
The two debutantes had as their
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