Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-20

to 200 guests to the second floor
of the club where the party COM
fortably filled the oval room. the
dining room and the lounge.
The tea table was set UP at one
end Of the latter and small
tables were scattered in the
dining room. Spring flowers
centered each.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson topped
the list of prominent women
who poured tea. Mime. Munthe
de Morgenstierne. Mrs. Stanley
Reed. Mrs. Burnet Maybank.
Mrs. Thomas c. Kinkaid. Mrs.
James l. Houghteling, Mrs. Con-
ger Pratt and Mrs. McCeney
Werlich were others who took
turns at the tea and coffee urns.
Another member of the
hostess family present was her
nephew Mr.. Charles Carpenter,
son of the Bishop of Alabama
and Mrs. Charles Carpenter,
who is student at Johns Hop
kins Medical College
Mrs. Pratt, incidentally. re-
ported that her husband, Mai.
Gen. Pratt. is recuperating nice
ly from his illness that still has
him hospitalized at Walter Reed.
News of Mrs. Homer Fergu-
sons accident was also cleaned
at this gathering. The Michigan
Senator's popular wife slipped on
the stairs Wednesday and broke
the heel and several bones of
one foot. She returned to her
apartment yesterday from George
Washington Hospital, expects to
wear cast for six weeks, but
hopes to be out and about long
before that.
Nine. Bonnet missed the party
having emplaned for Paris a
few hours earlier. She has gone
over to join her husband who
took off suddenly last Saturday
to be with his mother who is
terribly i'll.
Some of the Senate ladies were
chatting about the tea Lady
Makins gave at the British EN-
bassy Tuesday. The wife of the
British Ambassador entertained
the wives of Senators, justices
and former officials. Mrs. Wood
row Wilson. Mrs. Harlan Fiske
Stone. Mrs. Harold Burton, Mrs.
Walter George and Mrs. Tom
Connally we're some who enjoyed
feminine high tea.
Spring German Held
Midshipmen from the United
States Naval Academy and ca
diets from the United States Mill
tary Academy were guests Of
honor at the first Spring Ger
man of the season held last
night at the Shoreham Hotel.
On three-day, weekend passes
from their respective academies.
the future officers in their full
dress uniforms added consider
able color to the gay benefit for
the D. c. Society for Crippled
Children.
They and the debutantes they
escorted were greeted upon
arrival by the Ell Salvador Am
bassador and Sonora de Castro,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William
B. Ammon. Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Paul Frailey Yount. Col. and
Mrs. Lawrence Lally and Miss
Mary-Stuart Montague Price. all
sponsors of the party.
Sidney and his orchestra
provided music for continuous
dancing from 10 o'clock to 2 in
the morning.
Among those glimpsed at the
dance were the Misses Dana
Dewey, Nancy Bealer. Anne Reed
Doherty. Beverly Bland, Betty
Ann Wallace. Doree Meeker,
Sandra Cowen, Elizabeth john
son, Margaret Yount. Mimi Mac
Arthur. Patricia Priest, and
Shelia Reybold.
Their partners included Mid
shipmen Kenmore and Spencer
McManeS, William B. Fletcher
III, Jonathan Hurt. j. r. Gentry.
Randall r. Brown. and Allen
Ingram Price. jr., and Cadets
Willard A. Holbrook III, John
Dale, John P. Doyle. Jack Far
rington, M. F. Cavanaugh and
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