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Description: Society News [5 of 5] Page 7
Date: March 27 1915Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
Washington Times March 27, 1915 Society News [5 of 5] Page 7
News and Gossip of the Day In Washington's Smart Set
Items of Interest and Importance of Past, Present, and Future Among Official and Fashionable Folk.
Many Entertainments Are Planned By Leaders of Society in Washington. Gossip of Hostesses and Visitors. (con't)
Personals.
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Major James W. Van DUSEN, of the Medical Corps, U. S. A., and Mrs. Van DUSEN have taken an apartment at the Hotel Powhatan.
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Among the Washington boys who have returned to Tome School, at Port Deposit, Md., after having spent the spring holidays at their homes are Reginald HALL, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Percy Foster HALL, 1336 I street; F. Lee HARDESTY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. HARDESTY, the Kenesaw, and Samuel MILLER, jr.
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Mrs. Henry T. OXNARD and children, of Upperville, Va., are at the Powhatan.
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Miss Alma Louise HODGES will go to New York next week to remain over Easter.
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Senator James E. MARTINE and Mrs. MARTINE will pass the Easter holidays in New Jersey.
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Mrs. W. D. STEWART, of St. Paul, Mich., is in Washington to see her daughters, who are students at the National Park Seminary at Forest Glen, Md. She is at the Powhatan.
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Charles M. DRAKE, who is attending Philips Academy, in Andover, Mass., is visiting his mother, Mrs. Charles M. DRAKE, for the Easter holidays.
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Miss Frances CARPENTER is in Brooklyn for a week's visit. Miss Florence FERGUSON, who visited Miss CARPENTER last week has returned to her home in Boston.
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Countess Spottiswood MACKIN, of New York and Paris, is the guest of Mrs. Lee FEARN, at the Avondale.
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Robert MAVERICK, of San Antonio, Tex., who has been in Palm Beach for some time, is in Washington.
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Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Harry HODGES will give up the residence in Massachusetts avenue, which they have occupied almost continuously for the last twelve years, and go to General HODGES' new post, Fort Totten, N. Y. Mrs. HODGES will close the house next week and with her daughter, Miss Alma Louise, will spend a week or teen days at the Grafton, before joining the general at Fort Totten.
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Congressman and Mrs. Thomas B. DUNN, of New York, and Miss Frances DUNN, who have closed their Sixteenth street home, are spending some weeks at the Willard before returning to New York.
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Mrs. Albert MILLS, Mrs. Franklin SCHNEIDER, MRS. George COOPER, MRS. Frank SWIFT, and Mr. ANDREWS are a few of the patronesses of the card party and tea dance to be given at the Cairo for the benefit of the George Washington University Hospital on April 8. Cards will be from 2 to 5 o'clock, and dancing from 5 to 7 o'clock. There will be competition dancing.
Some of the young ladies who will assist are Miss Nell Rose BAGGETT, the Misses PUGH, Miss Hazel COX, Miss Lois REESIDE, Miss Clara LaFOLLETTE, Miss Dorothy CRANFORD, Mrs. Thomas FORNEY, Mrs. Albert RUST, Miss Elizabeth CRENSHAW, Miss Dorothy DENNETT, the Misses WILLIAMSON, Miss Phyllis STEWART, Miss Sarah HICKLING, Miss Helen COOPER, the Misses GRAFF, Mrs. William RICHARDSON, the Misses GOULD, and Miss Marie ADAMS.
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Miss Dorothy DRAKE is entertaining a few of the season's debutantes at an informal tea this afternoon complimentary to Miss Louise FINET, who is visiting Commander J. O. RICHARDSON, U. S. N., and Mrs. RICHARDSON.
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The tea dance to be given this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. William LITTAUER by the Band of Mercy, of which Miss Helen McLANAHAN is president, for the Animal Rescue League, from 4 to 7 o'clock, will be one of the interesting events of the week. A sale of fancy articles, flowers and candy will be held in conjunction with the tea. BOERNSTEIN's Orchestra will play for the dancing.
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Mrs. John W. FOSTER has loaned her residence, 1323 Eighteenth street, for a lecture on “The Waldenses, Their Mission, and the War,” to be given by the Rev. V. Alberto COSTABEL, of Milan, Italy, at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Dr. COSTABEL is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac PEARSON, 1785 Lanier place.
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Miss Josephine MITCHELL, of Baltimore county, who has been the guest of her cousin, Miss Catherine BIRNEY, will leave shortly for her home. She will return to Washington to be bridesmaid for Miss BIRNEY when she is married on April 15 to Lieut. James Hale STRONG, U. S. N.
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Mrs. S. S. CARGILL and Mrs. R. G. CARGILL, of Minneapolis, are in Washington to see Miss Helen CARGILL, who is attending school here. They are at the Hotel Powhatan. Others at the Powhatan are Mrs. [sp.] and Mrs. Harold M. NARWOOD, of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and Mrs. NARWOOD's mother, Mrs. R. T. NARWOOD, who have spent the winter in Florida.
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Col. and Mrs. S. A. WOLF have returned from St. Augustine and other Florida resorts, and are staying at the Cairo.
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Miss Helen DAY, who is the guest of Senator and Mrs. James E. MARTINE, will return to her home in Orange, N. J., next Wednesday.
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Mrs. Fanny L. Ten EYCK is visiting in Chevy Chase en route from Florida to Atlantic City.