Chapter XIV: Society

Interest in social and personal news is so great that practically every newspaper maintains a society department under the direction of a society editor. The form and style suitable to such news are partly determined by social usage. The typographical style of the society columns often differs somewhat from that of other parts of the paper. Society news taxes the writer’s ability to give variety to stories of the same kind of events as they take place day by day. In no other kind of news is he more frequently tempted to use stock phrases over and over again. It is possible, however, to give considerable variety to society stories as well as to avoid trite, colorless, description.

Unusual courtships, engagements, and weddings may be treated as regular news; in that case the stories of them are not often placed in the society section. Such news not infrequently has humorous and pathetic possibilities that the writer may develop without violating the canons of good taste.

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UNUSUAL COURTSHIP

_New York Herald_

Having failed in eight years of effort to find a
guardian, governess or housekeeper who would take
a proper interest in his two small motherless
children, Lorenzo Villette, a prosperous French
merchant, living at No. 90 North Harwood place,
Brookbank, decided he would try to find a wife.
A preliminary search failed to find a suitable
candidate and he turned to the church, being a
devout member of St. Anthony’s, in Brookbank.

Two weeks ago he completed a novena, and on the
ninth day of his continuous prayer he expressed the
wish that a wife who would be a good mother would
be granted to him.

Nothing happened until the second day after he had
finished his nine days of prayer. On that day Miss
Mary O’Connor, of No. 72 Laclede avenue, Brookbank,
made a social call upon her friend, Miss Frances
Smith, a cousin of Mr. Villette, in her home, in
Forest avenue, at Railroad avenue.

While the two young women talked Miss Smith said to
her friend:--

“You seem so downcast recently, Mary. You should
find a husband.”

“Yes, I suppose,” was the answer, “but the right
man has not knocked at the door yet.”

Just then Mr. Villette rang the bell at his
cousin’s home. He was introduced to Miss O’Connor
and an hour later accompanied her to her home.
Three days later he escorted her to a theatre and
the following day met her relatives.

Then she met Mr. Villette’s children and called at
his home, and last Saturday they obtained a license
to be married. St. Michael’s Church, which the
O’Connor family attends, is preparing for one of
the largest weddings of the season on next Tuesday.

“I am very happy,” said Miss O’Connor last night,
“and I am so thankful that Mr. Villette said a
novena and that I was sent to him.”

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UNUSUAL ROMANCE

_Chicago Inter Ocean_

Firemen one night last summer stood on the street
before a blazing apartment building at West
Fourteenth and South Sangamon streets. They played
their streams of water on the fire, although they
realized that the building could not be saved.
Suddenly from above came the scream of a girl. She
was seen clinging to a window ledge on the third
floor before a background of flame.

That was the beginning of the story.

Its close came yesterday afternoon within the dim
and quiet church of St. Francis of Assisi, when the
girl, Miss Mary Wilkins, became the wife of the man
who had dared and accomplished her rescue, Arthur
Sheer, truckman of hook and ladder company No. 5.

Of all the firemen who stood before the burning
building that night, Sheer alone volunteered to
attempt the rescue. A ladder was rushed to the
red and cracking wall. Blinded by the flames and
smoke and with his heavy clothing fired from the
heat, Sheer groped his way up the ladder. His mates
played streams of water along the course of his
climb. He reached Miss Wilkins and carried her to
the street and to safety.

“And that’s how it was,” the bride said as she
left the church clinging to the arm of her big and
blushing husband. “He and I learned to know each
other after the fire, and--and--well, that’s how it
was.”

The blush on Truckman Sheer’s face deepened when
the interview was directed upon himself.

“Ah--er--any fireman, you know,” he stammered,
“would--would--but say, you’d ought to see the
place we’ve got fixed up. We’re--ah--we’re moving
in today.”

The home of the couple will be at 919 West
Twenty-third place.

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COWBOY WEDDING

_Chicago Herald_

“Snorky Dan” Sammons tied his pony to the rack at
the stockyards yesterday, doffed his chaps, wiggled
into “the conventional black” and, with the able
assistance of 300 wildly enthusiastic “boys from
the yards,” was roped, tied and branded at the
altar.

It was the biggest “cowboy wedding” the yards ever
saw. When “Snorky” knocked off buying hogs for the
Bismark Packing Company early in the day and got
ready to hit the trail for the Holy Cross Church,
East Sixty-fifth street and Maryland avenue, he had
no hint of the scheme on foot.

Late in the afternoon the South Side, however,
became aware that there was something doing besides
the Cubs-Sox battle. First a two-wheeled phaeton,
dragged along by a gaunt, underfed mule and driven
by a cowboy, made its appearance. A big banner was
stretched across its sides giving the bridegroom
this welcome admonition:

“Don’t weaken, Snorky.”

On its heels came a “hungry five” German band
playing Irish melodies, riding in a “cripple wagon”
driven by a red-coated negro. A tractor engine,
pulling a chain of twelve “clean-up” chariots,
came next, and in its wake a couple of hundred
yelling, plug-hatted cowboys led by “Rags” Murphy
and Tom Dorney. As marshals of the “round-up” there
were “Tex” Hobart, “Jim” McGuirk, “Spuds” Grady
and “Skinny” Kenny. Even young Edward Morris, who
recently went to work in the packing business, was
on the job.

The cavalcade drew up in front of the church and
awaited “Snorky.” It was about 5 o’clock when he
arrived in a big touring car with bride-to-be, Miss
Mary Cowman, 6876 South Chicago avenue, daughter
of the late John Cowman, wealthy coal dealer. As
the party entered the church every noise-making
device, from the cowboy yell to automobile horns,
was brought into play.

While the Rev. D. D. Hishen was “tying the knot”
inside, the automobile was lassoed. The bridal
party, upon re-entering the vehicle, attempted to
make their getaway, but in vain. Surrounded by the
prancing ponies, they were paraded to the yards at
Root and Halsted streets, and after “Snorky” had
made a little speech he was permitted to go.

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ELOPEMENT

_Chicago Herald_

Just because she was a girl, Charlotte Smith,
daughter of a Parkhurst contractor, saw no reason
why she should not learn from her father all about
building houses on well-located lots.

Charles Ferris Short, son of a real estate dealer
in the north shore suburb, had been getting
information about the value of a piece of ground
upon which a house could be built.

What, then, more natural than for Charles, filled
with knowledge about home locations, and Charlotte,
wise in the manner of erecting a home and having,
meanwhile, notions that other persons in the world
didn’t count for much anyway, to conclude to join
their knowledge for their own profit?

Nothing, they agreed. But Charles was only 21 years
old, and Charlotte 19.

“Too young,” parents of both agreed.

Having visions of a piece of property selected by
him and improved by a house designed by her as a
place where they, together, would not be annoyed
by unsympathetic parents, and reading in the
HERALD that twelve couples had eloped to
Crown Point Monday to be married, they boarded a
train for Indiana yesterday. Last night they were
Mr. and Mrs. Short.

Charlotte’s parents didn’t know a thing about it
until told by the HERALD; neither did
Charles’s people.

“Oh, well, I guess there’s nothing to do but say
it’s just fine,” Charlotte’s mother said. “But she
hasn’t a bit of table linen. We’ll have to get busy
right away.”

So it was all right after all.

Others on the train taken by the Parkhurst couple
were Peter Felker and Miss Sara Sorley. They
had planned to be married for some time. It was
inconvenient to take a honeymoon trip. So they,
too, eloped to Crown Point.

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SEPTUAGENARIAN ROMANCE

_Chicago Herald_

More than seventy years ago a barefoot boy and a
rosy cheeked girl trudged together each day along
the roads of Albion County, Michigan, to a little
red school-house, where, at adjoining desks, they
studied “readin’, ’ritin’ and ’rithmetic.”

Yesterday the same “boy” and the same “girl” left
Fair Oaks together for the county building in
Chicago. There they obtained a marriage license. A
few minutes later they were married. Thus has Fair
Oaks furnished its first septuagenarian romance.

The bridegroom is Rudolph Gray, 77 years old, the
possessor of two grandchildren. The bride, until
yesterday, Mrs. Mary J. Vanson, is a year his
junior. She has three grandchildren.

After the ceremony the couple returned to the
residence of the bridegroom’s daughter, Mrs. Clara
A. Hawkins of 1231 Jenifer avenue, Fair Oaks. There
the bridegroom told the story of the romance.

“We’ve known each other as far back as either of us
can remember,” he said. “We were reared together
in Albion County, went to the same district school
together, and later, when we were a little older,
went to the same dances and parties together.

“Then our families moved away from Albion County,
and we lost track of each other for a while. I got
married and served through the civil war. Sarah
was married to an Illinois man.

“Her husband was killed in 1892 in a railroad
accident, and my first wife died about three years
ago. A few months ago we learned of each other’s
whereabouts, started to write back and forth, and
today were married.”

The ceremony was performed, according to Mr. Gray,
by S. M. Schall, in the latter’s office at 118
North LaSalle street. Later the couple had their
wedding supper at the Hawkins residence in Fair
Oaks. In a few days they will leave for Manheim,
Ill., where they will make their home.

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WEDDING

_New York Times_

The wedding of Miss Emma Martin Willis, daughter
of James S. Willis, President of the United States
Bank of Commerce of this city, and Mrs. Willis,
and Lesley Green Shafter of Greenville, Penn., was
celebrated at 8 o’clock last night in St. John’s
Episcopal Church, Montclair, N. J. The Rev. Dr.
William R. Bolton, rector of the church, officiated.

The bride wore a gown of ivory satin and a veil of
lace, which was caught up with a chaplet of orange
blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of white
orchids and lilies of the valley. Her father gave
her in marriage.

The maid of honor was Miss Martha Houghton of
Calumet, Mich., a former schoolmate of the bride.
She wore a pink satin gown, draped with tulle and
net, and carried pink Killarney roses.

There were six bridesmaids, including the Misses
Emma Dickens, Elsie Walter, Anna Wilson, Helen
Holton, Mary Smith, and Katherine Wilkins. They
were gowned alike, in blue and white chiffon, and
carried Aaron Ward roses with streamers of blue
ribbon.

Clinton M. Shafter was best man for his brother.
The ushers were George H. Kennedy, John C. Lane,
Arthur Carpenter, and Dr. James Stratton Collins,
Jr., of Greenville; Morris B. Lamb of this city,
and James S. Willis, Jr., of Montclair.

The church was decorated with autumnal flowers and
foliage. Along the centre aisle were large clusters
of white chrysanthemums. Ascension lilies were used
on the altar.

More than 200 guests from New York and near-by
towns attended the reception, which was held after
the ceremony at the home of the bride, 144 Nedwick
Avenue, Upper Montclair. The couple received the
congratulations of their relatives and friends
under an arbor of pink and white roses in the
reception room. The house was decorated throughout
with autumnal foliage and flowers.

The bride was a pupil at Miss Spence’s School in
this city in 1909-1910. Mr. Shafter was graduated
from Williams College, class of ’10, and is a
member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. His
father, who died several years ago, was the owner
of large coal fields and mines, which Mr. Shafter
has managed since leaving school. Mr. and Mrs.
Shafter will live in Greenville.

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WEDDING

_Boston Transcript_

Scarboro, Oct. 23--St. John’s School Chapel was
the scene of the marriage, at noon today, of Miss
Violet Otis Gray to John Stanley Hart. Miss Gray is
the older daughter of Rev. William Green Gray, D.
D., head of St. John’s School, and Mrs. Gray, who
was before her marriage Miss Martin. The bride is
the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
C. Martin of Boston, who long were summer cottagers
at Nahant. Herbert F. Martin and Harrison Gray
Martin are her uncles, and Mrs. Smith of Washington
and Ipswich, wife of Rev. Richard Otis Smith, D.
D., is an aunt. Miss Gray has a younger sister,
Margaret, and four brothers, William G. Gray, Jr.,
Sigourney Gray, Appleton Gray and Robert Gray. The
bride made her début three seasons ago.

Mr. Hart, the bridegroom, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Stanley Hart of Commonwealth avenue,
Boston, who have a country estate in Bedford. He
was graduated from Harvard with the class of 1913.
He is interested in rowing and is a member of the
Union Boat Club. William A. Hart, of the Harvard
class of 1915, is a younger brother.

Dr. Gray, the bride’s father, was the officiating
clergyman, and gave his daughter in marriage. The
bride was dressed in a gown of white satin and
tulle, made with a pointed neck and long, full
train. It was trimmed with fine old lace, and
her veil, also of lace, was the one which had
been worn by her mother, and still earlier by
her grandmother, Mrs. Martin, on the occasion of
their weddings. It was held in place with orange
blossoms. The bridal bouquet was of lilies of the
valley, white orchids and delicate ferns.

The younger sister, Miss Margaret Gray, was flower
girl and wore a high-waisted dress of white net
with embroidered ruffles, with which was worn a
small hat of pink satin trimmed with lace and
pink rosebuds. She carried pale pink roses. The
bridesmaids were Miss Elizabeth Howard of Boston,
cousin of the bridegroom; Miss Anna Appleton Graves
of South Orange, N. J., and Miss Mary Appleton
of New York. Miss Graves and Miss Appleton are
the bride’s cousins. These three attendants were
dressed in pale pink taffeta with sleeves and long
tunics of pink tulle. They wore large flat hats
of dark blue velvet and carried bunches of pink
rosebuds mixed with bluets. Mrs. Gray, the bride’s
mother, wore dark blue silk and a hat of dark blue
velvet trimmed with feathers of the same shade.

Frederic Hart of Boston, Harvard, ’13, a cousin
of the bridegroom, was best man, and those who
served as ushers were Charles Pelham Morgan, Jr.,
Harvard, ’14; Edwin Curtis, Harvard, ’13; Wilkins
Frothingham, Harvard, ’13; George William Meyer,
Jr., Harvard, ’13; Bayard Tyler, Harvard, ’13;
Tudor Jenkins, Harvard, ’13; Richard Courtland,
Harvard, ’16; George Bartlett, Harvard, ’13;
Sigourney Gray, Amherst, ’18, brother of the bride.

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WEDDING

_New York Herald_

Southern smilax and palms made the background
for the bower of white and pink cut flowers and
plants ornamenting the chancel of the Church of the
Divine Paternity last Tuesday when Miss Florence
I. Gardiner, daughter of Mrs. Curtis Gardiner, of
No. 949 West Eighty-fifth street, was married to
Mr. Frederick Guild Jenkins, Jr., the Rev. Dr. Hall
officiating.

The bride wore a gown of ivory white satin trimmed
with pearls and embroidered with orange blossoms
with court train of chiffon and satin. Instead
of a veil she wore a cap of princess lace, and
she carried a bouquet of lilies of the valley and
white orchids. She was attended by her sister,
Mrs. Deland Roswell Morton, who wore a gown of
pink satin trimmed with brown lace and beaver fur,
with picture hat to match; she carried Killarney
roses. Little Ruth and Virginia Gardiner, the
flower girls, wore frocks of white lingerie with
pink sashes, and carried white French baskets of
sunburst roses.

Mr. David Pelham was best man, and the ushers were
Messrs. John Burton, Harrison Kneeland and John J.
Surl, of this city, and Harold Warren, of Fishkill,
N. Y. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins
started on a wedding trip through the South.

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WEDDING

_Philadelphia Ledger_

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.--Miss Emily Curtis, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Curtis, was married
today to Captain William Raines Darlington, Coast
Artillery, United States army. The ceremony took
place at the home of the bride’s parents in
Georgetown. The Rev. D. H. Markham officiated. The
attendants were Miss Winifred Deland and Captain
Robert Bruce Scott, U. S. A. The latter and the
bridegroom wore full uniform. The bride wore white
satin, with tulle overdress, and a tulle veil.
Following a wedding breakfast, Captain and Mrs.
Darlington left for the South, the former being
stationed at Fort Garfield, Ga.

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ENGAGEMENT

_Chicago Post_

Mrs. Francis T. Calkins, 1253 Hamilton avenue,
announces the engagement of her youngest daughter,
Imogen Hammond, to Mr. Percy Chapman, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Chapman, 3024 Sigourney street.

Miss Calkins’s father was the late Colonel Francis
T. Calkins, first colonel of the Seventeenth
Regiment, I. N. G. The bride elect is president of
the Delta Gamma Mu Sorority and a member of the
Beta Phi Epsilon Sorority. Mr. Chapman is a member
of the Delta Omicron Fraternity and is known in
athletic circles. No date has been set for the
wedding.

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ENGAGEMENT

_New York Times_

The engagement of Miss Agnes P. Colby and Frederick
E. Chandler has been announced. Miss Colby is the
daughter of the Rev. Dr. J. Wilson Colby, the noted
evangelist, with whom she made a globe-encircling
trip several years ago. She is spending the Winter
with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Stratton Wilce, at
Springfield, Mass.

Mr. Chandler is a graduate of Williams College,
class of ’12, and is a Director in the Industrial
Bonding Corporation of New York. The wedding is to
take place in the early Spring at the Colby home at
Jamaica Estates, L. I.

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WEDDING PARTY DINNER DANCE

_New York Times_

Mrs. Ralph H. Devine, whose brother, Harry Curtis
Livingston of Cleveland, Ohio, is to marry Miss
Hope Alexander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Alexander, tomorrow afternoon in the Church of the
Heavenly Rest, entertained last night at the St.
Regis in honor of Miss Alexander and her fiancé.

Covers were laid for twenty-six guests, and the
table was decorated with lilies of the valley
and pink roses. Silver bonbon boxes were given
as favors. The guests included some of the girl
friends of the bride-elect, the best man, Frederick
R. Devine, and the ushers, Sidney Dillon, Arthur
G. Alexander, Benjamin Noyes, Martin Otis Tilden,
Harrison Prescott, and Frederick Cheever.

There was informal dancing afterward, for which a
few additional guests were invited.

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COLLEGE FRATERNITY DINNER

_Topeka Capitol_

The Kappa Sigma men of Washburn college celebrated
Founders’ day with a dinner at the Mills tea
room yesterday evening. The men of the active
chapter, Gamma Nu, and many of the local alumni
gathered together for the fraternity’s forty-fifth
anniversary. It was on December 10, just forty-five
years ago, that the fraternity, now the largest in
number of chapters, was founded at the University
of Virginia.

The tables were decorated with the fraternity
flower, lily of the valley, and the colors,
scarlet, white and emerald. Toasts, with Mr. Earl
Trobert acting as toastmaster, were responded to
by Mr. William Whitcomb, for the pledges, Mr.
Merrill Ream, for the actives, Mr. James Coleman,
on the “Fraternity Relations to the Alumnus,” Mr.
Monte Kistler, on “Fraternity Expansion,” Dr. A.
B. Jeffrey, on “Internal Development,” and Mr. W.
K. Miller, on “The Why of a Greek.” The fraternity
songs were sung as a finishing touch.

The Kappa Sigmas at the affair were: Mr. Monte
Kistler, Mr. Irwin Keller, Mr. Clayton Kline, Mr.
Robert Drum, Mr. James Coleman, Dr. A. B. Jeffrey,
Mr. W. W. Miller, Mr. D. Elton McIntosh, Mr.
Kenneth Kline, Mr. Dwight Ream, Mr. Merrill Ream,
Mr. Wayne Cook, Mr. Robert Whitcomb, Mr. Richard
Whitcomb, Mr. Earl Trobert, Mr. Warren Humphrey,
Mr. Charles Kesler, Mr. Robert Ward, Mr. Russell
Swiler, Mr. John Ripley, Mr. Clifford Olander, Mr.
Forest Rice, Mr. Duane Van Horn, Mr. Elwin Olander,
Mr. Ned Brown, Mr. Edwin Tucker, Mr. Harold Cone,
Mr. William Whitcomb, Mr. John March, Mr. Ray
Enfield, Mr. Jay Jenson and Mr. Jackson Brown.

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CHRISTMAS DINNER REUNION

_Chicago Herald_

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hinton of 891 East Twenty-first
street will give the annual dinner for members of
the Hinton family Christmas night. This will be the
sixty-fourth Christmas dinner and reunion in the
Hinton family. Among those who will be present are
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Hinton, State’s Attorney and
Mrs. Maclay Hinton, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Whitcomb,
Mrs. Gertrude Hinton Humphrey and Mrs. Charles C.
Coleman. Covers will be laid for thirty-five.

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF DINNER PARTY

_Chicago Herald_

Miss Camille Russell Ward of 1891 Grand boulevard,
who made her début Thanksgiving day, will give a
dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Irene Rice, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Rice of 3736 Elton
avenue, who is to be married Dec. 29 to Edmund
Cook, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. Walton Cook.

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DANCE FOR CHARITY

_Chicago Herald_

Hungry babies will be fed, and the coffers of at
least a dozen South Side day nurseries will be
filled, from the proceeds of the annual ball of the
Friendly Aid Society to be given Monday evening
at the Blackstone Hotel. Mrs. Edward E. Hammond
is president of the society. The beneficiaries
include Bethlehem Creche, Chicago Refuge for Girls,
Children’s South Side Free Dispensary, Home for
Convalescent Women and Children, Home for Destitute
Crippled Children, Jackson Park Sanitarium, Legal
Aid Society, Margaret Etter Creche, Stockyards Day
Nursery, Boys’ Shelter, Visiting Nurses and the
Juvenile Protective Association.

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SORORITY’S FORMAL PARTY

_Kansas City Star_

The spring formal of the Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
was given in F. A. A. Hall Friday evening. The
chapter president, Miss Elsa Bartell, and the house
mother, Mrs. Anna Stratton, headed the receiving
line. A very clever electrical effect was carried
out in the sorority colors, gold and black. Kansas
City guests were Mr. Emmett Donnet, Mr. Arthur Dix,
Mr. James Sampson, Mr. Carl Bright, Mr. Edward Dix,
Mr. Robert Campbell, Mr. Harland Hamilton, Mr.
Albert Rook, Mr. George Bright, Mr. Ivan Bean, Mr.
Ben Sweet, Mr. Charles Hagen and Mr. Richard Smith.
Kansas City Thetas are: Miss Marie Hedrick, Miss
Emma Mae Root, Miss Katherine Kiezer, Miss Louisa
Hedrick, Miss Helen Tompkins, Miss Barbara Martin,
Miss Marjorie Hile, Miss Mable Perkins, Miss Elsa
McClure, Miss Ida Perry, Miss Caroline Nutt, Miss
Virginia Gray and Miss Josephine Stone.

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CLUB DANCE

_New York Herald_

A dance for the members of the Colony Club will
be given in the Marseilles Hotel to-morrow night.
The patronesses will include Mmes. Edward Burton
Williams, William Grant Brown, Emma Kip Edwards, H.
W. Harding, Hartwell B. Grubb, William L. Sands,
Edward Donnelly, Harry Grimes and Upton Slingluff,
and Misses Florence Guernsey and Ella L. Henderson.

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DANCING PARTY

_Chicago Herald_

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Maxwell of West Walton
place gave a dance last night at the Chicago Latin
School for their daughter, Miss Rosalie Maxwell,
and her young friends at home from school for the
holidays.

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MUSICALE

_Chicago Post_

Mrs. Lamson Neil Pelham of Evanston entertained a
number of guests at a musical this afternoon at 3
o’clock at her home, 1460 Appleton avenue. She was
assisted by Mrs. Henry P. Parker and Mrs. Walter
W. White. The artists were Mr. Heath Gregory, who
gave a group of songs, and Mr. Theodore du Moulin,
cellist of the Chicago Orchestra, with Mr. Shynman
as accompanist. The house was prettily decorated
and in every room there were masses of flowers and
pots of heather.

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COLLEGE ALUMNAE MEETING

_Chicago Herald_

The regular meeting of the Chicago Alumnae
Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma will be held Dec.
30, in room A of the Chicago College Club. Mrs.
L. J. Lamson will talk during the tea hour on the
work and needs of the Margaret Etter Creche, which
was founded by Mary F. Etter, a Kappa of Epsilon
Chapter. Miss Louise Merrill, a former president of
this association, will pour.

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF LUNCHEON

_Philadelphia Ledger_

Mrs. Seymour Thornton has issued cards for a
luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton, to be followed by a
matinee theatre party, Saturday, December 19, in
honor of Miss Elinor Judd Wilson, the débutante
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Wilson. Among
the guests will be Mrs. Charles H. Wilson, Mrs.
Joseph B. Melton, Miss Katharine Torrey, Miss
Marjorie Deland, Miss Eleanor B. Robinson, Miss
Ethel Hastings, Miss Frances Tyler, Miss Elizabeth
C. Jenkins, Miss Eleanore Curtis, Miss Elizabeth E.
Mills, Miss Helena Rawlins, Miss Christine Rice and
Miss Edith Harrold.

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THEATRE PARTY

_Philadelphia Ledger_

Dr. and Mrs. T. Bradford Cotton have sent out
invitations for a theatre party, followed by
supper, at their home, 1802 Ashbury place, Monday
night. Miss Hilda Taylor, the débutante daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Taylor, of Medina, is to be
the guest of honor and the other guests are to be
débutantes and men of the younger set to the number
of 18.

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THEATRE PARTY

_Philadelphia Ledger_

Mr. and Mrs. James Francis Cheltenham gave a
theatre party last night in honor of Miss Margaret
Rand, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Augustus Rand.
Afterwards the guests were entertained at a supper
at the Ritz-Carlton.

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CARD PARTY

_Kansas City Star_

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Milton Coffey entertained with
an auction bridge party Friday evening, at which
the engagement of their sister, Marion Perkins
Clark, to Dr. Earl Bispam was announced. The place
cards were water colored sketches of Cupid carrying
envelopes in which were the announcements. Favors
were won by Miss Eugenia Devine, Mrs. J. W. Harter,
Dr. Earl Bispam and Mr. Benjamin G. Root. Guests
were limited to the friends of Miss Clark.

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CARD PARTY

_Philadelphia Ledger_

A “500” party will be given by the feminine members
of the Valley Green Canoe Club in the clubhouse
Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock, to be followed by
a buffet supper and dancing in the evening. The
entertainment will mark the opening of the new
English grill room, where the dancing will take
place, and also the new library and reception hall.
The members who have charge of the affair are: Mrs.
James Perkins, Mrs. Edmund Chynoweth, Miss Bessie
Maxwell, Miss Irene Carter, Miss Margaret Creig and
Miss Mabel N. Donaldson.

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DÉBUTANTE’S PARTY

_Philadelphia Ledger_

Miss Elsa Catlin, débutante daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore W. Catlin, will be the guest of
honor at a party which John Wilkins Frothingham,
Jr., of School House lane, Germantown, will give
at The Rabbit tomorrow night. The chaperones will
be Mrs. Catlin and Miss Sarah Wilkins Frothingham,
the latter the sister of the host. The guests will
be Miss Charlotte Harding, Miss Virginia Racine,
Miss Emilie P. Jackson, Miss Josephine Wooton, Miss
Alice Thompson, Miss Margaret Burton, Miss Cordelia
Brown, Miss Pauline Dickens, Albert E. Kennedy,
Jr., William Barry, Rodney N. Land, Harry R. Neil,
John C. Bell, Jr., Thomas K. Fenton, Jr., Alexander
Mercer, Jr., Joseph G. B. Renton, John B. Knox, 2d,
Barclay Wood, Lewis Smith and Andrew Van Brunt.

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ENTERTAINMENTS FOR DISTINGUISHED GUEST

_Philadelphia Ledger_

Mrs. Pethick Lawrence will be given several
entertainments during her stay in this city. A
reception will be held for her tonight at the home
of Miss Mary McMurtrie, 1104 Spruce street. Those
who will receive with Miss McMurtrie and Mrs.
Lawrence will be Mrs. Edward Troth, Miss Anne H.
Wharton, the writer, Mrs. Edward Parker Davis, Mrs.
Morris Jastrow, Mrs. Francis D. Patterson and Mrs.
Thomas F. Kirkbride.

Mrs. Lawrence will be the guest of Mrs. H. H.
Donaldson over Sunday.

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VISIT

_Chicago Herald_

Ensign and Mrs. Wilson K. Spring of Boston are
visiting their parents, Colonel and Mrs. Taylor E.
Spring, at 9652 Kenwood avenue. Mrs. W. K. Spring
was Miss Florence Berwin before her marriage last
August. They will return immediately after New
Year’s to join Ensign Spring’s ship “Oklahoma,”
which will sail early in January for Cuba.

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ENTERTAINMENTS FOR GLEE CLUB

_Chicago Post_

The program to be rendered this year by the Harvard
Musical Clubs on Wednesday evening, Dec. 30, at
8:15 o’clock, in Orchestra Hall, is an especially
attractive one. The Glee Club, which last year
distinguished itself by winning a competitive
glee club meet in New York, occupies the central
position. Three Chicago men are making the tour
this year. They are Mr. Arthur Dee, 3d, of Oak
Park, Mr. S. P. Priestley and Mr. D. H. Curtis, who
was this year chosen assistant manager of the clubs.

Following the concert Mrs. John Cotton Barclay, 240
Lake Shore drive, will give a dance at her home in
honor of the members of the clubs. As the dance
this year is to take place in a private home, the
invitations are limited. Mrs. Barclay’s son, Mr.
Burton Barclay, is a Harvard man, and his roommate,
Mr. Charles Brunswick of Detroit, formerly of
Chicago, is a member of the Glee Club and will take
part in the concert.

Mrs. Charles C. Graves, 1404 Oaklawn place, will be
among those giving dinners before the concert.

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ENTERTAINMENT FOR CHARITY

_New York Times_

Announcement has just been made of the débutantes
and members of the younger generation in society
who are to take part in the annual entertainment
for charity of the Junior League, which is to be
held on three nights, beginning Monday, Jan. 25,
at the Waldorf-Astoria. This entertainment is
always the culmination of the formal season for
the débutantes who make up the membership of the
League, and it is largely attended by society.

The entertainment is to be called “Le Jour Férie,”
(“The Holiday,”) and besides a programme of dances,
there will be booths and a soda water fountain,
presided over by one of the débutantes of the
season. Rehearsals for the dances have been in
progress for some time at the homes of Mrs. C. B.
Alexander, Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. R. Fulton
Cutting, and Mrs. William J. Schieffelin.

Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll of 405 Park Avenue is in
charge of the sale of tickets.

There is to be a carnival procession, after which
the special dances will be shown. Miss Mary J.
Schieffelin is Chairman of the Irish dance, in
which the Misses Lillian Talmage, Sylvia Holt,
Eunice Clapp, Josephine Wells, Marie Thayer,
Eugenie Rand, Rita Boker, Margaret Erhart, and an
equal number of young men are to take part.

In the mirror dance will be Mrs. Walter Stillman,
Miss Beatrice G. Pratt, William Boulton, Jr.,
Lynford Dickinson, and Horace Allen.

Miss Mary Alexander is Chairman of the Pierrot
dance, in which are to appear Mrs. John Rutherford,
and the Misses Elsie Stevens, Marie Tailer, Carol
Harriman, Muriel Winthrop, Ethel Crocker, John
Elliot, Schuyler Parsons, Bradish J. Carroll,
Jr., Stuyvesant Chanler, Suydam Cutting, George
Rushmore, and Reginald Rives.

In the Russian dance, of which Miss Edith Mortimer
is Chairman, Mrs. Louis W. Noël and the Misses
Alexandra Emery and Lisa Stillman, with Anderson
Dana, George B. Post, Jr., Auguste Noël, Maurice
Roche, Gerald Murphy, and Edward Shippen are to
appear.

Miss Margaret Trevor is in charge of the dance
called “Moment Musicale,” Miss Mary Canfield is
head of the Gavotte dance, and Miss Frances Breese
and Marie Louise Emmet have organized the Harlequin
dance. Miss Eugenie Philbin is Chairman of the
Frivolité dance, in which there will be a fancy
fox trot. Miss Florence Blair heads the list in
the Spanish dance, while Miss Josephine Nicoll is
Chairman of the Saltorella dance and Miss Gladys
Fries of the Tyrolean dance.

Fifty society girls, many of them débutantes, and
as many young society men are to take part in the
carnival procession.

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CHARITY BAZAAR

_New York Herald_

Members of the Universal Sunshine Society,
foreseeing the demand that will be made this winter
by the poor in New York for help, are devoting
their energies to their annual bazaar, which is to
be held in the McAlpin Hotel on the afternoon and
evening of Tuesday. Mrs. Florence Hart Jerome is
chairman of the sale.

A feature of the bazaar will be the flag exhibit at
the Peace and Plenty table, with the official peace
flag and autographed photograph of the President
which will become the property of the person who
takes the flag. Mrs. Clarence Burns, president,
Mrs. Jane Pierce, general secretary, and branch
presidents will preside over the various tables.
These will be:--Aprons, Mrs. C. D. Baldwin; tea
table, served by actresses; refreshments, Mmes.
Damon Lyon, M. B. Gates, Stuart Smith and J. J.
Coudrey, and the Misses R. Burlingham, M. Loughey
and M. Mutterer; fancy table, Mrs. F. H. Dean and
the Misses Eva Bolger and Edna Schoneck; flower
table, Mrs. H. G. Kost and the Misses Helen Kost,
Leonore Erikson, Sadie Spencer, Helen Gibbons,
Alma Wolfe, Margaret Davies, H. Nealy, F. L. Hurt
and L. H. Macdonald; candy table, Mrs. S. J.
Scherer; home made cake table, Mrs. R. G. Spencer
and the “In Memoriam” branch, of Brooklyn, Miss M.
de Comps and small children. Miss Victorine Hayes
will sing during the evening. The bazaar will open
at two o’clock and continue until midnight.