Part 15 (1/2)

[38] _New York Sun_, January 21, 1917.

=WEDDING=

Miss Celia Cravis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myer

Cravis, of 1817 North Thirty-second Street, became

the bride of Harry Ca.s.sman, of Atlantic City,

Thursday. The ceremony was performed at 6:30 o'clock

in the evening in the green room of the Adelphi

Hotel by the Rev. Marvin Nathan, a.s.sisted by the

Rev. Armin Rosenberg.

The father of the bride gave her in marriage. Her

gown of white satin was given a frosted effect by

crystal bead embroidery and was made with court

train. Her tulle veil was held by a bandeau of

lilies of the valley. A white prayer book was

carried and also a bouquet of orchids, gardenias and

lilies of the valley.

The maid of honor was Miss Katherine Abrahams,

wearing blue satin trimmed with silver. She carried

a double shower bouquet of tea roses and lilies of

the valley, and a yellow ostrich feather fan, the

gift of the bride.

The bridesmaids, Miss Estelle Freeman, Miss Tillie

Greenhouse, Miss Estelle Sacks and Miss Leonore

Printz, were dressed in frocks of different pastel

shades, ranging white, pink, blue and violet. Each

carried a basket of roses and a pink feather fan.

Miss Madeline Cravis and Miss Sylvia Gravan, the

flower girls, wore pink and carried baskets of pink

roses.

Herbert W. Salus acted as best man. The ushers were

Lewis E. Stern and Walter Hanstein, of Atlantic

City; I. S. Cravis and Henry Gotlieb.

A reception for about 250 guests followed the

ceremony. After a tour of the South, Mr. and Mrs.

Ca.s.sman will be at 217 South Seaside Avenue,

Atlantic City.[39]

[39] _Philadelphia Public Ledger_, December 17, 1916.

=TEAS, DINNERS, LUNCHEONS=

Miss Alice Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward

T. Williams, was presented to society yesterday

afternoon at a tea in the home of her parents, 1901

Eighteenth Street. Miss Williams was born in

Shanghai, China, during her father's connection with

the United States legation there, and she has lived

most of her life in the Orient. Mr. Williams was

charge d'affaires of the United States at the time

of the recognition of the new Chinese republic. At

the time of the outbreak of the war in Europe Miss

Williams was a student in Paris. Mr. Williams is now

the head of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs in the

State Department.

Mrs. Williams presented her daughter, with no

a.s.sistants save three of her daughter's young

friends, Miss Helen Miller, Miss Virginia Puller and

Miss Ethel Christiensen, who presided in the dining

room. The drawing room and dining room were both

transformed into bowers of blossoms, sent to the

debutante, which were charmingly arranged. Mrs.

Miller wore a graceful gown of black net and lace

over black satin. The debutante wore a becoming

costume of rose silk and silver tr.i.m.m.i.n.g and carried

sweet peas a portion of the afternoon, and the bunch

of roses sent by Mrs. Lansing, wife of the Secretary

of State, the rest of the time. Miss Miller and Miss

Christiensen were each in white net and tulle and

Miss Puller wore blue and white.[40]

[40] _Was.h.i.+ngton Post_, November 26, 1916.

Mrs. Fred Enderly, who has recently returned after a

long absence in the East, was specially honored with

a Halloween birthday dinner given by Mrs. Lottie

Logan, of No. 1532 Ingraham Street Tuesday evening.

The table was in yellow, with a floral center of

chrysanthemums and favors of black cats, diminutive

pumpkin people and other suggestive Halloween

conceits. The guests were whisked up to the

dressing-rooms by a witch, and Mrs. George H.

Rector, attired in somber soothsayer's robes, told

fortunes. Place-cards were written for Mr. and Mrs.

Enderly, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Hart, Mr. and Mrs.

George Rector, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Henderson, Mr. and

Mrs. George McDaniel, Mrs. Fred Detmer, Miss

Wilhelmina Rector, Miss Talcot, Messrs. Mark Ellis,

Jack Bushnell, L. D. Maescher and O. H. Logan.[41]

[41] _Los Angeles Times_, November 5, 1916.

=RECEPTION=

Mr. and Mrs. Henry V. Black of Broadway, Irvington,

gave a reception this afternoon for their debutante

daughter, Miss Latjerome Black. Receiving with Mrs.

Black were Mrs. P. F. Llewellyn Chambers, Mrs.

Frederick Sayles, Mrs. Charles Coombs, Mrs. Benjamin

Prince, Mrs. Theodosia Bailey, Mrs. Charles Hope,

Miss Caramai Carroll, Miss Dorothy Brown, Mrs.

Robert C. Black and Miss Dorothy Black. Receiving

with Miss Black were the Misses Marion Townsend,

Helen Sayles, Dorothy Clifford, Marion Becker, Helen

Geer, and Genevieve Clendenin. Miss Black wore a

dress of white silk embroidery and pink roses. The

decorations were of autumn leaves and

chrysanthemums.

Among the guests were Dr. and Mrs. Albert Shaw, Mrs.

Edwin Gould, Mrs. Howard Carroll, Mrs. Finley J.

Shepard, Miss Anne Depew Paulding, Mrs. William

Carter, Miss Millette, Mrs. John Luke, Mrs. Adam

Luke, Mrs. H. D. Eastabrook, Mrs. John D. Archbold,

Mrs. Henry Graves, and Dr. and Mrs. D. Russell.[42]

[42] _New York Sun_, September 24, 1915.

=DANCE=

Elaboration of detail marked the oriental ball given

by the Sierra Madre Club at its rooms in the

Investment Building last evening. More than 400

members and guests attended in garb of the Far

East--costumes whose values ran far into the

hundreds. The club rooms were draped in a

bewildering manner with tapestry of the Celestial

Empire and the land of Nippon, and the rugs of

Turkey and Arabia.

It was a most colorful event--sultans robed in many

colors with bejeweled turbans; Chinese mandarins in

long flowing coats; bearded Moors, who danced with

Geisha girls of j.a.pan, gowned in multi-colored

silken kimonos; pet.i.te China maids in silken

pantaloons and bobtailed jackets; Salome dancers of

the East, in baggy bloomers and jeweled corsages,

and harem houris in dazzling draperies.

Preceding the dancing, a remarkable dinner,

featuring the choicest foods of the Orient, was

served by attendants wearing the dress of Chinese

coolies. The rare old syrups of the Orient were

enjoyed by the diners, while the fragrant odor of

burning incense lent an air of subtle mysticism.

Among the 400 guests present were:[43]

[43] _Los Angeles Times_, February 18, 1917.

=CLUB MEETING=

At this week's meeting of the New England Women's

Press a.s.sociation, Miss Helen M. Winslow, chairman

of the programme committee, presented Joseph Edgar

Chamberlin of _The Transcript_, who spoke on ”The

Work of Women in Journalism.” Mr. Chamberlin gave

many personal reminiscences of women writers whom he

had known in his connection with various

publications. He expressed regret that women are not

doing more in editorial work, as in the earlier

years of their entrance into the newspaper field,

and the belief that it would be of advantage to

journalism and to the public if they gave more

attention to writing of this character rather than

that directed almost exclusively for women's

departments and others of superficial value. Mr.

Chamberlin paid especial compliment to the work of

Margaret Buchanan Sullivan, Jeannette Gilder, Jennie

June Croly and Kate Field. Mr. Chamberlin spoke in

high praise of Miss Cornelia M. Walter (afterward

Mrs. W. B. Richards) who was editor-in-chief and had

full charge of _The Transcript_ from 1842 to 1847.

The executive board voted to co-operate with the

Travelers' Aid Society and Mrs. Ralph M. Kirtland

was elected chairman of the committee to formulate

plans.[44]

[44] _Boston Transcript_, December 9, 1916.

=CHARITY BENEFIT=

On Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock Mrs. W. K.

Vanderbilt of 660 Fifth Avenue will open her house

for a benefit entertainment in aid of the Appuiaux

Artistes of France. Viscountess de Rancougne is to

give her talk on the work being done in the French

and Belgian hospitals and in the bombarded towns and

villages, ill.u.s.trated with colored slides from

photographs taken by herself. An interesting musical

program also has been arranged for the afternoon,

with Miss Callish, Mr. de Warlich, and Carlos

Salzedo appearing. Mrs. Kenneth Frazier of 58 East

Seventy-eighth Street is receiving applications for

tickets at $5 each. On the Executive Committee are

Kenneth Frazier, Ernest Peixotto, Edwin H.

Blashfield, Charles Dana Gibson, Joseph H. Hunt, and

Janet Scudder. Mrs. W. Bourke c.o.c.kran, Mrs. Howard

Cus.h.i.+ng, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Mrs. Philip M. Lydig,

Mrs. H. P. Whitney, and Miss Grace Bigelow make up

the committee in charge.[45]

[45] _New York Times_, February 20, 1916.

=PERSONALS=

Mrs. Robert R. Livingston and her son, Robert R.

Livingston, have returned from a trip to the Pacific

Coast and are at their town house, 11 Was.h.i.+ngton

Square North, until they open Northwood, the

Livingston estate near Cheviot-on-Hudson. They spent

about six weeks on the coast.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin will return to their

country place at Glen Head, L. I., late in April for

the early summer. They are now occupying Hopelands,

their place at Aiken, S. C.

Mrs. and Mr. Francis de R. Wissmann have returned

from a trip of some weeks to San Francisco and have

been at the Gotham for a few days before opening

Adelslea at Throgs Neck, Westchester, for the

summer.

The Rev. Dr. J. Nevett Steele of 122 West

Seventy-sixth Street, vicar of St. Paul's Chapel,

who has been ill with pneumonia since March 13, is

now convalescing and will soon be able to resume his

church duties.

A son was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore

Roosevelt, Jr., at their home, 165 East

Seventy-fourth Street. The child is a grandson of

Col. Theodore Roosevelt and will be named Cornelius

Van Schaick Roosevelt, after his

great-great-grandfather. This is the third child of

Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. Their first boy, Theodore

Roosevelt, III, was born June 14, 1914. Mrs.

Roosevelt was Miss Eleanor B. Alexander, daughter of

Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander of 1840 Park Avenue.

=SOCIETY IN PROSPECT AND REVIEW=

Never has a Was.h.i.+ngton season begun so early as this

one. The middle of December finds the White House

dinners in full sway, the President and Mrs. Wilson

having dined with the Vice President and Mrs.

Marshall, and the first state reception of the

season in the White House due in two days.

President and Mrs. Wilson already have had three

large and formal dinner parties, the first one on

December 7, in honor of Mr. Vance McCormick,

chairman of the Democratic national committee; and

on Tuesday of last week they entertained the Vice

President and the members of the cabinet and their

wives, with a number of other distinguished guests

and a few young people. After this dinner a

programme of music was given in the east room and

the evening was a charming success. The First Lady

of the Land never was more lovely than she was on

this occasion. The President's niece, Miss Alice

Wilson, of Baltimore, came over with her father for

the evening. Miss Nataline Dulles, niece of Mrs.

Lansing, made her first appearance at a state

dinner, and Miss Margaret Wilson and Miss Bones were

among the guests. On Thursday evening the visiting

governors, former governors and governors-elect here

for the conference this week, and their wives, were

dined, with an interesting company. Friday evening

the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall gave their

annual dinner to the President and his wife, and had

a senatorial company to meet them.

The debutantes are in the full splendor of their

glory, and the next three weeks will give them a

supreme test of endurance, for luncheons, teas,

dinners and dances not only follow one another

closely, but pile up, with several in a day and not

one to be neglected. There are no diplomatic buds,

no cabinet buds, and few army, navy and

congressional buds. But it is a strong residential

year, with a number of debutantes in the smartest

and most exclusive of the substantial old families.

During the Christmas holidays the buds of the

future, some of a year hence, others of two years,

are vying with the older girls for busy days, and

the social calendar shows scarcely a resting moment

from the day they come home from school until they

rush back to their studies in time to reach the