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the remainder of the winter in Chicago. Mrs. Higginson 
was among the women interested in the annual meeting 
and exhibit held by the Visiting Nurse association this 
Tuesday at the Blackstone hotel. 
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Mrs. Edward A. Leicht, who spent the summer *:t 
the Oceanside, Magnolia, will have charge of the tea-room 
at the reception at the Art Institute this afternoon by the 
Antiquarian society. The exhibit which will continue 
two weeks will be entirely of Chinese art gathered from 
every corner of China by many prominent people in 
Chicago including Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr., and Mrs. Wm. 
J. Calhoun, who is an authority on Chinese art and whose 
art treasures from her Astor street home will occupy an 
entire room at the exhibit. 
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Countess Minotto (nee Ida May Swift), whose mar- 
riage to Count Minotto took place last week in Chicago, 
received from her father-in-law a wedding gift of a chest 
of magnificent flat silver, a tea service and other silver 
pieces. Her mother-in-law gave her many of her own 
jewels. The trousseau of this lovely countess, who was 
much entertained before the wedding which was a very 
quiet affair, is said to have been the most exquisite and 
elaborate that Chicago has ever produced. The Count 
and Countess are now on their wedding trip to South 
America. The father of the Count, in commenting upon 
his son’s engagement and wedding, said that his son was 
very much of an American, for, instead of asking: Mr. and 
Mrs. Louis F. Swift, or of asking his own father, for their 
consent to his engagement to Miss Swift he consulted ao 
one but Miss Swift herself in the affair. 
For what shall we live? Is there anything better or 
higher to live for than to make children love us by being 
worthy of their love, to make people around us truer by 
seeing that we are true, to kindle moral heroism in others 
by always trying to do the thing we ought, even when it is 
hard?r—J. T. Sunderland. 
[LAKE FOREST is a miniature San Moritz with the 
skiing that goes on at some of the estates, the various 
toboggan slides and the skating on the ponds. This week- 
end will mark the height of the mid-winter season at the 
Winter club when tomorow night a dance will be held 
beginning and closing with skating on the pond adjoining 
the club. An ice carnival masquerade will also be on at 
Winnetka at the same time. Many of the summer homes 
will be opened for the week-end. The James Ward 
Thornes will be among those to go out. Among those 
taking skating lessons now is Mrs. John Borden, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Waller of Coolidge’s Point, 
Manchester. All are trying it, since fashions in sports 
come and go the same as fashions in clothes. One stout 
matron in Lake Forest, who ventured on the ice after ten 
years of inactivity, remarked that there were about twenty 
pounds of her that would have to be taught to skate. 
Lake Forest as a summer resort—in the suburbs of 
Chicago—already boasts that nearly all of the houses are 
leased for the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. Russell 
“yson will again have the Henry M. Hubbard house they 
occupied last season. 
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Farwell and their daughter, 
Miss Elizabeth Farwell, of Lake Forest will be among the 
western travelers this winter, when they will enjoy a 
visit in Honolulu. The Farwells are known to many of 
the Marblehead Neck colony and are friends of the C. H. 
W. Foster family of the Neck, 
NEW YORK’S social event of recent date in which the 
North Shore is particularly interested was the black and 
white ball of last week under the auspices of the ladies’ 
auxiliary of the Lying-in Hospital. The two big bail- 
10oms at Sherry’s were draped in black and white and 
white flowers in silver baskets were suspended from the 
walls. A formal receiving party welcomed the guests, 
among whom were Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Austin 
Gray, Mrs. Ernest Iselin, Mrs. W. De Lancey Kountze, 
Mrs. Townsend Lawrence, Mrs. W. Goadby Loew, Mrs. 
Robert D. Pruyn and Mrs. G. Eaton Schoonmaker. The 
ball opened with a graceful and attractive snowflake 
gavotte danced by the Misses Elaine Denégre, Alexandra 
Emery, Helen Flake, Theodora Larocque, Gladys Fries, 
Margaret La Farge and Helen Morgan Hamilton. They 
wore attractive costumes of filmy white gauze trimmed 
with swansdown snowballs. During their dance, which 
was given on a slightly raised platform in front of the 
conservatory, an imitation snowstorm was a very novel 
feature adding much to the beauty of the scene. Before 
the ball the snowflake group was entertained at dinner at 
the home of Mrs. Wm. Pierson Hamilton. Additional 
guests at the dinner were Laurens M. Hamilton, Gros- 
venor Atterbury, Joseph C. Clark, Du Coursey Fries, 
Dudley Carleton, Don Kelley and Reginald Satterlee 
Willis. Among the boxholders, nearly all of whom gave 
dinner parties before the ball, were Mmes. Herbert L. 
Satterlee, J. Pierpont Morgan, W. Pierson Hamilton and 
Mrs. James W. Markoe. Among the many guests were 
the Misses Jane and Frances Morgan, Miss Anne Mor- 
gan, Miss Florence Rhett, Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. 
Cushing, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. W. Lowe Rice and the 
Misses Rice, and Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. 
The black and white idea comes from Narragansett, 
where, last summer, they had a ball at the Casino to 
which people came from Newport and other parts of the 
South Shore, and nothing in the ball line was ever more 
brilliant or stunning. They have just had a bla¢k and 
white ball at St. Louis when the first prize went to Mrs. 
Albert Lambert, who looked lovely in a newspaper gown, 
the white material of which had been run through the 
presses of the local paper. It was worn very bouffant 
and fluffy and had a black velvet bodice. Dresses at the 
New York ball were of no special period and were either 
all black or all white and some were black and white. 
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt will take the part of Persephone 
in the “Bal des Dieux” at the Hotel Astor, Feb. 11, under 
the auspices of the Beaux Arts Society of Architects. 
A pageant will precede the ball in which 500 people will 
take part. In the ballet many mythological characters will 
be represented. 
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Mrs. Henry A. Wise Wood of the Annisquam colony 
is a patroness for the patriotic dance given, Jan. 27, as a 
benefit for the Darrach Home for Crippled Children. 
The affair will be held at the Ritz-Carleton under the 
auspices of an organization known as the Sowers. 
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The Little White House in New York, as the apatt-— 
ment of Col. Edward M. House at 115 East Fiftythird 
street is known, since President Wilson made it his stop- 
ping place when in the city, has been leased by Mrs. 
Winston Churchill, wife of the author, during the absence 
of Col. House on his diplomatic mission to Europe for 
President Wilson. 
Mr, and Mrs. Randolph F. Tucker, and had with them 
Jan. 21, 1916. 
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Col. and Mrs. House spent the sum-_ 
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