_ Feb. 25, 1916. 
ASHINGTON’S official society, which has a large 
number of representatives on the North Shore, is hav- 
ing its usual round of entertaining. Mr. Justice Holmes 
and Mrs. Holmes were guests at the annual dinner given 
‘by Attorney General and Mrs. Gregory in compliment to 
the Supreme Court. The dinner was given at the Wil- 
lard, the floral decorations being elaborate and beautiful. 
They were also of the 82 dinner guests asked to meet 
Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall when Mrs. Thomas F. 
Walsh entertained at the Willard. ‘The guests were seated 
at a large oval table, the hollow center representing a 
sunken garden. Senator and Mrs. John W. Weeks and 
Mrs. Hunt Slater were among the guests. 
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Representative and Mrs. Ernest Roberts were at the 
large dinner given at the Army and Navy club last Thurs- 
Gay by Charles H. T. Lowndes, U. S. N., and Mrs. 
Lowndes. They were also present at the reception which 
the Congressional club gave in honor of President and 
Mrs. Wilson. Mrs. Roberts wore a brocaded satin gown 
of old blue trimmed with gold lace. Mrs. Roberts held 
an “at home” last week. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Larz Anderson were among the guests 
ai the annual dinner which the Misses Patten gave last 
Thursday in honor of Cardinal Gibbons. A large and 
distinguished gathering from the official circles and others 
were asked to meet the Cardinal. 
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Mrs. Henry F. Lippitt of Beverly Farms gave a 
luncheon at her home last Wednesday. 
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Samuel Vaughan of Beverly Farms was among those 
registering at the Willard last week. 
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Mrs. James McMillan, Mrs. Preston Gibson, the 
Italian Ambassador and Countess Macchi di Cellere and 
Miss Harriet Southerland of Nahant were among the box 
parties at the last concert of the Boston Symphony at the 
National Theatre. ; 
Cupist TkAcHER: Can anyone give an impression- 
istic definition of New York?” 
Pupit: “A small body of limousines almost entirely 
sarrounded by Fords.” 
NEW YORK’S suffrage comic operetta, “Melinda and 
Her Sisters,” written by Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, 
Was a huge success at the Waldorf-Astoria last Friday 
night. The principals were mostiy professionals, with a 
background of pretty young women of society in the small 
ehoruses. Miss Marie Dressler, who was Mrs. John 
Pepper, mother of Melinda and her seven sisters, directed 
it. Preston Gibson was Mr. John Pepper. Society, more 
especially the climbers therein, was the subject of some 
Wild satire by Mrs. Belmont. 
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The Queen of Italy and the Italian Ambassador, 
Conte Macchi di Cellere of the North Shore colony, are 
among the patronesses of a concert at the Biltmore Hotel, 
Sanday night, for the benefit of sufferers in Italy. En- 
—tico Caruso will sing, and there will be several other 
artists of note. 
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Through the efforts of Mrs. Payne Whitney an ex- 
hibition of woman’s household and industrial arts has 
heen held at the Colony club by the members. The sh- 
ject was to show that the women of modern New York 
are no less industrious than were their grandmothers. 
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Three well bred dogs were the prizes at an auction 
bridge for the benefit of the Vacation association held at 
the Colony club yesterday... Miss Anne T. Morgan is 
treasurer of the association which conforms to banking 
laws, and reports that the working girls who are mem- 
bers put by $118,000 in savings last year. Among the 
patronesses were Mmes. Payne Whitney, Wm. P. Hamil- 
ten and Douglas Robinson. 
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The engagement of Miss Grace T. Olmstead, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. Chauncey Olmstead, of West Brookfield, to 
Oliver W. Roosevelt, eldest son of Mrs. J. West Roose- 
velt, of New York, and the late Dr. Roosevelt, is of inter- 
est to the North Shore. Mrs. Langdon Warner of Bos- 
ton and Ipswich, is a sister to Mr. Roosevelt. The wed- 
ding will take place early in March and they will make 
their home in Paris. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graves, who spent last sum- 
mer in Magnolia, are members of the Club de Vignt, a 
supper and dancing club which has been meeting in a 
stable belonging to the late George W. Vanderbilt. The 
club will move into another building March 1, this time 
location being in a stable owned by Mrs. Cornelius Van- 
derbilt. The club is one of the most fashionable in the 
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Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney is giving an exhibition 
of her own sculpture in her New York studio. 
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Miss Anne Morgan has returned from her camp at 
Kacquette lake, N. Y., where she has been entertaining a 
bouse-party. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. William 
K. Vanderbilt, Miss Maude Wetmore and Miss Marjorie 
Curtiss. 
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To the surprise of many advocates of equal rights 
-to the ballot, several of New York’s debutantes have 
formed a junior organization of the ‘‘antis.” 
Some of 
them are decidedly “anti” while their mothers are with the 
“pros,” _ This Junior-League of ballot fighters has ar- 
ranged a “Fashion Parade” for March 1, at the Plaza 
Hotel, for the benefit of national preparedness and anti- 
suffrage work. The members of the league will be the 
manikins, who will parade in the season’s fashions. Miss 
Isabel Yeomans will be in the parade. Miss Carolyn 3B. 
Van Courtlandt is the president of the society. 
Two young men arrested for speeding by the village 
constable were arraigned before a justice of the peace. 
Aiter hearing the evidence of the constable the justice 
fined the young man, who owned the car, $5. 
“But wait a minute,” interjected the culprit. 
to get a lawyer.” 
“Not another word out of you, young fellow,” thund- 
ered the judge, “or I'll fine you $10 for contempt of 
court.” 
He paid. 
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HICAGO society made up a brilliant audience at the 
opening night of the Ballet Russe, the proceeds going 
to the Eli Bates settlement. Happily the affair was un- 
censored, and Mrs. Russell Tyson reports $2500 for the 
settlement. She was in charge of the boxes. 
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Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale of New York, 
who addressed a suffrage meeting at the Manchester home 
of Mrs. Amory Eliot last fall, read old Serbian ballads at 
the home of Mrs. Albert Dick, Monday, when Miss Ethel 
