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SOCIETY NOTES 
December 1, is the date reported for the formal pre- 
sentation-of Miss Helen Taft, when Mrs. Taft will give 
a tea at the White House. Much entertaining will be 
done in her honor. Miss Catherine Britton, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Britton of Washington and 
Magnolia, will give a dinner dance complimentary to 
Miss Taft. 
At the opening of the New York Horse Show last 
Saturday, the Kilties band of Galt, Ontario, paraded 
the arena escorting 36 of the finest saddle horses in 
America, the cream of the stables of the Vanderbilts, 
Judge W. H. Moore of Pride’s, the Watsons and the 
Culpepers of Virginia. Two thousand orphans from the 
various New York institutions were there besides 1500 
children of the tenements who had $2.00 seats in the bal- 
conies of Madison Square Garden. They came as the 
guests of Alfred Vanderbilt. He also presented each one 
ot them with toy horses filled with candy. 
Paymaster and Mrs. Charles W. Littlefield (Mrs. Kirk 
Armour) have returned from their wedding trip and 
are among the North Shore contingent at the Home- 
stead, Virginia Hot Springs. 
Miss Elise Pollard of Brookline and East Gloucester 
assisted at the tea table at the presentation tea of Miss 
Sallie Rackemann last Friday afternoon, given in the 
ball room of the Tuileries, Boston. 
Miss Elise Ames of Boston and Pride’s, a leading de- 
butante of the season, is identifying herself with the 
important social events of the winter. She was a parti- 
cipant in the hunt breakfast which Gen. and Mrs. Fran- 
cis Peabody, Jr., gave at the Kennels of the Norfolk 
TIunt club. She is also appearing with her mother, Mrs. 
Oliver Ames, in the Ames box at Grand Opera looking 
charming in handsome and dainty frocks. On her 
hunter, Iona, she carried away some of the honors at 
the Norfolk Ilunt. 
Gurnee Munn of Washington and Manchester goes 
to New York Nov. 21 to serve as an usher at the wedding 
of Miss Frances Gordon Alexander and Allen Gouven- 
our Wellman at the Fifth avenue Presbyterian church. 
Mr. Wellman is a ITarvard man, class of 705. The Well- 
mans summer at Bar Harbor. 
Mr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks of New York, New- 
port and Manchester are registered at the St. Regis 
Hotel, New York, for the winter. 
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Bemis closed their Beverly Farms 
estate this week and removed to their winter residence 
on Beacon street, Boston. 
Rodolphe L. Agassiz has returned from his Western 
trip and came to [Jamilton last week to vote. He 
and his family are now settled i n their Boston home for 
the winter. 
The widow and daughter of the late John A. Burn- 
ham are remaining at their Wenham estate, Lord’s 
Till, until November 25. 
Charles Bohlen and family of Philadelphia will stay 
at ‘‘Black Brook Farm’’ until the 25th. Next season it 
is expected that they will join the Ipswich summer col- 
ony as they have purchased property there, it is stated. 
Julian Codman and family are remaining at their 
Hamilton estate until Christmas. 
IIon. Augustus P. Gardner is still at ‘‘Sagamore 
Farm’’, Ilamilton, but his family have concluded their 
stay there and have gone to Washington to prepare 
their winter home for the capital season. 
The twenty-sixth annual National Horse Show at 
New York, opened last Saturday (12th) with 1740 en- 
tries, two hundred in excess of the best previous record. 
Thomas P. Beals has been enjoying a two weeks’ 
southern trip. He and his family are remaining at their 
beautiful Burgess Point estate for several weeks longer. 
Francis I. Amory and family are to continue their — 
stay at Beverly Cove several weeks longer, as are Mrs. 
Jcseph H. Tyler and Chas H. Tyler at their spacious es- 
tate, ‘‘ Willowbrook.’’ 
Miss Edith T. Fisher of Philadelphia has been a guest 
of the Henry P. McKeans at Pride’s Crossing this week. 
Mrs. Henry Clay Frick and son, Child’s Frick have 
been in New York this week. They left last Sunday 
in their private car. 
H. M. Sears is continuing his round of entertain- 
ments since returning to Boston from Pride’s. On the 
22nd, he is giving a dinner for twenty-four guests at 
his residence on Commonwealth avenue. ; 
John L. Saltonstall issued eighty invitations to a ban- 
quet at G. A. R. hall, Beverly, Tuesday evening, Nov- 
ember 15. It was complimentary to the voters se- — 
curing him his recent election as a representative. 
Mrs. Wm. F. Draper and Miss Margaret Preston Dra- 
per, who left Manchester a few weeks ago, are at the — 
St. Regis, New York, until they sail for Southern Eu- ~ 
rope where they will spend the winter. At a recent 
dinner party given at the hotel by Mrs. Draper, the 
guests present included Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, 
Mr. and Mrs. Preston White, Mrs. and Miss French, 
Winthrop Aldrich, Edmond J. Curley, H. L. Dillon and 
Preston David. 
At the dance for the debutantes, Miss Sarah Parkman 
Rackemann and Miss Rose Lee Saltonstall of Milton, 
given last Friday evening at the Tuileries, Boston, by 
Mrs. C. Minot Weld, the ushers ineluded Charles E. 
Cotting of West Manchester and William Davis Sohier, 
Jr., of Burgess Point, Beverly. : 
Departures this week from Beverly Farms summer 
hemes were those on Tuesday of Allen Curtis and 
family and Mrs. Franklin Haven. Both households 
were transferred to Boston for the winter. 
George Lee and family are closing ‘‘ Villa al mare’’ 
at Beverly Farms, November 29. On the 30th they sail 
for Europe. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Cutler, Jr., (nee Rosalind Fish) 
are now in Brookline the guests of Mr. Cutler’s parents. 
They are soon due in Beverly Farms where they have 
secured the small George Lee cottage for the winter. 
The draghounds of the Myopia Hunt club will meet 
for the rest of November as follows:—Saturday, 19th, 
High street, Ipswich 3.15 p. m.; Tuesday, 22nd, North . 
Beverly schoolhouse, 3.15 p. m.; Thursday, 24th, 
Thanksgiving Day, Underhill’s corner, 12.00 m., break- 
fast by invitation at the kennels at 2.00 p. m.; Satur- 
day, 26th, Norwood’s mills, 3.15 p. m.; Tuesday, 29th 
Ipswich trotting park 3. 15 p. m. 
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