6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Dee. 8 in Pittsburg, the annual tea and sale for the 
Women’s Industrial exchange will be held in the resi- 
dences of Mrs. Herbert Du Puy and Mrs. Wallace H. 
Rowe, adjoining homes in Morewood avenue. A new 
feature is bridge and 60 tables have been secured. Af- 
ternoon tea and music will be the features at Mrs. Her- 
bert Du Puy’s residence. Mrs. D. Herbert Hostetter will 
have charge of the musicale and bridge with Mrs. Du 
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Mr. and Mrs. Tristram Colket of Bryn Mawr, Pa., 
have issued invitations for a dinner and theatre party in 
honor of their nephew, Master Jack Caner, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harrison K. Caner of Philadelphia and Man- 
chester, on December 8. . . 
This evening (Dec. 2.) Philadelphia society will be 
found in large numbers at the ‘‘Author’s Festival’’ 
ball at the Bellevue-Stratford in aid of the Philadelphia 
Museum and School of Industrial Art. Miss Cintra 
Hutchinson will be among the debutantes who will sell 
programmes, flowers and collect votes for the most 
favored costumes. The boxholders include C. Howard 
Clark and E. T. Stotesbury. Howell Hansell. of the 
Philadelphia Stock Company, formerly of the Castle 
Square Theatre, Boston, will appear as Ali Baba and 
with him will be the Forty Thieves. 
Captain Eliot Frost, Yale’s Varsity rowing captain, 
who has the big task before him of winning back for 
Yale her former supremacy on the waters of the New 
London Thames, is a resident of Waltham and a summer 
resident of long standing of the North Shore. The Frost 
fumily have summered for more than 25 years at Land’s ° 
End, Rockport, where Capt. Frost spends much time 
rowing around Flat Point and Loblolly Cove, a solitary 
figure in a dory far out among the islands or sailing 
his yacht. 
The secretary to the President has given out the 
program of receptions and dinners to be given at the 
White House this season of 1910-1911. As announced 
some weeks ago the series of state dinners will begin 
Thursday, December 15, the first guests to be entertain- 
ed in this official season to be the members of the Cab- 
iret. Four instead of three dinners will be given this 
season. The first of January coming on Sunday, the 
annual New Year reception will take place Monday from 
11 a. m. to 1.30, with the evening receptions and dinners 
all arranged for Tuesday. The dates and events are as 
follows: January 10, Tuesday, diplomatic reception, 
9.30 p. m.; January 17, Tuesday, diplomatic dinner; 
January 24, Tuesday, Judicial reception; January 31, 
_ Tuesday, Supreme Court dinner; February 7, Tuesday, 
Congressional reception; February 14, Tuesday, Speak- 
er’s dinner; February 21, Tuesday, Army and Navy re- 
ception: 
The January and February assemblies, leading so- 
cial events of the season, are scheduled for January 6 
and February 17 in the ballroom of the Hotel Somerset, 
Boston. On the patroness list are Mrs. Gordon Abbott, 
Mrs. Bryce J. Allen, Mrs- Oliver Ames, 2nd. Mrs. Phil- 
lip Sears is a member of the committee and Barrett 
Wendell, Jr., is a member of the board of managers. 
Mrs. George Patten (Beatrice Ayer) of Fort Sheri- 
dan, Ill., is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
erick Ayer of Boston and Pride’s. Mrs. Patten came 
on for the presentation tea of her sister, Miss Kather- 
ine Ayer. Mrs. Ayer gives a ball for her debutante 
daughter at Hotel Somerset on Jan. 13. 
Robert Stowe Bradley and Miss Leslie Bradley wer 
among the European home comers who arrived la 
last week from abroad. They were passengers on tk 
Mauretania. Ae 
Many prominent debutante functions are on 
ton’s social calendar for December. Tonight (Dee: 2 
Mrs. John Silsbee Curtis will give a dinner at the Som 
erset club for her niece, Miss Rose Saltonstall. Dee. 
Mrs. Oliver Ames will give a large dinner at th 
gonquin club, Boston, for her niece, Miss Helen Ho 
er. Following the dinner is the debutante ball | 
Miss Lily Sears given by her father, Herbert Sears a 
the Somerset. Miss Sears was the guest of honor 0; 
Wednesday evening of this week at Mrs. Edward Bran 
degee’s dinner dance at her beautiful residence ; 
Brookline: a 
Mrs. Robert S. Bradley and Miss Rosamond Bradle; 
have been to New York on a short trip. They wen: 
over to meet Mr. Bradley and Miss Leslie Bradley, wh« 
were enroute from Europe. . a 
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Curtis will present Miss Evelyr 
Curtis by a dance in the ballroom of the Hotel Somerset 
in January. Dec. 14, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are giving a 
dinner for Miss Curtis at the Somerset club. os 
Claude Grahame White gave a farewell luncheon to 
a few friends at the Touraine, last Sunday evening Miss 
Eleanora Sears being among those present. The 
‘“‘world’s champion aviator’’ sailed Wednesday of this 
week on the Mauretania from New York for a six 
weeks sojourn in England. Mr. White is having sev- 
eral biplanes constructed at the Burgess-Curtiss shops 
at Marblehead. He is also having the new science of 
the standardization of parts operated there, which will 
place the North Shore in an important relation to the 
progress in aviation. : a 
Among the charter members of the new Boston Skat- 
ing Club are Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Munn Jr., Mr. and 
Mrs. Henry Pratt McKean and Q: A. S. MeKean. 
The Army and Navy football crowds left $150,000 in — 
Philadelphia by patronage of hotels, motor car shops 
and stores. Among the Bostonians who went over for 
the game last Saturday and stopped over the week-end 
was Mrs. Eben D. Jordon. She was registered at the — 
Bellevue-Stratford. “ = 
At the funeral Tuesday afternoon in Cambridge of 
George Riddle the noted Shakesperian reader and Hara 
vard professor, the honorary pall bearers ineluded Ex, 
Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., and Gardiner M. Lane. ns 
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr., of Boston and Manchester 
was one. of the speakers in Boston Tuesday afternoon at_ 
the annual meeting of the Massachusetts civie league: 
Mr. Coolidge discussed the overcrowded condition of 
Boston’s North and West Ends. ae a 
Children and young women of the North Shore col-— 
onies participated in the bazaar and tableaux in aid 
of the Lincoln House, Boston, Thursday, at Copley 
Hall. Children taking part in the illustrated pictures” 
were Hilda Rice, Tom Mandell and Jack Proctor of the 
Beverly Cove colony; Elizabeth Caswell, Isabel and 
Peggy Porter of Beverly Farms and their brother, 
Burnham Porter. Miss Eleanora Sears appeared in the 
tableaux vivants. Among the patronesses were Mrs- 
S Parkman Blake, Mrs. Robert C. Winthrop, Mrs. 
Jehn L, Thorndike and Mrs. Samuel Carr, Diet 
The Baroness Hengelmuller, wife of the Ambassador 
from Austria-Hungary, who has been a member of the 
North Shore’s diplomatic contingent, is recovering 
from a serious illness in New York. 
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