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SOCIETY NOTES 
Senator DuPont and his son-in- 
law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 
Francis B. Crowninshield, of the 
Marblehead contingent, will have a 
large party at the senator’s country 
place in Maryland over the _holi- 
days. The guests will include a 
number of bachelors of the diplo- 
matic corps. The party will go 
from Washington in the Senator’s 
private car. 
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Miss Helen Taft spent a portion 
of the week at Bryn Mawr renew- 
ing her college affiliations. Her 
brother, Charles Taft, has arrived 
at the capital for his holiday vaca- 
tion. 
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Mr. and Mrs. James C. Barr, of 
the Beverly Farms colony, are stay- 
ing in New York and were guests 
in Mrs. James Haggin’s box at the 
opera last Saturday afternoon. 
Baron Schlippenbach, the Russian 
Consul General, gave a dinner op 
last Friday evening for Mr. and 
Mrs. Barr. 
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The Chevy Chase Hunt ball, 
which is down for January 6th, and 
the three bachelor cotillons, the 
first on the third of January, are 
the chief dancing events of the 
* Washington winter. On the sub- 
scription lists are the older and 
younger married sets with the 
debutantes. 
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Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman of Bos- 
ton and Beverly Cove, was hostess 
for a luncheon Thursday of last 
week at the Tuileries, Boston. The 
guests were the members of the Al- 
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One of the most brilliant dances 
of the season was that at which Miss 
Caroline Fessenden, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Sewall Fessenden of 
Chestnut Hill, Brookline, and Cool- 
idge’s Point, Manchester, made her 
debut last Friday evening at the 
Hotel Somerset, Boston, when, in 
answer to some 1200 odd invitations, 
the entire first floor of the hotel, as 
well as the large white and gold ball 
room, was en fete for the occasion. 
Prior to the affair Miss Fessenden, 
with her mother and father, was the 
guest of honor at a large dinner of 
thirtv-five euests in the library of 
the Hotel Somerset, at which her 
aunt, Mrs. Reginald Gray, was 
hostess. Miss Fessenden was su- 
perbly gowned in white satin, over 
which she wore a silver lace tunic. 
Her mother was also in white satin, 
with white lace overdress, and wore 
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beautiful diamonds. The ushers in- 
eluded Kermit Roosevelt, a cousin 
of the debutante; Reginald Foster 
of the Coolidge Point contingent ; 
Russell G. Fessenden, cousin of the 
debutante; Neal Rantoul, Stephen 
V. R. Crosby, George C. Lee, Jr., an 
uncle of the debutante; Philip S. 
Saltonstall and Bayard Tuckerman. 
The ball room was beautifully dec- 
orated in quantities of palest pink 
begonia blossoms and _ ropes. of 
laurel, appropriate for the Yuletide 
season. The ropes of the green en- 
twined the pillars of the white and 
gold hall and were used also in the 
side baleony, on the railing and be- 
tween the long windows opposite. 
The young debutante and _ her 
mother received at the head of the 
hall in front of a sereen of fir and 
bay trees, while the laurel also pre- 
dominated here. The electroliers on 
either side were done in pale pink 
paper shades in the shape of lilies, 
which gave the hall a most becom- 
ing light. In the sitting-out room 
adjoining the hall were quantities 
of laurel and groups of bay tree, 
which, with the red and gold furni- 
ture, made a stunning setting for 
the gowns. The long hall leading 
to the supper room was lined on 
either side with potted palms and 
fir and bay trees. The _ supper, 
shortly after midnight, was served 
at small tables, each one of which 
was decorated in pink roses. The 
debutantes of the North Shore con- 
tingent were all present at the ball. 
The engagement announced last 
Friday of Miss Susan Welles Shaw 
of Commonwealth avenue, Boston, 
a niece of Hollis H. Hunnewell, to 
John C. Lee of Brookline, called 
forth no end of congratulations at 
the Fessenden ball. Mr. Lee is a 
member of the St. Botolph Club and 
makes his home in Brookline with 
his sisters, Misses Lillian and Lucy 
Lee. Miss Shaw is a sister of Ar- 
thur H. Shaw, who married Miss 
von Schrader in St. Louis last 
week. 
Will House Laborers on Mystery 
Island? . 
Daniel Linehan & Son, the well 
known contractors and builders of 
Pride’s Crossing, have recently 
purchased a large tract of land on 
Mystery Island, which lays off the 
Beverly Farms shore, and upon 
which they intend to erect a num- 
ber of small buildings to be used 
. for the.housing of their many for- 
eion laborers, mostly Italians and 
Poles. They have a large and sea- 
worthy launch which will be used 
to transport the men to and from 
the mainland. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Margaret Thomas of Boston 
and Pride’s, a sister of Mrs. Samuel 
D. Warren, Jr., of the Beverly 
Farms contingent, will go to New 
York next month to be of the bridal 
party at the wedding of Miss Bea- 
trice Flagg and Oliver Iselin. 
The twelfth annual automobile 
show in Madison Square Garden, 
New York, will be held the week of 
January 6th. 
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Mrs. Hunt Slater, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Francis Adams, Mrs. Wm. 
F. Draper and her daughter, Miss 
Margaret Preston Draper, were 
‘among the Bostonians in the list of 
guests at the brilliant dinner Attor- 
ney General and Mrs. Wickersham 
gave Monday evening in Washing- 
ton. 
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The annual Christmas celebration 
at the Industrial School for Crip- 
pled and Deformed Children, 241 
St. Botolph street, Boston, will take 
place today. Francis J. Cotting of 
Boston and Pride’s is the leading 
spirit in the arrangements for the 
festivities. The school has a sum- 
mer salesroom each season at Man- 
chester. 
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Miss Ethel Roosevelt carried off 
the principal honors of the Meadow- 
brook Hunt on Hempstead Plains, 
N. Y., Wednesday. The quarry 
was trailed fourteen miles with 
American foxhounds and when the 
brush of Reynard was apparently 
won by Miss Roosevelt, the fox 
went to ground and could not be 
dislodged. 
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A. Piatt Andrew of Washington 
and East Gloucester, assistant secre- 
tary of the treasury, was recent 
host for an auto and picnic party 
at Marlboro, Md. The guest of 
honor was Miss Helen Taft. Others 
there, were Secretary and Mrs. 
Meyer, Miss Julia and Miss Alice 
Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas 
Longworth and Samuel Eliot of 
Boston, whose home is in Washing- 
ton for the present. 
Mrs. Franklin Haven of Boston 
and Beverly Farms has numbered 
among her guests in her box parties 
at Grand Opera the Hon. Wm. R. 
Wilcox and Mrs. Wilcox (the latter 
born Havemeyer) of New York, 
Mrs. William W. Russell of Wash- 
ington, the wife of the American 
minister to Santo Domingo, the 
Rev. Dr. J. Higginson Cabot, and . 
Courtenay Guild. 
