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4 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mrs. Wm. F. Draper’s box party at the National 
theatre recital of Mme. Emmy Destinn consisted of Miss 
Margaret Breckenridge, Miss Patten, Miss Hinckley, 
Miss Draper, and in the evening Admiral and Mrs. Clover 
and the Misses Clover. Mrs. Henry C. Perkins and Miss 
Caroline Ogden Jones were in the audience. 
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Christmas cards were sold during the intermissions 
of the operettas in miniature at the Belasco theatre last 
Thursday for the benefit of the Christ Child society. 
Among the girls selling cards were Miss Francise Wil- 
liams, Miss Eleanora Morgan and Miss Katherine Mc- 
Clintock, who was one of the bridesmaids last July at the 
wvedding of Miss Constance Gardner and Grafton Win- 
throp Minot. 
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The second concert of the Boston Symphony was 
greeted with another large audience at the National thea- 
tre and many Washingtonians who are known on the 
North Shore were present. In the McMillan box was 
Mrs. Preston Gibson with Mrs. Seaton Schroeder and 
Miss Patten as guests. Lady Spring-Rice was among the 
euests of Gen. and Mrs. Crozier. In the audience were 
Mas. Andrew Peters and Mrs. Slater. 
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Washington society for several seasons has found 
the costume ball given by Mrs. William F. Draper and 
her daughter, Miss Margaret P. Draper, one of the most 
brilliant hospitalities of a Washington season. It was 
emitted last winter and will be again this year on account 
of the war in Europe. Mrs. Draper will, however, en- 
tertain with a dinner-dance, Tuesday, Dec, 28. 
Teacher—Willie, what is the difference between gas- 
tronomy and astronomy? 
Willie (up against it)—-Gee! 
Teacher—That certainly is one difference, Willie. 
Now, Bobbie, you tell us the real difference. 
EW YORK society and especially the debutantes were 
out in force last week when the first of the Junior 
Assemblies was held at Sherry’s, the customary place. 
A huge dinner-dance could best describe this first of the 
series for nearly all the subscribers gave dinners in their 
homes or at Sherry’s before the dance. To know who 
was at the dinners as honored guests could be easily 
ascertained by going through the list of debutantes repre- 
senting New York’s exclusive social sets. Mrs. John J. 
Riker gave one of the largest dinners at Sherry’s includ- 
ing 40 guests for her young relatives, Miss Frances Riker 
and Miss Constance Chappell. Mrs. Charles Dana Gib- 
son was among those entertaining in her home where she 
gave a dinner for her daughter, Miss Irene Langhorne 
Gibson and her niece, Miss Nancy Perkins, both debu- 
tantes. Among the subscribers this year are Mrs. C. D. 
Gibson and Mrs. Samuel Riker. Mrs. J. Pierpont Mor- 
gan is on the committee of the dances. January 14 is 
the date for the next number. 
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Mrs. Harry Gustav Byng, who spent the summer 
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Curtis at Beverly 
Farms, went to White Sulphur Springs last week where 
she will visit Lathrop Brown, representative from New 
York, and Mrs. Brown, who with their children are spend- 
ing several weeks at the Springs. 
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_ Mr. and Mrs. Amory G. Hodges occupied the 
Kountze box at the opera last week when the Wagnerian 
work was the attraction. 
-supper and dance will close the affair. 
Mr. and Mis. J. Pierpont Morgan have recently re- 
turned from East Island, L. I., for the winter. Mrs. 
Morgan shows great interest in the social affairs of young 
people and works hard to give them a good time. 
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The marriage of Miss Janet Percy Dana, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dana, and Dr. Warfield Theodore 
Longcope of New York, last Thursday, Dec. 2, is of in- ~ 
terest to North Shore society. Only a small number of 
relatives and friends witnessed the church wedding which 
was followed by a reception in the Fifth avenue home of 
the bride’s parents. Dr. Longcope is attached to the 
Presbyterian hospital. . 
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Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan was among the patronesses 
present at the first of the Three Sherry Dances, held last 
Friday night and which have always been the most im- 
portant of the subscription dances in New York society. 
Tnuey are for the debutantes of the season and for those 
of last season. The next one will take place Dec. 30. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and Charles A. Munn 
were among the many guests at the dance and supper last 
Friday night given by Percy R. Pyne, 2d., at Delmonico’s, 
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The ‘Fete de Vanite” organized by Mrs. Charlés 
Dana Gibson was one of the most brilliant events of the 
season and was held last Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton. 
The burlesque fashion show and tableaux in which some 
startling costumes were displayed by some of the prettiest 
of New York’s debutantes drew an attendance of nearly 
500 members of society. The proceeds will go for charity 
this winter. 
For the dissatisfied man all life is unsatisfactory, 
and for one that is contended the world is full of com- 
forts. For the cheerful man even the easterly wind is 
musical in the window crevices, and it makes solemn 
anthems for him in the woods—lIMWilliam Mountford. 
PHILADELPHIA society will do its Christmas shop- 
ping next Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton when the 
bazaar and cabaret show given by the Rising Sun com- 
mittee in aid of St. Luke’s International Hospital of 
Tokio will be an all-day affair. The committee is com- 
posed of a group of prominent society girls, and their. 
interest is almost certain to make the affair a success. A 
The object of 
the committee is to complete a fund of $10,000 pledged 
for a children’s ward in the new hospital. One depart- 
ment, in charge of a group of matrons of which Mrs. 
Charles A. Munn, Jr., is a member, will carry every gift 
suitable for men. This group urgently requests that all 
Christmas shopping for father, brother, husband and 
sweetheart be postponed until the wonderful articles which 
they have gathered are seen. 
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Mrs. Edith Mahon, who spends her summers in Bey- 
erly Farms and who is remembered by all the North 
Shore residents as the accompanist in the delightful 
“Chansons en costume” afternoons given by Mrs. Sydney 
I. Hutchinson at Sydith Terrace, was the accompanist 
this Wednesday at the annual concert arranged by An- 
thony J. Drexel Biddle for the benefit of the Drexel 
Biddle classes. It was held in the Bellevue-Stratford and 
as usual there was an imposing array of box-holders. 
Mrs. A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., who was Miss Mary L. 
Duke before her marriage last spring, was eagerly wel- 
comed among the singers who took part. 
Dee. 10, 1915. 
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