Miss Elaine Denégre of the Manchester colony will 
_ take part in the Black and White-ball at Sherry’s, Jan. 115 
Ber peta ballet, will open the ball. | 
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which will be a benefit for the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the 
Lying-in Hospital. This will be. one of the most novel 
entertainments of the winter, and all who attend will be 
expected to wear a black and white costume, although 
fancy dress will not be obligatory. A snow-flake dance 
arranged by Louis Chalif, formerly of the Metropolitan 
It is in this dance that 
Miss Denégre will take part. Among those taking boxes 
are Mme. EK. French Vanderbilt, Herbert L. Satterlee, 
George J. Gould, James W. Markoe and J. Pierpont Mor- 
gan. 
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Lady Spring-Rice, wife of the Ambassador from 
Great Britain and a member of the North Shore summer 
colony, and Mme. George Bakhmeteff, wife of the Rus- 
sian Ambassador, were the noted women under whose 
_ a.ispices the Serbian Relief ball was held last Monday at 
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the Biltmore hotel in New York. Francis H. Markoe 
was chairman of the ball committee. 
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Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, Mrs. French Vander- 
bilt and Mrs. Wm. G. Rockefeller are among the patron- 
esses of the comic opera performances to be given for 
the benefit of the French Red Cross hospitals at the 
Princess Theatre in New York. The first performance 
was last Tuesday and through the courtesy of Miss Eliza- 
beth Marbury the Princess Theatre has been obtained also 
for the afternoons of December 28 and January 13 and 27, 
the dates of the other performances. ‘Two short musical 
comedies will be produced on each day, under the direc- 
tion of the Music League of America: “Matm’zelle Mari- 
ette” and “Bruderlein Fein” will be the first couplet. 
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_ Miss Margaret Thayer, who spends the summers in 
Manchester with Mrs. Robert DeW. Sampson of New 
York, Miss Mabel Colgate and Miss Elizabeth Eliot were 
of the Cambridge debutantes who were in New York last 
week to help receive at the debut reception of Miss Grace 
H. Colgate, daughter of Mrs. Gilbert Colgate of West 
Seventy-sixth street. A dinner and theatre party follow- 
ed the reception. ae 
Mrs. Charles H. Tweed oF Beverly Farms is one 5f 
the subscribers to the Junior Assemblies held at Sherry’s 
in New York. She will present her daughter, Miss Mary 
‘Tweed, this winter. The family are remaining at Beverly 
Farms over the holidays. : 
’Twas the night before Christmas, 
And all through the house 
iy Not a creature was stirring,—— 
CHICAGO has no more charming background for a 
merry gathering than the Casino, the aristocratic little 
clubhouse in the heart of the North Side section where 
the society people are fond of gathering for dinners, 
dances and various social activities. The Casino is a 
unique and original institution. There is nothing like it in 
New York, Boston, or Philadelphia. Strangers who come 
here are always entranced with it and carry home glow- 
ing accounts of it, This year sees a great influx of .youth 
on its membership list, which is fast making it the favorite 
dance rendezvous for them. 
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Mrs. Russell Tyson is chairman of a committee -ar- 
ranging for a benefit for the Eli Bates settlement house the 
night of Feb. 14, when the opening night’s receipts of 
‘NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Serge do Diaghileff’s Ballet Russe, with Nijinsky and 
Karsovina, will be turned over to the settlement. ‘The 
engagement is at the Auditorium theatre. 
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North Shore friends of Mr. and Mrs. George H. 
swift of ‘Boston and Beverly Cove will be interested in 
thé announcement of the engagement of Miss Ida May 
Swift, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Swift of Chic- 
ago and Conte James Minotto of New York and Venice. 
Miss Swift made her debut four years ago and has taken 
a leading part in the events of the younger set since. Her 
father is president of Swift & Co., packers. Mr. Minotto 
has charge of the So. American business of the Guaranty 
VYrust Company. The wedding will take place in January. 
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A large and representative audience gathered in Mrs. 
Potter Palmer’s home on the Lake Shore drive last Thurs- 
day, Dec. 16, and listened to addresses describing the suf- 
fering among the wounded soldiers of France. Pleas for 
help in behalf of the American Ambulance hospital in 
France were so enthusiastically responded to that it is 
thought a Chicago ward will be established in the hospital. 
The speakers were Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador 
to France and Miss Marie Van Vorst, both of whom help- 
ed in the establishment of the American Ambulance. Miss 
Van Vorst related many incidents during her services as 
a nurse in the hospital. The individual gifts ranged from 
$5 to $1000. Through the courtesy of Cleofonte Cam- 
panini a song recital was given by the artists of the Chic- 
ago Grand Opera company. 
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Walter Farwell, uncle of Mrs. Hendricks H. Whit- 
man of No, Beverly, and a brother to Mrs. Hobart Chat- 
field-Taylor of Chicago, has gone to Europe to join his 
wife, Mrs. Mildred Farwell, war correspondent of the 
Chicago Tribune. Friends have been very anxious about 
about the safety of Mrs. Farwell lately since she has been 
located in the Balkan zone and was at Monastir during 
the capture by the Bulgars. Mrs. Farwell is the daughter 
of Gen. Robert Williams of Washington and has spent 
much of the past six years in Europe where she has held 
an enviable position in society. She has been presented 
at court at Buckingham palace. 
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Mrs. Richard T. Crane, Jr., of Ipswich opened her 
Lake Shore Drive home for a meeting of the Young Fort- 
nightly club last week. The subject of the afternoon was 
the history of the dance, and, on an improvised stage, ex- 
hibitions of dances representing various periods were 
given by society folk and a professional with a class of 
children. 
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Mrs. Russell yson’s committee of the French 
wounded emergency fund sent 1476 packages to the 
soldiers in the smaller hospitals outside of Paris. The 
packages will be a New Year’s greeting to the soldiers 
ard each contained a little note in French. Many of the 
notes were written by the children at the Francis Parker 
and Chicago Latin schools. 
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; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meeker, Mr. and Mrs. James 
Ward Thorne and Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGann, the 
latter the sister of Mrs, H. Chatfield-Taylor, were dinner 
guests of Mrs. C. Morse Ely the night of the Spanish 
ball last week. Among those seen in the boxes at the 
ball were Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Crane, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward S. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Waller and 
Mr.:and Mrs. John Borden. Miss Grace Meeker was 
especially lovely among the group of debutantes 
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