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Tuesday, January 13, 1903

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Receptions and card parties are among the events for today. There are also several dinners for this evening. The dancing classes come around again, and the most notable of those meeting this evening is the fortnightly in the Waldorf-Astoria. The concert at Sherry's in aid of the Babies Ward of the Post-Graduate Hospital will attract many. Miss Leary has another afternoon with music. Receptions are to be given by Mrs. Henry S. Redmond at 11 East Fifty-fifth Street, Mrs. James Wilson Clark at 48 East Fifty-third Street, and Mrs. George Gelston Moore at 833 Madison Avenue. Miss Elsa Van K. Foos of 35 West Fifty-fourth Street will entertain the Skating Club. Mrs. Norman De R. Whitehouse will give a bridge matinee, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Hoyt will give a dinner.

Mr. and Mrs. William Osgood Field have returned from their honeymoon trip. They are to be the guests for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sloane, who have returned from WashingTon.

John Sloane and his son John Sloane Jr., who have been ill, are improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Sloane will go to California for the Winter, as soon as Mr. Sloane is entirely convalescent. He has had pneumonia.

Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes have returned from Lenox. Mr. Stokes will sail soon for the Bahamas, to be absent until the Spring.

The wedding of Miss Angelica Schuyler Crosby, daughter of Col. and Mrs. J. Schuyler Crosby of this city, to John B. Henderson, Jr., is to be in the Crosby country home in Charlestown, West Va., on Feb. 12. Miss Alice Roberts will be bride maid of honor, and the bridesmaids are to be Miss Ethel Thompson. Miss Elizabeth Oakley, and Miss Mary Jay of this city, Miss Christine Chew and Miss Elizabeth Wilson of Charleston. West Va.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H. Weatherbee gave a large dance for their debutiante daughter, Miss Henrietta Constable Weatherbee, at Sherry's last evening. The third story was engaged, the dancing being in the large ballroom, and the supper being served at small tables in the adjoining suite of rooms. Mrs. Weatherbee, in white satin and lace, and wearing diamonds and pearls, and Miss Weatherbee, in pale green silk gauze, trimmed with bunchings of green silk and green spangles, received the guests at the entrance to the ballroom. The guests came quite early, and there was general dancing until the supper, which was served at about 12:30. The decorations were garlands of amilax and evergreens over the balconies and walls, with now and then a dash of red, and cut flowers and fernes were used on the tables. The effect was extremely pretty, and then was an absence of formality that the young people enjoyed among the guest were, Miss Florence Carpenter, Miss Edna Loew, Miss Marie L. Russell, Miss Virginia Osborn, Miss Beth Clark, Miss Louise Thatcher, MIss Anne Matbearn, Miss Anne Herrick, Miss Edith Loughberry, Miss Adelaide Baylin, Miss Jeannette Myers, Miss Edith Talcott, Miss Margaret Appleton, Miss Edith Downey,

NEWPORT. R. I. Jan. 12, Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Miss Cathleen Neilson left this morning for New York to attend Mrs. Astor's ball tonight.

Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Forbes are guests of John N. A. Griswold at his residence, on Bellevue Avenue.

Miss Romola Dahlgren went to New York today.

Gerald Hoyt is here to visit Mrs. Henry S. Hoyt.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 12. At the fourth ball of the Bachelors Cotillion Club this evening the engagement of Miss Molly Diggs Lee to William Randall of New YorK was made public. Miss Lee is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Donnell Lee of this city and a first cousin of Adrian Isellin of New York. Mr. Randall belongs to a well known San Francisco family, and now lives In New York.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 12. The engagement of Miss Ethel Roland, daughter of Horace Roland of Reading, Penn., to H. Berlin Voorhees of Baltimore, son of Vice President Voorhees of the Reading Railroad, has been announced. Miss Roland is said to be the original of the Heroine of Gilbert Parker's novel "The Light of Way." She met the author when she was traveling abroad. Mr. Voorhees is a civil engineer and a graduate of the Troy Polytechnic Institute.

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