r was more lovely than she was on |
|this occasion. The President's niece, Miss Alice |
|Wilson, of Baltimore, came over with her father for |
|the evening. Miss Nataline Dulles, niece of Mrs. |
|Lansing, made her first appearance at a state |
|dinner, and Miss Margaret Wilson and Miss Bones were|
|among the guests. On Thursday evening the visiting |
|governors, former governors and governors-elect here|
|for the conference this week, and their wives, were |
|dined, with an interesting company. Friday evening |
|the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall gave their |
|annual dinner to the President and his wife, and had|
|a senatorial company to meet them. |
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|The debutantes are in the full splendor of their |
|glory, and the next three weeks will give them a |
|supreme test of endurance, for luncheons, teas, |
|dinners and dances not only follow one another |
|closely, but pile up, with several in a day and not |
|one to be neglected. There are no diplomatic buds, |
|no cabinet buds, and few army, navy and |
|congressional buds. But it is a strong residential |
|year, with a number of debutantes in the smartest |
|and most exclusive of the substantial old families. |
|During the Christmas holidays the buds of the |
|future, some of a year hence, others of two years, |
|are vying with the older girls for busy days, and |
|the social calendar shows scarcely a resting moment |
|from the day they come home from school until they |
|rush back to their studies in time to reach the |
|first recitation class. And as for beauty sleep, |
|there will be none. There will not be a night during|
|the Christmas vacation when this younger set will |
|not be dancing. Time was when dinner parties were |
|composed of elderly, or at least middle-aged, people|
|only, but now even the near-debutantes and their |
|circle have a steady round of "dining out," with no |
|fear of being considered "along in years," for there|
|are dinners for all ages. |
| |
|Washington has given three of her most |
|distinguished, most beautiful and most popular girls|