THE COUKIER
SOCIETY NOTES
LIFE'S MAZY WHIRL
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With the exception of the luncheon
given by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Moore on
Tuesday, and the series of parties by
Mr. and Mrs. Van Brunt, there have
been few social diversions this week,
and next week promises little. A coming:
event of interest is the society ball to be
given by the city Improvement society
on the twenty-first.
The society leaders of the various cit
ies of the United States will emerge
from theln shell of localism during the
coming winter, says the Washington
correspondent of the Inter-Ocean, and
will divide their time between the social
gatherings in their home city and those
the national capital.
It has now been definitely agreed that
the White House shall set the pace for
the whole country, and that the coming
season -will see the birth of a new na
tional society.
Social life this season will be unlike
social life at any other period In the
history of our nation'. It will be national
in character.
Washington will be the brilliant center
from which fashionable life in its en
tirety will radiate.
The residence of the President, will be
the meeting place on common ground
of the social leaders of the nation, and
the executive circle will be not only the
center of official society, but of society
in general. The cabinet ladies will not
compete for social leadership, because
they will not dominate society. It will
be national.
.New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Bal
timore, Boston, and every other Amer
ican city whose brilliant social programs
have attracted attention as soon as an
nounced because of their social prom-
ience, will all send their leading repre
sentatives to take part In the gatherings
at the capital. The millionaire families
will find an official leader In Lady Her
bert, wife of the British Ambassador.
Ladjr Herbertls the daughter of the
WllsonB, a sister-in-law to the Vander
bllts, the Astors, and through marriage
she is connected with the President's
family, and with the Secretary of State.
The British embassy, newly remodeled.
Is one of the most finely appointed man
sions In the capital. Next -to the White
kHouse it will be the center of official and
fsoclal life.
Mrs. Roosevelt has announced that the
executive mansion will be ready for the
formal opening of society about the first
of January. In the meantime, with the
assistance of her daughter. Miss Alice
Roosevelt, she Is making up a most
wonderful society calendar.
Mrs. Knox, the wife of the Attorney
General, no doubt will be the stoutest
ally of the President's wife In her social
reign. Mrs. Hay, never socially inclined,
will merely lend her presence In the for
mal line at the White House, as she will
still wear mourning for her son.
Mrs. Shaw, wife of the Secretary of
the Treasury, is willing to do what she
can. Mrs. Root will probably remain in
Europe, leaving Miss Root to preside
over the Root household, but not to take
Mrs. Root's place In cabinet circles. The
Secretary of the Navy is a bachelor.
.Mrs. Payne, wife of the Postmaster
General, Is an accomplished woman, and
with rugged health no doubt would take
an active part In official society, but on
account Mrs. Roosevelt last winter
abandoned the old custom of hand-shaking.
Mrs. Payne is afflicted with rheu
matism, and a half hour In line with the
vigorous American public glad to see
her, would send her tb the rear In an
guish. Mrs. Hitchcock, though accomplished
and Interesting, shrinks from the de
mands of official society. Miss Wilson,
daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture,
has taken upon herself the double task
of taking rank as the hostess of the
house and still claiming from younger
society the attention paid the daughters
of other cabinet officers.
Dancing will be the chief entertain
ment for the younger contingent, with
Miss Roosevelt leading in enthusiasm.
There will be not less than forty-five
debutantes, headed by Miss Anna Wing
Cockrell, daughter of Senator Cockrell
of Missouri.
The millionaires who take their daugh
ters to Washington usually leave their
sons behind simply because there Is no
sort of business doing at the capital and
there have never been any available
beaux except a few young officers of
the army and navy. This state of af
fairs will be changed, however, during
the coming winter, when many prom
inent society men from the large cities
will be drawn to Washington by the
entertainments of the new national so
ciety. PI Beta Phi, the oldest and largest of
sororities, was organized at Monmouth,
Illinois, April 28, 1867. There were
twelve charter members in that first
chapter and they decided to call them
selves "I. C's" but later, as fraterni
ties came to be more popular among
women, the name of the sorority was
changed to the Greek name Pi Beta Phi.
and "I. C," with its hidden meaning,
became the motto. Since that time the
sorority has made rapid growth, and
now has thirty-one chapters, located
only In the very largest and strongest
universities and ladles colleges, and a
total membership of over three thou
sand. A chapter of PI Beta Phi was estab
lished in the University of Nebraska,
very popular with Pi Beta Phi two yean
ago, and the sorority thoroughly en
joyed the close harmony which the
home offered. But, owing to the fact
that so many of the active girls have
since been residents of Lincoln, the fra
ternity house has been given up, and
to make up for this loss, many of the
beautiful homes of the girls are at all
times thrown open for their entertain
ment. The pin of Pi Beta Phi Is a tiny
golden arrow; the colors, wine and sil
ver blue; and the flower, the carnation.
The magazine is published quarterly
and Is called The Arrow.
The active chapter Is as follows:
Ethel Ames, Inez Everett, Charlotte
Spalding, Rachel Nicholson, Blanche
Meeker, Florence Flske, Bess Burruss,
Pearl and Alleyne Archibald, Lincoln;
Winifred Howell, Centervllle, Iowa;
Jennie Whltmore, Valley; Edna Holland,
Bess and Katherine Heacock. Carrie
Slocum and Mabel Miles, Falls City.
The Misses Helen Dolson and Helen
Waugh arc also pledged to the sorority.
An alumnae club composed of the
Misses Woodward, Barber, Mary and
Florence McGahey, Waugh, Morris, Mar
shall, Anne and Mellnda Stuart, Emer
son, Qualntance and Mrs. George RIsser,
was organized two years ago and keeps
in close touch with the active chapter.
The attractive home of Mr. and Mrs.
R. T. Van Brunt was the scene of a
series of lovely functions this week. On
Thursday Mrs. Van Brunt gave a pink
a.-.d white luncheon attended by twenty-
The hour Were devoted to needlework
and social chatter. A delicate luncheon
was served. The hostess was assisted
by Mrs. H. B. Ward and Mrs. A. Q.
BUlmeyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Brunt will give a
second card party this evening. Mrs. A.
E. Kennard. Mrs. F. E. Campbell
and Mrs. E. C. Rewick will assist.
An elegant mansion, exquisite music,
a wealth of beautiful flowers and an
assemblage of handsomely gowned
women contributed to the pleasure of
the guests of Mrs. E. E. Brown and
Mrs. R. E. Moore on Tuesday, when a
buffet luncheon was given by these two
ladles at the home of the latter. Mrs,
Brown and Mrs. Moore are adepts at
entertaining and the affair of Tuesday
was one of many delightful functions
for which their friends are Indebted to
them. The flowers were magnificent.
Bouquets of yellow chrysanthemums
were In the reception room and pink
roses In the sitting room. The tables In
the dining room and library from which
the luncheon was served were effectively
decorated. The centerpiece on the din
ing room table was a tall cut-glass vase
filled with American beauties. The
linen was crossed with broad green rib
bons terminating In large bows, and was
strewn with brllllant-hued meteor roses.
On the table in the library the center
piece was of pink chrysanthemums In
a tall vase and was surrounded by a
garland of pink roses and smllax.
Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Brown were as
sisted In the drawing room by Mrs. E.
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LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE PI BETA PHI.
January 21, 1893,
charter members:
Turner, Gertrude
nolds, Kate Snow
with the following
Mae Lansing. Bessie
Wright, Belle Rey
Walker, Jennie Bar
ber, Edna Carscadden, Adaline Qualnt
ance and Lulu Wirt.
It is customary with all chapters of
this sorority to have at least three pat
ronesses, accordingly Mrs. A. S. Ray
mond, Mrs. C- H. Morrill and Mrs. Wlll
ard Kimball were chosen. The young
ladles are also proud to claim Mr. A. J.
Sawyer as patron and godfather, and
many delightful evenings have been
spent in his home as well as in the
homes of their patronesses.
Pi Beta Phi is represented in Phi Beta
Kappa, the honorary fraternity of the
university, by the Misses Gladys Henry
and Bertha Qualntance, and three years
ago Miss Anna Lytle won the scholar
ship in literature at Wellesley college.
In musical circles of the city the soror
ity is very prominently represented,
many of Its members having remark
able talent. They also take an active
part In athletics at the university. Miss
Pearle Archibald having recently been
chosen as captain of the big basket ball
nine, and several of the young ladles
playing on the class teams.
The so-called fraternity house was
four ladies. Bouquets of superb pink
and white chrysanthemums adorned the
various rooms. The guests were seated
at small round tables, each of which
had a flat centerpiece of pink roses and
ferns. The place cards bore pluk roses
artistically done in water colors. A
pretty feature of the luncheon, which
was served In seven courses, were the
little rose-shaped pink baskets in which
the frozen pudding was served. After
the repast, the ladles played six-hand
euchre and a sheaf of long-stemmed
American beauties was given to the lady
having the highest score. Mrs. Van
Brunt and her friends who assisted her,
Mesdames A. L. Candy, George A. Cran
cer and J. W. Winger, were all gowned
in white.
Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Van Brunt
gave a card party. Fifty friends were
entertained at six-hand euchre. No
prizes were given, but the lady having
the highest score received a bouquet of
chrysanthemums. The decorations were
pink, white and yellow chrysanthemums.
A dainty luncheon was served in two
courses. Mesdames H. T. Folsom, R.
M. Le Gore and Clinton R. Lee assisted
the hostess.
Mrs. Van Brunt entertained fifty
ladles at a kensington this afternoon.
P. Ewlng, Mrs. R. T. Van Brunt and
Mrs. R. D. Stearns. A delectable lunch
eon, with many new features, was
served; the first two courses in the din
ing room, the sweets and coffee In the
library. Miss Blanche Garten and Miss
Jessie Moore supervised the waitresses
in these two rooms; Mrs. J. L. Kellogg
poured coffee. A quartette of stringed
instruments played beautifully In the
upper hall.
The society ball to be given Novem
ber twenty-first by the city Improve
ment society, will be a brilliant func
tion. There has been no charity ball or
similar entertainment given here for
several years, and there is much Inter
est felt In this one. The floor at the
auditorium will be thoroughly cleansed
and waxed. Punch will be served all
evening, and Ice cream and cake can be
secured on the stage. The ticket com
mittee consists of Miss Nella Cochrane,
chairman, and the Misses Helen Welch.
Florence Putnam. Anne Stuart, Wini
fred Bonnell. and Katherine Agnew.
Mrs. C. F. Ladd will have charge of the
decorations, and Mrs. M. H. Everett Is
chairman of the refreshment committee.
The patrons and patronesses will be
Governor and Mrs. Savage, Mayor and