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TTTTC NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 1011 '0 i. Sfloctotti'. Jim '1 Mi I tern 2 "ri' wmm i i I v. 'F it ItABLC Gr.

XaCi3R. RS. 1 1 sir r. H-fc. Fish.

Mrs. John V. Tlfft of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles O. and James S. Whlteley. Some of those who won prizes were Mrs. Baker, Mrs.

Gleason, Mrs. Kaggs, Mrs. Tawger. ilrs. Grant.

Mrs. Fish, and F. K. Taylor. The decorations were masses of pink roses.

A recent engagement Is that of Miss Charlotte Elliot Lent, daughter of Mr Sarah De Witt Lent, to Irving Howbert of Colorado Springs. Col. Miss Mab: Genevieve Taylor recently entertained a party of young people at her grandfather's home In RIdgewood, N. over the week end. Mrs.

Edjar B. Bronson and Miss Bron-on of the Hotel Tatterson have gone to Lakewood for two months. TKS BOKUEN CARTER ad MMrs. Borden Low of West Tenth Street have returned from eev-( eral months stay In Europe. Mrs.

Van Tine Moody. 174 West Elghty-iventh Street, will give two teas during th month. Mrs. Fablus Maxtmus Clarke, West Klffhty-second Street, enter-tln-d a party of friends at the Charity I1 on Tuesday, with supper afterwards The Alpha Chapter of the Tau-Nu Fra-In the Palm Room of the Waldorf, ternity held Its fourth annual dance at Dr. and Mrs.

L. Livingston Seamon. 2U the Hotel St. Andrew on Friday evening. Ktrth Avenue, gave a reception on Sun- Among the patrons and patronesses were Boulevard last evening.

Zoe Anderson Norris presided, and there was dancing. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Lowenstein of Buckingham Court, 310 West Ninety-ninth Street, gave a novel Valentine party Friday night. Among the guests were Mr.

and Mrs. Leonard Liebllng. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mosler.

Mrs. Eugene Wolff of Buffalo, and Millard lllson. The Misses Houghton of the Plaza are spending the late Winter at Palm Beach. Thomas Kins and family, from Irvlng-ton-on-Hudson, are at the Burlington, 10 West Thirtieth Street for the Winter. day afternoon at their borne.

Mrs. Charles Irving Wilson. 12S East Thirty-fourth Street, is recovering from her re-rent illness, and will soon be able to be cut again. Mr. and Mrs.

James A. Blair of the St. Regis sailed for Europe a short time axo. Mr. and Mrs.

Malcolm McLean have gone to Egypt for the rest of the ninl.i. Mr V. V. Bnanru nf tXra Seventy-fifth Street has at-home cards out for the first and third Mondays. Mrs.

Bertsel, who was Miss Caroline Grace gave a reception a few dayi ago knm in u', inrtti c.nA r-. Mrs. Robert W. Buttlar. Mrs.

W. J. Campbell, Joseph A. Kapp. Mrs.

S. P. Leveridge. James P. Mulhern.

Mrs. George H. Newton. Mrs. Rudolph Prylbil.

Mrs. John P. Reilly, Mrs. Irene E. Storm, Mrs.

Elizabeth Wagner. Mrs. Frederick R. Wood, and Mrs. R.

L. Woolley. The i honorary patrons were C. E. Cosenza.

J. V. Crowne, and George W. McClelland. Mrs.

Carl Junaren crave a dinner for twelve on Tuesday at her home In the at her home, West 107th Street Mra. Apthorpe. Her guests were Mr. and Mrs. Roswell D.

Hitchcock has returned from I Frank Sheppard, Mr. and Mrs. Hart Mr. Europe, where she has been for several and Mra. De Leon and Mrs.

Carol Smith, months, and is stopping with her sister, This was one of a series or affairs that Mra Ilarrimart, at Short Hills, N. J. Mrs. Jungen Is giving. She has planned Mrs.

Edmund J. Godlne. 3o7 West 113th a dinner, a luncheon and a bridge for the Street, will give a larpe bridge party on rnlng fortnight Saturday. Feb. 18.

at the Sherman' Square Hotel. Mrs. Rice Lewis Julian, 2(55 West Peaca announces that Eighty-first Street will give a similar I Count Apponyi's address In Car-party on Friday. Feb. 24, at the Hotel neale Hall on Feb.

13 will be the occasion Belmont Mrs. James Osborne gave a on of tho greatest peace meetings bridge party on Saturday a week ago evr held 1,1 clty- Setn Low Pre-and a second one on Monday at the Sher- slde' Andrew Carnegie will deliver an adman Square Hotel. There were about i dres" of welcome, and Baron von Hengel-forty players at each party. Austro-Hungarlan Ambassa- dor, will be a guest of honor. The com mittee which Is preparing for the event Is as follows: Robert Erskine Ely, Chair The charity ball of the International Geneva Association will take place on Feb.

23 at the Lexington Opera House. Terrace Garden: The association consists of hotel and restaurant employes. The officials are August Stender, President: Louis Horvath. Vice President: Henry Malgren. Secretary, and Bernard Sticks, Treasurer.

Representatives from the Troy, Kingston, and Syracuse Chapter attended the fourth annual luncheon of the National Society Daughters of the Empire State on Thursday at the Waldorf. The luncheon a under the direction of Mr. E. H. Ffrter.

Several new members were ad--nltted to the society after the luncheon ni musicale. which was In charge of Hia Lur Sedgwick Collins. man; Samuel T. Dutton. Hamilton Holt Frederick Lynch.

William H. Short. John Skotthy, and Imre Josika de Hercxeg. The Misses Peck of 125 West Eighty-sixth Street gave a dinner last Sunday evening in honor of Alfred Hertz, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House. The Entertainment Committee of the Ohio Society of New York announces that arrangements have been completed for the dinner dance to Its members and friends on Monday evening, Feb.

13, at the Hotel Plaza. The six hundred and twelfth dinner of the Twilight Club will take place to-morrow evening at Mouquln's new restaurant. Ma Florence Guernsey gave a brldre Th ubject of the evening will be The Prty on Tuesday evening at her home. Tyranny of the Press," and Col. Charles 5 Eighty-sixth Street Her guests W.

Fuller will preside. Among the speak- Mr. and Mrs. William Jerome Mr. nd Mrs.

A. 1L Oleason. Mr. i Mrs. H.

Grant. Mr. and Mrs. J. F.

lawfor. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence De Witt "ocers, Mr. and Mrs.

F. K. Taylor, Mr. Mrs. Bartow Weeks.

Mr. and Mm. 3. Young; Mr. and Mrs.

I Emdln. r. and Mrs. M. Woolsey, Mr.

and Mrs. L. Hill. Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Baggs. Jph Baggs. Mr. and Mrs. Walter F.

urna. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams. Mra.

r1'" W. Gay Mrs. Gay. by the way. will la March for a trip around the orld-Mr, and Mrs, J.

C. Turner. Victor Mrs- Henry Forney Baker of injor. Clarence A. Rose.

Mra. A. A. era will be John Brooks Leavitt of the New. York bar, the Rev.

Percy Stlckney Grant. D. rector of the Church of the Ascension; Charles Ferguson. Michael Monhan. Harold J.

Learoyd, Channlng Pollock, and Henry Frank. Members of the Sphinx Club will entertain their sweethearts and wives at dinner at the Waldorf on Wednesday, Feb. 15. at 7:30 o'clock. A musical programme bas been arranged for the occasion, and there will be dancing.

The Ragged Edge Club gave a dinner In honor of Eustace Hale Ball at the Cafe POSITIVE ANTlQUJ-REPEDUCTIOKa No. 1 East 46th Street. Mr5th A-venat. REDUCTION SALE (Oh Ifitjr-CerJtoia block) 9 Owing to expiration of lease and preference to removing our goods, we have decided to CLOSE OUT entire stock at a REDUCTION OF 25 and more from regular prices, which have always been very reasonable. 5jiM Tke collection Kr 1 tT-jiX fwture.

originals an replicas Period Mirrors Sconces wtive Objects Italian Terra Cottas and Marbles 2 Mr. and Mrs. William Arthur Bandler of tlie Bennington Corners. 317 West End Avenue, entertained at dinner last Monday evening for Miss Rita Adler of Savannah, Ga. Mr.

and Mrs. Reuben S. Adler of C10 West 71'th Street will give a reception at their home from 4- to 7 o'clock on Saturday, Feb. 18. The Minnetonkah Club (Tammany Hall.

Nineteenth Assembly District) gave its annual entertainment and reception on Wednesday evening at Palm Garden. Dr. J. P. Kelly Is President of the club.

Mra. Charles II. Truax will be at home on Saturdays at 151 Central Park West. Mr. and Mrs.

Edward S. Rothschild will be at home on Saturday from 4 until 6 o'clock at 524 Fifth Avenue. February club night of the City Club. 55 West Forty-fourth Street will take place to-morrow. The evening will be devoted to a discussion of financial prob lems of the city.

Including the budget of 1011. Among the speakers will be William A. Prendergast. Controller: John Purroy Mltchel. President of the Board of Aldermen, and George McAneny, President of the Borough of Manhattan.

The -Art Committee of the City Club announces that an exhibit of pictures of Xew York City will be opened on club night" and will continue for about ten days. The exhibit will contain prints and views of old New York, as well aa oil paintings of New York of to-day. Mrs. Bond Stow. Mrs.

H. B. Kirk. Mrs. Henry Clifford Fulton, Mrs.

Charles F. Lembke. Mrs. Llllias V. Armstrong.

Mrs. D. Oliphant Haynes. and Mrs. Daniel Mills were admitted to membership In the Minerva Club at the meeting held on Monday at the Waldorf.

The luncheon for 300 was preceded by a brief business meeting. At 2:30 there was a musical programme including Bizet's Chanson du Toreador," MacDowell's From an Indian Lodge." and D'Hartelot's In the Great Unknown." Some of the speakers were the Rev. Dr. Chapman, Judge Prltchard of the United States Circuit Court Mra Theodore Roberts, and Prince Swaml Ab-hedenanda. Members of the South Carolina Society are working hard for the success of an evening affair which they are arranging for the benefit of their philanthropic fund.

A dance will be given on Tuesday, Feb. 21, to swell the fund which maintains a scholarship In a South Carolina college. Tickets may be obtained from the President Mrs. Edward Burton Williams. 2 West 101st Street or at the Plaza, where the dance will be given.

The committee includes Mrs. Williams. Mrs. T. Mc-Nair, Mrs.

George B. McAuiiffe, Dr. Wll-mot B. Allen, and Dr. J.

Preston Miller, these last two being associate members. The rsim -i ri be Mra. Bernhardt Wall. Mra. KuUa til wick.

Mrs. Alcott Payne. Mrs. Sturgia S- Dunham, and Mrs. Will iam W.

Headrlck, Philip Moxom of Springfield. and Mlaa Mabel Powers of Rochester, N. will speak. The Hospitality Committee Includes Mrs. O.

X. Dana. Mrs. Carl M. Vail.

Mrs. Burnett Clark, and Miss The session will open at 2 o'clock. The Lincoln memorial celebration to be held by the Long Island Forum at Vic-tort Hall. Port Washington. L.

this afternoon at 3:30 win consist of the following programme: Chairman Commander William H. Patterson of Mott Post 827. Department of New York; Lincoln's Gettysburg speech read by Thomas Thurston of Adam Gosa Post .330. Department of New York: violin solo. "My Country 'Tis of Thee." Douglas Littleton; vocal solo by Mrs.

Maurice J. Engle, and address by Hugh Gordon Miller. On Sunday. 12. the Long Island Forum, of which Peggy Littleton.

(Mrs. Martin W. Littleton.) Is President will have Samuel Gompers, President of the American' Federation of Labor, as Its speaker for the afternoon. The Club Leaders' Club of the Educational Alliance gave a dinner last evening at Zeitlen's Cafe. 231 Grand Street A musicale and tea will be given at the Waldorf-Astoria on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 P.

M. by the Ladles' Aid 8oclety of the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children. The proposed dance to be given by the Mexico Society of New York to Senor Ca-sasus, the Special Mexican Ambassador, will take place on Thursday evening. Feb 16. probably at the Plaza.

Mrs. Bryan L. Kennelly of 60 West Fiftieth Street, gave a luncheon and theatre party yesterday for her daughter. Miss Marguerite Kennelly. Among those In viterl i.

Lmai Carroll, Greta Hosteller. Marjorie Cleveland. w. Ntoln. Aiarjorle Noyes.

Dorothy MarJOrle Bryan' Katherin- Shaw. Mildred Dodge. Miriam Harriman. Martha LMHer Dorothr Taylor, Helen Hofstott Julia Dick. Gertrude Mali.

Mary Bovee. Margaret Schleffelin. Lillian Sills. Sibyl Young. Rosamond Sills, Marguerite Walker, and Mrs.

Clarence A. Peacock. A reception to follow a business meeting will be given on Tuesday at the Plara by the. Texas Club. There will be music by a number of Texnn ohi.i.

t. IHS will begin at 2:30. On Tuesday tho fifth i prepared by the proteges of the Free Industrial School for Crippled Children will be served. The luncheon will follow the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Manaxrera tn k.m o'clock. There will be a short programme of songs and dances, also bv hiMn of the school are: Mrs.

Arthur A lllntl IPl.h irgiutruw Airs, vwmam Samuel Hawk and Mrs. Charles Thorley. Honorary Vice Presidents! r- Smith, Mrs. S. 3.

Blood. Mrs. F. Llodgett. Mrs.

W. J. Toomev. Mr inhn Williams, Mrs. C.

H. Hilllard. Mrs. Foster Coates. Mrs.

Walter Scott Mrs. F. S. Gerrlah. Mrs.

James Merriaew. Mrs. W. DuBols. Mrs.

C. W. Dpun tm Thomas Lewis, Mrs. E. D.

Whaley, Mrs. E. A. Treat Mrs. J.

P. Flske and Mrs Whitney Lyon. Vice Presidents: MV v. D. Jones.

Treasurer; Miss Guernsey and Mrs. H. K. Lawf ord. Secretaries.

Mr and Mrs. John Inglls. Mrs. Charles A. Younger, Mrs.

F. X. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wagner.

Mrs. Edwin Archer. Mrs. E. Lloyd.

Mrs. C. A. Collman. Mrs.

H. Watson. Mrs. F. Churchill.

the Misses. Elsie Voget, Grace Turreck, Laura Hag man," Evelyn Phillips. Irene aad Katherlne Lloyd. Alice Drake. Alice 8to-eckle.

Marlon CroIV Dorothy Cramer, Minnie May Belcher, Madeline Crof ts. and Louise Cuahmaa; Messrs. Frank Conner, Herman Wunderllch, J. Christopher, Marks, Harry Bobsln. Fayette A.

Wheeler. Joscelyn O. Marks, J. N. Black, Harry Doughty.

J. H. Fill I an, William Firth, and F. W. Hunter.

Miss Florence O'Brien. 110 West Eighty-first Street gave a bridge party on Wednesday afternoon at her home. On Friday. Feb. 24.

there will be a breakfast given at the Plaza Hotel for Mrs. Esther Mrs. James Harmon Dinwiddle. 318 West Eighty-fourth Street gave a reception 6a Thursday afternooa for Mrs. Jefferson Davis.

Jr. Waldorf. There waa music and tea. and the afternooa one. of the pleaaantest In the history of the society.

It was President's Day, and the heads of the various women's clubs of Greater New York were Invited aa the club's special guests. The Dinner Committee of the Steuben County Society, consisting of Richard E. Enrlght Edmund Jones, and Avery McDougall. arranged an interesting programme for the annual dinner of the society, at the Hotel Marlborough last evening. 'The guests of the evening were Thomas Carmody.

Thomas F. Grady, John B. Stanchfield. William J. Tiilly, and the Rev.

William Wilkinson. David N. Carvalho of Breezy Point. Far Rockaway. announces the betrothal of his daughter.

Claire Nunes, to Her bert Alexander Weiller. A regular of Post Parliament will be held on Friday at the Waldorf at 10:30 o'clock. The position of the Oriental In the United States wUl be the subject for discussion, and will be presented by the Chairwoman of the Political Science Committee, Mrs. W. O.

Brown. Ouest wUl be admitted at 11:30 o'clock. -A regular meeting of the Theatre dub will be held at the Astor on Tuesday afternoon. The Executive Board will convene at 1 o'clock of the same day. Mrs.

Frances Carter will read from Much Ado About Nothing," and Mrs. Henry Loy Easton will present "The Havoc." and Invite discussion from the floor. Guests will be admitted at o'clock. The date for the next social meeting Is Tuesday. Feb, 21; subject.

The Problem Play. Mr. and 1 Mrs. Paul Rhelnhardt Mls Clara Baumgarten, have returned from their wedding trip to Bermuda and are at the Hotel Ootham. Mrs.

Thomas IL Leggett of Plalnfleld. N. Is spending the week-end at the Gotham. The joint Association of Cloak and Suit Buyers and Cloak and Suit Manufacturers will give a dinner at the Waldorf on Tues day evening, Feb. 14.

Among the speakers will be Congressman Force of Illinois, Chairman of the House Naval Committee; Dr. Frank Oliver Hall, pastor of the Divine Trinity Church, and Louis Bran-dels of Boston. There will be a meeting of the New York Browning Society on Wednesday at the Waldorf, with Mrs. Charles Appleton Terry In charge of the The Soul's Tragedy will be under discussion. A reception and tea for members of the Daughters of Ohio In New York- will be held in the banauet room nf ih woM-f on Monday.

Feb. IS. At the meeting of held a short time ago at the home of the President Miss Laura Skinner, the following programme waa arranged for the remainder of th season: eo. 13. members' reception and tea; Feb.

21. card party for the benefit of the PhlJanthropic Fund, to be held at tne nome or Mrs. D. Oliphant Haynes, 11 West Ninety-fourth Street. Mrs.

Ernest Kent Coulten to have charge of arrangements; Feb. 28, a reception at the home of Mrs. C. C. Shayne.

5S2 West End Avenue; March 30, meeting devoted to art. wittt Mrs. Elizabeth Gowdy Baker in charge, assisted by Miss Melva Wilson and Mrs. Edgar Ward; April 10, annual card party. Miss Frances Lurklns, hostess of the day; April 17.

Easter Monday, annual reception and dance at the Waldorf. At this function, the Entertainment Committee will be supplemented by a committee of young people, sons and daughters of members. The date has been set In the holiday season in order that those In college may enjoy the hospitality of the club. Mav 10. the season will close with a reception and musicale.

Among the patronesses for the last of the series of concerts to be given on Sun day a week from to-day at Duryea's by Edwin Franko Goldman and his orchestra are Mrs. Samuel Adler, Mrs. Randolph Guggenhelmer. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau.

Mrs. Martin Beck hard. Mrs. M. Bishop.

Mrs. Alfred Blumenthal, Mrs. Martin Co hen, Mrs. XL W. Cross, Mrs.

A. 8. Guggenhelmer, Mrs. Julius Hart Mrs. A.

Joseph. Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, Mrs. Leon ard K.

Klauber. Mrs. Arnold Kohn. Mrs. Walter T.

Kohn. Mrs. Lee Kohns, Mrs. D. Korn.

Mrs. Slgmund Lehman, Mrs. S. Marks. Mrs.

George W. Naumberg. Mrs. Julius Prince, Mrs. Arthur L.

Solomon, Mrs. F. Sulzberger, and Mra. H. F.

L. ZiegeL -IB III Dr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Marks of 134 East Forty-sixth Street entertained the International Art Society on Monday evening at their home with a musicale and reception.

Some of those who con tributed to the evening's programme were Miss Daisy Lee Crooks. Miss Adelaide Van Cott. Miss Irene Lloyd. Mrs. E.

J. Sutton. J. II. Fllllan.

and J. M. Black. Supper was served after the music Some of the guests were Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Kidder. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Mackay, inspection cordially vifet. Hanging Lantern finished in Gold A nttque Coier.

64 inches A Great Variety of Foods may be added to your table service if you will visit any of our branches and inspect and make careful comparisons of the extent and of the quality at price of our largest stocks- of pure foods greater in size, more appealing in variety and freshness than any other similar stocks in the United States. IVe cordially invite visitors, whetlicr to jntrcliase or not. Prompt 'phone service, deliveries by wagon prompt Catalogue gladly mailed anjrwkere, deliveries out of town. PARK TELFORD Fifth Avenue and 4h Strr Filth Aveoue and 5-th Street Rroadwav and 41st Street Broadway and tuth Street Broadway and 101 at Street Columboa Aveaoe and 724 Street Ijtoo Avesae and l-ftb Street Sixth Avenue, near 9th Street The League for Political Education announces a series of lectures at the Hudson Theatre on four Saturday mornings In February, by John G. Brooks on The Personal by Dr.

Tamel Kin on China. Old and New by Glff ord Pin-chot on The Conservation of National Resources." and by Josephine P. Peabody on Social Poems." Miss SylvlaPankhurst will deliver a special lecture at the Hotel Astor under the auspices of the league on My experiences aa a Suffragette in a London Prison on Friday, Feb. 17. Th era about 300 members and guests at the annual meeting and mu sicale given a short time ago by the J-r dies' Auxiliary of the Washington Heights Hospital.

The President Mrs. Adolph Heller, made an. address, followed by the Treasurer's report by Mrs. S. Marcus Harris, and then Mrs.

de Rivera and Mrs. McLean were Introduced as the speakers of the afternoon. There was a good musical programme, followed by a social hour and tea. On this occasion a diamond La Valllere was raffled and was won by Mrs. Josephine Bonne.

The auxiliary reports progress In Its work, and has Increased Its membership by 100 during the last year. Mrs. George Washington Hill, 2CS West Ninety-first Street, was at home yesterday afternoon from 4 until 7. Miss Helen Miller, daughter of Mrs. Anthony Miller.

First Place, Brooklyn, waa married on Thursday, Jan. at her mother's home, to Arthur W. Metz. son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Metz, 684 St. Nicholas Avenue, -The marriage service was solemnized by the Rev. A. C. Wilson.

The bride wore a gown of white chiffon over satin, trimmed with old point lace. Her veil was also of old point. She was given away by her brother, William Anthony Miller, and was attended by her niece. Miss Marlon Kilgarriff. Harry Metz waa best man.

Mr. and Mrs. Metz will return to New York in June, after a trip West On Thursday the members of the Composite Lodre. F. and A.

under the leadersh' of the Master, Brother Michael L. Levy, held their annual entertainment of songs, violin, solos, and monologues at Palm Garden. Dancing rounded out the evening's pleasure. Mrs. Samuel Jarvls.

645 West 111th Street was hostess at a bridge party on Wednesday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Harry Cameron Grant will give a bridge on Wednesday evening, Feb. 15. at her home.

236 West Seventy-fifth Street. Mrs. Minthome Woolsey, 250 West Ninety-fourth Street, has sent out Invitations for a large bridge party which she will give on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 28, In the Waldorf. Mrs.

Herbert Brunswick Harding gave a dinner party on Friday evening. She entertain with a card party on Tuesday. Feb. 21, in the evening. Mra.

T. D. Semple gave a reception for Mrs. Seaman sv few days ago at he? home In Central Park West Mrs. Sidney Barry Whltlock gave a large bridge party on Thursday in the new assembly room of the Hotel Martinique.

Some of her 100 guests were Mrs. Irving Smith, Mrs. Bartow S. Weeks, Mrs. Lewis Berg, Mrs.

J. F. Deems. Mrs. Otis Smith, Mrs.

H. L. Gaige, Mrs. W. Simmons, Mrs.

Albert Haustetter, Mrs. E. N. Rowlett. Mrs.

P. L. Crovat. Mrs. Clarence Eagle.

Mrs. W. Warthln Dunn. Mrs. S.

K. Farrington. Mrs. Minthorne Woolsey, Mrs. L.

C. Wllweil. Yesterday the New York Mozart Society held a musical afternoon at the Astor. There was a good programme, in which Alfred Robyn, Miss Grace Kerns, Miss Marguerite Dunlap, Victor Ball lard. Annie Louise David, Frederick Gunster, Henry Mikulskl, and Anna Jewell participated.

A talk on famous people will be given by J. IL Johnston on Friday, Feb. 17, at Happy Day House, 238 Second Avenue. The speaker will give personal recollections of people he has met among them' Charles Dickens. Sir Edwin Arnold, Walt Whitman, Henry Ward Beecher, and Mme.

Jumel. A buffet luncheon will follow the lecture. Mrs. Henry Forbes Kid dle has charge oT the tickets. Banks of ferns and palms made a pleasing background for the receiving party at the reception given on Tuesday by the Society of New York State Women at the Miss Amy Treadwell Munsen and John Bensen were married last evening In Albany.

The bride Is a daughter of Mrs. Samuel Munaon, ex-State Vice Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and now a member of the Board of Directors of the State Society. Mr. and Mrs. Bensen will lire In this city.

The wedding was attended toy a number of women front New York, who went up In a special car. At a meeting of the New Yorkers held a short time ago at Hotel Astor the following officers were elected: Mrs. Horace A. Rounds. President; Miss Florence Guernsey.

First Vice President; Miss Helen Varlck Boawell. Second Vice President; Mrs. Olive Stott Gabriel. Recording Secretary; Mrs. Mary Lilly.

Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Henry H. Russell. Treasurer; Mrs. George H.

cmiae, Auai-tort Mesdames A. M. Palmer. Charles ra.vin. Leila D.

Tholens. H. Herbert KnnwlM. Frederick Eddy. William Pnrt.r John Sherwln Crosby, Charles X.

Mills; the Misses Sara Esterbrook. Sara Palmer, and Leonora O'Rourke, Directors. h- nra of the season given by the New YoTkers took place Friday ve- nlncr Hotel Astor. une tnairman, Mrs. Edward W.

Hooke, was assisted by the following committee: Mrs. T. W. O. Cook.

Mrs. Frederick Eddy. Mrs. Rufus B. Cowing, Mrs.

William E. Wilkinson; also, Messrs. Edward W. Hooke, T. G.

F. Hooke, Horace A. Rounds. John Gilirallon, V. McDonald.

J. F. Smith. Joe Lilly. H.

Andrus, Charles II. Dowd, George Miner, and Charles Wood. On Friday evening the A. A. A.

of the College of St. Francis Xavler will hold Its sixth annual dance at Delmonlco's. This dance, which Is always largely attended by the members of the younger Catholic set has continually grown In favor, and the final arrangements, which have been completed, give every Indication that the affair this year will surpass In brilliancy and attendance all previous ones. Dancing will be continued until midnight when supper will be served. During supper a special musical programme will be given.

Among those who will receive are Mes--dames L. Mortimer Brownell. W. Cairns, William Dempsey. Edward J.

Kelly, John L. Kranch, Edward D. W. Langlcy, Thomas J. McVlnew.

Guernsey Taylor, Cornelius Cronln. Daniel Donohue, Francesco Fanclulll, Elizabeth T. Keen. J. J.

Hayes, Thomas Mulry, William W. Sullivan, and Vinton G. Yearance. Owing to fh Illness of the Rev. Sister M.

Vincent ian, the Superior of St. Gabriel's Academy, the Alumnae Association will postpone the annual reception until the Lenten season. There will be an Informal luncheon, bridge, and euchre the latter part of February. The newly elected officers of the association are Mrs. -M.

J. Gross, President; Mrs. C. W. Shaw, Vice President: Mrs.

Charles H. Chrystal, Treasurer; Miss Anna H. Mullen. Financial Secretary; Miss Mary McMacklln, Corresponding Secretary. Great Iimcirease in Dry' Goods Advertisins In January The New York Times published 21 8,889 lines of Dry Goods advertisements, compared with 1 7 1 ,578 lines in January, 1910, an increase of 47,31 1 lines striking testimony to its efficiency as a medium for high class advertising.

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