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Tke Week in Society. W. Paris of New York and her aunt, by whom she is to be introduced, Miss Katharine Irving Paris, they having- married brothers. HP HE reception given by Mrs. James Henry Gould and the 1 Misses Mary S.

and Emily Pierrepont Gould at their home, 201 West Fifty-fifth Street, Manhattan, on Thursday afternoon was attended by a large and fashionable representation from the Heights, where the Goulds at one time lived. Since their removal to Manhattan the Misses Gould have visited Brooklyn at infrequent intervals. They are nieces of Mrs. Wilhelmus Mynderse, of Joralemon Street. Receiving with Mrs Gould and her daughters were Miss Anna Pierrepont, of this borough, the Misses Harriette and Jessie Stevens, of Englewood, N.J.

Miss Elsie Martin, of Plainfield, N. and Miss Sands, Mrs. Thomas Patterson and Mrs. Charles J. Gleason, of Manhattan.

NO event of the early winter is more anticipated by the debutante set than the dance Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Mason Palmer are to give to introduce their Miss Ethel Josephine Palmer, 'on Wednesday evening of next week. Few 'private homes in Brooklyn are as well arranged for an entertainment of this kind as the Palmer residence, possessing as it does large floor space. Miss Palmer will be assisted in receiving by a group of contemporaries among whom will be her sister, Miss Palmer, Miss Helen Jourdan, Miss Marjorie Speers, Miss Miriam Speers, Miss Kathleen Webster," Miss Mabelle Cromwell, Cornelia Cousins, Miss Grace Van Campen, and Miss Katharine Kennedy.

OF paramount social interest this week is the announcement of the engagement of Miss Esther H. Low, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Low of 58 Remsen Street.

Like her sister, Mrs. John H. Chapman, who was Miss Rosamond Curtis Low, she has given her hand, to a clergyman; the Rev. Francis K. Little, curate, at Emmanuel Church, Baltimore.

Miss Esther Low was presented in the winter of 1907 at a large afternoon reception. She; is a granddaughter of the late William Henry Low and a great-granddaughter of the first Seth Low, father of, the late Abiel Abbot Low. Her sisters are Mrs. Chapman, previously referred whose husband is rector of the Episcopal Church at Ridge- field, Mrs. Herbert A.

Grant Watson, who is now, living in Rio Janeiro, where her husband. is a member of the British Embassy, Miss Lois Curtis Low and. Miss Harriette Low. There are two brothers, Mr. William G.

Low, and Mr. Benjamin R. C. Low. Mrs.

Low was Miss Lois Curtis of the distingished Boston family of that name. GARDS for the wedding of Miss Marion Willetts, daughter of Mrs. Joseph C. Willetts, and Mr. Ernest Cuyler Brpwer, son of Mr.

George V. Brower of 1084 Park Place, were' out last week. The marriage ceremony is to take place in Saint; James's Church, Skaneateles, at half-past twelve o'clock on Wednesday, December the twenty-ninth. Willetts is practically a resident of Skaneateles, as she spends the greater part of the year at her country home near there. The friends of the bride-elect on the Heights are greatly delighted to learn that her future home is to be at 61 Pierrepont WITH the reception to be given by Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Millard sPratt of 241 Clinton Avenue this month for the HP HE announcement of the engagement of Miss Ida May debut of their eldest daughter, Miss Margaret Pratt, a second one of the grandchildren of the late Charles Pratt the first 1 Schieren to Mr. Albert H. Mathews of Manhattan last week created not a little excitement in society. Miss Schieren is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Schieren, of 405 Clinton Avenue. Miss Schieren is a graduate of the Packer Collegiate Institute, class of '96. Her father, was formerly Mayor of the old city of Brooklyn, and during his administration, Miss Schieren christened the cruiser Brooklyn at Cramp's shipyard in Philadelphia.

Mr. Mathews, who is in the real estate business in Manhattan, is the son of the late John Mathews, of South Elliott Place. He is a member of the Baltusrol Golf Club, and is well known both in Brooklyn and Manhattan society. HILE the crop of "buds" in Brooklyn this winter is exceptionally small, conditions in Manhattan are quite the reverse and among the many about to' blossom across the river are several in whom society over here is decidedly interested. Of these Miss Madeleine H.

Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Francis Cook, of 11 East Eighty-second Street, was the first to be presented. Miss Cook made her bow last week" Saturday at a reception given by her mother. Miss Cook's grandfather, Mr.

Joseph Fahys, was for years a resident of Clinton Avenue and the debutante's mother grew up in was Miss Mary t. rauuuu wm ionable world in which her generation is destined to perpetuate uncommonly fine family traditions of not only dignified hospitality but philanthropy, and, in short, all that makes for good in the highest and best interpretation of the word society. Certainly no debutante ever had a rosier path down which to go in the taking of this decisive social Her father's five younger brothers, the Messrs. Frederic Herbert George John and Harold I. Pratt, and their respective wives; her aunt, Mrs.

Ernest Blaney Dane, now of Brookhne, and her uncle by marriage, Mr. Frank L. Babbott, are all bound to her immediate family by singularly close ties and so, without going beyond her own kin, there is a rare amount ot hospitality in store for her. The reception that Mr. and Mrs.

Pratt are to give for their daughter in the height of the holiday season, the afternoon and evening of. the twenty-seventh, will serve also for the introduction of the fiancee oi their second son, Mr. Theodore. Pratt, who is engaged to Miss Laura Merrick of New Orleans. MISS MERRICK was one of the large party that her fiance's parents took up to the Berkshires over Thanks-, givmg.

The party arrived at the Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Brooklyn. In the group receiving with Miss Cook and her on Wednesday evening and remained until jfnaay aiternooii, on Wednesday evening and remainea umn nuay mother were Miss Edith Cook. "Mis. Elizabeth Hoyt, Miss the snow storm reaching there just time to give them Garrctson, Dorothy' Hyde. Miss Ursula Brown, Mrs.

Helen Garretson, "Miss Sylvia Wilds 'and Mrs. Gerard Lambert. good sleighing the day of their departure. On Thanksgiving day there was a jolly New England dinner at the Inn. Besides the four "children of the host and hostess, the other guests included the president of Yale, University and Mrs.

Hadley and Miss Laura Hadley Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Morris, the twenty-fourth, had been set as the date ot 'the viehiit of Miss Katherine Emmons Force, daughter SrLurl rrrK oiUr.

and Mrs. William H. Force, of 64 West Thirty-eighUi lYv in New HaventMr and Mrs. Ray Morris and Dr. rStreet, Manhattan, but the reception wiU, of course be post- US IVrlo Manhattan ned, owing to the death on Sunday of Mrs.

Force's father, Robert T. Morris, of Manhattan. peJt Talmage 216 Eighth Avenue. Both. ON Wednesday afternoon of next week Miss Mary Allison Miss Force.

and hei- younger sister, Miss Madeleine Talmage daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allison Post Swan, who' Force, have spent a great, deal of. time abroad, and have are now residents of Garden City, is to be formally intro- thaf delightful poise manner which much travel gives, duced at a reception to be given by her aunt, Mrs. Edward Henry Swan at the home of the latter, iw liast iniriy-sixiw tih.

nrst oi tne junior wuuiuus i wicwjr a xxj Ci Mmiiott'in Uwppn the hotirs ot tour ana seven 1 brought out, as usual, a large number of debutantes. Among them were Miss Lisa Stillman, who was presented the following Friday Miss Doris Dick, for whom her mother. Mrs. J. Henry Dick, gives a large reception to-day, Saturday, and.

Miss Marjorie Bourne, whose coming out reception was given on Tuesday at the ladies' annex of the Metropolitan Club by her mother, Mrs. Frederick G. Bourne. Mr. Stowe Phelps, dancing with Miss Eleanor Livingston Burrell, led the cotillion, which began just before ten o'clock.

Mrs. Joseph F. Stillman was the only one of the patronesses with Brooklyn affiliations. ON Saturday evening, the eighteenth, will take place at the Navy Yard, Charlestown, the wedding of Miss Madeleine Gray Swift, daughter of Rear-admiral William Swift, for some years attached to the Brooklyn Yard, and Mr. Harry Duer Stbrer.

The latter is the elder son of Mrs. David A. Storer. o'clock. Though the debutante has no personal associations, with Brooklyn, her presentation is invested with some tradK tional interest to society over here apart from the fact 'that there are many friendly ties between her mother's family and some of the older families of the Heights.

This traditional interest "is due to the fact that she is a great-granddaughter of the late Judge Michael who, in his time, was one of the" most distinguished and respected representatives of the New York Bench, and Mary Gracie Ulshoeffer, daughter of the late William R. Gracie, who owned a large area of the Heights arid occupied one of the most imposing mansions on Washington Street, when that was Brooklyn's most fashionable thoroughfare. How long ago that was may easily be imagined. Miss Swan is. also a granddaughter of the late Irving Paris, who was a nephew, of Washington "Irving, and is, therefore, a great-grandniece of "the.

distinguished writer and Her mother was Miss Mary.