ition period:

Dinner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, April
30; reception tendered to Mrs. Francis, wife of the president of
the Exposition Company, May 9; reception to officers of Army and
Navy, present in and around St. Louis at that time, May 18;
luncheon to General Federation of Women's Clubs, May 19;
luncheon to Miss Roosevelt, May 31; tea to Musical Federation,
June 2; dinner to Prince Pu Lun, the official representative to
the exposition of the Empress An of China, June 10; reception to
foreign representatives at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
June 17; reception to P.E.O.'s, June 18; reception to governors,
and State and Territorial commissioners at the exposition, June
24; dinner to Governor Odell, of New York, and Mrs. Odell, June
28; visit of Cardinal Satolli, July 1; reception to Mrs. Charles
Mercer Hall, July 12; reception to Civic Federation, July 12;
reception to members of Interparliamentary Union, at which time
the building was draped with the flags of all nations, and the
national airs of the different countries represented were played
by the orchestra, September 12; reception to Mrs. Sarah S. Platt
Decker, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs,
September 19; reception to members of the Congress of Arts and
Sciences, September 20; reception to members of the American Bar
Association and Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, September 30;
reception to the president, Mrs. Augustine Smythe, and officers
and members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, October
7; reception to the president, Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, and
officers and members of the National Society Daughters of the
American Revolution, October 11; reception to the governor of
Connecticut and his staff, October 13; tea to hostesses of State
and Territorial buildings, October 14; reception to the
president, Mrs. Herbert Claiborne, and members National Society
Colonial Dames of America, October 20; an informal dance,
October 25; reception to meet the president and members of the
Wednesday Club, of St. Louis, October 29; reception to meet the
members of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, November 3;
reception to meet the president and members of the Woman's Club
of St. Louis, November 7; informal dance, November 9; dinner to
President Francis, November 12;