cember 17, 1916.

| =TEAS, DINNERS, LUNCHEONS= |
| |
|Miss Alice Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward|
|T. Williams, was presented to society yesterday |
|afternoon at a tea in the home of her parents, 1901 |
|Eighteenth Street. Miss Williams was born in |
|Shanghai, China, during her father's connection with|
|the United States legation there, and she has lived |
|most of her life in the Orient. Mr. Williams was |
|charge d'affaires of the United States at the time |
|of the recognition of the new Chinese republic. At |
|the time of the outbreak of the war in Europe Miss |
|Williams was a student in Paris. Mr. Williams is now|
|the head of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs in the|
|State Department. |
| |
|Mrs. Williams presented her daughter, with no |
|assistants save three of her daughter's young |
|friends, Miss Helen Miller, Miss Virginia Puller and|
|Miss Ethel Christiensen, who presided in the dining |
|room. The drawing room and dining room were both |
|transformed into bowers of blossoms, sent to the |
|debutante, which were charmingly arranged. Mrs. |
|Miller wore a graceful gown of black net and lace |
|over black satin. The debutante wore a becoming |
|costume of rose silk and silver trimming and carried|
|sweet peas a portion of the afternoon, and the bunch|
|of roses sent by Mrs. Lansing, wife of the Secretary|
|of State, the rest of the time. Miss Miller and Miss|
|Christiensen were each in white net and tulle and |
|Miss Puller wore blue and white.[40] |

[40] _Washington Post_, November 26, 1916.

|Mrs. Fred Enderly, who has recently returned after a|
|long absence in the East, was specially honored with|
|a Halloween birthday dinner given by Mrs. Lottie |
|Logan, of No. 1532 Ingraham Street Tuesday evening. |
|The table was in yellow, with a floral center of |
|chrysanthemums and favors of black cats, diminutive |
|pumpkin people and other suggestive Halloween |
|conceits. The guests were whisked up to the |
|dressing-rooms by a witch, and Mrs. George H. |
|Rector, attired in