Show SOCIAL SEASON ON AT WASHINGTON Official Opening in Capital Comes Comes' v From Brilliant Diplomatic matic Reception GORGEOUS GOWNS SHOWN f Foreign Colony Ati Attends BulL Ball III in Kc al Fm Fur S' S e c. c K I JI en In lii former Years cm Y oC Jan alJ 3 3 IW rr l MI- MI o- o 11 t t 0 aill U I Ir ns a aI r l r I I t luTi II o r ot U r r nn anci 1 M. M am ut s ministers rn a host heist of or at attached iches of or the foreign establishments ls l an and hun hundreds hun of oC prominent l men and In official and social life President e ii t arid and Irs hs ts Roosevelt t were us l ted in receiving h by Mr Ir and l h Mrs Ellhu Elihu Root Mr Mi 11 and Mrs fr William lIlIam H. H Taft Taft Mr ah and Mrs Irs Metcalf Mr 11 and amid Mrs Charles N. N Bonaparte Mr Ur timid un Mrs John M. M Shaw an and Mr lr and l i Mrs Ir Jacob Straus Those These with Vice President Charles W. W V. V Fairbanks Chief Justice Fuller all and other othel Supreme court Justices justice and their wives present ont and amid former cabInet cabinet cab cab- inet hiet members and their wives many ninny senators and anti their wives array army navy and marine corps officers and thou wives Mr an and l Mrs Cornelius Vander- Vander bilL bilt Mr Mn and Cornelius N. N Bushi and andr Mr r and l Ir Mrs Andrew Anrew Carnegie were Invited to the time blue room where the receiving party part ha had its station to stand stan In line and tid In receiving gu guests es tB The diplomatic le reception Is Js b by far the most brilliant social event ent of Cf f the Washington season and the tho one to tonight tonight to- to night far fan surpassed In splendor those of or former years i It has often been said that what President Roosevelt believes believes be be- Hevos In doing he believes III In doing doing- well an and the reception to the he diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic corps tonight was no exception tion Gorgeous us have ha been n tho xo- xo re receptions o of or torm former r y years this one surpassed surpassed surpassed sur sur- passed them all in every particular The gowns were exceptionally fine One and represented m millions o of dollars in their construction White predominated predominated pre pre- dominated over oven all though there thelo were man many varl van colored colored gowns owns worn by the tho guests Mrs lr Roosevelt was resplendent ent cut in III a pink broc brocaded ded satin alin gown bown with long lonh train and much lace on the bodice Mrs Irs Cornelius Vanderbilt wore a wonderful gOwn s wn all of white and others of the thc gowns owns were wele mo most t ben beautiful u t I. I |