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Show BIG PARTY FOR LITTLE MISS AST0R ! Just before leaving London for America recently Mrs. John Astor gave a party for her daughter, Alice Muriel, to celebrate the girl's birthday, birth-day, at No. 18 Grosvencr square. The big drawing room was "done" entirely with white flowers lilies and roses. Alice, who is well grown for her age, wore a beautiful silk muslin frock, rather long. It was frilled with very old lace and with a lace fichu. She wore a string of pearls given by her mother and a locket with her father's picture in it, with her initial in pearls and one large diamond on other side. Many children came to the party, including Lady Ancaster's two and Mrs. Rupert Beckett's four, all dressed dress-ed alike in sky blue silk with pink rose wreaths. One of the late Mrs. Gervase Beckett's girls accompanied her cousins in a white muslin frock and black sash. The duchess of Marlborough, who is making her country home her headquarters now, came with Lord Ivor Churchill. Square dances, which were the feature of the party, were perfectly carried out by the children. Lord Ivor had the young hostess as a partner in country jigs. Mrs. Astor wore a gown of rose silk, with roses at her waist, and during the early afternoon a large black hat, which she discarded after tea. |