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BROOKLYN LIFE. 8 Mrs. Gray and Miss King in receiving were Miss Ruth Howard, in dotted blue silk, with Valenciennes collar; Miss Jessie Moore, in blue and white foulard, trimmed with white lace; Miss Mollie Maxwell, in white nainsook and Valenciennes lace; Miss Marie Murray, in fawn-colored cash mere, with white silk yoke; Miss Nathalie Wierum, in white silk, trimmed with blue, and Miss Julia Barr, in white organdie, over blue silk. Mrs. Sturges Coffin, of Henry street, gave a informal tea for her daughter, Miss Natalie Coffin, last Saturday afternoon.

The receiving party included, besides Mrs. Coffin and Miss Coffin, Miss Anna Matheson, Miss Natalie Morrison, Miss Grace Knowlton, Miss Rosamond Low and Miss Louise Hewlett. There were a great many callers during the afternoon, including almost all of the junior set of the Heights. Miss Adelaide Chauncey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Chauncey, has out cards for a tea, in honor of Miss Lord, for this Saturday afternoon, from five until six o'clock. Miss Mary Lowell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney V.

Lowell, of 164 Columbia Heights, gave a card party last Wednesday evening, for her guest, Miss Searle. Mrs. Edward R. Betts, Mrs. Herbert M.

Betts and Miss Emily Betts, of 1234 street, have out cards for Wednesday, April nineteenth, from four until seven o'clock. THE marriage of Miss Mabel Dickerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Dickerson, to Mr. Charles J.

Mcllvaine, of Philadelphia, which, as previously announced in these columns, will take place on Tuesday afternoon, April twenty-fifth, at five o'clock, in the Church of the Messiah, promises to be one of the most interesting events of the latter' THE engagement of Miss Grace Maxwell, daughter of Eugene Lascclles of Eighth avenue, to Mr. Donald G. Geddes, sori of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Geddes, of Washington avenue, has been the special topic of interest in Brpoklyn society since I last wrote.

Miss Maxwell made her formal debut in society a year ago last Autumn, and has enjoyed a high degree of social success. She has also proved herself one of the cleverest young women golfers in Brooklyn, and, if I remember rightly, has taken several prizes in tournaments over the Dyker Meadow course. The Maxwells, it need not be said, are one of the most representative and substantial families in Brooklyn. The earlier generations" were residents of New York when Lispenard street, where they lived, was in the most fashionable part of the city, i They are in one line, believe, lineal descendants of Theobald Wolfe-Tone, the famous Irish patriot of the last century. Mr.

Geddes is one of the best-known and with due regard to the true meaning of the term most popular men of his age in Brooklyn. His predilections are rather in the direction of the woods and outdoor life than toward scenes of social gayety, and he much prefers a day with a dog and gun to any number of dinner invitations or cotillon lavors. He. is a capital shot with both rifle and shotgun, having brought down several moose in the course of his Autumn pilgrimages to the Maine wilderness, and enough clay pigeons in trap-shooting matches to win him a considerable number of prizes. At one time, he played on the old Crescent football team, and since the Dyker Meadow Club was organized has devoted much of his leisure time to golf.

His personal qualities are such as to command the hi zhest esteem and most genuine friendship. Mrs. Eugene Maxwell and her two daughters expect to sail for Europe part of the month. Miss Dickerson will be attended by her sister, Miss Edna Dickerson, as maid-of-honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss Alice Lowell and Miss Florence Lowell, of Brooklyn; Miss Bessie Jones, of Manhattan, and Miss Mcllvaine, of Philadelphia, a sister of the groom-elect. After the ceremony, which will be performed by the Rev.

Dr. Cuyler, assisted by the Rev. St. Clair Hester, there will be a large reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs.

Dicker-son, 366 Washington avenue. The piazzas will be enclosed, leading out to a tent which will be erected in the garden, where the supper is to be served. The day after the wedding, Mr. Mcllvaine will sail with his bride for a six weeks' trip through England, and on their return they will take possession of a very attractive house in the suburbs of Philadelphia. LAST week, Thursday, Dr.

and Mrs. J. Eliot Langstaff, of 19 Seventh avenue, gave a birthday dinner for Dr. Lewis J. Langstaff, and Mr.

William D. Gaillard, of Charleston, S. C. The table decorations were daffodils and pansies. Instead of dinner cards, at each place, were flowers, sent directly from their distant homes violets from the South and ferns from Canada.

Dr. and Mrs. Langstaff's other guests on this occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lutkins, Miss on the tenth of June, to spend the summer in travelling through Russia and the Scandinavian peninsular, returning in September MR.

JOHN MAXWELL, of Eighth avenue, and Mr. Howard Cowperthwait, of Manhattan, who have been making a trip through Egypt, accompanying Miss Louise Maxwell, Miss Edith Gibb, and a chaperon returned home about a fortnight ago, leaving the ladies at Naples. Miss Maxwell and Miss Gibb intend to travel leisurely across the continent, spending some time in Paris and London, and returning to this country the latter part of July. Mrs. Edward H.

Litchfield, accompanied by her two daughters, Miss Madeleine and Miss Marion Litchfield, and Miss Mary Stillman and Miss Amy Willets, sailed by the Lucania for Liverpool last Saturday. They expect to return in time for the class day exercises and festivities at Harvard University, where Mrr E. Hubert Litchfield will receive his degree in June. Mr. and Mrs; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr.

William Waldorf-Astor, Miss Pauline Astor, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Burden, Mr. and Mrs.

E. C. Potter, and Mr. Barton Willing, also sailed on the same steamer. THE marriage of Miss Marion L.

Smith and Mr. William Sterling Peters will be very quietly celebrated at the residence of the bride-elect's uncle and aunt, Mr, and Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen, ioi Willow street, on the twenty-sixth of Mabel Lanestaff. Miss Lottie Langstaff.

Miss Marie Planten Miss Jennie Hall; Miss Josephine Walton, of Georgia; Mr. Daniel Hanckel, of South Carolina Miss Ida James and Mr. Harold Vernon Rev. and Mrs. Thornton Bancroft Penfield, of 41 South Oxford street, had as their guest last week, Thursday and Friday, Mrs.

Thompson, who, before her marriage in Berlin to the late Professor Thompson, of Yale University, was, it will be remembered, Miss Uhl, daughter of the ex-Ambassador to Germany. MR. AND MRS. JAMES HUNT PRENTISS, of 77 First place, gave a very enjoyable dance last week, Thursday evening, for their daughter, Miss Marjorie and the members of the class of '99 of Miss Hall's school, of which she is president. The drawing-room was beautifully decorated with pink roses and Easter lilies, while in the dining-room Japanese lanterns and greens were used with excellent effect.

Receiving with Mrs. Prentiss and her daughter were Mrs. Russell Edwards Prentiss and also Miss Mollie Maxwell. Miss Mildred Master, Miss Louise Shelton, Miss May Arnold, Jllo AT nnA AT I 1 a D1 A tit: this month. The ceremony will take place at noon, and neither Miss Smith nor Mr.

Peters will have any attendants. The latter, by the way, was given a farewell dinner at the Crescent Athletic Club last Wednesday by a few of his most intimate friends, who, of course, included Mr. Robins Woodward, Mr. Alfred Norris and Mr. W.

K. Fowler. This week, Saturday, and at the same place, Mr. Peters will in turn give his bachelor dinner. AVERY pretty tea was given last week, Friday afternoon, from four until seven, by Mrs, Percy R.

Gray, of 272 Hicks street, for her sister, Miss Mabel King, and. in spite the- heavy- there were many present. The table -was artistically decorated with yellow daisies. Miss King was becomingly gowned in gray moire, with embroidered chiffon, over red silk, and wore a necklace of coral. Assisting tiss is not yet out in society, the guests were for the most part of the junior set, the Heights being especially well represented..