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The Week Junior Assemblies. Invitations to subscribe to the Junior Assemblies will go out next week and the announcement of the dates for these extremely popular dances will be warmly welcomed by a number of prospective hostesses who have not wanted to set the dates for different entertainments until they knew positively when the Assemblies were to take place. The dances will, of course, be at the Heights Casino and the first falls on Friday evening, November twenty-eighth. The second will be December thirtieth and the third on April fourteenthboth Tuesdays. Miss Ruth Callender, Miss Jessie K.

Hopkins and Mr. W. Harris Thurston, are the new members of the committee replacing Miss Jean Coutts, who is in mourning, Mrs. Frederick G. Wacker (Grace Cook Jennings), who now lives in Toledo, Ohio, and Mr.

Harold Otis. The other members of the committee are Miss Alice B. Moss, Miss Jean Murray, Miss Dorothy H. Sutphin, Mr. John F.

Adams, Mr. Dean Kalbfleisch, Mr. Robert Mallory, and Mr. Randolph Catlin, who is managing this season's dances. The patroness list shows a number of changes.

In the first place it numbers eight against six of last year. Mrs. George H. Coutts and Mrs. Spencer A.

Jennings have dropped out and both will be greatly missed. Mrs. Jennings has been a patroness ever since the dances were first started and, if we remember correctly, has never missed one of them. Her graciousness and charm, coupled with her keen pleasure in young people, has made her a tremendous favorite and she has done a great deal towards making the Junior Assemblies the great success they have been since their inception. Her eldest daughter, Mrs.

Robinson Leech, is again a patroness; others on the list who also served last year being Mrs. Horatio M. Adams, Mrs. Morris U. Ely and Mrs.

Caswell W. Stoddard. Mrs. Joseph H. Sutphin, who dropped out last year, is again serving and the new names are those of Mrs.

Frederick W. Moss, Mrs. William Murray and Mrs. Calvin Truesdale. A Social Service Congress.

A great deal of mist has surrounded the subject of social service in the minds of the public at large and the forthcoming Social Service Congress under the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute should do much to familiarize Brooklyn people with what is accomplished by this great branch of the world's "forward movement." Social service has been variously looked upon as a new sort of charity, or the altruistic dream of a few enthusiasts. It is neither, but has proved itself, instead, a practical and economic system for extending assistance of every sort, working in cooperation with all the organized charitable societies. It is the new brotherhood of men which sees the need of understanding the human element helping the unfortunate. This congress is intended especially to convey to the people of the borough of Brooklyn a clear idea of the aims, methods and scope of medical social service. The committee in charge includes representatives of the Brooklyn hospitals and dispensaries which have found social service a necessary and vital branch of their work and is as follows: chairman, Miss Helen C.

Wood, Mrs. Charles F. Neergaard, Mrs. F. L.

Cranford, Mrs. Harold I. Pratt. Miss Virginia Chetwood, Mrs. M.

M. Salomon, Mrs. John S. Ranken, Mr. R.

Stuyvesant Pierrepont, Mr. Albert Mason, Rev. George Metzger, Dr. William Lohman, Dr. Eugene L.

Swan and Dr. Louis C. Ager. The congress will be held in the Lecture Hall of the Academy of Music on November eleventh at eight-fifteen o'clock. The principal speaker will be Dr.

Michael M. Davis, director of the Boston Dispensary, who will talk on "The Aims, Methods and Results of Hospital Social Service." The attitude of the church, the attitude of the medical profession, and the attitude of the business man towards social service will be presented respectively by the Rev. John H. Lathrop of the Church of the Saviour, Dr. Louis C.

Ager and Mr. Harold I. Pratt, president of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Hospital. Judge Norman S. Dike will preside.

Wedding of Miss Helen B. Jourdan. Miss Helen B. Jourdan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

James Henry Jourdan, has chosen Tuesday, November the eighteenth, as her wedding day. Miss Jourdan is to marry Mr. Sumner Ford, son of Mrs. Richard Thomas Pullen of 888 Carroll Street. The ceremony will take place in the afternoon, at four o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents, 39 Monroe Place.

Two Dances to be Given by Mrs. Henry Bowers. Mrs. Henry Bowers of 57 Montgomery Place will entertain in December with two small house dances in honor of Miss Alice Isabel Blum, the daughter of Mrs. Edward- C.

Blum. These dances, coming on Thursday and Friday evenings, December eleventh and twelfth, promise to be among the most interesting planned for a this in Society. Still More Debutantes. still continue to be announced for the coming season and it now looks as if this would be a banner year. Four more were added this week to the already long list, Miss Anna K.

Meurer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Meurer of 266 Lincoln Place; Miss Thirza Spadone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Warren Spadone of 208 New York Avenue; Miss Mildred B.

Lehrenkrauss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lehrenkrauss of 299 Sterling Place, and Miss Marion B. Peterson, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Jonathan Peterson of 746 St. Mark's Avenue. Miss Meurer will not make her bow at the conventional tea but at a large dance given at the Heights Casino on Thursday evening, December eighteenth. The same is also true of Miss Spadone, the date of her dance at the Heights Casino being Friday, December twenty-sixth.

Miss Peterson, who is a Briarcliff girl, will be introduced by her mother at a home reception from four until seven o'clock on Tuesday, December twenty-third. A dinner and dance will follow in the evening. Saturday, December sixth, is the date of Miss Lehrenkrauss's She will be presented at an afternoon reception given by her mother. Mr. Earl Curtis Gillespie Engaged.

Mrs. K. M. Dixon of Ithaca, N.Y, has announced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Helen Dixon, to Mr. E.

Curtis Gillespie. Mr. Gillespie, who is a Cornell man, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Augustus Gillespie of Woodhaven, L.I., and is very well known in Brooklyn, Miss Ruth Dietrich to Marry, The Flatbush Congregational Church will be the scene of the wedding on Thursday, November sixth, of Miss Ruth Lucile Dietrich to Mr.

Melsom Sabinas Tuttle. The wedding will be at half-past eight o'clock. Miss Dietrich is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Dietrich of 163 Stratford Road.

Wedding Party of Miss Ethel Austin Case. Miss Ethel Austin Case, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Case of 592 Fifth Street, will have a home wedding on Wednesday, the nineteenth of November.

She is to marry Mr. Harold Everett Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Everett Thomas, and the ceremony at -past seven will be performed by the Rev.

Dr. James M. Farrar, pastor of the First Reformed Church. Miss Helen Gertrude Case will attend her sister as maid of honor. A sister of Mr.

Thomas, Miss Edna L. Thomas; Miss M. Estelle Harrower of Amsterdam, N.Y., and Miss Grace L. Lamont will be the bridesmaids. Miss Miriam Austin is to be flower girl.

Mr. Arthur Roland Cummings will act as best man. Mr. E. Halleck Brodhead, Mr.

Earl T. Munkenbeck and Mr. Joseph W. Valentine will be the ushers. The wedding ceremony is to be for the family and intimate friends only, with a reception following.

Miss Mildred M. Armour Engaged. A recently announced engagement is that of Miss Mildred McDonald Armour, daughter of Mr. Theodore S. Armour of 674 St.

Mark's Avenue, to Mr. Alfred Douglas Olena, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus D. Olena of 402 Hancock.

Street. Miss Earl Entertains in Miss Beavers' Honor. The bridge party given on Thursday afternoon of last week by Miss Helen Talbot Earle of 123 Lincoln Road, Flatbush, was in honor of Miss Genevieve Winifred Beavers who is to marry Miss Earle's brother, Mr. William Pitman Earle, on Monday evening, the twenty-seventh. The affair was a complete surprise to Miss Beavers.

Among the guests were Miss Margaret Lewis, Miss Laura Walsh, Mrs. Frank C. Wight, Mrs. John French, Miss Edith Burrell, Miss Jessie Langford, Mrs. George W.

Beavers, Mrs. Richard Young, Miss Jessie Sullivan, Miss Evelyn Beavers, Mrs. Owen Brown, Mrs. William P. Earle.

Miss Bess B. Follan bee, Mrs. George W. Beavers and Mrs. Edgar.

A. Eschman. Plans for Miss Eugenic Lexow's Wedding. Owing to recent deaths in both families, the wedding of Miss Eugenie Lexow and Mr. Kenneth Lydecker, which was to be in November, has been postponed indefinitely, Miss Lexow is a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Allan Lexow of 722 St. Mark's Avenue. Her is a son of Colonel Charles E. Lydecker of 11 East Eighty-first Street, Manhattan.

The "Midwood" Assemblies. The committee for the Midwood Assemblies, which have been the most popular set of dances in Flatbush for the past ten. years, has been selected for the season of 1913, and comprises Miss Ethel Chapman, Miss Helen Morehead, Miss Kathleen Holton, Mr. Douglas Cruikshank, Mr. Bayard Cumrings and Mr.

William Spence. The dates selected for the dances, which will take place at the Midwood Club, are Friday, November twenty-eighth; Thursday, January first, Friday, February twentieth, and Monday, April thirteenth..