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BROOKLYN LIFE. 15 i LIKE the brook the annual Charity Ball continues to run on no matter who may come or who may go. In truth it continues to be the thing to go, as it has been since the ball was instituted some forty years ago. It has survived many social regimes and seen institutions like the Patriarchs pass into history without losing its individuality as fashionable function, and that in spite of the fact that it is a semi-public affair safeguarded against social deterioration only by the tact and vigilance of a committee. The secret of its success is no doubt the fact that the charity for which it is given, "The Nursery and Child's Hospital," has succeeded in retaining the active allegiance of families of position and influence.

The Charity Ball on Thursday evening of last week differed in no essential respects from those of the recent past. It was held at the Waldorf-Astoria and about three thousand attended. The decorations, as usual, were very attractive and there were three orchestras, so that music was furnished continuously, and there was no cessation of dancing. Lander's orchestra of sixty pieces played in the big ball room, and there was another orchestra in the Astor Gallery, and a third stationed between the Myrtle and East rooms. The ball was opened with the inevitable grand march led by the floor committee, headed by its chairman, Mr.

George H. Sullivan. Among the committeemen were Mr. Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Pierrepont, Mr. Alfred Wagstaff, Mr.

T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, Mr. Alexander M. Hadden, Mr.

J. Duane Livingston and Mr. Arthur Schermerhorn. Following the committee came the ladies of the board of managers, among whom were Mrs. Algernon S.

Sullivan, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Mrs. Edward J. Berwind, Mrs.

Henry C. Eno, and Mrs. Charles F. Roe, and these were followed by Brigadier-General and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, and Rear-Admiral and Mrs.

Joseph B. Coghlan, at the head of a large representation of army and navy officers and their wives. Mrs. Coghlan wore a costume of white chiffon with black satin and jet applique. The corsage was ornamented with pink rosebuds 'and she wore the same blossoms in her hair Mrs.

Grant wore point lace over pale yellow satin and a collar of diamonds and necklace of pearls. The box-holders, nearly all of whom entertained guests of the dancing set, included Miss Charlotte Stillman, who had with her Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, Miss Greenway, Dr.

Keator, Mr. G. C. Greenway, Mr. E.

Hubert Litchfield. Mr. Guy R. Mc-Lane, and Mr. Frank H.

Simmons Mrs. J. B. F. Herreshoff, Mr.

and Mrs. John Claflin and Mr Henry Lansing Wardwell. As usual the members of different subscription dance sets formed little cliques or parties by themselves. Among the dancers were noticed Miss Lucie Mayo-Smith, Miss Lillian Barr, Miss Dorothy Wardwell, Miss Wilhelmina Claflin and Miss Laura Page, and Mr. Thomas Achelis.

MRS. FREDERICK WILLIAM TOENNIES, Who before her marriage was Miss Grace Wierum, Mrs. Toennies is quite as active musically as socially, being the possessor of an uncommonly beautiful voice. OWING to the recent death of the bride-elect's grandmother, Mrs. Elias Lewis, no formal invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Anna Kirk Valentine and Mr.

James Willets, of Glen Cove, Long Island, which is fixed for the evening of the fourteenth, St Valentine's day. The marriage ceremony will be according to the form of the Quakers, which religious denomination both families are members. Both bride and groom are representative of Colonial Long 'sland stock. Miss Valentine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Stephen Valentine of ill St. Mark's avenue, is a granddaughter of the late Samuel K. Valentine on the one side and the late Elias Lewis on the other, both prominent men of their day in Brooklyn. Her fiance is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Willets of Glen Cove. CARDS have been issued by Mr. and Mrs. Milton Pople Bagg for the marriage of their daughter, Miriam Post Bagg to Mr. George Phelps Fort at the Church of the Incarnation at eight o'clock on the evening of Monday, February nineteenth.

Miss Bagg will be attended by Miss Ruth Travers, a cousin as maid-of-honor and six bridesmaids Miss Gertrude Baldwin, Miss Genevieve Lawrence, Miss Madeleine Nichols, of Brooklyn Miss Anna Van Wickle, of New Rochelle, N. Y. Miss Stella Austin, of Darien, Conn. and Miss Charlotte Fitch of Buffalo. Mr.

Henry Cameron Eldert will act as groomsman and the ushers-elect are Mr. William Lapham Fort, of Montclair, N. J. a brother of the groom, Mr. Robert Milton Bagg, the bride's brother, Mr.

Charles H. Pearson of Montclair, N. J. and Mr. Arthur S.

Moore, Mr. Leonard W. Bates and Mr. John A. Jansen of this city.

A reception will follow at the home of the bride's parents, 126 New York avenue. The bride elect was graduated from the Packer Institute in 1004 and Mr. Fort is a Columbia graduate of the class of '09. The announcement of their engagement in January was followed by a number of luncheon and card parties in honor of Miss Bagg. AT five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, the twenty-first, in the Church of the Redeemer, the marriage of Miss Mary Ethel Campbell, niece of Mr.

and Mrs. William Davies Eynon, of 40 Second place, with whom she has always lived, and Mr. William Davies Sammis will be solemnized. Miss Dorothy Cowperthwait, daughter of the bride's cousin, Mrs. Frederick S.

Cowperthwait, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, will act as maid of honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss Florence Griffin, another cousin, and Miss Jeanette Perkins, of Westfield, New Jersey, niece of the groom. Mrr Richard Aubrey Burger, of Mamaroneck, will serve as best man and those who are to act as ushers are Mr. Robert Mortimer Cone and Mr. John A. Walsh of Manhattan, Mr.

J. Merryman Walker and Mr. Nathaniel L. Miller. -v Ik MISS ADDIE BURGESS MURR.

A member of the committee responsible for the success ol the recent theatre party for the benefit of the Adelphi Alumnae Fund..