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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm SWELL SOCIETY SHAKES ITS FEET AND SHOWS ITS SKIN AND JEWELS The swellest event in Chicago's white shirt, with collar and necktie fashionable and exclusive society was pulled off last nigM 4rt the Black stone hotel. It was the assembly ball, the last of the season, and it brought out the most beautiful gowns, the most daz zling jewels, the lowest-necked gowns and whitest skin of society's most select women. And the Chicago Tribune was the belle of the ball. It is customary for society to wine and dine before dancing, so there were numerous dinners at which the members of the 400 were fed the best there was in the Blackstone ice box. The dinner that attracted the most attention was the one given in the English room by Robert Rutherford McCormick, bachelor, and one of the publishers of the Tribune. It was given in honor of Mrs. Amie Irwin Adams, who was divorced last March from Edward Shields Adams, cousin of the host of the evening and of the harvester trust McCormicks. The Day Book fsn't very strong on society gossip, but this morning's Ex aminer, telling about the McCormick dinner, said: "French dancers in powdered wigs entertained the guests, and great golden baskets filled with fruit and tied with pink satin made the table attractive. The table was a horse shoe for good luck and Mr. McCor mick sat at the curve where he could see all of his guests." Mrs. Adams, the guest of honor, appeared "in a white gown cut quite low and scfuare in the neck, and with the filmiest tulle sleeves, had a string of pink roses, shaded to red. draped from her shoulder to the waist line, and it gave her gown and white skin a lovely glow." None of the papers described Mr. Robert Rutherford McCormick's cos tume, but it is fair to assume that he wore black pants, black silk socks, a J to match, suspenders, underwear, a vest cut low in the neck, a spike-tail black coat and a pleasant and hos pitable smile. Among the guests at the exclusive dinner given by McCormick were the following well-known inhabitants of our most exclusive society columns: Mrs. Edward Shields Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Orville E. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. W. Brewster, Air. and Mrs. T. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Cnase, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Cramer, F. Foster Gade, E. L. Hasler, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hamill, Mr. and Mrs F. Johnson, N. Judah, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kirk, Mr. and Mrs. I. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. W. Mar tin, Mr. and Mrs. L. Mitchell, C. Mc Avoy, H. Porter, Miss Rozet. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Atwell Small, Mr. and Mrs. John Towne, Mr. and Mrs. Ber tram Winston and Mr. and Mrs. E. Wren. The other noteworthy dinner in the English room was given by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Medill Patterson, Mr. Patterson being a first cousin of Mr. McCormick and joint publisher of the Tribune with his cousin. At this dinner the guests sat at small tables for six, with centerpieces of baskets of red roses and lilies. The Patterson guests were: Mrs. Wm. G. Neale, Mis? Anita Blair, Mr. and Mrs. J. Borden, Miss Edith Blair, Mrs. McCormick Blair, Mrs. Watson Blair, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Chalmers, Mrs. Hobart Chatfield Chatfield Chat-field-Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cudahy, Mr. and Mrs. John Alden Carpenter, Mrs. Joseph Coleman, Mrs. S. T. Chase, Mrs. C. Ely, Mfi5. Charles King, Mrs. Byron Lathrop, Miss Elizabeth McCormick, Mrs. Ed ward S. Moore, Mrs. Arthur Meeker, Miss Meeker, Mrs. C. B. Pike, Mrs. Herbert Schwartz. Altogether it was a great night for the Tribune and the 400. The crystal ballroom was decorat- &4tft.vi&& MMBMiMm-- M