[Newspaper]
Publication: The Kentucky Post
Covington, KY, United States
no. 3163, p. 5, col. 6-7
PERSONAL.
(Conducted by Miss Pearl Respess.)
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Mrs. Finnell's Tea.
Notwithstanding the inclement weather of Monday, the gloom immediately dispelled on entering the cheery home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Finnell, in Wallace Place, which was in holiday array to greet nearly 200 guests, who had assembled in response to invitations sent out by Mrs. Finnell and compliment to Mrs. Truett Sellers, of Columbus, O. The entire lower floor was artistically embellished in red and green.
The dining room, which opened into the conservatory, filled with rare, exotic plants, presented a radiant scene, with its rich mahogany fittings and colonial candelabras with red shades, shedding a mellow light on an elegantly gowned assemblage of women. The table, over which Mesdames Stowe Reno, Charles Scott, Samuel Long and Miss Helen Underwood presided, was effectively arranged with vases of red roses, at the base of which were huge red ribbon bows. Mesdames Martin Durette, William McD. Shaw, Alexander Kline, Ernest Sellers, Shelley Rouse, Frank Cross and Thomas Craighead aided in dispensing courtesies. At the head of the stairway a bevy of pretty girls, Mrs. Mattie Belle Bryan, Erma Sellers, Edith Bailey and Virginia Earl, were serving refreshing punch from a bowl, which was a priceless heirloom, and inviting the guests into the library, which presented an oriental aspect with its rich hangings, Turkish lamps and coaches, where they anxiously awaited to be introduced to "Mad. Cavaligo," quotation who was none other than Miss Mary Richardson, who made quite a successful hit and cleverly revealing mysteries of the future.
Among the callers were Mesdames Bradford Shinkle, Frank Kemper, Jno. Ernst, Judkins, Grattan Noland, Matthews, Wm. Kelly, Frank Routhier, Wm. Perkins, W. W. Trimble, Henry Queen, Wm. Martin, Jno. Simrall, J. K. Reynolds, Arthur Hubbard, Greer Simrall, Frank Woodall, Lott, Robt. Richardson, Frederick Wolcott, James Arnold, J. B. Coombs, Julius Gedge, Jas. P. Tarvin, Henry Bruce, William Walker, Frank Van Winkle, Jas. Cassidy, Taylor Goshorn, Edward Ditchen, Stanley Archibald, Robt.t Wallace, Sam Boyd, Nicholas Walsh, Susan Creaghead, Gilbert Bailey, Edward Ebbert, Jas. Weller, James W. Bryan, D. W. Comingore, Hugh Colville, Lewis Casey, L. Blakely, Jas. Daniels, Daniel Hemingray, Theodore Dohrman, Richard Ernst, George Eaton, James Ernst, Wm. Kaiper, James Ellis, Wm. Dohrman, Charles Boyd, J. J. Blackburn, Warner, Wiggins, Ulie Howard, De Valcourt Carroll, Rebecca Kearns Worthington, Misses Simpson, Mary Queen, Helen Sellers, Susan Simmons, Lucie Grady, Bartow and Josephine Simrall, Eleanor Brent, Florence Black, Melanie Eaton, Alice Hyneman, Kate Ludlow, Mary Richardson, Josephine Bascom, Virginia Ernst, Mary T. Hall, Caroline and Harriet Bailey, Retta and Luella Boyd, Elizabeth Westfall, Sarah Hearne, Drue Underwood, Ledyard, Creaghead, Arnold Abbott, Worthington, and Maggie Gedge.
Mrs. Arnold Brown of New York City, and Mrs. Herbert Brown, of Pennsylvania, are visiting their mother Misses Croninger, in Upper Scott street.