Mrs. Telford Groesbeck’s reception, at which she will present her debutante daughter, Monday afternoon will be one of the most beautiful events of the winter.  Miss Mary Groesbeck, who is to make her initial bow to society is one of the prettiest girls to be presented in many years.  She has an appealingly interesting face and the most charming manners in the world.  “Elmhurst,” the old Groesbeck mansion, is one of the most splendid of the fine old homes left in Cincinnati, and its stately halls with all their traditions will make the most suitable setting possible for the girl’s loveliness.  She will have three friends receiving with her-Miss Rebecca Anderson, Miss Catherine Anderson and Miss Gladys Ingalls – and in the tea room Mrs. Buckner Wallingford, Mrs. William Anderson, jr., Mrs. Frank Anderson, Miss Arthur Stem, Mrs. George Ingalls, Miss Alice Scarborough, Mrs. Robert Ramsey and Mrs. George Headly will assist.  Mrs. Groesbeck is sure to share beauty honors with her daughter in her dress of violet velvet.  The debutante will wear a lovely dress of white over pink.  The house is to be elaborately decorately (sic) in pink roses.

Lovers of the beautiful will hail with delight the announcement which is to be made at the Woman’s club this afternoon to the effect that another arts and crafts exhibit will be given here December 13 and 14 at the Woman’s club rooms, and will be open to the public without a fee.  Artistic jewelry and other beautiful hand-made things of local and out-of-town workers will be shown and be for sale.

Not in years, if indeed ever, has such a beautiful function been given here as was the reception on Saturday afternoon, at which Mr. and Mrs. Davis Anderson presented their daughter, Miss Rebecca Anderson, to society.  The Country club, with its beautiful spaciousness, is the most charming place in town for the giving of things on such a splendid scale, and it has not held a more distinguished company than that bidden by the Andersons in honor or their daughter.  The floral decorations were quite the most beautiful ever seen here.  Hundreds upon hundreds of American beauty roses stood as if growing in a fair garden to make a background of enchanting beauty for the mother and daughter, who stood in their soft trailing gowns of palest gray and blue, with picturesque hats with sweeping brims, looking  as if they were the central figures of some Watteau scene.  The pillars of the great club room were wound with Southern  ?lar from which grew beauty roses and pink ones. Mr. Buckner Anderson was in line with his sister and Mrs. Buckner Wallingford and Miss Anna Harrison presided over the tea and coffee urns.

The engagement is announced of Miss Lucy Barry Wilshire daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Potter Wilshire, to Mr. Duncan L. Edwards of New York, a Princeton man and a member of the Princeton Union and Racket clubs of New York city.  The Wilshires are at Greenwich, Conn. For the winter, and the wedding is to be celebrated there some time before spring.

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mr. Tom Gaylord, now of New York, but formerly of Cincinnati to Miss Ethel Lewis of Philadelphia.  The marriage took place at Christ church, New York, on October 15, the ceremony being performed by Rev. Everett M. Waterhouse.  Mr. Gaylord is the son of the late Thomas Gaylord, from whom he inherited something of a fortune, and is a nephew of Mrs. Pendleton.  His bride is the daughter of Henry Lewis, senior member of the big cotton yarn firm of H. & W. H. Lewis.  She is a member of the Rittenhouse, Actorn and Germantown Cricket clubs.  The announcement of their marriage comes as a complete surprise to all but a few intimate friends, who knew of the attachment that existed between the two.

Mrs. Cassimir Werk and Miss Werk will receive on Thursday afternoon, December 15, from 3 to 6, at their beautiful Westwood home.

Friends in this city of the Powers family in Italy have lately received news of the death last month. In Florence, of Longworth eldest son of the late Hiram Powers, the famed American sculptor.  Longworth Powers was educated in this country and like his distinguished father, was, despite his long residence in Italy, intensely American in his views and sympathies.  He spent years of his early manhood in Cincinnati and had many friends here and in the East.  His widow and two children, a son and a daughter, survive him.  Mr. Powers was a cousin of Mr. Charles Drury, the well known naturalist of this city and prominent member of the Cuvier club.