Mrs. T. Wheatley Ingham a Popular Hostess of the Current Season

A Metropolitan Social Note of Unusual Interest

No social event of the New York season has had quite the brilliance and "eclat" of the recent Sub-Soil Reception and Cellar-Warming given by Mrs. T. WheatlcyIngham at her residence on Fifth Avenue. The Wheatley-Inghams can always be trusted to entertain in the lavish manner associated with the aristocratic pre-war stock from which they are descended. The hostess, it will be recalled, is a daughter of the late Mrs. Fuller Noyes, nee Drinkwater. All the smart guests entered through the Tradesmen's Entrance on 63rd Street, and were all let in on the ground floor. Both host and hostess, as well as their handsome home, were brilliantly illuminated for the occasion, which was in especial honor of General Boisson, the hero of the great Battle of the Sauterne, to whom the Keys of the Cellar were then presented. After hissing the Volstead Act, a short musical program was rendered by the High-Strung String Quartette, consisting of three violinists and a bung-starter. Isabel Ingham, the hostess' charming debutante daughter, then sang one of her own compositions. a rearrangement of Ben Jonson's "Drink To Me Only With Thine Ryes", which she encored with "Scotch Wha Hae, Wha Who, Wha Why". Several amusing vaudeville acts were put on by John & Demi-John, showing setting-up exercises on the horizontal bar with brass-rail, musical glasses, etc., and the host obliged with an excellent turn in his inimitable act called "The Corkscrew At Play". The guests were then shown from keg to keg, where they inspected Mr. Ingham's splendid collection of early bar-reliefs and heads drawn from the wood. A sobriety test was next conducted, and it was found that no one present could pronounce " linoleum". Prize packages were distributed to all present; and after supper, announcement was made that a golden flask, studded with diamonds, had been concealed in one of the casks. Search parties were immediately organized, and, up to the hour of going to press, the merry quest was still in progress, with the debutantes well in the lead