Mrs. Chapin's Pretty Reception

The charming home of Mrs. C. Chapin and the Misses Chapin, on Kingsley street, was opened Tuesday afternoon for the reception of their friends. Mrs. Chapin and her daughters received their friends in the library. The house was simply but most tastefully decorated with lilacs, tulips, roses, etc. In the dining room, Mrs. Charles Millen, presided at the coffee urn and Miss Georgia Goodrich the ice cream. The Misses Sarah Hardy Bessie Pond, Louise Hennequin, Margaret and Louise Tatlock and Marie Avery assisted in serving refreshments to the guests, who sat in the dining room or out on the porch or balcony back of the dining room. which commands the beautiful view of the Huron valley and the hills beyond.

The house is most attractively furnished throughout in the quaint and beautiful old mahogany furniture of the old Chapin and Judge Kingsley families, Mrs. Chapin being the daughter of Judge Kingsley. The handsome old sideboard in the dining room was especially admired and some of the china more than a hundred years old. On the second floor the rooms are completely furnished in the quaint old mahogany and in Mrs. Chapin's room stands the old piano which was brought to Ann Arbor in 1827 by Mrs. Chapin's mother, then Miss Lucy Clark. It was the first piano brought into this county and the second in the state.