The Washington herald., 1911-06-10


Minnesota, announce the engagement OF
their daughter. Ella, to DR.. Roy D.
Adams. OF this city.
No date has been set for the wedding
Mrs. Clapp went home in the early spring
after spending the winter here, as usual.
She was Joined a few weeks ago by Miss
Clapp, who had deferred the announce
ment OF the engagement until she reached
home She is well known IN Washington,
where she has spent her winters with
her parents since the Senator's election.
She is a member OF the Kappa Kappa
Gamma Sorority, and is active in the
college and younger set Of society in St.
Paul. DR.. Adams Is one OF the best
known young bachelors in washington's
professional as well as social circles.
Mr.. John Barrett entertained at q the
ater party last evening for the Mexican
Ambassador, Senior Zamacona, who will
retire from this post within a few weeks.
His successor, Senior Crespo, who has
not set the time for his arrival, will
come here from Vera Cruz. and VIII be
Joined by his wife and their large family
of children, from Vienna.
The charge d'afraires Of Brazil, Mr.. de
Lima e Silva, and the members of the
embassy stan went to New York yes
terday afternoon to meet the new Am
bassador, Senor da Cana, who will ar
rive In New York this morning from
Argentina, where he has been Minister
He will return with the members Of the
stan either this evening or Sunday morn
ing. 1t will be interesting to society in
Washington, where he will play an i'm
portant part, to know that he is a
bachelor. "
Mrs. Nagel. wife Of the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, left Washington
yesterday for their summer home at
Marion, Mass, with the members OF the
family. The Secretary will return here
and Join his family again later in the
summer for his vacation.
The Commissioner OF the District and
Mrs. Cuno H. Rudolph have gone to
Shawnee-on-Delaw where they are
spending some time at the Buckwood
Inn.
Miss Marthena Harrison, daughter of
Maj. Russell Harrison, went to West
Point Thursday for the June ball and
graduating exercises, chaperoned by Mrs.
Blunt, widow of Col Mason Blunt, U.
s. A. Mrs. Harrison will leave this morn
ing for Atlantic City with her cousin,
Miss Frances Saunders, for a visit OF a
week or more before going to her home
in Omaha for q time.
The Chinese Minister and Nine. Chang
will leave to-day for the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA, where the Minister will
make an address at the commencement
exercises. They will not return to Wash
ington, but will continue to Garrison-on-
the-Hudson, where they will spend the
summer and where they will be Joined
shortly by the members of the legation
staff.
The Chief Justice and Mrs. White left
Washington yesterday for Port Hope,
Canada, where they will spend the sum-
mer. ,
A wedding Of considerable interest to a
large circle of friends in Washington and
Philadelphia will be celebrated Monday
evening at 7:3o o'clock at the Academy
Church of the New Jerusalem, Bryn
Athyn, Philadelphia, when Miss Gladys
Hicks, of that place, will become the bride
OF Mr.. Donald Spencer Edmonds, of this
CITY,.
Miss Hicks Is daughter Of Mrs. Sam
uel H. Hicks, of Philadelphia, and niece
of Mr.. and Mrs. William z. Curtis, Of
this city. She is a graduate Of the Bryn
Athyn College and Drexel Institute, and
possesses a contralto voice OF beautiful
quality.
Mr.. Edmonds, son OF Maj. and Mrs.
Howard Edmonds, Of Washington, Is now
private secretary to the Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce and Labor. He IS a
graduate of Georgetown University and
a member of the District bar.
The bride will be attended by her sis
ter Ruth as maid or honor, and the
bridesmaids will be Miss Constance PEN
dleton, Miss Madeline Glenn, Miss Phoebe
Bostock, Miss Eo Pendleton, and Miss
Helen Colley, of Philadelphia, the latter
being a niece Of the groom, and Miss
Lucille Pendleton, OF Macon, Ga. Mr..
Curtis K. Hicks. brother Of the bride,
will be best man.
The wedding will be followed by a re-
ception at the brides home, "Bryn Elus, +"
after which the couple Will leave for Old
Point, via New York.. and a trip on the
lower Potomac in Mr.. Edmonds' launch.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmonds will take an
apartment In the fall.
Mrs. Harry Smith Berry, OF Nashville,
Tenn, with her infant daughter, Kathe-
rine Knox Berry, will arrive In Washing