The Washington herald., 1911-11-03

Taft and Miss Taft at Fern Villa, Hot
Springs, Va, to-day after his long West
ern trip and his strenuous day at the
naval review. Miss Taft and her aunt,
Mrs. Laughlin, will play in the tennis
tournament now going on there
Mrs Bryce, wife of the British Am
bassador, will have a distinguished
guest this month in Mrs. Margaret L
Woods, wife of DR.. H. G. Woods. master
of the Temple and late president of
Trinity College, oxford. Mrs. woods is
a daughter Of the late Dean Bradley,
Of Westminster. and both her husband
and her father were presidents OF OK
ford, England, at the same time. Mrs.
Woods will give two lectures here, No
vember 13 and H. for the benefit of
the endowment fund of the House Of
\ Mercy, the first one to be given in the
ballroom of the British Embassy on
| "Old Oxford and its continuity" and
the second on Modern Oxford" These
will be illustrated, and one of the illus
trationsN shows former President Roose
welt receiving his degree at Oxford. Mrs.
Woods is an author, poet, and lecturer,
| her best known book being Esther
| Banhomrich-A Village Tragedy" The
tickets are in the hands of Mrs. R.. r.
Hoes, Mrs. John G. Biddle, and Mrs. Lee
Phillips.
Senator Cullom, accompanied by Mrs.
Cullom's sister. Miss Fisher, who has
always made he home with them, has
arrived in the Washington home of the
Senator. They WILDE Joined here shortly
by Miss Eleanor Cullom Ridgely, grand
daughter of the Senator, who has been
visiting her brother-in-law and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Phelps Brown, at Spring
field, Mass.
The marriage Of Miss Gertrude Will
Jams. daughter of Mr.. Gardner P. Will
Jams, of California and Washington, to
Mr.. Frederick de Courcy Faust, whose
! engagement was announced last spring,
will take place on Tuesday, November
Is, in the home of the brides father,
r and Twenty streets. Bishop
| Harding will officiate. There viii be no
\ attendants and only the relatives will
be present owing to the deep mourning
of the brides family for her mother,
who met with such q tragic death the
! past summer
Mrs. Macveagh. wife of the Secretary
of the Treasury, has returned to her
Washington home from Chicago, where
she spent several weeks with their son,
Mr.. Eames MacVeagh. after closing their
summer home at Dublin, n H
Mrs. Stimson wife of the Secretary of
War, has Joined the Secretary at their
new home in Sixteenth street She will
not participate O. in any gayeties until
after the first OF the year, because of
her mourning for her mother.
The marriage of Miss Olga Monroe,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. F. Y Monroe,
| to Senor John A. Marchani. formerly of
Porto Rico. will take place in st. Pat
rick's Catholic Church on the evening
of November Is, at o'clock. Mgr. Will
lam T. Russell officiating. The best man
will be Mr. Humphrey Cissell and the
ushers Mr.. Roscoe, Mr.. J. c. Dorsey
Mr.. James Fftz-Gibbons, Mr.. David
Thomson. and Mr.. Charles Fisher.
Mrs. Hunt Slater is giving up her
apartment in Paris within a few weeks
to return to her home in Washington.
Her niece. Miss Esther Slater, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Horatio Slater, OF Boston,
who will be presented to Boston society
formally early in the season, will spend
the later season in Washington, and be
the guest of honor at a brilliant ball
to be given by Mrs John r. Mclean
after New Years Day.
Mrs. w B. Holtzclaw has returned to
her home in Euclid street, from a visit
to her sister, Mrs. L. H. Hopkins, in
Chicago, whom she had not visited or
seen for fourteen years.
Miss Gladys Hinckley is a member of
the house party of former Representative
and Mrs. James Francis Sullivan, at their
country place, the Woods" at Radnor,
Pa. The other guests include Miss Mar
jorie Ide, daughter of the United States
Minister to Spain. and Miss Frances Liv-
ingston Sullivan. Miss Ide has been the
guest of her brother-in-law and sister,
former Representative and Mrs Bonrke
Cochran, of New York. Miss Hinckley
had but just returned to her home in
Sixteenth street from an autumn season
at the Virginia Hot Springs when she
went over to Philadelphia. She will re-
turn here this week She will also be
debut tea of their daughter, Miss Leta
Sullivan, later this season.
The marriage of Miss Adele Ria Tay-
lor. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford
A. Taylor, to Ensign Thalbert Nelson
Afford, U. S. N, will take place next
Tuesday, at s o'clock. Rev. Clarence
whitmore, OF Trinity P. L. Church, will
offlciate in the presence of only the rela-
tives and a few close friends. Miss Edith
White, of Alameda, Cal, will be the
maid of honor. and the Misses SybiI and
Ruth Albert will be bridesmaids. En-
sign L. B. Bye, U. S. N, will be the
best man. Ensign Afford and his bride
will spend the winter at Charleston, S. c.,
where the United States torpedo-boat de-
stroyer Ammen, to which the former is
attached, will probably be stationed.
Miss Olga Roosevelt returned to Wash
ington yesterday from Leesburg, where
she was the weekend guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Tenant, brother-in-law and
sister Of Miss Roosevelt's fiance, DR.. J.
Breckenridge Bayne, to whom she will be
married November 10.
Mrs. Howell Carroll, who spent several
winters in Washington, when her daugh-
ter, Miss Suzanne Carroll, was stin in
school, has returned to New York, ac-
companied by Miss Carroll, for the win
ter. They spent the summer at New
London, Conn.