The Washington times., 1912-03-31
OF Interest in Three Cities
Is Betrolhal Of Miss Flar-
riet Anderson.

The usual crop of spring engagements
announced at Easter is coming a little
early this year, and one of special in
terest in several cities, principally
Washington, Cincinnati, ard New York,
is that of Miss Harriet Anderson to
Hugo de Fritsch, of New York. Mics
Anderson, who is the daughter of Mrs.
Charles l.. Anderson, of Cincinnati, en-
joys the distinction of'being Mrs. Tafts
favorite niece. She spent the SrcatGr
part of the winter at the White House,
participating with Miss Taft in all the
social festivities of the younger set apd
enjoying marked popularity by reason
of her beauty and her charming and an
imated personality. .s.'
1t is expected the wedding win take
place in June in Cincinnati where Miss
Anderson has just returned with hcr
mother after sojourn of several weeks
in New York, whittier she went for a
visit at the conclusion of her stay at
the white House The Presidents S
daughter will doubtless figure conspic-
uously in the wedding party.
Mr.. de Fritsch is the son oc Mrs. de
FritsclI and the late Hugo dc Fritsch,
Austro- Hungarian consul in New York
his mother he makes his home in New
York with her sisters, the Misses Gil
!. bert, but has spent considerable time
in Paris with his cousin, Mrs. Theodore
Havemeyer, since his graduation from
Harvard In 1909.
Congressional circles contribute the
young women most concerned In two
.-other recent engagement announce
, f11n to he i,, 4 a.,
Fletcher, daughter Of Senator and Mrs.
Fletcher of Florida, and Dr. Thoma 3
Kemp, of Washington, who are to he
married Wednesday, April - at All
Souls Unitarian Church, which. BY the
way, is the church the President at
tends.
Miss Laura Burleson. daughter of
Congressman and Mrs. Burleson of
Texas, and Richard Van Wyck Negley,
of San Antonio, Tex, are the principals
in the other They, too, are to he mar
-for their nuptials has been announced
Miss Burleson, who was counted
among the seasons debutantes, is a
young woman of strong personality, and
one of the coterie of thoughtful young
women who have come out for woman s
suffrage, She is one of the speakers s
announced for the woman's suffrage
mass meeting to be held at the Column
VIA lHSdteT lnlS evening. MISS Helen
Taft, who recently Joined the Con-
sumers' League of the District of Co.
lumbia, and Miss Genevieve Clark,
daughter of the Speaker and Mrs.
Champ Clark, are nther young women
allied with the cause of woman's rights.
Bill Would Enlarge
Rights of Women.
That womans rights of one kind or
another is a subject uppermost in the
minds of others than the fair sex was
demonstrated in the House of Repre-
sentativcs the other day when bill
providing for the permanent establish
ment of her status as an American
citizen of the American born woman
was introduced. Under the bill, should
1t become a law, no matter whom she
may marry, the American-born woman
will still he an American citizen, and
thereby entitled to her rights as such
wherever she may be residing
April Is. when the annual Congress
,of the d. A. r. convenes in Washington
at Continental Memorial Hall, down in
Potomac Park, is date which /:
already eagerly anticipated by the loca
membership of the society.
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks wife Ol
The former Vice President of the United