The Washington herald., 1912-03-09

sister Of Mrs Taft. will arrive at the
White House to-day for visit OF several
weeks. Her daughters, Miss Catherine
Anderson and Miss Harriet Anderson
have spent the greater part OF the win.
ter at the White House, the latter now
being in New York. where she is max
ing a brief visit before returning &c
Cincinnati.
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs. Macveash entertained a dinner
company last evening in their Sixteenth
street home. The guests included Mr..
Justice and airs. Lamar. the Secretary
of War and Mrs. Stimson, Mrs. Fisher.
Senator Root, Senator Bacon. Represen-
tative Mckinley, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Francis Adams, Dr.. and Mrs. Wilmer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mr..
and Mrs. William Loeb, jr., OF New
York, house guests OF the Secretary;
Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Hobson, Mrs
Norman Williams. Mrs. kellogg Fair
banks, of Chicago; Miss Scidmore, Misi
Boardman, Surg. Gen. Blue, DR.. Cooper,
and Mr.. Arthur ]. Parsons.
The Norwegian Minister and Nine
Bryn were dinner hosts last evening and
had for their company the Spanish Min
lister and Nine. de RianO. the Neither
lands Minister, Mr.. Loudon: Nine. Chris
tlan Hauge, Baron de Bode, military at
tache Of the Russian Embassy. and his
sister, Baroness Elizabeth de Bode; Prof
and Mrs. Gore, Miss Sarah Lee, Mr.,
Schmollck, of the Netherlands Legation,
and Mr.. Johannessen and Mr.. Morgen-
stIerne, of the Norwegian Legation.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. L. White, OF Corcoran
street, announce the engagement OF their
daughter, Miss Louise Macias White. to
Mr.. William II. ~Waggaman, of George
| town. No date has been set for the
| wedding.
The counselor OF the German Embassy
and Mime. Haniel Won Haimhausen were
hosts at dinner last evening. and had
as guests the counselor Of the Austro-
Hungarian Embassy and Nine. Loe-
! wenthal. Mrs Thomas Richardson, Mrs.
I Thomas c. Dawson and her house guest,
Mrs. Bowes. Of New York; Nine. Eken-
gren, Mrs. McLachlan, Mr.. Innes, Capt.
Retzmann. Baron Hardenbroek, Mr.. Won
Buelow, and Mr.. A. Maurice Low.
| Mrs. Roger S. BoutelI and her children
have gone to Chicago for a months
visit with her father. Mr.. Burley. Miss
| Alice BouteIl daughter OF the United
States Minister TO Switzerland, will
come over about April and be the guest
OF her sister-in-law here during the
spring The Minister and Mrs. BouteIl
will come over later, when the marriage
of Miss Boutell to Mr.. John Wood
Brooks Ladd, of Boston. is expected TO
take place. The engagement was an
nounced this winter.
Mrs. NageI wife OF the Secretary Of
Commerce and Labor, entertained a COM
pany at luncheon yesterday for her
daughter. Miss Hildegarde Nagel, in
honor OF Miss Catherine Anderson, niece
OF Mrs. Taft, who Is. guest at the
White House. - =--
Mrs William H Bixby. wife of Gen.
Bixby, L. s. A, will be hostess at a
luncheon to-day in honor of Mrs Leonard
Wood, wife of Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood,
Chief OF STAN OF the Army.
The Minister from Denmark and
Countess Moltke, Miss Josephine Patten
were members OF the party which ac-
companied the Ausuo-Hungarian Am
bassadOr Baron Hengelmuller. TO Pan
anna, will arrive in Washington this
morning. The party stopped for day
or two at Palm Beach on the return trip.
The German Ambassador and Countess
Won Bernstorff have received the news
Of the birth of a son Thursday morning
to their son-in-law and daughter, Count
and Countess Pourtales, in Berlin.
Countess PourtaIes, whose marriage to
the count took place here last spring at
the embassy, was formerly Countess Luise-
Alexandra Won Bernstorff, and Count
POurtales was attached to the embassy
as secretary.
The Washington Alumni Association of
the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity will
hold its annual meeting at the Raleigh
Hotel this evening at o'clock. Viscount
suti HI Chinda, Psi Phi, 81, Ambassador
from Japan to the United States, will be
the guest of honor, and will speak Of the
d. X. E. in the East. James Anderson
Halves, general secretary OF the frater
nifty, will also be present, and will de-
scribe the newer policies of the fraternity
and important work recently accom-
plished.
Mrs. Hugh Wallace and Mrs Nathaniel
Francis, daughters OF the late chief jus
tice, have returned to Washington from
Palm Beach.
.
nounce the engagement of their daugh-
ter. Mary Kennedy Graham, to Midship-
man r. G. Payne, U. S. N. Miss Gra-
ham is a debutante of this season.
Medical Director r. C. Persons, U. 8.
N, commanding the Naval Hospital at
Philadelphia, and Mrs Persons announce
the engagement of their daughter, Miss |
Susan Barnett Persons, to Naval Con-
at the Navy Department The wedding |
will be an event Of October.
The Military Attache of the German
Embassy and Mime. Won Herwarth are |
spending a few days in New York.
Miss Mary McCaeey will return to
Washington to-day from a brief visit to |
her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles o'DonreIl Lee. in Phila-
delphia- '......
Mrs. Morris Croxall, who addressed the |
members of the Congressional Club yes
terday afternoon at the weekly Friday
afternoon reception, talked on "old
Trails" Mrs. Hayes, of California, in
troduced the speaker in the absence Of
Mrs. Taylor, of Colorado, and Mrs. L. |
W. Roberts. president of the club, re-
ceived the guests. Assisting in receiving
were Mrs. Lloyd. OF Missouri; Mrs.
Brantley, of Georgia; Mrs. Speer, of |
Miss Charters, OF New
York; Miss Harris and Miss Elizabeth