The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-04

in the Roosevelt administration, wer
town functions where the guests in
cluded large numbers of Washing
tons smart set.
The Capital had its portion of we'd
dings, too, last Wednesday, as usual,
proving the popular day and substan-
tiating the theory that Warrington
brides are clinging to the old super
stition that the midweek day is the
happiest selection for bridal. There
were church weddings and home wed
dings and garden weddings on that
last day of June, and the sun, which
has proved so tickle for the June
bride this year, shone joyously
throughout its allotted hours. There
was one surprise wedding. of course,
that of Mrs. Harriet Graves and Mr..
Claude n. Bennett, which caused a
futter in club circles with which both
bride and bridegroom are prominent
ly identified. They were both pres
cnt at the reception given by the
Southern Society Tuesday evening
at the Willard for Mr.. Bennett, the
outgoing president. and Gen. Will
lam c. Gorgas, the incoming presi-
dent, where they danced together fire.
auently, though friends were given
no hint of the early elimination of
the romance, which has existed for
several years.
The season, which additionally de-
parts from the Capital with the So
ciety folk, has yielded its last flicker.
The engagement books of Washing
ton present a fair, unwritten page
again, except for the informal and
leisure1y activities of the stay-at-
homes. But society is in full swing
at the summer colonies. A social ar
bitter at Newport predicts that that
fashionable resort will witness the
1iveliest sort of a season despite the
war cloud in Europe, which troubles
the younger set very lightly while
there are dances and tennis and surf
bathing, the weight of responsibility
falling entirely upon older shoulders.
While various business difficulties,
arising from the war, may detaln
many of the erstwhile summer SWANS
in the cities, financial interests will
undoubtedly be adjusted to suit week
end pleasures, and unless something
untoward occurs, the social season
will not experience the abrupt termi-
nation OF last August, when invita-
tions were quickly recalled and many
of the eligibles fastened home to
cling to the branch of supply in the
carly days of rocking finances.
Tomorrow promises to be gala
day at most OF the summer resorts
As we'll as in Washington. Newport
will rise at daybreak for fox hunt
and the breakfast that will follow it.
Golf and tennis will occupy the re-
mainder Of the morning. and the aft
ernoon will be devoted to a patriotic
entertainment. Similar activities are
being planned at the other colonies,
whose population will be greatly
augmented by the scores of week
end visitors, among them many
Westinghouse, who are spending |
the holidays at house parties and on
motor trips outside of town.
Several busy Cabinet members,
who have been detained in town
through the early summer. have
seized upon the Fourth as the occa-
sion for brief trip. The Secretary
of War is spending few days with
Mrs. Garrison at their cottage at
Seabright, N. J., and expects to re-
turn to Washington Tuesday. The
Secretary of the Navy has gone to
Moorehead City, N. c., to join Mrs.
Daniels and their sons. who have ar
rived there after an extensive cruise
on board the Dolphin. The Secretary |
of Commerce, accompanied by Mrs.
Redheld and their son, Mr.. Hum
phrey Redfield, left Washington on
Thursday for an inspection trip down
the river and through Chesapeake
Bay.
Mr.. Andrew ]. Peters. Assistant Secre- /
tary Of the Treasury. has just purchased
one Of the finest estates In the Norfolk /
Hunt section of Dover Mass, consisting |
~ nearly 100 acres- ThA Asaistant 8ecrs-