The Washington herald., 1916-12-21
Secretary of State and Mrs. Lansing
Entertain Dinner Company

wick, who are visiting Mrs. William T.
sampson, and Admiral and Mrs. Albert
w. Grant.
Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin entertained
at dinner of twelve covers last evening
IN compliment to her cousin, Miss Matte
Marschal Curd. Later In the evening
MIS-: Tarvin took her guest to the hop
at the navy yard.
home at 1882 Columbia road, Mondays In
January. beginning January &
The residence Of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Mccormick Smith in N street was the
scene OF charming wedding yesterday
when their daughter Miss Alice Hanford
Smith became the bride of DR.. Edmund
Vincent Cowdry. Rev. L. Morgan Cham
bers Of McKendree Methodist Episcopal
Church performed the ceremony at /
O'Clock in the presence Of about seventy
five relatives and close friends.
The house was decorated with white
and pink roses, ferns, palms and southern
smilax.
The bride, who was given in marriage
by her father. wore q travelling suit of
ruby velour with a large collar and cuffs
or fur. She wore a velvet hat Of the
same shade and carried a shower bouquet
of roses and lilies Of the valley.
Little Miss Janet Smith, was her sisters
only attendant. and she wore a white net
over pale pink taffeta and carried q
basket Of rose buds
DR.. Jules Duesberg, Of Liege, Belgium.
acted as best man for DR.. Cowdry.
A buffet luncheon followed the cere-
mony and later DR.. and Mrs. Cowdry
left for q trip to Cuba. They will be
at home after February at the Uni
versity apartments. Baltimore, Nd.
Among the out-of-town guests at the
wedding were Mr.. N. H. Cowdry and Miss
Aline Cowdry. OF Baltimore, Miss Norah
Cowdry. Of Hamilton. Ontario; Miss Ruth
Hanford, Of Rochester, n. Y, and DR.!
John P. Mum and DR.. and Mrs John NJ.
Hanford, Of New York.
The announcement Of the engagement
of Miss Edith Adele Koon, daughter Of
Mrs. Eyra l. X Koon, to Mr.. William
J. Carr, director of the consular service,
is OF wide interest to society at Washing
ton, where Mrs. Koon and her daughter
have made their home for many years
Mr.. Carr has Just returned from a long
Official trip abroad. The wedding will
take place later in the winter.
Mr.. Franklin K. Lane, jr., was in New
York at the Hotel Astor for a short
stay this week.
Mrs. e. swavely and Mrs. R. S. Walter
were hostesses last evening at a Christ
mas dance given to the faculty. student
body and friends OF the Army and Navy
Preparatory School in the school gym.
nasium- The function marked the end
OF the FIRST term and was attended by
more than seventy couples. The ball
room was appropriately decorated for the
occasion with two large Christmas trees,
and other adornments significant Of the
Yuletide season. A collation. was served.
Among those in attendance were Mrs.
Swavely's niece and house guest, Miss
Mary Lamm, OF Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry ]. Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. l. A.
Fisher. Captain and Mrs. Richard La
Cards. DR.. and Mrs. Sothoron Key. Mr..
and Mrs A. Geary johnson, Mrs. Cald-
well. Miss John. and Misses Peggy DAILY.
Donna NJ. Mountford. Dorothy White.
Dorothy Berthalf, NJ. Rothrock May
Marsie. Margaret Lake. Mildred Camp
bell, Susan Merchant, Jeanne Schroene.
Louise Beitzell, Leila Norren, Charlotte
Clarke. Martha Newman. Margaret
White. Helen Newman. Marietta Melvin.
Gertrude Yung Kwai, NJ. Cummings.
Edith Easterday, Betty Caldwell. Evelyn
Lane. Linda Hardesty, B. Marsie, Mar
garet Granger, Agnes Scott. Betty Hand
by. Helen Warnehois Burrows. Marion
Pierce. Virginia Brown. Ruth Latimer,
Margaret L. Smith, Catherine Moran.
Catherine Costello, Margaret Moran.
Louise Martin, and Anna Bull
Miss Margaret Deeble. daughter Of Mra
Riley Deeble. who is at school at Peeks-
kill, N. Y, will return to Washington to-
day to spend the holidays, and Cadet
w. R Deeble. jr.. of West Point, will
arrive Sunday for a weeks vacation.
Miss Dorothy Deeble, who Is engaged in
settlement work at Hindman, KY, will
not return to Washington this season.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary and
Mrs. Peary, and their daughter, Miss
Marie Peary. went to New York Mon
day to attend the dinner given by the
Aero Club Of America and the Civic
Forum to Miss Ruth Law, the aviatrix,
in the ball room Of the Hotel Astor that
evening.
wedding of interest to WASHINGTON
will take place today at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, when Miss Mildred Thomas,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Allen
Thomas. of Coeur d'Aene, and Mr.. ].
Ward Arney, formerly of Washington,
a