The Washington herald., 1916-04-12
President and Mrs. Wilson Guests Of Honor
At Dinner Given by Secretary and Mrs. Lane; l
Representative Mckinley Host to Lansngs
Other NetOs of Society at the Capital

and Mrs. Lane. Invited to meet them
were: Mr.. and Mrs. Cordenio Severance,
OF New York; Mr.. aud Mrs. James Har-
Ian. Mrs. Thomas +. Bayard, Mr.. Adolph
Caspora Miller and Mr.. Stephen Mather.
Representative William Mckinley was
host at a dinner last evening. entertain
ing In honor OF the Secretary Of State
and Mrs Lansing. The other guests
were: Mrs. John w. Foster. Representa-
tive and Mrs. James R. Mann. Gen, and
Mrs. Carter. Mr.. and Mrs David Jayne
Hnl. Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Noyes, Or.
and Mrs Wood and Judge Knapp.
The Secretary Of the Navy and Mrs.
Daniels have as their guests Mrs Mar
garet Busbee Shipp. Of Raleigh, N. C.,
who arrived In Washington last evening.
The Secretary and Mrs. Daniels re-
turned to Washington yesterday morning
from brief trip to Raleigh.
Mrs. Daniels will entertain at luncheon
today.
Surgeon General and Mrs. William
.BraIsted will be among the dinner hosts
of this evening.
Mrs. Joseph Habersham colquitt viii
give a luncheon April . in compliment
to Miss Hanna Taylor and Miss May
marriage to Mr.. Charles Clay Bayly will
take place May 6. and Miss Power will
be married to Lieut. William Tupper
LIghtle, U. 8. n. on May 2
Mrs. Barnett NJ. ChiperheId entertained
at tea yesterday afternoon at her resi-
dence in N street Miss Helen Can
non, Mrs. James R. Mann, Mrs. Ira
Copley, and Mrs. William A Roden-
burg, presided at the tea table. Assist
ing in the dining room were Miss Doro-
thy Yates, Miss Harriet Overton, and
Miss Bessie Ross.
Representative Chiperfeld will be host
at a stag dinner Of thirty-five covers
this evening at the Army and Navy
Mrs. T. Sim Lee entertained at a
luncheon of twenty-four covers yester-
day in the ball room Of the Lafayette
in honor Of Miss Mary Custis Lee.
The guests were seated in small tables
which were decorated with baskets of
jOnquiIs.
Mrs. W. Fl. McAIlister was hostess at
bridge yesterday afternoon at her resi-
dence on Wyoming avenue.
Mrs. Alan McLane entertained inform
ally at tea yesterday afternoon at her
residence in Vermont avenue in honor
OF her guests, Mrs. Alison Post Swan
and Miss Swan, of New York and Mrs.
Wickliffe Yulee, also of New York.
Mrs. Florence Donohue, OF Harvard
street. widow of DR.. Florence Donohue,
announces the engagement OF her daugh-
ter. GwendOlyn, to Mr.. J. Maxson Cum
ningham, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Harry
Cunningham.
Announcement has been made by Mrs
Edwards Spencer. of New York. of the
engagement of her niece, Miss Huguette
dc FOras, to Mr.. Charles Campbell, tr.,
nrst secretary to the American Legation
at Berne, Switzerland.
Miss Ie FOras is with her parents at
Chateau de Thuiset at Haut Savoie
Thuon. near Lake Geneva on the French
side. For several years she lived in New
York with Mrs. Spencer. She is a daugh-
ter of Comte and Comtesse Max de
FOras. Comtesse de Foras was Miss
Marie Meredith Read. Of New York, and
is a sister Of Mrs Spencer
Mrs. G. Grosvenor Dave will entertain
Saturday afternoon for the benefit Of the
Johpson-POweH summer Fairgrounds.
There will be cards from to and tea
from ( to G. Assisting Mrs. Dave will be
Mrs. Elizabeth GatcheIl, Mrs Edgar
d.
and Mrs. Shaen, Of Yonkers, n. Y.
Lieut.. Theodore Marburg. ir.. of the
British Royal Naval Flying Corps, was
married to Baroness GeseIle de Vavario,
Of Belgium. on Monday at noon in the
Church Of st. Edward the Confessor at
Netey, England. Lieut.. Marburg is the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Marburg,
II Baltimore, the former being one-time
American Minister to Belgium and sister
or Mime van Starkenborgh-Stachou
wife Of the attaChe of the Netherlands
legation. The bride is one Of the most
beautiful women of the Belgian nobility.
The engagement was made known a
few days ago. to be followed by a cable
announcement of the marriage. It is ex-
pected that Lieut.. AIarburg and his bride
accompanied by his father, who is with
them in England, will sail from South
E1npton for America May on the
Adriatc
Miss Elizabeth Britten. who has been
the guest Of her brother and sister-in-
law. Representative and Mrs. Fred Brit
ten, at the Highlands, will leave Wash
tngtOn today to visit in New York Chi
cago and Los Angeles before returning
to her home at San Francisco.
The marriage Of Miss Ellen Coleman
.
Coleman du Pont, and HoIlyday S.
Needs, jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hollyday
Needs, Of Chevy Chase, Nd, will take
place April %.
The ceremony will be performed in
Trinity Episcopal Church by the Rev.
Frederick NJ. Kirkus, rector of the
church, and the bride will be given In
marriage by her father. Her sister, Miss
Renee De P. du Pont. will be maid OF
honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss
Elizabeth Malloy. OF SelbyviIIe, Ky;
Miss Gerta du Pont Barksdale Miss
Ethel A. Tallman, Miss Henrietta L.
Stadelman, Of Wilmington; Miss Mary
Frances Jewell, Of Lexington, KY, and
Miss Katherine Clark, of Northampton.
Mass.
The best man Will be Cuyler Orndoff
Needs, brother OF the bridegroom, and
the ushers will be Messrs. Francis Vic
tor du Pont. brother of the bride: a