The Washington herald., 1916-03-18

today from FL Psso to be the guest of
Mrs. Bonniecastle's mother. Mrs. L. z.
Kennedy.
Mrs. William D. Conner will be hostess
at bridge party this afternoon.
Messrs. Nathan wyeth, Basil Miles,
Reginald Huidekoper and George Oakley
Totten will complete the personnel OF the
floor committee for the costume skating
and dancing carnival to be given for the
benefit of the Neighborhood House Tues
day might at the Arcade, Fourteenth
! street and Park road. The names OF other
members of the floor committee have
been announced.
CARRIED in quaint costumes Of the car
nlvAl. some twenty OF Washington's most
, attractive younger social lights, under
| direction of Mrs. Ward Brown, will con-
| stitute a girls floor committee for the
levening. Circulating trays with carnival
favors. rbands. streamers, confetti.
cigarettes and refreshments, and bits of
| frivolous costuming for guests who failed
! to provide themselves in advance, will be
carried through the crowd by some of the
| girls. while others will be detailed to
handle the big gathering of skaters,
dancers and spectators. Among those
who will serve on the girls floor commit
|
Price. Anne Hopkins, GwendoIyn Denys,
Dorothy Denys. Judith Ives. Pauline
Stone. Pocahontas Butler. Louise Clark.
| Elizabeth Seton. Mildred Ives, Ruth
HaPsoOd, Margaret Fahenstock Candice
! Howard. Marjorie HelmboId. Ruth Patter-
son. Edith Goode. Louise Delano, Laura
DelanO and Frances Noyes.
Mrs. c. u. Williams and Mrs. W. B.
Richmond IN q
ton yesterday and are stopping at the
! Willard.
The Netherlands Minister, Chevalier Won
Rappard, entertained at luncheon at the
Willard yesterday. his guests including
some of his fellow countrymen who are
passing through Washington.
| Nine. Slavko Grouitch, who has come
to this country from Belgrave, Servia, to
lecture In the cause of the stricken people
| of that country, has arrived in Washing
ton and is at the Shoreham Hotel Nine
! Grouitch. who was n Virginia belle, has
many friends in Washington. On her
last visit here she was the house guest
of Miss Mabel Boardman.
DIR. and Mrs. August Thorndike, Miss
Alice Thorndike, and Messrs. Charles and
R.Armory Thorndike, of Boston have come
Shoreham Hotel.
Mr.. Baker, Secretary Of War, enter
tanned informally at luncheon at the
Shoreham yesterday, as also did Gen.
Nelson A. Miles.
4 Mrs. r. NJ. de Forest, and Mile. de
! Girarden have arrived in Washington
| from Aiken, and are at the Shoreham.
! Mrs. G. P. Horner, Miss Woodville, and
Miss Susan Williams have come over
| from Baltimore for a few days in Wash
tngton, and are stopping at the Shoreham
Hotel.
Miss Constance Wilcox, of Bryn Mawr
/ College, is stopping at the Shoreham for
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. P A. Drury entertained
at a dinner dance last night at their
home, 1922 Massachusetts avenue north
west. The table decorations were in
maiden hair fern and Killarney roses.
1 Among those present were: DR.. and Mrs.
James ]. Kilroy, Prof. and Mrs. Michael
| Dowd, Mr.. and Mrs P. J. Nee, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Michael F. Conry. of
| New York City; Mr.. and Mrs. d. Shea
Mr.. and Mrs. William H Callahan, Mr..
and Mrs. William Ring, and Mrs. Nora
Rafferty,.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. n. Steed entertained
a number of their friends from Wash
| ington on Thursday evening at their
country home at Veitch, Va. The party
was entertained with games. music and
dancing, after which a supper was served.
| Those present were Misses Hoffman,
Donaldson, Roach. Shipe, Thornton, and
Winningham. and Messrs. Gibson, Kirk
ley. Roach. Edward Donaldson, A. H.
! Pierson, Hurrell Henley and Mr.. and
Mrs Alfred H. Marsh.
| Mr.. and Mrs. NJ May, of Richmond,
Va, announce the engagement of their
! daughter, Agnes, to Mr.. Norman Fischer,
of Washington, d. C.
Taking the year as whole the ia
bles show that there are two regions
| of maximum thunderstorm frequency,
one oypr Florida and the other over