The Washington herald., 1917-04-16
Cabinet Families Entertain
Guests for D. A. R. Con-
gress-Service School
Opens Its Second Encamp-
ment with a Large Society
Enrolment.

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Enrolment.
The President and Mrs. Wilson at
morning and spent the afternoon mU-
torfns
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, wife of
Senator Lewis, entertained at luncheon
yesterday at the Chevy Chase Club in
compliment to her cousin, Mrs. st. ].
Allison Lawton. OF Charleston, s. C.,
regent Of the Rebecca Motto Chapter, d.
A. r.
Mrs. Lewis will be at home this after
noon al the shoreham from to Z to the
members Of the d. A. r.
Mrs. Lewis has accepted the invitation
Of the senior class of Fairmont Semi
nary to be its patroness at the graduate
ing exercises in May.
The Secretary of War and Mrs. New
ton ID. Baker have as guests the Secre-
tary's mother and cousin. Mrs. n. d.
Baker, of Cleveland, Ohio. and Mrs.
Charles Bainbridge, Of Montclair, N. ].
The Attorney General and Mrs Thomas
Watts Gregory are entertaining Mrs
Gregory's cousin, Mrs. /. Burke. OF Mis-
sissippi.
Miss Helen B. walcott, who went to-
France with Mile. Cecile Denis de La
garde, expects to return to Washington
early IN May. Miss walcott has been an
assistant for the past nine months in
the military hospitals at Chambery and
at Cannes, and Is coming back Tor
much-needed rest
From Paris comes the announcement
OF the engagement Of Miss Frances
- wG ham
Mitchell Depew by a former marriage,
to Capt. Ernest Gerald Stanley. of the
Medical Corps Of the British army. Miss
Parks father was the late Trenor L.
Park, of New York. and her stepfather
is q nephew OF former United States
Sen Tor Chauncey NJ. Depew.
The committee in charge has sent out
invitations for the opening exercises of
the second encampment OF the First Ma :
tiOnaI Service School, of the Woman .
section of the Navy League this after ]
noon at 5 o'clock at Little Falls ana
Conduit road.
The women of the National Service
School OF the woman's section Of tho
Navy League in New York. which is ar !
hliated with the National League for
women's Service, have undertaken the
Wounan's Emergency Camp, which is to De
opened on June "A at Farmingdale, L. l.,
and will continue operations, according
to the present schedule, until the middle
OF October Instruction in first aid, diet,
agriculture, wireless telegraphy and nurs-
ing will be given in a course Of twenty
days, at a charge for each member of the
camp Of 80 and the cost of a uniform.
Four hundred students may be accom-
modated at one time and only women
over IS will be accepted. Well known
women are in charge Of the various
sections and the organization committee
includes Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, MIS-
Roger Bacon, Mrs. Francis G. Landon'
Mrs. Edwin H. AIairs, Mrs. Henry A.
Wise Wood. Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim,
Mrs. Daniel Friedman, Mrs. Mahle,
Miss Belle Greene, Miss Helen Cameron
and Miss Belle Stoddard.
The performance of Have a Heart" at
the National Theater this evening -
for the benefit Of a charity ward in the
Georgetown University Hospital
The boxholders will be Mr.. and Mrs.
P. A. Drury. Miss Alice Riggs. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, and Mrs.
Charles B. Wood. A number Of large
theater parties are also scheduled for
the evening.
The theater will be profusely decorated
with the Stars and Stripes intermingled
with the Georgetown colors, seniors of
Georgetwon University, IN cap and gown,
will act as ushers and feature OF
the evening will be the singing of
patriotic songs.
A walking grab bag will be one of the
novelties Of this years Episcopal Eye
lar and Throat Hospital bazaar to be
held April IS and ls. As Miss Grab Bag.
by Miss Chase, walks about
the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel her
bulging pockets of all sizes and shapes
will attract the curiosity os the patrons.
The booth and fancy work and dressed
dolls will be conducted by Mrs. w 4.
Glover. assisted by Mrs. Robert s. Beale,
Mrs. Rawling Hume, Mrs. ]. H. Horner.
Mrs. f. S. Kennedy. Mrs. s. Percy
Thompson, Mrs. II. n. Rodenbaugh, Mrs.
George A. King, Mrs. A. A. Snyder, and
the Misses Emily Graves, and Olive
Myers.
Mr.. W. L. Melloy with Mr.. w. L.
AIelloy. jr.. Miss Hall and Miss Long.
all OF Pittsburgh. are spending the week
Ind in Washington and are stopping at
he shoreham. /,
With such distinguished patrons and
patronesses as Gov. and Mrs. Charles w.
Whitman, former Ambassador James w.
Gerard and Mrs. Gerard, Mr.. and Mrs
J ohm d. Rockefeller, jr.. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob H. schiff, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Kahn
and others. a concert and the dansant
VIII be given at the Hotel Biltnore. in
New York, Friday afternoon at o'clock
for the benefit OF the Motor Ambulance
Fund of the New York County Red Cross.
This will be one OF. the largest and most
brilliant charity affairs of the post-Len-
ton season.
Among the artists will be David Bisp-
ham, barytonei Nine. Del Vale, the
solorafura soprano, who took the place
- Prague Of Miss Emmy Destinn when
the latter first came to America; Miss
Mary Jordan. contralto, and Miss Mary
Lawton, who viii give in costume her /
war poems. which she has been
rscittng for the American Ambulance in
France. Woodruff Rogers and Carl Dies I
WIN be at the piano.
Tho Florida delegation at the National
Congress OF Daughters of the American