The Washington herald., 1917-05-02
Members of French Mission Dine With
Chief Justice Edward Douglass White


After" for the benefit Of the American
Aid for Homelss Belgian Children. for
which Mr.. William Phelps Emo has loan
ed his house. I'M N street, Friday even
ing. May 4, at Q O'Clock. Mr.. Eduardo
Deru. Belgian court violinist. will be the
artist Of the evening, and Nine. Vic
tor Horta. officially appointed by the
Belgian government as its representative,
viii deliver the lecture for which the
French government has loaned the slides.
brilliant young war poets of America
and England. Rupert Brooke, and Allan
Seegar, at the Club of Colonial Danes on
Monday, May Z. at 4:S0 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Burt have an
nounced the engagement OF their daugh-
ter, Miss Frances Burchell Burt, and Mr..
Ralph Townsend Stone, of New York.
son of Mrs. Ralph Stone, of New Orleans.
The wedding will take place this
month.
Rev. DR.. George A. Johnston-Ross, of
the Union Theological Seminary, of New
York. will deliver the address at the
Founders Day exercises at the Tome
School Port Deposit. Nd, May IL.
Founders Day Is the most important day
in the schol year at Tome, and prominent
visitors come from Baltimore, Washing
ton, Philadelphia and New York.
Mrs Coburn, of the Coburn Players,
who appears in the part OF Chez Moo,
the Chinese mother, In The Yellow
Jacket at the National Theater this
week. was the guest of honor at tea
at the National American Woman Suf-
frage Association headquarters, lSSS
Rhode Island avenue, yesterday after
noon. Mrs. E. T. Williams, for the
Twentieth Century Club, which has
charge Of the tea was the hostess. and
she was assisted by her daughter, Miss
Alice Williams. Miss Virginia Fuller,
Miss Helen Miller. and Miss Ethel
Christensen
Mr.. Joseph Tumulty. secretary to the
President. was host at a luncheon yester-
day at the Shoreham-
Paymaster General Thomas ]. Cowie.
U. s. N, and Mrs. Cowie have leased the
Hughes cottage, Ayrault street, for the
summer season.
A wedding Of interest to Washington
society took place Monday afternoon in
New York when Miss Helen Leigh Hunt.
the only daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Leigh
HunI. OF Ne" 1OTk anu "dSllll6ACAB "
was married to Mr.. F. Bayard Rives, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Lockhart Rives.
The ceremony took place at $3.50 o'clock
in the whiting Chapel Of the Cathedral
of St John the Divine, Moringside
Heights, the chapel built by the bride
groom's mother as a memorial to her
family. The chapel chancel was banked
with white dogwood, marguerites, and
pink spring flowers. and the ceremony
was performed by Bishop David H.
Greer, the Rev. DR.. Charles Lewis
slattery, of Grace Church, and the Rev.
DR.. Endicott P. Peabody, Of the Groton
School
The bride, who was unattended, was
escorted by her father to the altar. She
was gowned in pearl -bordered white tulle
over satin, the long satin train was also
covered with the tulle veil, long sprays of
orange blossoms holding it at the ends,
and a wreath Of orange blossoms held
it to her head. The tulle sleeves were
also finished with pearls at the wrist.
She carried lilies of the valley and orchids.
Mr.. Rives' best man was his brother
in-law, Mr.. Frederick Marquand Goodwin,
whose marriage to Miss Mildred Rives,
the sister of the Bridegroom. was cele-
brated in the same chapel a few days
ago. The ushers were Messrs Reginald
B. Rives, a cousin Of the bridegroom;
Henry Leigh Hunt, a brother of the
bride; Seth B. French. I'd; Thomas H.
Barber, John Kean. Chester G. Burden,
James Boyd, and Seymour Blair.
The wedding reception followed at the
Colony Club. the decorations being
palms and vari-colored spring flowers.
Mr.. Rives is a captain in the Reserve
Corps, and has been called out the order
going into effect in a week. so plans for
their future residence have not yet been
made. The wedding was originally set
for June 4, but the war altered II, The
engagement was announced March 4 Mr.
Rives was graduated from Yale in 1911,
and he is a member of Squadron A. the
knickerbocker and Racquet and Tennis
Clubs, and Essex Fox Hounds His father
was Assistant Secretary of State under
President Cleveland in his first term ano
corporation counsel under Mayor Seth
Low.
Mr.. Henry Morgenthau, former Avn
bassador to Turkey, came down Fror,
New York yesterday for a dav or two
In Washington and is stopping at the
Shoreham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon
have come to Washington, from white
Sulphur Springs to Washington. tn re-
main few days before returning To
their home in New York.
The District of Columbia branch Of the
national Woman's Party will give a re-
ception and tea to Mrs. Coburn, of the
Coourn Players, at national headousr+-
ers, p Madison Place, Thursday aFtar-
noon, at o'clock. The bostesSss IvtII
be Mrs Rohert Ralrar r. ~, van