The Washington herald., 1917-05-14
Quiet Sunday Is Passed in Society
Marked by FEN Hospitaltiiss of Interest
President and Mrs. Wilson At
tend Church Service and
Take Motor Ride-Diplo-
mats Leave for Visit-Miss
Oracle Entertains Week
End Guests.

End Guests.
rhs Prssident and Mrs. Wilson attend
ed service at the Central Presbyterian
Church yesterday morning, later taking
their customary afternoon motor ride.
DR.. Joaquin r. TorrAlbas. FIRST secre-
tary Of the Cuban Legation. and Nine.
de TorraIbas will leave Washington
Wednesday for Cuba DR.. Mariana
Brunn. second secretary, will assume DR..
Torralbas' duties.
Capt. Kichisaburo Nomura. naval at
taehs Of the Japanese Emi assy, left
Washington yesterday for altfornia,
where he win remain for thres weeks.
Miss Edith Temple Grecie entertained
informally at dinner last evening In com
plinent to Miss Marian Buckler, Of Bal
timore; Mr.. z. Smith Newton, Of Phila-
deIphia, and Mr.. Dunbar Adams, Of New
York, an Of whom are weekend guests
Of Miss Oracle and her mother, Mrs.
Archibald Oracle. at their residence in
sixteenth street. Miss Gracis's engage
ment to Mr.. Dunbar Adams was an
nounced several weeks ago.
This morning Miss Oracle viii leave
Washington for visit to New York,
where she win be extensively entertained.
Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Joseph
Vance Ogan have taken an apartment
at the Kedrick, 1901 X street. They VIII
be at home Thursday, May II, from to S,
and will be glad to see all their friends.
There will be no announcement cards OF
the wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward H. Landon. New
York and Paris. have announced the en-
Eagement Of their daughter. Miss Lucy
LAndon; to Lieut.. Adjt. Ralph Speed. Of
the British Army Service Corps. Miss
Landon has been a nurse with the Amer
lean ambulance in Paris sincs January,
1916, and about a year ago was Joined by
her sister, Miss Ruth Landon, who also Is
nursing the French wounded. Lieut.. Adjt.
Speed spent the summer Of 1914 at Bar
Harbor.
Representative and Mrs. Homer P.
Snyder were hosts at dinner Saturday
evening at Dover House, when they en-
tertained in honor Of Mr.. Norman r.
Hamilton. controller of the port of New
port New and Mrs. Hamilton.
The que its invited to meet them in
cluded Representative and Mrs. Samuel
z. winslow. Representative and Mrs.
Charles B. Ward, Representative and
Mrs. John A. Peters, Representative and
Mrs. Bertrand H. Smell, Miss johnson.
Representative S. Wallace Dempsey and
Representative John J. Fitzgerald.
A concert will be given May Is at Polls
Theater at 40 O'Clock for the George
Washington Memorial Hall Miss Mabel
Garrison will be the soioist, assisted by
Mr.. Percy Granger. pianist. Among the
patronesses are Mrs. Lansing and other
Cabinet ladies. Mrs Champ Clark, Mrs.
Peter Goelet Gerry, Mrs. Laurence
TDI,fT1
Henry c. Dimmock, and Mrs. Robert
Thompson.
DR., and Mrs. Charles. D. walcott are
at the Belmont Hotel, in New York. to
meet Miss Helen Walcott, who is return
ing from France, after having passed ten
months in military hospitals at Chambery
and Cannes.
Mr. and Mrs. William F. R. Hit have
gone to Kentucky for short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Patton. of Los
Angeles. who are stopping at the Shore
ham. entertained there at Ginner Sat
Lieut.. G. S. Patton. Jr., U. S. A., Joined
The Washington Wellesley Club will
hold its annual election at the home of
Mrs Ernest Knaebel. 37O7 Morrison street,
Wednesday. May Is. at 3 o'clock. Other
important business will be transacted.
S'onewan jackson Chapter. No. 90
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
will meet at the Confederate Memorial
Home 1322 Vermont avenue northwest,
this evening at 7:3O o'clock. Following
the business session of the chapter there
will be a dance held under the auspices
of the entertainment committee, of which
Mrs. Elizabeth Fred is the chairman.
She will be assisted by Mrs. Katherine
Raymond Eslin, president of the chapter,
and the following ladies': Mrs. Frank
Morrison, Mrs. Opal Tracewe!l. Mrs.
Eayles and Mrs. Robert Williams.
Invitations have reached Washington
from the Rev. DR.. William Russell Scar
ritt and Mrs. Scarritt, of Bay State road,
Boston. for the marriage of their daugh-
ter. Miss Linda Scarritt. and Mr.. Lev
erett Saltcnstan Tuckerman, of Boston,
at the Church of the Advent, on June .
Lieut.. G. S. Patton, Jr., L. S. A. Joined
his parents and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. and
Miss Patton, at the Shoreham Saturday.
DR.. and Mrs. Loren B. T. Johnson will
open their Italian Garden at POS Six
teenth street, for a garden party. under
the auspices of the South American Club,
Of the Young Women's Christian Asso-
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