Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-07

| nounces the engagement of her daugh-
! ter, Margaret Rutherfurd Willett, to
Mr.. Charles H. woodruff of Washing
! ton. Miss Willett is a granddaughter
/ of the late Rev. Dr. Morgan of ST.
Thomas Church, New York, and a great
| granddaughter of Col. Marinus Willett
| of revolutionary fame. She is a niece
of Mai Gen. Henry G. Sharpe, U. S. a.
| Mr.. Woodruff is a well known club
| man and a brother of Gen. Maxwell Van
Zandt Woodruff of this city.
| Judge and Mrs Adams of New York
are guests for the week end of the
! Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, who
| had guests dining with them inform =
| ally at the Willard last evening. Judge
! and Mrs. Adams were here last month
| for the inauguration.
Among the flags now hanging from
| Washington houses are many of his
! toric interest Capt. and Mrs. Charles
! Carleton Marsh have flying from their old
| home in Indiana avenue, which was for
| many years the residence of the late
| Admiral Robley D. Evans, Mrs. Marsh s
| father, the flag that flew over the Iowa,
| the battleship commanded by Admiral
Evans, during the battle of Santiago, July
| 3, 1898.
The flags everywhere displayed in addi-
ton to their patriotic significance give
great interest to Washington thorough
fares. In many blocks there is not a
house that does not show the national
emblem, large or small. one of the larg-
est hangs from the house in Mcpherson
Square of Mr. and Mrs Edward Beale Nc
Lean. Mr.. and Mrs Arnold Hague, Mr..
| and Mrs. George Peabody Eustis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry kirke Porter, Mr.. Charles
Page Bryan, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Ewing,
Senator and Mrs. James Wadsworth, Mr.
and Mrs. John Upshur Moorhead, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Brooke. DR.. and Mrs
|
Ward Denys, Mrs. John Biddle Porter, MIR.
Justice and Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Mrs. George Dewey, Mrs. Julian James
and Mrs. Calderon Carlisle are among
those from whose windows or balconies
the Stars and Stripes are now hanging
day and night.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wolfe koonce
have sent out cards announcing the mar
riage of their daughter Mildred Marshall
| to Mr.. Irwin Barbour, Thursday, March
! %. at st. Patrick's Cathedral. New York.
| Mrs. Barbour has been society editor
| of the Washington Herald for three years
| and is widely known.
Mrs. Francois Berger Moran is enter
| tanning at fancy dress party this after
/ noon at her residence in Massachusetts
avenue, in honor of her little grandsons,
/ Master John NJ. Hudgins, son of Mrs.
| Horace G. Mcfarland, and Masters f,
Moran McConihe and Malcolm S. Me
I
| S. McConihe.
The rooms are beautifully decorated
with spring flowers and an orchestra
will play for the dancing.
| The party will open with a grand
| march, when the little guests numberius,
nearly hundred. will he presented with
| souvenir swords, drums and caps.
| Mrs Moran. dressed in colonial cos
| tune, will receive, assisted by the little
| honor guests.
Master Hudeins, as Gen Washington,
| will wear a pink brocaded coat with
| white knee breeches, white wig and
| lace stock.
! Master Moran McConihe viii be Gen.
/ Lafayette. in q blue hrocaded coat. with
| white breeches and white wig, and Mas
| ter Malcolm McConihe, jr,. viii wear a
! pink velvet colonial costume with a
| white wig.
Representative and Mrs Charles Il.
| Ward will entertain a theater party,
| followed by supper this evening in
compliment to their house guests, Mr..
| and Mrs. Charles L. Farrell and Mrs.
J A. Clifford of Newark, n. ].
| Mrs ]. Charles Linthicum came to
: Washington yesterday from her home
at Baltimore and has joined Represent
! alive Linthicum at the Willard for the
| spring season.
Mrs. Carroll D. Buck and Mrs Robert
| z. Noble have recalled the invitations
I to the tea which they We're to have
given on Tuesday, April 10 at the
! Washington barracks from to !. Mrs.
Buck has been called to san Francisco
| on account Of the death of her mother,
| Mrs ]. de Barth Shorb, on Thursday
evening.
DR.. and Mrs Walter Wells left last
, evening for the White sulphur Springs,
where they viii spend Easter.
|
| Mr. Franklin X. Lane, jr., who has
| been spending several days with mis-