The Washington herald., 1917-11-04

tain in the 18th Pennsylvania Infan-
try. His father formerly was Police
Commissioner of New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Letter. who
are comfortably settled in their Wash
ington house. have changed the ap-
pearance of the residence very much
by removing the handsome laces at
| the window. collected m various great
| lace-makinS Centers OF the Old World
by the late Mrs. l.. u. Letter. and
always her pride. Time will tell on
even the finest laCes. and as there
are no Old World lace-mendcrs To
be gotten in this country. nor abroad
either, as for that, the treasures were
taken down and laid away. Now
the great galaxy of windows over
looking Dupont circle have simply
their heavy silk-lined draperies push
ca back at either side, just as the
draperies-no laces-are arranged at
the British Embassy in Connecticut
| avenue and most of the other en-
bassies of the city. Not in years
| has the British Embassy shown cur
| tainS other than the heavy lined
draperies and perhaps a modest cur
tain of some white stuff at the upper
windows.
The consul general of the Neither
| lands at Calcutta and Nine Barren
drecht announce the engagement of
their younger daughter. Baroness Lily
Penelope Won Winckler, to Mr.. Ralph
| Thomas. second secretary of the tenn
porary staff of the British Embassy.
The ceremony will take place on Mon-
day at noon, at "Pagebrook." the
beautiful old home of Capt. and Mrs
Z. NJ. Walker, in Virginia The bride
Will be attended by her sister. Bar
Oness Charlotte Won Winckler, and
Mr.. Thomas will have for his best
man. Mr.. Roland Campbell. third sec
retary of the British Embassy staff
/ The wedding will be small and the
arrangements will be simple owing TO
| the inability of the parents of both
the bride and bridegroom to be pres
ent. Only few intimate friends
will form the wedding company. The
! baroness and her sister have been
well known in Washington society
for several seasons. They have spent
the summer in the country in Vir-
sinia, the greater part of it in Berry
Vile. The bridegroom is a nephew of
Sir Charles Hubhouse.
The marriage of Capt. Percy G.
, Black, of the Eighteenth United
states Cavalry, TO Miss Doris Tay-
/ lor. of Boston. whose engagement
was announced recently. will take
! place in Boston today. The ccre-
mony will be very small and simple
| owing to the war duties of the bride
groom. Capt Black is a son of Gen
and Mrs. William Murray Black. of
Washington, and they, with their
younger son, Mr.. William NJ. Black.
jr., Il student at the University OF
Virginia, have gone on to Boston
for the event. y number of the cap
tain's relatives from New York will
! also attend the wedding.
The lecture given by Mr. s
Richard Fuller, in the ball room at
the home of Mrs. Henry f. Dimock,
on Monday night, for the benent of
the free yarn fund for engineer SOL
diers, under the management of
Mrs. William NJ. Black and Mrs.
Charles Keller, netted the commit
tee about $500.
Mrs. Dougherty. wife of Capt.
Robert s. A. Dougherty, L. S. A., is
planning to organize a chain of teas
and bridge parties to be given for
the benefit of the womans commit
tee for engineers to purchase wool
for knitted garments for the en-
gineer soldiers going to war. Mrs.
Dougherty will invite eight ladies
for bridge. and each promising in
| turn to invite eight more, and this
way create the endless chain.
Mrs. Dimock has gIven the use
of her ball room every Saturday
afternoon to Mrs. Black, Mrs.
Charles Keller, and the women
members of the committee for
furnishing comforts TO engineer SOL
diers and others in that branch o.
| service, and fortified with a knit
| ting teacher, large number o.
women repair there every weekend
afternoon to furnish wool and
needles to the would be knitters
and to instruct those who do not
know how to knit. While the work
is quite new, Mrs. Dimock is ter
ribly interested in it. and it has
been a great success. equipping all
the soldiers of the Engineer Corps
and others with comforts.
American fund for French
wounded still anxious for trench
candles in large quantities to be
shipped abroad. Candles not only
used in trenches. but in hospitals"
Is the text of a Telegram received
from the nation headquarters of the
League for the French wounded in
New York.
The usefulness of the paraffin
lights in hospitals is explained and
borne out in a recent letter from
DR.. William Crumley, now In a base
hospital somewhere in France, to
relatives in Atlanta, in which he
says that electric lights in the hos
pitals within many miles of the
front are impossible on account OF