The Washington herald., 1917-12-08
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IN WASHINGTON

Mr.. and Mrs. william Stanley Dell.
of Eew York, are passing their honey
moon at Hot Springs, Va. Mrs. Dell
was formerly Miss Marion Cleveland.
daughter of Grover Cleveland.
Senator and Mrs. Andrieus A. Jones,
Of New Mexico, have taken an apart
ment at 24OO Sixteenth street, of which
they will take possession upon their
arrival in Washington next week.
Miss Katherine Force has gone to
France to do relief work. She is the
sister Of Mrs. William H. Dick, form
erly Mrs. John Jacob Astor. Miss
Force was accompanied by Miss Phyl-
lis J. Walsh. of Overbrook. Pa, and
will be associated with the Duryea war
relief, which cares for French and Bel
gian children and women in need of
clothing, food, and medical attention.
Miss Force Is the daughter OF Mrs.
William H. Force. Her engagement to
Henri c. Harnickell. Of New York. was
announced several years ago.
The wedding OF Miss Louise Couper,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Hamilton Couper, and Edward A. Al
len, first lieutenant, U. 8. A, will take
place at st. Luke's Church, Atlanta.
Lieut.. Allen is the eldest son OF
Mrs. W. r. Andrews, Of this city and
a nephew of Adolph Amende. Of the
War Department. He was educated
at the public schools Of Washington
and Is a graduate Of the State Col
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He was given a fellowship at Co
lumbia College and left there to take
a commission in the army.
The bride-elect is a representative
Of an old Georgia family. She is
granddaughter of James Maxwell
Couper, of Atlanta, whose family
were among the first settlers in the
State, and their family plantation,
tate Of the du Pont family. Miss
Couper's mother was formerly Miss
Carrie Land Trout, whose home was
near Rome, Ga, and who was edu-
Gated at Shorter College. James
Maxwell Couper, Jr., now Of New
York, and a former Albanian, is an
uncle Of the bride-elect.
Miss Couper is q graduate Of Wash
ington Seminary, and spent all of
last winter in New York as the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Maxwell Couper.
The annual Christmas dance of the
Robert E. Lee chapter. No. GA
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
will be held at the Cairo, Friday
evening. December 2S, and will be
under the direction of the following
20 1V,nfffoa. Nra Wal.
ter E. Hutton. chairman: Mrs. A. H.
Plant, vice chairman; Mrs. Victor
Deyber, Mrs. Florence Webb, Mrs.
Mrs. Claude N. Bennett. Mrs.
freshments.
\ tea dance will be given at the
Washington Club on Saturday after
noon, December Is. from to 7
o'clock, under the auspices of the
Providence Junior Auxiliary, an or
ganiZation of girls who assist in car
ing for tho children reached by the
Providence Day Nursery. The patron
esses are Mrs. Edward Douglas White,
Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, Mrs. Thomas
F.. Logan, Mrs. Joseph Letter, Mrs.
Charles c. Marbury, Mrs. Wade Ellis,
Nine. Calderon, Mrs. Hannis Taylor.
the Misses Riggs, and Mrs. Thomas
II. Carter.
The Christ Child Society will have
its annual tag day today. Mrs. James
Dudley Morgan is president of the tag
day committee and Nine. Calderon
is vice president.
The Christ Child Society already
reaches more than 1000 children an
nually, and the war will greatly in
crease that number.
A meeting in the interest of the
drive the Washington committee of
the Y. w. c. A. war council is making
for $4,000, its share Of the budget the
council is raising for its relief work,
will be held this morning at IL o'clock
at the residence of Mr.. William
Phelps Emo, III N street Mrs.
James Wadsworth, jr., chairman of
the local committee, will preside and
Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris, of New
York, will address the meeting.
The students of Gunston Hall will
present lie Poilu" this evening for
the benefit of the French orphans.
There will be a tableau chansons by
Miss Hitchcock, Miss Spear and Miss
Booraem; some piano solos by Miss
Chambers. Those taking part will be
Miss Ellen Marshall. Miss May Tay-
lor, Miss A. McCranie and Miss Ad-
rienne Louise Law. Capt. Massiot, of
the French commission, will make an
address.
The twenty-seventh annual exhi-
hition of paintings by the Society
OF Washington Artists will be held
at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, be-
ginning December 13 with a public
reception from s until IL p. m., and
until December 81. The
officers for the ensuing year are:
President, Richard N. Brooke; vice
president, George Julian Zolnay; sec
retary. Miss Lesley jackson; and
treasurer. Theodore J. Morgan. In
addition to the officers of the So
ciety the jury of selection will \be
composed of Alexis B. Many, chair
man; Richard D. Engel, Miss Gather
inc c. Critcher. Miss Sarah S. Mum
roe and U. s. ]. Dunbar, the sculp-
tor.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will OCCUPY
a box at the benefit concert by
Nine. Aida, Frank La Forge and
Nine. Wynne-Pyle, which will be
given at the National Theater on
December 13 under the auspices of
the League of the Church of the
Covenant. Mrs. George McLanahan.
Mrs. Richard Crane and Mrs Tbor,os