The Washington times., 1917-07-08

JA4A ~
SUSAN DEAR:
Washington Is Just now more like its
usual midsummer self than it has been
al season. For the moment there isn't
. mission among us-that is q mission
which IL officially the guest OF the ma
tion-and in consequence We are enjoy
ing a lun in the unwonted social activi-
ties that have made the summer notable.
Nevertheless the Capital is still going
strong" in its bid for the popularity
stakes" as q summer resort and, indeed,
81 pushing Newport and the North Shore
for FIRST place. Never. at least in the
memory OF the present scribe, have there
been so many interesting people in town
90 late in the season: never such an abb
sence Of the boarded up houses which
usually give the streets a gloomy look
Why. loads OF people don't expect to
leave town at all. and as fast as others
alp away for a few months change
and rest, their houses are snapped up by
the scores Of people connected with the
various foreign commissions in residence
here and the sundry important wartime
agencies located in town. At the coun-
try clubs, at the dinner parties. which
are still an important feature Of the
social program, although they have
taken on a certain informality and are
mostly impromptu. one sees the new
faces. arresting. interesting faces. that
Washington usually connects with a
change Of Administration.
-
LlSette Hardlng's Engagement
Big Surprise TO Friends.
LiEette Harding-everybody calls
her Lizette-certainly did spring a
surprise on her. friends when she an
nounced her engagement. Rumors?
Yes, Of course. She has had beaux
by the score, and her engagement has
been rumored at least a dozen times
within the last year or two, but never
TO young Prince. The last man "men-
toned in the dispatches" was a GER
tain young chap of a very distin-
guished Washington family who is in
training at Fort Myer. and who is
known to his feIlow-rookies as Poor
Butterfly" from the very gorgeous
kimona he insists upon wearing to
and from. the shower. baths.
At the end OF her first season
LsEette's' engagement to Franklin
H. Ellis was announced. but after a
little they agreed to disagree. She
never made a formal debut, being
too busy. she said. presiding over
her fathers. household and looking
after the younger members OF the
family. Her. mother has been dead
for many years. l
.-.-.-.- -
1T
fee IN the French aviation corps and
whose brother. Norman Prince was
killed in action in France. expects
to enter TIE service OF the United
States, probably as an aviator. He
Is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
HenrX Prince, of Boston and PrIdes
Crossing. and his family are, leaders
3n Boston's most exclusive set
Lizette Harding Is now visiting the
Princes, but is due back shortly. Il
Mr.. Harding. who is governor OF
the Federal Reserve Board, expects
20 be In town all summer and his
two younger daughters, Margaret
and Alice, will go to North Caroline
TO stay with an aunt.
Capital Folk All interested
In the Coming NupttsIs.
The announcement Of Major Edwin
St John Greble's engagement to
Florence Colgate was a bit Of news
of considerable interest here, for no
more popular young officer than Ed
Greble was ever stationed in WASH
ington- Then, Katherine Merr'cK
Ramsay, whose engagement to Ensign
Davenport Browne, Z. S. N, was re-
Gently announced, is almost q Wash
ingtonian, although. like all navy
girls, she has lived all over the coun-
try. She Is & niece of Mrs. George E.
Hamilton and the Misses Merrick and
q cousin of the little Hamilton girls
The late Richard T Merrick, OF
Washington. was her grandfather on
the distafI side and she Is also a
granddaughter of the late Rear Ar
miral Martin NJ. Ramsay, one-time
superintendent Of the Naval Acad-
envy.
I should very much have liked to
see Dorottya Fremont Smith married
10 Edward Preble Motley-like Mr..
Prince, a Boston mani the journey
to Bar Harbor hadn't been so long.
Ruth Patterson was her maid Of
honor. and the two girls, who are the
closest chums, are in such picquant
and charming contrast Dorottya is
blonde. with blue eyes and the fairest
skin, and Is very reserved and quiet |
in her manner. Ruth is dark. with |
brown eyes and high color. and is all |
vivacity ana animation. They are both !
unusually pretty.
Ruth is making no very definite /
plans for her marriage to Lieut.. Mel I
willie W. F. Wallace. L. S. A, beyond !
the fact that II will take place in the i
autumn, wartime conditions per-
uniting" Edith Blair and Lieut.. Com /
mander Adolphus Station. U. S. N. are /
also planning an autumn wedding as /
definitely as they dare plan anything
OF couse, either wedding might be 1
FASTENED should either Lieutenant /
Wallace or Commander Station be or
dered overseas.
Pretty Marie Peary Insists She
Just Won't BE q War Bride.
Marie Peary whose fiance, Ed
ward Stafford, son of Justice and
Mrs. Wendell P. Stafford, at Fort
Monroe with the Coast Artillery
branch Of the Officers Reserve Corps.
declares that under no circumstances /
will she be a war bride. I suspect