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steffanson will live at No. Sc East 57th
| street.
The bride is member of the Colony
| and Fencers' clubs. Mr.. SteRanson Is a
| been influential in politics and busi-
| ness in his country. For some time he
represented Sweden here in connection
with exports to that country. His
| brother, who passed part of last sum-
mer at Newport. r. l.. is a member OF
| the Kings Guard.
| Mrs. Albert L. Mills will leave Wash
| ington next week to spend the Christ
mas holidays with her son-in-law and
daughter. Maj and Mrs. Emil P. Laur-
son, at Fort oglethorpe.
were at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. New
York, returned to Washington yester-
day.
A card party will be given in the
Cairo ballroom, under the auspices of
the Cairo unit, American Red Cross. at
. o'clock Monday afternoon. December
III.
The proceeds will be used in purchas-
ing wool for knitted comforts.
Mrs Franklin 7. Schneider has the
affair In charge. and tickets may be
had at the Cairo.
tion of paintings by the Society Of
Washington Artists will be held at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art beginning De-
cember 13, with public reception
from until II o'clock, and continuing
until December 81. The officers for the
ensuing year are President Richard N
Brooke, Vice President George Julian
Zolany. Secretary Miss Lesley jackson
and Theodore j. Morgan, treasurer. In
addition to the officers of the society
the jury of selection will be composed
of Mr.. Alexis B. Many, chairman; Mr.
Richard D. Engel. Miss Catherine e.
Critcher. Miss Sarah s. Munroe ana =.
S. J. Dunbar. the sculptor.
The many military titles in the 1918
Social Register, just out, indicate the
numerous members of washington So
ciety who have given their services 10
their country.
The effect of the war upon matrimony
is evidenced by the large increase in
the number of marriages this year as
compared with last year. In all the
cities covered by the Social Register
there are noted this year the mar
riages of 3,77O persons. as compared
with 3,056 last year.
This years register indicates a large
influx of families from New York,
Francisco, Detroit and other cities,
many of whom have taken houses at
Washington for the winter, to say
nothing of the large number of foreign
ers.
Mrs William Francis Stevenson, wife
of Representative stevenson of South
Carolina was hostess at luncheon to
a few friends in their apartment at
Fontanet Courts.
Mrs W. S. Holmes of Baton Rouge,
La, who is widely known in Washing
ton where she resided when her first
husband, the late Representative Rob-
ert Wickliffe, was in Congress, is chair
man of the women's suffrage party in
Louisiana delegation to the suffrage
now in session here.
wedding of interest was that of
Miss Marie c.. Cuthbertson, daughter of
DR.. and Mrs. Charles w. Cuthbertson,
and Mr.. Walton s. Mold. son of the late
Mr. Isaac Mold and Mrs. Mold of New
York. which took place last evening at
the Metropolitan NJ. Z. Church The
church was decorated with palms. ferns
and pink roses.
The bride wore a becoming gown of
old rose taffeta and white satin, trim
med with self-toned and gold cmbroid-
cry, and her large transparent picture
hat of rose tulle and velvet had stream
ers of gold ribbon. which tied on the
left side and were caught under the
hat in a long. graceful bow. She car
ried a shower bouquet of bride roses
and lilies Of the valley. The maid Of
honor. Miss Frances Logan, was in
brown satin and georgette crepe with a
large transparent picture hat OF French
blue tulle and velvet, and she carried a
bouquet of yellow sunburst roses. The
bride was given in marriage by her
father and entered the chaDcel TO the
strains of the "Lohengrin'' wedding
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