The Washington times., 1917-03-27

Mrs. Gibbon was the guest of honor
on Saturday when Mrs. George w.
Read was hostess at luncheon.
Miss Treat to Become Bride.
Invitations have been received in
Washington for the marriage of Miss
Margaret Treat, daughter Of Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Charles G. Treat, and
Lieut.. Archibald Vincent Arnold, U.
S. A. The ceremony will take place
April IL, at o'clock, at Schofield
Barracks, Hawaii, where General
Treat is now stationed. General and
Mrs. Treat and the Misses Treat left
Washington last spring for General
Treats new station.
The Arts Club OF Washington will
give a reception in honor of Mrs. Ed
ward Mcdowell, widow of the famous
composer, Friday evening at $50
o'clock.
Mrs. James F. Curtis and her chill
dren will arrive in town next week
from New York, and will spend the
month of April with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William r. Merriam, at their
home in N street.
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Stephen Van Rensselaer, to Wed
The marriage of Stephen Van
Rensselaer,, third secretary OF the
American embassy at Rome, and Miss
Roxana Wentworth Bowen, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Winthrop
Bowen, of New York, will take place
Easter Monday, April 9, at o'clock
in st. Thomas Church. Miss Olive
Van Rensselaer, Gawtry, a niece Of
the bridegroom, will be maid Of honor
and the bridesmaids will be Miss
Jeanette Jennings, Miss Sylvia Hoyt,
Miss Elsie Welsh Saltus, Miss Ellen
McCarter, of New York, and Miss
Gladys High and Miss Gladys Hamble-
ton, of Chicago.
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, will serve
as his brothers best man, and the
ushers will be Gerald NJ. Livingston,
Walter G. Davis, jr- Gordon Auchin-
Gloss, Robert c. Ream, E. Pennington
Pearson, Henry Leigh Hunt, Maurice
Roche, and William E. Shepherd, tr.,
of New York; John Wentworth, of
Chicago, and 7. Gardner Aspinwall,
of Boston.
The ceremony will be performed
by the Rev. DR.. Ernest NJ. Stires, and
a small reception will follow at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bowen, 8 East
Sixty-third street.
Mr.. Van Rensselaer, will give his
farewell bachelor dinner at the Union
Club on Tuesday.
Goucher AIumnae Hostesses.
The Washington Branch of Couch
er College Alumnae will be hostesses
this evening at. the home of Mrs.
Chase Palmer for Goucher under
who are home for their spring vaca-
ton. Any former Goucher students
who chance to be In Washington will
be cordially welcome
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Mrs. ELI Bamford Smith will give
reception this evening at her resi-
dence, 1443 Massachusetts, avenue, in
compliment to Mrs. Odenheimer,
president general United Daughters
OF the Confederacy, and Mrs. Mulcare,
division president, the officers of the
District OF Columbia division and of
the nine local chapters. The officers
of Camp III, United Confederate Vet
Grams, of Charles Broadway Rouss
Sdulp 11o1s anu OI Inc lOCdA Chapters
u. c. ", will also be among the
honor guests. Mrs. smith, who Is
perhaps more widely known as Maud
Howell Smith. is a former division
president U. d. c.
Miss Maidie Snowden. of Alexan-
dria, is visiting Capt. and Mrs. Earl
North at West Point. Mrs. North was
formerly Miss Dorothy Gatewood. of
To BE Luncheon Guest.
Mrs. Clement A F. Flagler, wife of
Colonel Flagler, U. S. A, recently ap-
pointed military attache at Rome,
will be the guest of honor at a lunch
con which Mrs. Charles Keller, wife
of Colonel Keller, will give tomorrow.
Col. and Mrs. Charles W. Kutz will
entertain at dinner Thursday night at
the Army and Navy Club for Col and |
Mrs. Flagler and on Friday evening
they will be the honor guests at a din |
ner which Col. and Mrs. Henry Jer-
vey will give.
Visiting In Norfolk.
Mrs. Henry E. Jenkins, who has
been spending the winter with her
parents, Medical Director and Mrs. |
James Duncan Gatewood, is in Nor
folk for a short visit.
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Mrs. Victor Kaufman left town |
this morning for New York. Mrs. |
will be hostess at bridge
on the afternoon of April 10 in COM
pliment to Miss Haskell.
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Mrs. Frank Hillyer will be hostess
at a series of small bridge parties,
the first to be given on Wednesday