The Washington herald., 1918-07-14

engagements to be announced IL that
Of Charlotte Capers, and the man in
the question Ii q very nice young man
fof this city, and that the wedding In
to be In the fall. Charlotte In plan
ming now to remain in Washington
all summer but her sister Frances Is
having q beautiful time visiting
about. Just now she Is the guest of
Admiral and Mrs. David Taylor In
Virginia and from there she will go
to West Point for an extended stay
Anita Kite. who belongs to this same
group Of girls, Susan Chase. Dorothy
Helmbold. Dorothy Mason, all OF
whom made their, debut about the
same time. has just returned from
Philadelphia, where she went for
has been terribly broken up over the
death OF Ted Fuller, in France. Some
people said that she was engaged to
him but I am sure they were only
very good friends
Talking Of Suzanne Chase and Kitty
Beach doing their bit at the Fuel Ad-
ministration reminds me of several
other society girls who are doing SINH
lar things. There is Esther Denny for
one, who Is q yoeman in the navy.
Miss Denny, who in the past always
had such q good time; and fitted about
from one social function to another,
popular with ali sexes and who disap-
peared from town at the first sign of
hot weather, Is staying here all sum-
mer and working hard for Uncle Sam.
Miss Madeline Austin. daughter of
Mrs. T. Septimus Austin, and Miss
Cecile Cook. who makes her home
Nth thar t,trf .f-
| course at q business college in town,
preparing themselves to be Of use to
their country in the future. Just now
they all are planning to remain. here
unless the weather gets unendurably
hot, in which case they will pro badly
go to Swampscott,. Mass, or some
other Northern resort Like many
others, their plans are all in the air.
They have had until last, week. a
house full Of young people for several
weeks, who had a very, good time in
an informal way. The Austins lhaye
quite large apartment; in the pres-
den but even It's. capacity was. taxed
to the utmost and they really had lots
Of fun tucking the guests away on
cots in. available corners.
While on the subject Of girls doing
their bit, here Is something of interest
I read the other day: -. = rls.t
An American soldier now in France
writes to a friend; in New York as
"The Y. M. C. A. here is a great
institution, We are able to get ice
cream. regular American style food,
see American newspapers and maga-
Zines and be waited on ssby Mrs.
-
man, II one Is lucky. The latter fried
guy in one OF Joe's Third avenue res
taurants couldn't have Topped them
over with greater ,cleverness than she
did. Her mother brought that girl up
right I'll say. I forgot to say that
We. can get water here also. Water
elsewhere Is regarded as the STUN to.
bathe in (about yearly, I'd: say) and
put under bridges Vim iblanc and vim.
rouge and other wins Of different
color are the only liquids besides beer
and coriials and aperitifs and. stun
like that seem to exist under French
auspices" -
There were not aany dinners for any
Of the diplomats last week but there
is one scheduled to take place very
soon with Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick e. 1
Chaplin as the hosts and the Japanese
Ambassador and viscountess Ishii as
the honor guests. The Chapins knew
the Ishiis very intimately in Japan
when Mr.. Chaplin was counsellor Of
our embassy at Tokyo about nine
years ago. viscount and viscountess
Ishii gave them beautiful dinner. at !
that time. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Chaplin
have q wide acquaintance. In Japan
and like, all OF usswho come to really
know. the. Japanese, think they are q
delightful people. Mrs. Chaplin went
to school at the Georgetown Unfver-
sity with the first three Japanese
girls sent to school in this country
and became their fast friends. They
are all back In their own land now,
married and living happily ever after.
Fred Chapin. jr., is q first lieu
tenant IN the Signal Corps, q. s., A.,
and In France: Is a ground officer. 4
He attended the first { two training
camps at Plattsburgs and was to enter
the first officers' camp at. Fort Myer
when he was taken. very III Mrs.
Chaplin and her attractive daushter.
Marcia, are planning TO 20 stog Fishers
Island some time this summer las they
did last year. but L they have not
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