The Washington herald., 1918-02-19

Fort SlOCuIn, N. l., acc .DdnleQ Dy
Miss Elizabeth Kingsbury. has gone
to Texas to visit Lieut.. Kingsbury
who is training for the aviation
service. Miss Kingsbury visited in
Washington last week as the guest
of Col. and Mrs. T. Q. Donaldson
and Miss May Sue Donaldson and
later stayed with Mrs. Volney O.
Chase and Miss Susanne Chase.
Mrs. Ida Nelson Morris, wife OF
the American minister to Sweden;
Prince and Princess Michael Can
tacuzene. and Brig Gen. William v,
Judson, U. s. A, are among the re-
cent arrivals at ian Atlantic port
on a Norwegian steamer. Princess
Cantacuzene is a daughter of Mrs
Frederick Dent Grant and a grand
daughter of President Grant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Morgan John
son, OF Alexandria. have sent out
invitations for the marriage OF
Johnson, to Capt. Charles Dodson
Barrett, U. S. NJ. c., on Saturday
afternoon, March 2. at o'clock
in st. Paurs Protestant Episcopal
Church, Alexandria.
There will be an important meet
ing of the infantry branch of the
army woman's emergency COM
mittee tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
at the Highlands.
All women interested in the in
fantry are cordially invited.
Announcement is made by Mrs
Edward rockingham Wyman, of
New York, of the engagement OF
her daughter. Miss Rosemonde Wy
man, to Ensign Royal w. Wether-
aid. U. S. n. R.. Flying Corps. sta
toned at Fort Worth, Texas.
Ensign Wetherald is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. James T. Wetherald,
of Boston. He was graduated from
the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology last June. Miss Wy
man is active in war relief work,
One of her brothers, Lieut.. Walter
F. Wyman, U. S. N. A. is at Camp
Dix, and the others, Edward E. Wy
man and Phillips Wyman. are with
the Shipbuilding committee In this
city.
For the benefit of the Thursday
French evenings, which have been
in progress this winter at the All
Souls Lecture Hall for the men in
uniform, NJ. Emile Villemin, the
noted French lecturer, will give his
lecture on Joffre at the Washington
Club, 1910 Seventeenth street, to-
morrow evening at Sis o'clock.
An invitation is extended to all
men in uniform.
One of the most brilliant events
of the spring season at Washington
will be a ball that will be held at
the New Willard Saturday, April 6,
for the benefit of the American,
British, French and Belgian perma-
nent blind relief war fund. The
Washington committee of the fund
is composed of Chairman Rev. Ran
dolph H. McKim, D. D.; Charles
Henry Butler. William Corcoran Eus-
tis, Gen. C. L. Fitzhugh, DIR. Nevil
Monroe Hopkins, Thomas Hyde, DR..
Ralph Jenkins. Henry Cleveland
Perkins, DIR. William H. Milmer,
Corcoran Thorn, Mrs. Robert Lam
sing, Mrs. Newton D. Baker, Mrs.
Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Franklin X.
Lane, Mrs. Breckenridge Long, Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Stephen B.
Elkins. Mrs. Archibold Hopkins,
Mrs. John MCGOWAN, Mrs. Randolph
II. McKim, Mrs. Richard A. Harlow,
Mrs. Charles c. Glover, pr; Miss
Kibbey, Miss Hegeman, Miss Char
lotte Cullen, Mrs. William c. Rives.
jr.: Mrs. P. Lee Phillips. Honorary
secretaries: Mrs. John H. Newson
and Mrs. John Allan Dougherty;
treasurer, Charles ]. Bell.
The activities of the A. B. F. B.
fund. which is under the high pat
ronage of President Wilson. are be-
ing largely extended at this time
and funds are urgently needed. In
addition to establishing and main
tanning under French government su-
prvision its superior school for blind
ed officers and soldiers and its knit
ting school and raw material depot,
all of which are at Neuilly, near
Paris, the fund has just construct
ed for the Belgian government build
ings for the housing and instruc-
ton in useful trades of blind Rel
gian soldiers at Port Villez, near
Vernon, France; 1t is establishing at
La Garenne, Colombos, near Paris. a
home for blind soldiers and their
families from the devastated regions
Of France; a Braille printing office
and library at its new executive
offices at Paris, rs Avenue des
Elysees, and has contribut-
ed $500 francs toward purchasing
surgical instruments and also pre-
liminary equipment for a workshop
for Rumanian blinded soldiers. A
plan to aid Serbians who have lost
their sight is also under considera-
ton.
All this Is exclusive OF lthge
sums donated by the fund to st.
Dunstan's. London, and to various
institutions to France devoted to
the care and education of men who
have been wounded in the eyes.
President Wilson Is the patron
OF the American branch of the as
ISOLATION; King George and Queen
Mary of England of the British
branch. President Poincare, of the
French branch and the King and
Queen Of Belbium Of the Belgian
branch.
Arrangements are being perfected
for the camouflage ball to be held
in the ballroom of the Willard Hotel
March s, Tho Neighborhood House
Is having tho assistance of the
members of the camouflaSe COM
pany now stationed at the Camp