The Washington herald., 1918-09-25

assisted by Mrs. Franklin X. Lane.
Mrs. Leigh C. Palmer and Mrs. Rich-
ard Wainwright. Eight or ten young
girls, who have served as mattresses
| at the Sign of the Ship. the lunch
| room run by the comforts commit
tee, through the summer. were also
helping. The guests were pa
tients from the Interior Department
/ convalescent Home. over which Mrs
Lane presides, and convalescents
from Camp Leach, Fort Myer and
Camp Meigs. The party started at
midday and returned at dark. Sup
per was served aboard.
Chief Justice Edward Douglas
White OF the Supreme Court of the
United States and Mrs. White arc
expected back in Washington the
last Of this week after passing the
summer in New London. Conn.
Mrs. Charles S. Bromwell who has
been at Charlevoix. Mich, with her
mother, Mrs. Matthew Scott, in the
latter's summer home, for the last
two months, has returned to Mrs.
scott's residence in Q street, where
Mrs. Scott will join her after a short
stay in Bloomington, Ill.
Mrs. Joseph Letter. who has been
at Edgewater. her summer home at
Beverly Farms, Mass, and Joseph
} Letter, jr., the eldest of her three
small sons, have arrived in Washing
| ton and are at the residence of Mrs.
Letters parents, Col. and Mrs. John
r. Williams. After the return of Col.
a
Beverly, Mrs. Letter will go to Hot
Springs, Va. for several weeks, leav-
ing her children at the Williams
home.
Mr. and Mrs. Letters Dupont Circle
several members of the British Mill
tGrs Mission. O..
Mr.. Algernon Coleman Chalmers has
sent out invitations for the marriage
of his sister, Marian Chalmers Bryant,
to Mr.. Arthur Herbert of Alexandria.
| Saturday, October l. at o'clock, at
st. PauTs Church, Alexandria, Va,
\ The bride-elect Is the daughter Of
the late William Bryant and the niece
OF Gen. John Twiggs Meyers. Mr..
Haywood Meyers. and Mrs. William
Twombly. now residing at Montreux,
Switzerland.
Robert Todd Lincoln. former Secre-
tary of War and son of Abraham Lin
coin, and Mrs. Lincoln celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary yes
terday at Manchester, VT. Mrs. Lin
coin was Miss Mary Harlan, daughter
Of Senator Harlan. OF Iowa. who was
Secretary Of the Interior during Pres
ident Lincoln's administration.
Mrs. Delos Blodgett yesterday re-
turned from Mackinac and Grand
Rapids, where she has spent several
weeks with Miss Blodgett and Miss
Mona Blodgett. Miss Blodgett is Wis
iting in St Paul and will return to
Washington at the end OF the week.
Mrs. c. W. Meyers. wife Of Capt
Meyers, Engineer Reserve Corps, L.
s. A, will return to her apartment
at 2+O Sixteenth street early in Oc-
tober. and will take up lecture work
for the government during the service
of Capt Meyers overseas.
Mrs. Meyers was formerly Miss
Grace Evelyn Schaeffer, of Tennessee,
! and was a member of the faculty of
Peabody College, Tennessee, when she
took up lecture work for the Food
Administration. She and Capt
| Meyers were married In Washington
| the middle of June.
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Hopkins have
rented their residence in Edgemoor
for the winter months and have taken
/ DR.. End Mrs. Larkin Glazebrook' s
summer home near by. Mrs. Hopkins
and the children will spend the winter
there. in the absence of DR.. Hopkins.
who is going abroad to serve in the
newly organized motor transportation
corps
| DR.. and Mrs. Glazebrook will move
next week to their town home in P
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ Beck, Jr.,
are receiving congratulations on the
! birth of a daughter recently in
Washington. Mrs. Beck was Miss
! Adelaide Wilmerding. daughter of
T. kearney Wilmerding. of New
/ York.
Mr.. Walter r. Tuckerman who is
convalescing from a serious illness
! is with Mrs. Tuckerman and their
children at Southampton, L. J..
! where they have had a cottage for
/ the season. They are not expected
/ in Washington till after October !.
! Mrs. 3. H. Warder who has been
at York Harbor. Nc. with her
daughter. Mrs. Ralph Ellis. is agaIr
at her apartment at 1855 Sixteenth
street.