The Washington herald., 1918-11-24

crue to a local charity, more than
usual interest attaches to 1t.
Miss Lillian Birney Is chairman OF
the ball committee and Miss Cath
crime Dorsey Harlow, chairman of
the floor committee, though II seems
probable that by that time Miss
Catherine Dorsey Harlow will have
Joined the ranks Otto quote the So
ciaI Register-"the married maidens.
And before | get quite off the sub
ject of the engaged girls, perhaps L.
isn't quite fair, but there is Margaret
Devil Lereux. I've been hearing on
ali sides of her engagement. She
seems have been telling all her
friends that she has met her fate,
and accepted him. He's an Cf Ger
i'm the Marine Corps, whom he all
ways known. though she has only
recently recognized him as her Fate
But as she hasn't officially told me.
suppose | mustn't tell you. So there
you are!
Margaret. by the way. is in the Ma
rine Corps-do they call them yeo-
women there. all same like in the
navy? Anyhow. she's in; and l un-
derstand she enlisted not ''for the
r,' ~ I"n Of the war" but for a term
of four years. And I'm not quite
clear what tnev would do to her IL
she committed matrimony during
that period. I imagine, though, that
she is likely to find out.
Her brother, and one of the Glaze
brooks, and a whole lot OF ether
Washington boys are over in Fra 1ce
Most of them went into DR.. Dew
7-euX's unit in the American Ambu-
lance Corps, but some of them got
SO impatient at being kept intermin-
ably at Allentown in training that
they got out. and went across on
their own hook and Joined French
units. In fact, when the DevereuN
unit finally got on the other side. IL
found that its chance OF getting into
action on the front lines was so
small that it broke up. and its MEM
bers mostly got themselves taken into
older French and British units where
they saw some chance Of getting
action.
DR.. Devereux's house at Chevy
Chase has been rented for the last
year. and Margaret and her mother
have been in town; don't quite
know where they are now. / believe
they moved into new quarters the
first Of October and somehow got
the address wrong. For the number
I thought was theirs is quite a diff
ferent family. However, some one
will set me straight before long. I'm
sure.
There is a whole bunch of buds VIII
are really entitled to some attention,
but there isn't room for them this
week. except to mention Frances
Hopkins who is to be a Thanksgiving
bud even as her sister, Anne. now
Mrs. John Gregory Hope, was two
years ago. Capt and Mrs. Hope are
making their home with DIR. and Mrs.
Hopkins for the present. and the
latter are hack in their old home on
Bancroft place. 1t is there that
they are giving Miss Frances her
Coming-out tea next Thursday. and
following it up with a dance. which
everybody is crazy to go to, because
/ the Hopkins parties IRE always the
most original possible. 1t is always
interesting to see what lew and de-
| lightful things they will think Of for
| this one.
The debutante group is growing
daily. New announcements are being
made of girls coming out who had
not intended to. largely because war
| time debuts were rather taboo. But
! they deserve more space than can
! be given them this week, SO they will
! have to wait. Here. however. are a
] few of the balls that will help make
| thier first winter brilliant.
The whole list of charity balls is