The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-21

she has not cared to 60 around great
deal, and until the arrival of DR.. Nord-
vail last month on another special
mission from Norway one rarely met
her, but she was naturally included
in most OF the entertaining-and it
was oonsiderable-done in his honor
OF course the Loudons will scarcely
get here for a couple OF months even
If Dame Rumor is for once right in
rrophesying their return. go just
about the time that Washington Is re-
gaining one Of the American girls who
have married into the diplomatic circle
it will be losing another-one who has
been identified with Washington So
Cicty from her girlhood. For Mrs. NAL
colin Arnold Robertson, who was
Gladys ingalls,, will be going over to
Join her husband. formerly first sec
rotary of the British Embassy. who
has been transferred to his country's
legation at Copenhagen.
The Robertsons were married here,
very quietly because of Mrs. 1ngalls's
serious illness, about eighteen months
ago, have had n charming apartment
up on Wyoming avenue, and for the
last three months an altogether
charming young son, Donald Struan
Robertson. to share IL with them.
Within the last week two Washing
ton girls have announced their en-
gagcments, both of them to American
boys as we'll known here as the brides
TO le and both OF course in the ser
vice. Miss katheryn Hitchcock is to
marry Lieut.. John Blair Shumaker.
To- ~
Chase is to marry Ross y. Thompson
i, of the Aviation Corps, and OF course
likely to so over at any minute.
katheryn Hitchcock is a daughter
Of Mrs. j. y. Speel and n grand
daughter OF Gen Harry White of In
diana, Pa. 1t may have been there
that she first knew her prospective
husband. since they tell me It is mud
pie acquaintance recently renewed.
when the fortunes of war brought
Lieut.. Shumaker-eldest son OF the
late Samuel Shumaker of Plttsburg
and Huntington. Pa.--to Camp Meade
as Il member of the 310th Artillery.
He went over about month ago with
the advance guard of the Seventy
ninth Division under Gen. Kuhn. OF
which the main body was recently re-
ported as safely landed.
I'm told Lieut. Shumaker Ia a metal
lurgist by profession and really a very
brilliant chap. Naturally no date has
been or can he set for the wedding
which must wait "till Johnnie comes
marching home" At which the Junior
League here takes heart of grace.
For the Junior League would miss
the Hitchcock girls sadly, and Lena
Hitchcock. the other one" is al
ready on her way to France for recon-
struction work in field hospital. She
was one of the girls whom Mrs. Her
bert Wadsworth recruited and put in
training for that work early in the
winter. She has been working in the
Walter Reed Hospital here for several
months and is said to have developed
remarkable aptitude for the work.
Anyhow, she was one of three girls
chosen to go over.
Susanna Chase Is the daughter of
Mrs. Eolney Chase, widow OF Capt.
Nolney Chase. who died suddenly of
heart failure, brought on by overwork
during the strenuous period of or
ganiz!ng Uncle Sans fighting forces
about n year ago. She has all sorts
OF family connections. in Washington
and nearby Maryland her mother
coming OF a we'll known Baltimore
family and having, OF course. connec-
ton with the Calverts. 1t Is as i'm
possible to come from Maryland and
not be OF the Calvert blood as It is TO
be an honest to goodness New Eng
lander and not OF Mayhower stock.
l know cause I am one myself.
1t seems rather curious that Su-
same Chase and her sister Elizabeth
should both have selected young men
named Thompson, both of them OF
Washington families, and in no wise
connected. Elizabeth Chase, married
something over a year ago. Is Mrs.
John Mcdonald Thompson. Susanna
Chase is one of the Washington girls
who have taken Government jobs
since Uncle Sam went to war. She
has been in the Fuel Administration