The Washington herald., 1918-06-23
Activities Of Women Prominent ii the Social Life
Life Of the. Nations Capital

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French, and Spanish embassies. the
! lBreckenridge Longs In the Macveagh
house across the way. and Mrs.
Marshall Field In her pink palace
q few doors below.
Her newest neighbor IL the Cuban
legation, with Dr. and Nine. de Ces-
pedeG The latter has been In New
York all winter waiting for her home.
1.-The new and handsome legation which
Cuba has been building. Poor DIR.
lCespedes has been vibrating between
New York and Washington, his bust
fness being here and his wife there.
However, the legation IL finally fin-
ished, and Nine. de Cespedes has
moved In and is getting settled. She
Is tremendously proud of her fine new
home, as well she may be. and Is 80
busy planning and arranging and get
ting her house In order that she has
made no summer plans. and may de-
eide to stay right in Washington.
The only socially important we'd
ding this week Is that OF Halle e.
kins Davis and Lieut.. George A.
Percy. u. 8. N. c.. which took place
yesterday afternoon. 1t was IAN aw-
fully pretty party" and quite the
youngest wedding Washington has
seen in long time" OF course there
have been young" weddings before
In Washington society, but they have
usually been rather sudden, and par
ents haven't always known until just
before-or just after-the event.
But this one. with a debutante
bride. and practically every girl in
her wedding party Of the "sub-deb"
class. was put through in a most Or
fthodox and conventional fashion. 1t
took place at the Elkins residence on
X street. the bride being Mrs. Elkins.
niece and namesake.
Lieut.. Percy's parents arrived early
in the week. and the EIkIns- Davis
] clan gathered-the Arthur Lees. who
had left town. came back for the
wedding; the wiederseims from Phil
adelphia. the William Hits: and
others of the socially and financially
important connection. And there was
succession of parties for the young
couple-luncheons and country club
teas and dinners. winding up with
dances.
1t develops that although Miss Davis
and her fiance only met-Quite by
chance-during the winter. their moth
ers were girlhood friends. He has
been stationed at Quantico and has
spent many Of his week ends in Wash
! ington. II was quite natural that he
should have met Halle Elkins. about
the most feted of the winters debu-
tantes. But II was not until some
time later that the young people dis
covered that their mothers were old
friends.
Miss Davis-I beg pardon-Mrs. Per
cy. herself Is not yet twenty, and her
maid Of honor, Miss Ellen Bruce Lee.
CMrs. Arthur Lees daughter, and the
| brid's counsin) Is not yet out: nor
is any one Of the bridesmaids-Miss
Mildred Bromwell. Miss Olyve Graef.
Miss Ellen Percy, Lieut. Percy's sis
ter-(have you noticed the popularity
OF the name OF ELLEN" !)-Miss Mar
garet Tuttle. Miss Mary Davis Land
street. OF New York. and Miss Frances
Wilkinson. OF Evanston. Ill. The men
! OF the party-most of then Lieut.. Per-
| cy's classmates at Harvard. only q
year or two back-were Orson Adams
of Denver. who was best man; Ensign
Ralph Hornblower. Ensign Dudley
Morgan, Alfred Putnam. Henry Gas
| saway Davis 3rd. brides brother;
Lieut. Robert Coke, L. s. NJ. c.. and
Lieut.. Wingate Rollins. u. s. NJ. c.
II was one Of those rainbow wed
dings. two Of the girls In pink two
in blue. and two in green-georgetts
over satin. the skirts cut in point,
and the waists with flowing sleeves
and v necks. back and front: anC
| girdles combining orchid satin witt