Evening star., 1918-02-02

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! Charles Ross, Col. and Mrs. George
| Downey, Mrs. James r. Mann, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Medill Mccormick,
Representative and Mrs. Ira c. Copley.
Mrs. Victor Kaufman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas F. Logan, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
eric d. Mckenney, Consul General to
Peru and Mrs. William Handley, Maj.
and Mrs. Charles Mckenney, Com
Ames Brown. Capt Barbee and Mr..
Stephen Bourne
The dining room was decorated with
palms. clusters of bridal wreath and
guests being seated at small tables
decorated with pink roses. Corsage
bouquets of sweet peas and roses were
favors for the ladies. An orchestra
played throughout the dinner and for
the dancing which followed.
Miss Cannon and Mrs. LIE Seure are
giving the first of series of informal
compliment to Mrs. J. L. Loose of Kan
sas City. who is here for visit Of sew
eral weeks. Miss LIE Seure and Miss
Helen lie Seure are assisting at the
tea table.
DIR. and Mrs. John Vynely Prince OF
New York are spending the week end
with Senator and Mrs. FrelingPuysen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wood Elodgett of
New York and Grand Eapids. Mich.
! yesterday announced the engagement
| Of their daughter, Miss Katherine Cum
| mock Blodgett. to Maj. Morris Hadley.
| 3O2d Field Artillery, o. r. C.
| Miss Blodgett is granddaughter of
the late Delos a. EloGgett and Alex
ander G. Cumnock of the fanily of that
| name in Massachusetts. She made her
| debut last winter at a ball given by
her parents at Sher"y's. and was prom
| inent in the Junior League and other
| activities of the debntantes last season
fol yIo6 low &c of 1r hI1
Twining Eadley, president of Y ale UNI
versity. and grandson of the late
Luzon Burritt Norris Governor Of Con-
| necticut. He was graduated from Yale
in 1915. was a member of the Psi Up
! silon fraternity. the Elizabethan Club
and Skull and Bones After graduat alton
| he spent a year at the Harvard Law
! School. He is now in charge of the
Aver. Mass, and the youngest major in
the Army. He is twenty-three years
old. He is a nephew of Mrs. Charles
NJ Pratt of New York and Glen Cove.
Miss Ellen Bruce Lee entertained a
| number of young. people at dinner last
evening. later taking her guests to the
theater.
| Mrs Edward F. Carry will leave to-
| morrow for Chicago. and will return to
Washington Thursday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Evans Greene
| have invitations out for dance for
Saturday evening, February 9, at the
| Shoreham.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles R. Posey of Ro-
| land Park came to Washington this
afternoon for the reception being given
| by Mrs. John Hays Hammond. at her
| home on Kalorama road.
! The second of the series Of lectures on
Belgium given in French by Prof. Vic
tor Horta. member of the Royal Acad-
| emy of Belgium and director of the
| Ecole des Beaux Arts Of Brussels, for
| the benefit of the Belgian refuge chill
| 4, at Mrs. Adolph Miller's residence, 1929
| S street, when the subject will be
! Modern Belgian Painters"
| Mrs. Nanette B. Paul. 2o07 Columbia
road will continue her Saturday even
! ings at home throughout the season.
| Prominent speakers will take part in
| the discussion on World Democracy"
| Miss Ina C. Emery. who has been seri-
| ously ill at her home, 5315 Connecticut
avenue, is convalescing.
| A very interesting meeting was held
a. Rauscher's yesterday morning. when
| the Army emergency committee was
addressed by MIR. Harvey D. Gibson in
| behalf of the Red Cross. Realizing the
| splendid work already accomplished by
| this committee, which was organized
| in December by the leading Army
| women at Washington to supply the
knitted comforts to the soldiers. Mr..
Gibson asked then to join the Red
| Cross as an auxiliary. vote on his
proposition will be taken at the next
| meeting. on Friday, February Is.
The proposition gave rise to
| lengthy debate, some favoring and
others opposing it.. Among those much
i,,ta Cd L..
Mrs Erasmus NJ. Weaver. Mrs. Charles
Carroll Walcutt Mrs. Francis ]. Ker-
nan. Mrs. Isaac Littell, Mrs. George
NJ sternberg. Mrs. William G: Gorgas.
| inson, Mrs. Dennis Nolan. Mrs. Edward
A. Goodwin, Mrs. Albert e. Saxton. Mrs.
James B. A;eshire, Mrs. H. s. Naylor,
| Mrs. Walter Gorden, Mrs. j. T. Crabhs
and Mrs Dorst.
Mrs. H. w. Hardinge of New York is
visiting Mrs. Brackett and her daugh-
| ter Mrs. C. Mcclellan Chase, 1000 10th
street.
MI and Mrs Arthur Lee will leave
| tomorrow morning with Mr.. and Mrs.
William Mcclellan Ritter for Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs Lee will be the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ritter at their shooting
box, in northern Florida.
Mrs. Howard Felix Moore and little
daughter. Miss Phyllis Shackleford
Moore, left last evening for Newport
News. where they will spend the week
end with Mrs. Moore's brother, Lieut.
Paul A. Shacklefnrd. who is now sta
| toned at Camp Hill.
Miss Katherine Burritt of Fairfax
county. Va. who was visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Richardson Gibson. Is now the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine Elkins.
The Washington Alumnae Club of Pi
Beta Phi will open its new home for
college women at 1910 @ street tonight
with a reception and informal dance
given as rushing party for the
active chapter at George Washington
University The club has been looking
all year for the best kind Of war work
for it to do, and finally decided that
no more patriotic work could be found
than opening house for college Wom-
en- who are here doing their ''bft.''
Mrs. Margaret c. Lander, widow of
route from San Francisco. Cal. to Pitts
burgh, Pa. is spending few days with
her aunt Miss Harriet P. Lander. at the
Atlantic apartments. 1905 10th street
northwest.
Glasses in reconstruction work have
been inauRurated at the Theodorus
Bailey Myers Mason House of the Wom-
ans Naval Service. Inc, 1906 10th
street. These classes will prepare
diers who may return from the front