The Washington herald., 1919-01-12

the Marines or 10 turn In MS restgna-
ton at the first opportunity.
Lieut.. d'Amico. Of the Italian avla-
ton mission. has been In America
over year. He comes of
an old Italian family which has been
established In the nelghborhood Of
Milan for generations. Though he is
only 30 he had seen very active serv-
ice with the Italian colors before he
was sent over here. And since he
has been in Washington he has made
a large number Of friends and been
liked. However. few OF
them seem to have known that he
was about to marry an American
girl, until just before the wedding
which was hastened because of i'm
pending orders" to return home.
1t was a small wedding but very
pretty one, the bride in lovely gown
of white charmeuse with rose point
and orange blossoms, was the typical
bride of the fairy tales. She was
fairly enveloped in her veil of misty
tulle which was held by a coronet Of
the fine old lace, and she carried a
bouquet of bride roses and lilies OF
the valley. Her two sisters, Misses
Jeanne Marie and Argenta Beard
Perkins, were her sole attendants-a
charming pair of bridesmaids in rose
colored chiffon with bouquets of pink
roses. Two young cousins, Misses
Marcia Beard and Elizabeth Lenora
Pettis, came down from New York
to act as ribbon bearers, making an
aisle for the little bridal party. The
company assembled was a small one
of Intimate friends and members Of
the family, but quite enough to wish
the young people Godspeed, as they
started on wedding journey. which
must of necessity be brief.
From now on to Lent, the calendar
is simply crowded with dinners and
dances, including several charity balls.
OF the latter one of the biggest was
the ball for the Children's Hospital at
the Willard last night. This parucu-
lar dance is always regarded as the"
charity ball. Mrs. Wilson's name
heads the list of patronesses. and II
she had been at home she would un-
doubtedly have been there, and the
President with her. AS it was the
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
served as their deputies, arriving with
considerable pomp and ceremony at
about 1870. from a large dinner which
Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen. OF
New Jersey, gave in their honor-only
one of at least a score of dinners
which preceded the ball. In fact It
seemed as IL pretty nearly everybody
in town was either host or guest at
some rather notable dinner, which
wound up at the Willard ballroom.
The room was gay with flags. and
accustomed as we have become to
them in the last few years. there GER
tainly Is no other decoration which
gives more OF an air of festivity, es-
pecially when they are used as a set
ting for a party where there are many
officers in many uniforms. And, by
the way, it was a queer mixture of
dress and service uniforms. Dress
uniforms are now permitted, and
there Is a sort of half-dress (demi-
toilet, so to speak,, which some OF
the foreigners wear; but there are
ever so many. especially of our own
soldier boys who having entered the
service at a time when only service
uniforms were permitted, have not
bothered to get any other sort, so at
the parties nowadays-or rather now
a-nights!-there Is a grand mixture.
The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall were met and escorted to their
box by a guard of honor made up
of newly returned Marines. and no
body questioned whether they had
dress uniforms or not. They We're so
dressed in heroism that uniforms were
of small account. And even II they
were not quite so ornamental as the
Culver boys that have twice on state
occasions been a guard of honor to
the Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall, they certainly looked good to
the assembled company.
Along about the middle of the week
Nine. Hauge, who was chairman OF
the ball committee, was getting nerv-
Gus about the success of the ball. To
be sure they had sold about forty
boxes. which was fully one-third
more than they had ever sold before,
and they had to build more to ac-
commodate the people who were TAX
ing them. but the individual tickets
didn't seem to be going as well as
they should. Nine Hauge admitted
that she was getting cold feet" Her
feet and her head and her heart must
have been warm. as she saw the
"mob"-there is no other word for
tt-that began pouring into the Will
ard ballroom before 10 o'clock, and
kept on until by midnight dancing
was really rather difficult. I was
minded of the little French officer a
year ago who at a similar Crush" in
that same ballroom had mummured
plaintively. 'it is too much people
madame. too much people" One got
the point of view.
That was the first really Smart
dance at the Willard this season. The
other two big charity dances-the
Christmas dance for the Children
Country Home. and the Junior League
Ball on New Years Eve-had been nm
at Rauschers. And last night Rausch-
er's was the scene of another dance
which, while it was not quite so bie
a society" function, was at leas,
enjoyed. 1t was the first dance of the
recently organized U. S. Employment
Service Club. which promised its mem
bers and their guests a good floor. fine
music, handsome men and pretty girls
and kept its word. And what more
can one ask of any dance?
Perhaps-who knows-if the Presi.
dent had not unfortunately been in
France. he might have preferred that
to the rather smarter" dance at the
Willard. They claim that he radio
graphed his regrets-and-well. any
how they managed to get along very
well without him.
The club is a new one-something 9
like a month old-and seems to have
all sorts of pep" 1t was Organized
December 10. and claims to have A
constitution second only to that of
the limited States - La ha...---