Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05

consular service at Lyon. France,
which work he Will shortly resume.
Following the ceremony. Mr.. and
Mrs. Corbitt went to New York and
sailed Saturday on the La France for
! their new home at Lyon.
Miss Helen Gridley and Miss Char
1otte Gridley entertained at a charm
ing1y arranged Christmas party Sat
urday evening for members Of their
| Ave hundred card club at their home.
on Monroe street. The drawing room
was decorated in flags and red. white
and blue emb1ems in celebration of
victory. The tea table was particu-
larly attractive, a large vase Of
American beauty roses occupying the
center of the board, while red rib
bons extended from the silver can
delabra at each corner to the plates.
where they ended in cunning little
were holly baskets for the bonbons
and other conceits suggestive of
Christman.
The prizes were won by Mrs. Claude
Thomas, Miss WaIsten and Lieut. Nor
man II. Hill. Among the guests were
Lieut.. Guy Mills. Lieut.. Norman H.
Hill. Lieut.. Plost. Sergt. Warren
Sholes. Mrs. Claude Thomas, Miss Ada
Hazard Johnson, Miss Gertrude Trip
lett. Miss Walsten. Miss Pearl Verts.
Miss Mildred Rudd, Miss Katherine
Seaton and Mr. and Mrs. Lucian E.
Gridley.
Miss Mary Lamberton of Florence
Court will be hostess at tea for
Red Cross. Monday afternoon at 4
o'clock Matters relating to the con-
tinuance of their work will be dis
cussed. and it is important for the
members to attend
A reception given on New Year eve
by the bureau of yards and docks,
Navy Department. to the war work
ers and their friends in the Red Cross
clubroom. between 18th and 18th
streets on New York avenue, wa GU
ioyed by more than two hundred
guest The rooms were tastefully dec
grated with evergreens and holly, the
most beautiful of which was large
Christmas tree in the reception room.
Notable among those present were
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the
Secretary of the Navy: Rear Admiral
and Mrs. c. W. Parks. Capt. and Mrs
r. T.. Bakenhus, Commander and Mrs
P. J.. Reed. Lieut.. Fl. d. Rouzer and
Lieut.. Polar Mrs. Daniels was intro
duced by Rear Admiral Parks and
gave a very interesting talk on the
work of the Red Cross. referring es-
peciaIly to the purpose for which the
new clubrooms at Corcoran court are
to be used. Refreshments were served
and dancing was enjoyed until after
midnight.
Mrs. Richard Aldrich and Mrs. V.
Eyerit Macy are hostesSeS for the
tea from until 7 o'clock this after
noon at the National American Wom-
an Suffrage Association headquarters
to meet Miss Ellen Churchill Semp'e.
l.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood. Mrs.
Louis D. Rrownlow. Mrs. Horace Still
well and Mrs. Ellis Yost. At the tea
table will be Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis,
Mrs. Irvine Lenroot. Mrs. Cato Sells,
Mrs. Edward Prentiss Costigan, Mrs.
Alfred Halves, Mrs. Jane Deeter Rip
pin and Miss Mary Phelps Morgan,
assisted by Mrs. Middleton Beaman.
Miss Eleanor Spencer Brock of PhiIa-
delphia- Misses Dorothy and Barbara
Sells. Miss Rosalie Waters and Mrs.
Robert Cummings. Miss Semple will
scientific field for women and the
need for political Acknowledgement to
free them from existing discrimina-
tons against their work.
The medical branch of the Army
Emergency Committee will meet at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning in the High
lands unit room. a large attendance
is asked. the meeting being an urgent
one. Reports will be read. and among
them the very gratifying one of the
benefit at the Knickerbocker Theater
on December 10.
The Ruth Brewster Chapter. D. A.
r., will meet with Mrs. Frank Foster
Greenawalt, former state regent, to-
morrow at s pm. at 1919 Lanier
place. The meeting will be "cane
shower" for the benefit of the
wounded soldiers at Walter Reed
Hospital.
The state regent, Miss Hilda
Fletcher. will speak on the war re-
lief work of the District Society.
An attractive valentine dance will
be given by the Stonewall Jackson
Chapter. U, D. c., on February IA, at
the New Willard. A long list of pa
tronesses include many prominent in
official and social life.
Mrs. Charles Fred is president, Mrs.
Benjamin Cent? is chairman and Mrs
Frank Morrison is vice chairman of
the chapter.
The marriage of Miss Dorothy
Wlckham Baker of Hyland Park, Ill,
and Mr.. William Newton Belk of
Hunter, Ark, took place on Wednes-
day afternoon, January /, at 4:3O at