The Washington herald., 1919-02-24
Society

The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall will be the honor guests at
brilliant dinner party which the
japanese Ambassador and Viscount-
ess Ishii will give this evening.
The Minister Of the Netherlands
and Mime. Cremer will be the honor
guests at u dinner which Mr.. and
Mrs. William Mcclellan Ritter will
give this evening. Nine. Cremer
will be hostess at a luncheon today.
Assistant Secretary OF State and
Mrs. William Phillips will be the
honor guests at the dinner which
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Lay will give
this evening.
Mrs. George W. Fairchild will be
the guest Of honor at the luncheon
which Mrs. Thomas B. Dunn VIII
give today.
Mrs. Charles Howry will be at
home today for the last time this sea-
son.
Mrs. william II. Calder. wife Of
Senator Calder. gave a dance to the
young folk Of the Twelfth Street Re
formed Church Friday night at her
home in Brooklyn. y. Y. Mrs. Calder
has been spending most of her time
in Washington. Her home in Brook
lyn was opened especially for this
occasion.
The committee assisting Mrs.
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Mrs. Robert Lee. wife of Lieut.. Com
mander Lee, U. S. N: Mrs. Hamilton
McNair, Mrs. william Morton, Mrs.
William Burbank, Mrs. James W.
Walker, Mrs. II. Schultz, Mrs. Will
lam P. Thompson. Mrs. W. P. Riley.
Mrs. John C. Rafferty,, Mrs. Joseph
Leslie Bennett.
Edward n. Hurley. chairman of the
Shipping Board, passed the weekend
In Chicago.
DR.. Romulo S. Nson. for eight years
Ambassador from Argentina TO the
United States. who resigned last No.
vember because of a reported disagree
alcnt with President Irigoyen's war
policy, left New York Saturday for
Europe. where, he said, he expected
to remain for several years for rest
and study"
With his wife and four children he
was q passenger on board the Italian
line steamship Duca d'AbruEZi, for
Genoa. and said he intended first going
from there to Paris, where he would
follow the proceedings of the Peace
Conference as a private citizen, and
later study the social and economic
problems growing out OF the war.
Next May. he said. he would return
TO america to take his eldest son,
ROW in school in Concord, Mass, back
to France.
Mrs. Carroll Mercer announces the
enga cement of her daughter. Violetta
e. Carroll, TO DR.. William Berry Mar
bury. medical reserve corps, of this
city. The wedding will take place in
the spring.
Ny John Barrett. director general
o. the Pan American Union, will re-
turn today from the South. Mr.
Barrett addressed the Rotary Club
Hnd the chamber of commerce at
Atlanta.
Mrs. Joel Chandler Harris, of Lees
ourg. Va. widow of the author Of the
Uncle Remus" stories. has come 10
Fort Myers. Fla With her are her
son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Camp, and their two children.
Mrs. William Pierce, wife Of Brig.
Gen. Pierce, of this city, is visiting
Mrs. G. H. Denning in Orlando, Fla.
Mrs. Sylvanus Stokes, jr., Is serving
on the young ladies' committee for the
Father Knickerbocker's Dance to be
held Friday in New York at the home
Of Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn for the
benefit Of the City History Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean,
who are making an extended stay az
Palm Beach. entertained q party m
fourteen at dinner there last FRIDAY
e. Clarence Jones. of this city and
New York, who is also ut Palm Beach.
had large dinner party at the Coun-
try Club last week. his seconi OF the
season. Among those present at the
Sinner were Mrs. John wanamaker,
lr.; Mrs. William Disston, Mrs. Allen
iOuVerneur Wellman, Mrs. Morgan
Belmont, Mrs. Frederic P. Humphreys
Miss Mary Alexander, the D1chesse de
Chaulnes. Mr.. and Mrs. John y. Will
,ys, Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Barley. Mrs.
Charles d. Alexander. Mr.. and Mrs.
Devices W. Dillworth, Miss Elaine De-
Negro, Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, Mr..
and Mrs. John n. l. Rutherford. Miss
lucille Carter, Miss Mary D. NewboId.
he Misses Elizabeth and Suzanne
Pierson, and Messrs. II. Nelson Slater,
Thomas Hunt Talmage. Paris singer,
LeGrand B. Cannon, ]. Leonard Re-
ologle, Richard Lounsbery. Caleb
Bragg, Charles Warren and Davis
Elkins, and Maj. James A. Blair, ir.
About 100 other guests arrived for
.he dancing, which lasted until the
JTnall hours of the morning.
Chaplain Herbert Shipman has left
France for New York.
Mrs. Albert Ross, Of WASHINGTON, is
It Miami, Fla. for an indefinite stay,
Miss Dorothy Reynolds, who is the
EIest Of the Misses Poole, daughters OF
Mrs. Sprigg Poole. will leave tomorrow
Tor her home In Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. Willard D. Straight. Of New
York and Washington, has opened the
Harry Payne Whitney residence in
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