The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1919-12-28

families Of the policemen Of the Dis.
trict Of Columbia when Community
Service will do a Christmas pageant
for the children, with Mrs. Walsh
as the hostess. There will be Q
Christmas tree at o'clock for the
youngsters, and the Community Serv-
ice Story Tellers in costume will
tell some wonderful tales. most Of
which will begin once upon a time. i"
The pageant Mrs. Walsh has asked
Community Services department nf
small plays to do will be under the
direction OF Maude Howell Smith.
and it will depict the origin OF the
old English Christmas celebration
as the children OF the Druids marked
the season. There will be clowns
and stunts OF various kinds that will
appeal to the Riddles and there will
also be a moving picture show with
Charlie Chaplin doing "a Dogs
Life" The ballroom will be decor
ated for the fun, the program for
which marks the closing Of the big
holiday program which Community
Service has given in Washington.
The Motel Choral Society will give
The Messiah" tomorrow evening at
the Central High School auditorium.
Community Service is cooperating in
this fer the benefit Of the milk fund
Of the Foundlings Hospital On Tues
day night the National Community
Chorus, cooperating with the civic
centers of the public schools will sim
Christmas carols and there will be
big Christmas tree. The plans fo
this entertainment have been made b,
Isabelle Geddes Smith. Tuesday after
noon a matinee will be given at thu
Community Service Theater for the
children's Fairgrounds, the plans for
which have been made by Susie Root
Rhodes.
There is a big wedding this week.
too; that of Miss Margaret Symons.
daughter OF Col and Mrs. Thomas w.
SyHons. to CORTLAND Van Wrinkle, OF
New Haven. which will take place on
Tuesday morning. The ceremony will
be performed in st. Matthews Church
at ll:3o O'Clock, and will be followed
by a breakfast in the home of the
brides parents on New Hampshire
avenue. Miss Symons will be attend
ed by her cousin. Miss Louise Robin
son, of Pittsburg, who will be her
maid of hopor;- the bridesmaids will
include another cousin. Miss Lefty
Robinson. also OF Pittsburg; Miss
Margaret Burgwin, also Of Pittsburg:
Miss Amy Logan. OF New York, and
Miss Margaret Hubbard. OF Yonkers.
Col. and Mrs. Symons have with them
for the holidays their son, Noel Sy-
mons, and his classmate, Dale Warren,
Of Plainfield. n. j.. who arrived In
Washington last week from Princeton
University, where they are students.
There were two interesting an
nouncements in that line last week:
one was the remarriage of Mrs.
Mabel Perkins Ruggles and Col.
Francis A Ruggles and the other Of
the engagement OF Mary Duncan
Gibson and James Writ Russell Rob-
inson of West Point. The remarriaGe
OF the Ruggles came as a complete
surprise to their friends. They were
married about a dozen years ago
and divorced in 1916. Last MondssI
they slipped over to Baltimore and
were quietly married in the Memo
rial Episcopal Church with only the
immediate members OF the two fam
lilies present.
Miss Gibson is the charming young
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
son Gibson. who made her debut last
season. The Gibsons are very promi-
nent socially in Washington. Louis
lana and in Kentucky Mrs. Glib
son was also a Miss Gibson. her hus-
bands first cousin. Mr.. Gibson's ia
Their was the late Senator Randall
Lee Gibson of louisiana. The young
man in the case, Is the son of Col.
Writ Robinson, of West Point. and
is an associate OF the Thomas A..
Edison Company. at East Orange, n.
j. Which sounds like we will lose
Mary Duncan, for I imagine that is
where they will reside. The wedding
Is to take place in the spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gibson had q cottage
at White Sulphur Springs all last
summer and had a gay season there.
Both of their children-there is one
son. Randall Lee Gibson. who is a
student at Staunton Military Acad-
emy-were with them and had a
glorious time. too. It was there that
this young couple renewed their child
hood fiendship.
One OF the holiday visitors OF par
ticular interest is Miss Carmen
Aguinaldo. the 1s-year-old daughter
of the noted Filipino leader.
She Is being entertained at the home
OF Mrs. James c. de Veyra, wife Of
the resident commissioner from the
Philippines, 26lS Connecticut avenue,
and a number of social affairs are
being given in her honor.
Among these was a luncheon at
the home OF Mrs. de Veyra early in
the week. at which the wives Of a
number Of Congressman were present.
She will be the guest OF honor at q
dinner at the Congressional Club to-
morrow and on Tuesday evening will
join in the celebration of Rial day,
IN memory OF Jose Rial, a talented
Filipino poet. executed on alleged
false charges by the Spanish in 1896.
At this dinner she will read the poem
which RizaI wrote in his cell while
awaiting death.
Miss Aguinaldo received a normal
school education in Manila and is TAX
ing a special course at the UnIver-
sity Of Illinois.
Her father, now q prosperous plant
er and vegetable oil manufacture, is
said to be in high favor with Amer