The Washington herald., 1919-01-26

ont Will pt dAltIiuto oy ntT SlSttIi
Miss Anne Devereux, as maid OF
honor. She also will have eight
bridesmaids. Miss Daviette Ficklen,
Rayner. Miss Phoebe Walker, Miss
Mary Hill, Miss Abigail Harvey, Miss
Mary Duncan Gibson and Miss Wlni-
fred Newcomb. formerly of Wash
fngton. but now of Orange, N. ]. Miss
staying with Miss Devereux Iunder-
stand it is to be pink wedding-but
beyond that l have no details.
They had hoped that Maj. John
Ryan Devereux would be at home for
his daughters wedding, btu at the
last minute he was kept on duty in
France, attached to Hoover, and the
business of feeding the starving, I
believe. He's a medical major, you
know. was DIR. Devereux, before the
war broke over our heads. He and
his son, Lieut.. Joseph Devereux, have
both been over there. Joe is just
home on the vessel that was to have
brought them both, and Mrs. Deve-
reux went up to New York early in
the week to meet him..
fTOOdDly the next DrlOe IN wnOTl
there will be any general interest
will be Lillian Birney. whose engage
rnent to Capt. Edward Finkenstaedt,
Q. VI. C., OF Cleveland. was an
nounced recently. / asked her sister,
Mrs. Harold Walker when 1t was to
be the other day, and Mrs. Walker
didn't quite know. She had been up
in Vermont for several days, since
the Russian hall
mer house hunting. of course-and
was at the moment entirely pre-
occupied with the plans for Col.
Bishops war lecture for the benefit
Of the Working Boys Home. Col.
Bishop. you remember. is the blue
eyed boy who brought his bride
down to Washington about fifteen
months ago. with a record of having
downed seventy-two planes-Canada' s
ACE of aces'-who was attached for
awhile to their war mission here. In
spite of his thrilling record he
looked as II he were a college boy
home for the holidays.
Mrs. Walker was full of his lecture
which is to be on the afternoon of the
2Sth-but she did detach herself from
that long enough to answer my ques-
tions about her sisters wedding.
Honestly, don't quite know when
Lillian is going to be married. She
says next month; but i told her that
it would have to be late in the month
II l was to help her with her plans to
any extent. l simply haven't got time
just now to give a wedding the amount
Of attention ii deserves" And as Miss
Birney makes her home with the Wal
kers. 1t would seem as IL Mrs. Walker
would inevitably be drawn into the
maelstrom of preparations. Still, If
Lillian wants to get married early in
February. | imagine she'll probably
do it-and Mrs. Walker will do every
thing under heaven for her.
Mrs. Walkers other sister-Cather-
ine-married one of the German En-
hassy attaches, young Won Schoen. just
before the President sent them all
home. He, however. did not go home
but down to Mexico, where he was
about to be transferred when he mar
ried. That was the last of a string
of international marriages that kept
Washington all excited during the fall
and winter of 1916-including Margaret
Draper's to Prince Andrea Buoncom-
pagni. and Katherine Britton's to
Prince Alfred zu Hohenlohe Schillings-
furst, of the Austrian Embassy.
Then there is Dorothy Whitridge,
who was slated to make her debut
this season. but who's mother died, so
OF course she is not going out, let
alone coming out. But she apparently
has decided to eliminate the debut
idea entirely from her glad young life
She announced her engagement a
month or two ago when most of her
playmates were making plans for their
deOuts, and the marriage Is to be SOL
emnized next month. And just within
a day or two DR. and Mrs. Earle Will
fey have announced the engagement
of their daughter. Margaret Esther
Whitley to Lieut.. Ralph Frank Hem.
of Cleveland. Ohio. with the statement
that the wedding was being arranged
for the beginning of March.
But as these things are all rather a
long way off, let's get back to the ben
efiit in which Mrs. Walker is for the
moment absorbed-and to some of the
other benefits in which various other
people are equally interested. Mrs.
Arthur Lee is chairman of the Ladies
Board of the Working Boys Home
for which Col. Bishop is to lecture. on
Tuesday afternoon, and Mrs. Harold
Walker seems to be the one who has
this particular stunt mcst on her
mind. She's full of it-thinks of it by
day and dreams of it by night 1
should not wonder if she talks of it in
her sleep.
When one goes at thing that way.
one can't fail to interest other people.
which iG rrnha hINr-ag q
very general and genuine interest ~
Col. Bishop and his adventures. ana
the report from other places that he
not only has done things but knows
how to talk-the reason that the tick
cts are going like hot cakes, and the
boxes are being taken and a most in
teresting lot of box parties planned.
The boxholders so far announced are
Maj. Gen. William l. Kenly, director
of Military Aeronautics Cwho will have
in his box Col Arthur Wood, his as
sistant; Lieut.. John Donaldson, re-
Gently back from overseas; Col. VIII
liam Thaw. one of the original men,
bers of the famous Lafayette Esca-
drille; Maj. Charles BiddIe, also Just
back from flying in France; Col. At
kinson. just back from the other side:
and Col. Clinton Edgar. of the Divi-
sion of Military Aeronautics); Mrs.
John Jacob Rogers, Mrs. Richard
Crane; Mrs. Mackey Smith; Mrs.
George Mcclellan Ritter. Mrs. Paul
Hudson. and Mrs. Harold Walker
Mrs. Walker is going to have in her
box Mrs. Newton Diehl Baker, Gen.
Menoher. Director OF Air Service; Coz.
w. f. Gilmore, of the Division of Mil
itary Aeronautics. and Mrs. Ritter
will have Capt. Irwin. in charge o.
naval aviation, and Mrs. Irwin and