Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-17
Mostly About People

Interest of the coming week will center
in the suffrage and anti-suffrage activities
at Dover. Both forces will be largely
represented there during the week, n
number of women going down from here
to swell the numbers on the grounds:
While there have been few verbal
"swattings' between contestants, 1t Is a
proof of the conventional regard Tor ap-
pearances held by women generally that
the surface of social life has been so little
disturbed by the undercurrent OF feeling
regarding the equal suffrage issue. Moth
ING illustrates this so well as the even
attitude maintained by the largest wo-
mans organization in the city.
The club membership includes many
sufragists and many anti-sufTraglsts. yet
by an adroit handling of the supervision,
not a trace of dissension has been evident
in club proceedings. Suffragists and anti
suffragists can still drink tea together IN
amicable silence, If not with open Joy, and
sisterly accord in such minor details as
the vanishing wash lady. high cost of beef
steaks, and should the baby be allowed to
develop his collar bone by crawling, con-
tinue to bind the sex with ties unknown to
mere man.
Mrs. ]. Howard Foote of Brooklyn. \.
V, has announced the engagement OF her
daughter, Edith. to Allan W. Carpenter,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank G. Carpenter
of l405 Woodlawn avenue. this city.
Miss Foote was actively engaged in
Red Cross work during the war. She was
a member of the League for Women 5
Service and vice-chairman of the organ
ization committee for Y. W. G.. A. welfare
x,~nrL- IN AIa,hatsan Mrs DhtEtn c
penter entertained with tea, yesterday,
in honor of Miss Foote, who is Mrs.
Frank G. Carpenters guest.
Mr.. Carpenter is connected with the
du Pont Export Co, in New York City.
He is graduate of Cornell University,
and during the war enlisted in the Navy
Aviation Corps.
The National Congress of the Daughters
of the American Revolution will be held at
Continental Hall in Washington, next
week, from Monday, April 10. Mrs. T.. p.
Moody of this city is historian general of
the d. A. r., and she and Mrs. George
IL. Hall the retiring State regent, are
members of the national executive board.
The following Daughters expect to
attend the National Congress from the
Cesar Rodney Chapter: Chapter regent,
Mrs. James III. Scott; delegate, Miss
Deborah j. Peacock; alternates, Mrs.
Lewis Duff, Mrs Edward Gilligan, Miss
Nlilliway. Mrs. 5. NJ. Council, the new
state regent, will attend, as will Mrs.
Moody and Mrs. Hall.
On May s, at Hotel du Pont, Caesar
Rodney Chapter of the ID. A. r. viii give
a card party.
4 wedding OF much interest to Whining
tonisns, Sussex cOuntians and residents of
Snow Hill, Md, and Worcester county,
Md, will take place at Bishopstead today,
AT noon, when Miss Margaret Audrey
Richardson, only daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John NJ. Richardson, OF George
town, Will become the bride
Of William Rue Meirs, son of Mr..
and Mrs. William ii. Neirs of Cream
Ridge, y. J. The ceremony will be per-
formed by Rev. Samuel ID. Van Loan.
rector of st. Paul's Protestant Episcopal
Church, ne street, Georgetown, IN the
presence of about 60 close relatives and
friends. Miss Mary H. Meirs, sister Of the
groom, will be maid Of honor and George
kemon. of Phi adelphia, viii be best man.
After the ceremony a wedding luncheon
will be served to the 60 guests In the Hotel
du Pont. after which the contracting
parties will leave for their honeymoon at
The Manor" at Albemarle Park, Ash
vile. North Carolina. They will be ''at
home" at Cream Ridge, y. j., after May
i.
Miss Richardson IS very popular
throughout Sussex county and has host
of friends In Delaware and in Worcester
county. Md, where she has many rela-
tives. Her father, John NJ. Richardson, is
one Of the leading members of the Sussex
bar, and little more than quarter
ago served as an Official of
county. Md, as well as editor of
a paper at Snow Hill, Md. Mr.. Meirs is a
prominent Young man ef Cream Ridge and
rs exceedingly popular In ms section.
The bride is a sister of Ralph Richard !
son, employed by the State Highway De /
partment at Georgetown, and also of J. I
Lyons Richardson of Lewes, a widely /
known young Delaware river and bay |
pilot. Captain Harry Y. Lyons, of Lewes, /
a Delaware bay and river pilot, is an |
uncle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry p Scott will spend /
the weekend In New York City, going /
over to attend the dinner given this even +
ing at the Waldorf IN welcome to Henry /
P. Dawson, until recently the official |
head OF the Red Cross, who has returned /
from the Red Cross conference in Geneva,
Switzerland.
United States Senator George III. Moses
Of New Hampshire and Dr. Robert Nj. |
of Princeton, who were here TO