The Washington herald., 1921-03-13

ing good. She was the guest while
here OF her mother, Mrs. Volney
Chase, widow of Capt. Chase of the
navy. Suzanne is prettier than ever.
and so charming. Her mother is
planning to go to Europe in the
near future, to stay about six
months. She is quite a clever artist
water colors are her speciality
and ! think she will do some study
ing. too, while travelling.
Weddings and engagements! 1t
seems I've heard OF so many lately
of more than usual interest. 1t
seems like there will be an endless
number of Easter weddings! There
are a lot of rumored engagements,
too-Capt. c. ]. Henry and Anna
Hamlin. or Capt. Enochs and Miss
Dorothy wilmot. who was recently
the guest OF Jessie Tredwell, and
several others like that.
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett Is an
nouncing today the engagement Of
her daughter. Helen Peck Blodgett,
to Capt. Henry Parsons Erwin Of
Chicago and Washington. Helen
has just returned from New York.
The wedding date is to be an
nounced later. Helen and Mona
Blodgett will both be at home this
afternoon after o'clock.
Richard Edmunds Pennoyer. sec
retary in the American Diplomatic
Service, one Of a very few American
men who have married titled wom-
en-, arrived here last week from
England by the White Star liner
Cedric with his wife. Lady Winnie
fred Constance Hester Paget Pen
noyer. widow of the former Wis.,
count Ingestre. Lady Pennoyer's s
children by her former marriage
were with her. They are the pres
ent Viscount Ingestre, who is s
years old and a godson of King
George and Queen Mary, and the
Honorables Ursula. Joan and Vic
toria Audrey Talbot.
Mr.. Pennoyer said that after he
had concluded his official business
in Washington it was probable he
and his family would go to their
home in Berkeley, Cal. for a visit.
TWO BIG WEDDINGS
WERE KEPT SECRET.
Washington, as we'll as London,
has been interested by announce
ments of the recent weddings of
two celebrities, both of whom only
lately arrived in England from the
United States. One of them is Capt.
Bruce Bairnsfather. cartoonist and
creator of "old Bill" the other DR..
Wellington Koo, who. until recent
ly, was Chinese Minister at Wash
ington and now has exchanged posts
with Mr.. SEE, who was official repre-
sentative of the Flowery Kingdom
here, but has gone to Washington.
Capt. Bairnsfather, it seems, some
time ago secretly married Hon. Mrs.
Scott, a society woman who during
| the war nursed in a hospital in
Grosvenor square. Capt. Bairnsfath-
| er's secret has been we'll kept, and
So. too, was that of DR.. Koo, whose
| bride, it now proves, is no other
than Countess Hoey Stoker. a Chi
| nese beauty, who for some years has
| been a member of the smartest set
in London society.
Mrs. Wellington Koo is the daugh-
ter of Count Oei Tyong Han, a Java
sugar king, who is one of the richest
men in the East and has often been
called its Rockefeller. She was once
| lady in waiting to the late Dowager
Empress of China.
The new chatelaine of the Chinese
Legation is Western to her finger
| tips and always dresses in the latest
| Paris gowns, In which she looks, II
anything, more charming than in
| her gorgeous native robes. No
| oil Snotal
complete without her and her popu-
/ lar sister, Countess Kama.
Mrs. Koo's wonderful complexion
is well set off by dark eyes and let
black hair. She has an allnring per-