Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-06-07

day she was bridesmaid at tho wedding
OF Mias Carolyn JefYress. Later this
week she will join her family at
Ventnor.
Tomorrow the last Of the series OF
card parties held by the mortgage COM
mittee OF the New Century Club Will
be held at Byecroft. the home Of Mrs.
T. c. Bye. Those attending max go
on the Claymont bus, which passes
Mrs. Bye's gate or go on the Darby
trolley, getting or at Holly Oak. II
II should rain the party will he post
poned until the next day.
There was a time when every Amer
lean hcirese who married abroad was
supposed 10 become the bride OF some
pcnniless scion OF a noble family who
traded his title for her fortune. A few
American girls still contract such al
Eancee, but more Of them appreciate
the fact that. no matter In what land
he may be found at the moment. there
le no one like an American. Two. VIII
minston girls have already been we'd
ded abroad this year. both TO men In
the Army, and third Wilmington
bride will have n foreign wedding this
month. Miss Alicia du Pont, the tall
ented step daughter OF Alfred I. du
Pont, and Harold Sanford Glendening
OF Norwalk. Conn. will be married
June % in st. Paul's. Knightsbridse
London. Miss du Pont has been study
ing music in Paris and Nice for the
past two years. but for over a month
has been in London. Mr.. Glendening.
who won honors at Dartmouth and
! Columbia. is a Rhodes scholar at OK
ford University. II Is understood that
Mr.. Glendening, accompanied by his
bride. will remain at oxford 10 re-
ccive his Ph. d. next June, and then
they Will return TO this country, poe
sibly 20 settle in Wilmington.
| The June quarterly meeting Of the
Wilmington Society OF the Fine Arts
was held yesterday afternoon at 1905
Franklin Street. Routine business was
conducted and II was decided to hold
no exhibition until after the opening
| OF the New Library.
Tonight Miss Anne Garrett will be
the guest OF honor at dinner given
at the Country Club by a number OF
her friends who belong TO the Will
mington Society OF Fine Arts.
Tomorrow Mrs. William Hammond
will entertain the members Of the
| Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club at her
cottage at Rehoboth. The guests Will
go by automobile and will remain un-
I'll the end OF the week.
| AT the annual commencement ex-
ercdses OF lafayette College, at Easton
Pa, on Monday. the honorary degree
OF Doctor OF Laws viii be conferred
! upon Pierre 8. du Pont This is the
highest degree granted by the college
\ and. as far as "a known, the late
| Hon. Nathaniel B. Smithers OF Dover
Ia the only other Delawarean who has
received Il. The commencement ex-
erciees Will be held In Pardee Hall. fr
the middle Of the campus of Lafayette
College. Senator George Wharton Pep.
per OF Pennsylvania will deliver the
commencement address. 1t is under,
stood that he will also receive the de.
gree OF Ill. D. at that time.
Mr.. du- Pont will be accompanied L
Easton by Mrs. du Pont. DIR. and Mrs
Joseph X. OdeN and others. They vii
he guests OF President and Mrs. Nc
Cracken al luncheon. DR.. Odell vii
deliver the invocation at the exercises
which Will be followed by a luncheon
in the gymnasium Of the college.
Mrs. J. Chester Gibson leaves toda,
for Long Branch. New Jersey. wher,
she will spend the summer with he
email sons. J. Chester Gibson, Jr., an,
Thomas Mccullough Gibson.
Owing 70 the rain Monday and yes
terday. the golf tournament was no
played a. the Country Club yesterda,
afternoon. The mixed foursomes WI
be played al 2.s0 tomorrow afternoon
Miss Esther Ward will give a din
ner for her bridesmaids tomorrow
evening and Philip kimball will Civ
a dinner for his ushers.
Miss Polly du Pont will give a din
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