The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-01
SPRING is
SEASON or
WEDDINGS
Many Spring Brides
However, Will Not
Wed Until juno
Engagement List
Assumes Imposing
Proportions.
BY JEAN ELIOT.

iyA01Ln SUNDAY may Dc B@luy
~ to mark the beginning Of
Washington's "little aear
son." perhaps the pleasantesk
time Of all the year.
The social obligations Of the
official world being in large
measure fulfilled by the tins
spring rolls round, society finds
time for the cultivation of
friendships and for all manner
Of informal festivities.
The country clubs then coma
into their own. The pleasant
Lock Taven Club at Great Falls
opens along in the early sprinE.
and little dinners there are quite
''the thing" Parties at exclusive
Grasslands increase In number and
interest. The Sunday Iuncneone,
with trap shooting afterward, aa
the Montgomery Country Club,
grow in favor. And the ever
popular Chevy Chase Club ID
crowded by day for golf, tennis 81
bridge. by night for dinner or the
dancing which is the order Of tho
evening on Wednesdays and Satut-
days.
Golf and horseback riding BEGIN
to take the place OF bridge and
mah-jongg. And official recep-
tons or dinners to meet foreign Or
domestic dignitaries give way to
parties at the lovely country
homes by which Washington ii
surrounded or motor trips into the
country to dine at one or another
Of the pleasant wayside inns with
which the country Is dotted.
FASTER, however, falls 50 soon
this year and winter seems to
be 50 persistently lingering in the
lap Of spring that al fresco fes-
tivities are for the moment out Of
the question. So the BIS have 1t
just now-the balls and the
benefits. the brides and the bellies
Of a year or two hence, to whora
the town surrendered without D
struggle last week.
Indeed, practically the only On.
tertaining during Holy Week, with
the exception OF a few diplomatic
dinners and few for visiting
notables, ,centered about the boys
and girls home from school and
college for the holidays. And fes-
tivities in their honor win run over
into Easter Week, vieing for tho
interest Of society with the grist of
balls and benefits. These, how
ever, are SO numerous and 20
marked by interest and variety
that they rate a special chapter.
A 8 for the Easter brides"
most of them apparently
don't propose to be married until
May or June and some Of them
not until next Autumn. That's
an Irishism, I'll admit, but exs
cusable, it seems to me, because
the term may well be stretched
to include the girls whose en-
gagements are being announced
from day to day-the annual
crop of romances blossoning in
the Spring. And this list &C.. an
Stunning imposing proportions, a.
though the actual Easter wed
dings-perhaps again because II
the early Easter-are few ana
far between. L
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. John Nc,
Auley Palmer, for example, are
today announcing the engagement
of their daughter, Miss Mary
Laning Palmer, to Capt. Normafa
Bemus Chandler-the wedding to
take place in early June. Little
~N@@S0 SSAAAACAS q OS"4ONuAu6 611P
Of girl, made her debut last
a season which boasted
a bumper crop Of army and navy
buds, and she has repeated this
year the success Of her first sea-
son. Her fiance, who resumed
his civilian career when the war
closed, makes his home in Med
ford, Mass, and is the son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman F. Chands
Ter. He's a Harvard graduate.
class Of 1T. 81
Then, Mr.. and Mrs. William Sea-
bury of New York are today an.
the engagement OF their
laughter, Lispenard, to Edward
Savage Croker End, Of Fitchs
burg, Mass.
Miss ,Seabury made her debut
n New York a year ago and was
presented to Washington society
asst December by her aunt. Mrs.
Austin Kautz. She IL . membar
If the Junior League.
Mr.. Croker 10 .a graduate 90 o..
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