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sail July is for England. where they
win spend the summer visiting
relatives. Mr. Campbell win join
them in London In August.
Former Congressman James w.
Hustled arrived yesterday at the
New Willard from his home IN
PeekElSiIl. N. r He plans to spend
the week In Washington.
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The marriage Of Mrs. Florence
Platt Edmunds and John M. Swan.
son took place yesterday morning
IN Mrs. Edmunds' apartment In
VVardman Park Hotel. The cere-
mony was performed at IL o'clock
In the presence OF members sof the
family. Breakfast was served after
the ceremony. Mr.. and Mrs. Swan
son left later for q wedding trip in
New England and win return to
Washington in the late fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Mclean, Of
Norfolk, who have come to Wash
angton to make their home, are
established at 2S16 Nineteenth street,
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Major and Mrs. Douglas Weart
have left Washington to visit IN
Chicago before going to their new
post at Fort HUMPHREYS. Major
Weart, who has been serving Ge
assistant to Colonel Clarence o.
Sheriff. In the office Of public
buildings and grounds, win enter
the engineer school at Humphrles.
4 He will be succeeded here by Cap
tain Ellis Haring, who IL coming
from Fort Du Pont, Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Lamar Robinson
were hosts last evening at q small
dinner dance at Commonwealth
Farm In honor Of Miss Edith Phil
lips, Of San Francisco, who Is visit
ing Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs.
Kensey J. Hampton.
The guests included Colonel and
Mrs. Hampton, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Frederick G. Billiard, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond Beck, Captain and
Mrs. o. H. Newman, Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Van Brunt, Major and Mrs.
Joseph r. Rosselle, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
u. Skinner, Captain and Mrs. Charles
w. Cairnes, Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Il.
Kilt, Mr. and Mrs. William B.
Weetlal1e, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl D.
Ruth, Mrs. Ruth Miller, George G.
Thompson, Brigadier General John
=. knight and Lieutenant Colonel
Robert Nc. Beck, jr.
The counselor OF the Japanese
Embassy. Isaburo Yoshida, VIII
come to Washington about the
middle Of the month to take UP
his duties at the embassy. Mr..
Yoshida succeeds. Mr.. Saburi and
viii be charge d'affaires during the
absence OF the Ambassador, who
viii leave the end Of next week
Cor the Pacific coast and will sail
aboard the Korea Maru July IS
for his home, in Japan.
Major Reginald Foster, U. 8. A.,
who has been ordered to the Philip.
pines for duty, Is visiting in the
home OF Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood at Sirnsbury, Conn.,, before
sailing for his new post.
Miss Barbara Hight, young daugh.
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hight
has gone from her summer home
ut Canaan, N. H., to Plymouth
Mass, to visit her aunt. Mrs. L. II.
Greenwood, ana her cousin, Mrs.
Ralph Hornblower.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Nelson
Dingley and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Dougal Leetch, Of Chevy Chase,
have as their house guest Miss
Alden Gay, Of New York, wen
known musical comedy actress, who
was judged the prettiest girl in
America by the producer, John
Murray Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leetch win enter.
tain at bridge this evening in
compliment to Miss Gay.
The teachers council Of the Ma.
tional Woman's Party win be at
home to the members and friends Of
the National Education Association
this evening from to 10 o'clock.
Members Of the District Of Columbia
branch OF the Woman's Party and
members OF the teachers council at
tending the guests in tha lovely
garden surrounding the Woman's
party headquarters on Capitol Hill,
Just across from the Capitol.
The Woman's Party headquarters
il Of particular interest to Washing
ton visitors because Of its intimate
connection with the nations history.
The house was built by a committee
Of citizens after the burning Of the
Capitol during the war of 1912, and
here Congress sat during the years
of 1815-1S19. Later, during the civil
war. the "sOld Capitol" as 1t Is now
known. became q Federal prison,
where prisoners Of distinction were
housed. Stories Of romance and
bravery are associated with the
house, and in the gardens one Is re-
minded OF the days when the ''Old
Capitol" had become the home Of
distinguished statesmen and jurists;
among whom were Senator John C.
Calhoun, Of South Carolina, and
later Supreme Court Justice Field.
In this historic garden the MEM
bersbers and friends of both the Ma
tional Education Association and the
National Woman's Party will be
welcomed by the following hosteaaes:
Miss Alice Paul, vice president Of
the Woman's Party; Mrs. Robert M.
La Toilette, Wisconsin; Mrs. Gerrit
Smith Miller. jr., District. Of Column
bia; MRS. Wymond III. Bradbury,
District OF Columbia; Doctor Alice
Bryant, Massachusetts,; Mrs. May
Owens Kinsey, Illinois; Miss Daphne
Dodds, Michigan; Miss Ethel Gard.
ner, Wisconsin; Mrs. Mary Dawson
Bradford, Delaware; Miss Florence
Fox, District of Columbia; Mrs.
Burnita Shelton Matthews, Missis.
sippi; Miss Emma Void, Oregon:
Miss Wood, Kentucky; Mrs. Legare
Obear, District of Columbia, and
Mrs. Harvey Wiley niafyicf ~ ~