The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-03-22
A DEBUTANTE
REUNION NOW
TN PROGRESS
1.-THE Girls Of Years
Gone BY Foregather
in Washington
BY JEAN ELIOT

LII unheraldeQ q 0epueAMLS
reunion has been taxing
II place in Washington among
d group of women, several Of whom
have debutante daughters OF their
own. A half dozen girls. all resi-
dents of Georgetown, all pretty
and all popular, were presented to
society the same season some
well, more years ago than It is
quite polite to mention, perhaps.
They were known as the debut
fantee" and they are still the
girls or the debutantes to the
men who used to be the cavaliers
at the time and to many others
OF their friends.
Happy chance has brought two
or three OF these girls to Washing
ton at the same time that Mrs.
Richard Amphlett, formerly Miss
Mary Marshall, Is paying her first
visit home after sixteen years of
others live here. there has been q
round of parties, with a reunion
luncheon as q special feature.
'sThe Debuta1tes''
Members of the debutantes"
group who live in town are Mrs.
Robert s. Beale. who was Sophie
Stuart, and whose father was rec
tor of old Christ Church during
her gir1hood days, and Mrs, Raw
Tins Hume, formerly Bessie Orme,
who is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. william B. Orrne. Mrs. Fred
erick Baird. Of Pittsburgh. Raw
Inns Hume's sister and also zone
OF the girls, comes home to
Washington frequently and timed
one of her visits to be here for
the reunion Then there Ii Mrs.
H +. Underwood, who was Belle
Graves. She Is now q widow and
y spending the winter here with
her mother.
Mary Marshall Amuhlett.s hus-
hand, Capt. Richard Amphlett,
British army. Was killed during the
war. It was q pitiful story. He
had been seriously wounded before,
50 seriously that his life was de-
SPARED OF for long time and It
was thought that he would never
be fit for active service again. To-
ward the last, however, the need
for officers at the front was so
pressing that he was ordered back
TO duty and he was one Of the
English Estates
The Amph1etts have large Eng
iish estates. and. although Mrs.
Amphlett wanted to come back to-
Washington to make her home with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Fielding
Lewis Marshall, 1t was necessary
for her to remain in England for
her children's sake. This. then. Is
her first visit home and. although
she was permitted to bring her
daughteF with her, her sons are
III England where they are in
school. She Is the guest Of Mr..
and Mrs. Marshall &C their home
In Twentieth Street.
DR.. and Mrs Beale have three
daughters, Elizabeth, Sophie and
Florence. And Mr.. and Mrs. RawI-
ms Hume have daughter, Eliza
year. as well as younger children.
Throughout her girlhood Bessie
Orme Hume lived at picturesque
Evermay. In Georgetown, in which
the Or1nes made their home for
nearly thirty years. The estate has
since been purchased by Mr.. and
Mrs. r. Lamot BeIin, who rennod-
eled e extensively-and extensively
and have made it one OF the
show places of the town.
mrs. DAWES LUNCHEON
GUEST TODAY
Mrs. Dawes was the guest for
whom Mrs. Morris Sheppard enter
tanned at luncheon today in the
Chinese room of the MayfIower.
There were 30 In the company. To.
morrow evening Senator and Mrs
Sheppard viii have q dinner for 20
At the Mayflower.
y
The Ambassador OF Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard will re-
turn tomorrow from Q short visit In
Chicago.
The Ambassador and Lady Isa-
bella were entertained at dinner on
Saturday by Judge and Mrs. Clar.
ence Norton Goodwin In their home,
Apple Green. at Lake Forest, and
yesterday Judge and Mrs. Goodwin
arranged a crosscountry ride in
their honor.