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brides mother was becomingly gownec
In black velvet.
The house was beautifully decorated
Tor the occasion. The drawing room
and dining room opened together, ar
altar at the far end of the dining room
being set in palms and decorated with
evergreens. Among the out-of-town
Geneseo. N. Y, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
Clark of Brooklyn, N. Y.
After a motor tour in the South Mr.
and Mrs. Conway will make their homo
in Georgetown.
Additional boxholders for the Navy
Relief ball to be given in the Willard
Hotel Thanksgiving night are: Mrs.
James CouzenS, Mrs. David A. Reed
Col. Robert M. Thompson, Rear Admiral
Spencer Wood, Capt. D. c. Bingham,
Mrs. Hilary p. Jones' Mrs. Andrew Long,
Mrs. Robert e. ConotZ. Mrs. Charles B.
McVay, Mrs. John Hays Hammond,
Mrs. Larz Anderson, Capt John
r. Edie, Mrs. Paul BaStedo, Miss Elise
Hoban Alexander, Mrs. Frederick G..
Richards. Miss Carroll Henderson and
officers of the Mayfiower.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Glenn Of Phila-
delphia, Pa, are at the Carlton for a
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald c. Tewkesbury
Of New York are at the Grace Dodge
Hotel for an extended stay in Wash
ington. with them are Mrs. Hanford
c. Plumt of Bridgeport, Conn, and
Mrs. A. w. Peak of Port Chester, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Burke of New York
City, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs H.
Rogers of Boston, Mass, are passing
some time at the Carlton.
Mfr. and Mrs. r. E. Joslin and Mrs.
May E. Russell who motored to Wash
ington from their home in Winchester,
Mass, are at the Grace Dodge Hotel for
the week.
Mr. Karl Rogge will sail on the S. S.
Franconia from New York Saturday for
cruise to the West Indies, returning to
his apartment at the Wardman Park
Hotel shortly before Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement C. Smith of
Milwaukee. Wis. have taken an apart
ment at the Carlton for several days.
Southern Relief Society
Tea and Pound Party Tomorrow.
The Southern Relief Society is in
viting all friends and those interested
nual Thanksgiving pound party and
silver tea to be held in the home at
2403 Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow
afternoon from 3 to & o'clock
Mrs. Charles W. Kiker will give a
musical program.
Receiving with Mrs. Alexander Bull,
president Of the society. will be the for
mer presidents. Mrs. William F. Dennis.
Mrs. Pearce Horn, Mrs. Bates Warren
and Mrs. Theodore H. Tiller
Alternating at the tea table and
assisting in the dining room will be
Mrs. Lantcn Morgan, Mrs William ].
Harris. Mrs. Percy E. Quinn, Mrs r.
N. Mulcare. Mrs William T. Willett,
Miss May Frey, Mrs. Wallace H. Whit
cover, Mrs. George Tully Vaughan, Mrs
Andrew B. Graham and Mrs A. Lee
Rheinstrom.
In charge of receiving the donations
viii be Mrs. Archibald Young, Mrs. w.
A. King, Miss Rose Fairfax and Miss
Elizabeth zea.
Mrs. Charles Graves Matthews, who
often sends flowers for the guests of
the proms, is furnishing flowers for the
tea.
The District of Columbia branch of
the Needlework Guild of America will
hold its annual meeting Wednesday aft
ernoon. December S. at 3:35 o'clock, at
the Church Of the Covenant, at Eight
eenth and N streets. when the thou
sands of new garments collected this
year for distribution to the charitable
institutions of the District will be on
oiplay. and the principal speaker will
be Miss Maria Halsey Stryker, national
director OF Junior work. from the ma
tional Office. in Philadelphia. No cards
have been issued for the meeting.
Oh1cers Of the District branch, which
numbers over thousand members of all
creecs and races, are Mrs Acheson F.
Hassan, president: Mrs Isidor Crosner.
MISS Marion CrenShaw, Mrs Boyd
Taylor and Mrs. G. Thomas Dunlop.
vice presidents; Mr.. Frank Kew Green,
secretary, and Mrs. Algernon S. Gard
1ner, treasurer. Mrs. Thomas j. Pres
ton, Princeton, N. j., is the national
president, and Is sending a letter of
greeting to this meeting. Mrs. Preston
Is a former first lady of the land as
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, her marriage
having taken place in the White House.
The Washington Alliance of Delta
Delta Delta Sorority will hold its annual
founders banquet, Wednesday evening
at o'clock in the banquet room on
the fourth floor of the Y. w. C. A.
which will be decked in the silver. gold
and blue colors of the sorority. Miss
Prudence Polk is in charge Of arrange
mentS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles M. Lewis of
this city have taken two boxes for the
Kenmore ball. Monday, December 3, in
the Willard Hotel and will attend with
a large company of guests. Mr.. Lewis
is a direct descendant of Col. Fielding
Lewis and his wife, Betty Washington
Lewis, sister Of George Washington,
for whom Kenmore was built in 1852.
shortly after the marriage of this couple.
George Washington took an intense in
terest In the designing and construc-
ton Of the mansion, in which some
of his own work may now be seen. Mr..
Charles Lewis has taken keen interest
in the preservation of this ancestral
mansion and raised $4,000 personally
for the project in the original drive for
the purchase of the property. Among
the other boX-holders for the ball are
Mrs. Thomas II. Taliaferro, Mrs. Ed