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4f JPr afc 57 V1 a qj THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY WOEMBER5 1916 SOCIAL III EVENTS I Chronicled in Brief OOKTIKUED FBOIC SIXTH PAGE Girlpf Resident Set Among Number Of Capitals Pretty Autumn BrUes class of 1911 Mr Richard Dana Skinner Mr Frederick Thompson brother of the bridegroom and Mr Warwick Montgomery and Mr Outerbiidge Montgomery brothers of the bride The church had a simple and stately decoration of palms with bunches of ascension lilies In the altar vase and standards of the same blossoms at either side of the altar gates Small bine spruce trees of alternating sizes etood upon the altar steps and stood oat against the pure white of the marble altar rail An elaborate program of mnsio was arranged by the organist and choirmaster Mr Malton Boyce The bride who was escorted and given in marriage by her father wore a beautiful costume of rich ivory satin with a bod I Ice draped gracefully with rare old rose point lace the gift of the brides aunt the wife of Chief Justice White for whom she was named The lace adorned the wedding sown of Mrs White and of her mother and has been in her family for more than 100 years The court train was of the satin completely enveloped by the tulle veil which was held with a coronet of oraage blossoms The bride carried a French bouquet of bride roses and lilies of the valley and her only ornament was a bracelet of diamonds the gift of the bridegroom The matron of honor wore a gown of shell pink radium velvet with a trimming on the bodice and sleeves of silver net The narrow train of the velvet hung from the girdle and was square at the end She wore a large hat of black silk beaver with a tfny feather ornament exactly In front She carried a French bouquet of pink roses violets and forsret me nota with a center of gardenias and tied with silver ribbon The bridesmaids wore gowns alike of Delia Robbta blue tulle over silver tis ue with small short walsted bodices trimmed with garlands of pink rosebuds the short bouffant tulle skirts draped gracefully Their hats were of black velvet with sliver roses and the costumes were completed with silver Uppers and hose They carried bouquets of sweetheart roses and lilies of the valley tied with silver ribbons A breakfast in the home of the brides parents followed the ceremony The house was deoorated with chrysanthemums and palms Mrs Montgomery mother of the bride wore blue satin with a hat of black velvet with a crown of feathers and blue fox furs Mrs Charles Thompson mother of the bridegroom was In a gown of midnight blue georgette crepe and velvet of the same shade over old rose georgette crepe with trimmings of old rose embroidery and blue beads and a collar of ermine Her large black velvet hat was faced with old rose and she wore black lynx furs After the breakfast the bride and bridegroom left for a wedding trip They will reside temporarily In Boston going later to Pen acola The golng away gown was of taupe velour with collar and cuffs of blue fox and a small black velvet hat with a motor coat of green bollvla cioth with fur collar and cuffs Many Noted Gaestt Present Among the guests were Cardinal Gibbons the Chief Justice and Mrs White uncle and aunt of the bride the French Ambassador and Mme Jusserand Mr Justioe and Mrs McKenna Mme Rlt ter Mrs William Belden Noble Mrs Sherman Miles Mr and Mrs Paul Johnson Miss Nellie Johnson Mrs Preston Gibson Miss Patten Mr Robert Wynne Mr Charles Wynne Mr John Wynne Mrs James Barbour Mrs George Lewis Mayer of Philadelphia Mrs William Barret Ridgely the Misses Irwin Miss Pauline Wilcox Miss Mary Wilcox Mrs Beverly Williamson Miss Kathleen Crawford Mrs John Magruder Miss Natalie Magruder Miss Sheridan Mr and Mrs Gaillard Hunt Mrs Goodfellow Mrs Charles A Mc Kenney Dr and Mrs William Holland Wllmer Dr and Mrs Bulkner Randolph Miss Gheen Miss Katherlne Hill Mr Bowie Clark Mr Huyck Admiral CNell Admiral and Mrs Kimball Col and Mrs Lay and Miss Lay TT and Mrs Guy Fairfax Whiting Miss Whiting Mrs John Cochran Mr and Mrs Cochran Hill Mr and Mrs Hood the Misses Dahlgren Miss Grace Smith Mr Walter Smith and Miss Jean Bullitt all of Philadelphia Mr Outerbrldge Horsey and Mies Eliza Horsey of New Tork Mr and Mrs Thomas 6 Lee Horsey and the Misses Lee of Frederick county Md Mr Don Jd Harper of Parts France Rear Admiral and Mrs Todd Mrs Bowren and Miss Annie Teck of Greenwich Conn Mrs West and MMMMMWWWMAWMM YLpung Womani6jResidehf Circle 1 vV Who Wapm6nighfumn Brides m000000000000p00000m jgt Formerly Miss Mary Pearl Roblson whose marriage took place JEiyp TWfMW vIKtBX wg Mrs Van Buren of New Wlnd eor on the Hudson Miss Katherlne Knlpht of Newjort Lieut Richard Knight a and Lieut King a A Senator and Mrs William Alden Smith will not open their home In Sixteenth street until the first of December Mrs William Kent wife of the representative from California will return to their Washington home at the end of this month Mr and Mrs Rudolph Kauffmann entertained a small company at dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase Club In honor of Mr and Mrs Arthur Sullttan who were married recently In Passaic and who are on their wedding trip Mrs Christian Hemmlck will entertain Mme Sarah Bernhardt on Tuesday afternoon at Studio House at 430 to which the friends of the great artist In Washington and a fey others have been asked Mrs Hemmick has arranged a unique program for the afternoon which she expects to repeat at the Beaux Arts ball to be given later in the season Capt Pitt Scott a was host at dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase Club entertaining In honor of Capt Ridley McLean and Mrs Olive Gale Hill whose marriage will take place this week The other guests were Mrs Roscoe Bulmer Miss Eu dora Clover Miss Carolyn Nash Miss Katherlne Du Bose Mias Hamilton Paymaster General McCowan Comdr Staton Comdr Major and Comdr Pollock Afi Dvdint Wedding Party The entire wedding party who will attend Miss Beatrice Dulln and Lieut Herman Edward Fischer whose marriage will take place Wednesday evening will Include Miss Margheritta Tillman as honor maid and Miss Edith Grade and MTts Marie Sims as bridesmaids while the matrons of honor will be Mrs Carl Mltman and Mrs Olaf Kelly New Tork Lieut Fischer will have as his best man Lieut Aaron Merrill and the ushers will include Lieut John McClaran a Lieut Alfred Wolfe a Lieut Paul a Thelas IT and Lieut Frank Johnston a Mr and Mrs Paul Johnson were hosts at dinner last evening entertaining In honor of Miss Jean Bullitt of Philadelphia who is staying at the Washington Club Miss Bullitt came to Washington for the wedding of Miss Leita Montgomery and Lieut Terry Brewster Thompson a which took place yesterday CoL and Mrs George Downey were hosts last evening at the Chevy Chase ciud when they entertained 22 guests In honor of Mr and Mrs William Alden Pratt of New York Miss Nellie Johnson one ot this sea eons debutantes assisted by Miss Jane Gregory Miss Elena Calderon Miss Elizabeth Hamilton Miss Mary Lord Andrews and Miss Edith Grade will be among those on the young ladies committee for the brilliant round of festivities that the Washington Catholic alumnae will give November 27 In honor of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae which will hold a convention in Baltimore In the morning of November 27 there will be a reception at 11 oclock at the Catho I lie University followed by a luncheon at Caldwell Hall from 12 to 2 oclock There will be a reception with dancing in the evening at the Willard The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will bring the delegates and the Baltimore alumnae direct to the University station on the morning of the reception The committee meeting for registration will be held tomorrow at the Willard from 2 to 630 Miss Ida Hill Bowie is chairman of the Washington entertainment committee Miss Ella Loraine Dorsey is chairman of the reception committee and will be as plsted by Mrs Newton Baker wife of the Secretary of War Mrs Joseph eus Daniels wife of the Secretary of the Navy Mrs Albert Sydney Burleson wife of the Postmaster General Mr Franklin Lane wife of the Secretary of the Interior Mrs Thomas Watt Gregory wife of the Attorney General Mrs David Franklin Houston wife of the Secretary of Agriculture Mrs William Cox Redfleld wife of the Secretary of Commerce Mrs Edward Douglass rj i ror ncr xiCHgnijUf jOLOjpitatuzcs MMMMMMMMAAMWtMfcMMtfMNMAAlAMnfMMtAfVMMMMMMVWWMtMMMMMMMkMMArfMMMWNArfAMAAAfft XuL3BBSsssssssssssssslBflP BbssssssssssssssBbssssssssssCw lsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssWALassssHsassssssssssssssssVl I I BPlBBisSBfer WfJisssss BOYS IN WAR ZONE Law Class to Ask Alamo Abroad iflhWriteoi Experiences HASZATIVZS ESCAPE CEtfSOB Jjetten in Embassy 3afl Pcmche Giro Interesting Views of Conflict Ida of Former Student 2fow Abroad Is Oonrpfled Sereral tm American Diplomatic Service MISS DOROTHY STEPHENSON An attractive young woman who has a large circle of friends Syracuse with whom she will all for an extended tour of the Orient They will visit China Japan and India Miss Blanche Cooks ey has returned from Princeton where she was the guest of one of the faculty and attended the Dartmouth Princeton game on Saturday MRS CARL FROST Formerly Miss Grace Marguerite Dewey daughter of Mr and Mrs LjBter Dewey whose marriage to Dr Frost or Buffalo Yt took place October 7 Mi Marie Stmt Hottest White wife of Mr Chief Justice White who has been the guest of Mr and Mrs Mrs McKenna wife of Mr Justice Mc i Wade Ellis left for her home yes Kenna Mrs Hugh Scott Mrs George terday afternoon Mrs Spragues Barnett Mrs Ryan Devereux Mrs charming personality won for her many Borden Harriman Mrs Samuel Spencer friends in Washington where she was Mrs Joseph Thropp Mrs Hannls Tay extensively entertained during her lor Mrs Corcoran Thorn Mrs David visit Mrs Ellis entertained at a the Jayne Hill Mrs Robert Hinckley Mrs ater party followed by a supper at the George Hamilton Marquise di Lanza Willard on Friday evening which ended Mrs Henry May Mrs Eugene van I the many hospitalities given in Mrs Renssealer Mrs Thomas Oxnard Mrs I Spragues honor Miss Marie Sims was hostess at luncheon yesterday at the Willard i when she entertained In honor of Miss Beatrice Dulln whose marriage to Lieut Herman Edward Fischer will take place on Wednesday Yesterday afternoon the Misses Pugh daughters of Mr Arthur Pugh entertained at tea in compliment to Miss Dulln at the Arts Club Mrs Eagan and her daughter Mrs Mattalr of Jacksonville Fla will be hosts at a tea this after noon at their home in street in her honor and tomorrow Miss Dulln will share honors with Miss Helen Bol way Dodge at a luncheon that Mrs Carl Mltman will give at the Purple Iris teahouse Mrs Edgar Orme will be hostess at a tea dance at the Shoreham on Monday afternoon in Miss Dullns honor and on Tuesday Miss Margheritta Tillman will give a luncheon at the Army and Navy Club for her Commander and Mrs Edward Tillman will entertain at dinner On the same evening for Miss Dulln and her bridal party Miss Louise Noonan was hostess at the Columbia Country Club yesterday when she entertained at a bridge luncheon in compliment to Miss Helen Bolway Dodge whose marriage to Mr Sidney Harrison McVlcar will take place on Saturday Miss Noonan will be one of the bridesmaids Very attractive were the decorations In lavender and rose carried out with or CONTTJfCXD ON TEJITH PAGE Washington boys who arw tn the war sons not doing actual fighting but helping the United States maintain Its neutrality are giving a great deal of pleasure and information to former schoolmates and friends by writing them of conditions in the war strlcke countries In the past few weeks several letters have been received by Hugh Fegan secretary of Georgetown University Law School from former students who are now In Europe serving as secretaries of the embassies Letters Give Uncensored Views The letters coming to the United States through the diplomatic mall channels have not been deleted by the censor and as a result many Inter esting stories have been told The receipt of the letters has prompted the class in international law at the school to compile a list of former students who are now serving in the diplomatic corps with a view of writing to them and asking that they write a letter to the class at least once a month thereby giving the students information of conditions in Europe that they could not otherwise obtain and also make them feel that the school Is still Interested In them although they ars not In Washington Former Students Abroad In the list of former students In the diplomatic corps are several well known athletes of the Hilltop university among them being Benjamin Inky Davis who starred on the baseball diamond both at the university and on the local baseball fields and Everett Ansley former captain of the Georgetown University swim ming team and champion swimmer of the District Ansley Is vice consul at Vladivostok and Davis is at Um American embassy at Vienna With Davis at Vienna Is another Washington boy also a graduate of Georgetown University Law School Meredith CTNelL Three others that according to the records at the school are in Europe are Willis Ruffner who is at the American embassy at Rome William Linden who is at Madrid and Thomas Jackson whey Is at the American embassy at London Ruffner Linden and Jackson graduated from the school last June No Ago Limit for Gen Foch Paris Nov There Is no age limit for Gen Foch commander ot the French tn the battle of the Somme He has just reached the retiring age years but President Poincare has Issued a special decree retaining him in service in definitely Foch now ranks only second to Joffre In French esteem Louisa Key Norton Mrs Gaillard Ilnnt Mrs Charles Henry Butler Miss Mabel Boardman Miss Rashel Harrington Mrs Samuel Graham Mrs Achibald Oracle Mrs Marion Butler Mrs Brin ton Stone Mrs Arthur Powell Davis Mrs Claude Swanson Mrs Stephen Elkins Mrs Duncan Fletcher Mrs William Wheatley and Mrs Edwin Sweet Mrs James Sprague of Cincinnati Miss Natalie Magruder was hostess at dinner last evening at her home in street Miss Candace Howard daughter of Dr and Mrs Leland Howard will make her debut at a tea at the club of the Colonial Dames Friday December 22 from 5 to 7 Miss Christine Owen has left Washington for California accompanied by her aunt Mrs Owen of Fashions Very Latest Say So in Womens Footwear We trere fortunate in eecurraff a line of Ladies Fancy Boots wnich re are retailing at 6 per pair In view of the nigh cost of Ladies High cut Fancy Shoes wo consider this a special bargain Ladies Tan Russia Calf 8 inch Walking Boot Low hccL All sizes and widths AA to This footwear is the very last word in style just what discriminating women will delight in The price per pair 6 The Smartest Styles Are in the Ubt Ladies Shoes with black kid vamp gray kid top and one half Louis leather heel 6 6 Ladies Shoes with black ldd vamp ivory kid top One half Louis leather heel Ladies Boot in Havana brown ramp with ivory kid top Low heel narrow toe As the lots are limited 6 6 Ladies All dark Gray Boot Leather Louis heel This footwear is all hand sewed and in assorted sizes and widths it is to our advantage to call early NEWEST AND BEST IN HOSIERY Never were the styles in Hosiery more varied or more beautiful In addition to the best in staple lines we show all the rich and beautiful novelties STRASBURGERS FAMILY SHOE STORE SHOES AND HOSIERY Jos Strasburger Co 310 312 Seventh Street NW MMUmm tftttOtt Sth Avenue at 46th St 4T NEW YORK 1510 St Opposite Shoreham Hotel YiAnmcd Ejffecfs ki prc cimnent Hiis season Ihc Jiang of Brbbiiufis more than ever in a petition 5e xhjpdkrons nrf only in Furs byi in Fur Tninmal Apparel fcMfr advantage tfianany omcxcswiishmd kind cr hiTTvmcclDrapi ar0KarJjeaia Potume aitte urS ut Superb GoditiS for CfternooruMotorirvd aUuyclDeai owks resses fbrDay orvetvinlDear Ckarmmcj visJolpusej aid nendi ntiUinew A The Mammoth Cloak and Suit House SiEGmrtin iNftfeff Monday Another Coat Day We Will Show New Models at i c00 2522 3522 Choice of Velours Bolivia Silk Plushes Broadcloths and Velvets Smartly Styled Suits Values Up to 220 Your Pick Monday 16 Fur Coats and Smaller Furs Introductory Prices Hudson Seal Coats 12500 Red Fox Sets 320 Hudson Seal Stole 80 in 5000 Taupe Fox Sets 3500 Hudson Seal Stole 72 in 4500 Blue Fox Scarfs 2500 Hudson Seal Stole 36 in 1995 Scotch Mole Muffs 2250 Hudson Seal Melon Muffs 1500 Beaver Melon Muffs 1095 Large Assortment of Separate Scarfs 750 Closing Out 75 Serge Dresses Values Up to 25 HIS special lot of Dresses contains many of I our regular 25 models in broken sizes but all sacs are represented Beautiful serze and satin Presses embroidered with wool and serge I I rp wv 7X3 ii Z5 i 1SMl5fr.

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