Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1926, Page 43

R Y uwrERWOOL. Miss ELIZABETH J. SWEENEY, gracuate’of §mith Colleg ey parents, Col. and Mrs. Sweeney, ab Washington Barracks. i Social ‘Ranks in Capital Gradually Thinning as Members Take Vacation International and Other Affairs Will Keep Some High Officials Holds in Washington—Society Interest in Entertainment. BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT. HOUGH the social ranks are s'owly thinnine. th ¢ eral weeks of pleasant activity here for society, and wi i mmportant international atiairs pending. the head of the cabinet nd Mrs. Kellogg. other o als of the State Department and many diplomats are likely to spend the greater part of the Summer in the Capital carce a day passes without some event of unusual interna- tional interest along s lines, for while there must be many meetings, conferences and discussions there must also be breaking of bread to assist in good fellowship between nations. O of the largest luncheon parties of the week along this line was given by Mr. Joseph C. Grew Under Secretary of State, Wednesday, for the delegates to the unpleas. 't, sounding but altogether important con- ference for the prevention of smuggling operations between Mexico and the United States, the Mexican delegates, including the Ambassador of Mexico, Serior Don Manuel C. Tellez, being honor guests. The Attorney General, Mr, Sa . and the Secretary of Labor, Mr. James J. Davis > also of the compat I'he same day Dr. L. S. Rowe was host to a luncheon party of similar import. having as his guest of honor Hon. Alberto Salomon, former 1 foreign affairs of Peru. are yet sev- Congress held in Chicago, who later | e constantly been entertained in the em- | nd legations of their countries. scarcely a household being without some distinguished guest from the O'd World. The Ambassador of Spain had a number of such personages and vesterday the Counselor of the German embassy and Frau Dickhoff held a reception in their suburban home at Alta Vista, Md ing with them about 30 of the German dele- gates. ristic DDINGS have played a considerable part in the affairs of Wash- ington and elsewhere, many of the out-of-town events being as in- teresting to society the local affairs. The Washington Summer colony on the North Shore of Massachusetts will attend almost in solid phalanx the Lodge-Sears wedding in midweek, and some of the New York weddings like that of Miss Martha Jefferson Barras of New York and Mr. William Hamilton Owens of Washington and New York tomorrow call for unusual interest from Capital socicty. NE has only to visit the Capitol during such things as the farm loan debate to find ont how many important folks are still in the city. One of the most constant and enthusiastic attendants is Mrs. Jardine. wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, who sits in the gallery, sometimes with and often with guests, to hear the wrangle. There are few Senators who more fullv understand the discussion in all its phases than does she. Along in July. if the Secretary is able to get away, Mrs. Jardine and their family will accompany him to New York, where they have taken Abney House at Shinnecock Hills for a few weeks. | nounced the engagement of their daughter Doris Elizabeth to Mr. William Frederick Sonnekalb, jr., son and Mrs. Sonnekalb of Wash- {inzton and Summit, N. J.. the wed- {ding to take place the middle of Sep- tember. Miss Dalton graduated from Wellesley College in the class of 1924, Betrothals of Interest Recently Announced Mrs. William Harrison Bolen have announced the e- ment of their daughter, Amelic San- | ford, to Mr. Robert’ Dewey Beeton --fj"m ka8 ‘since, then been ctive i Clarendon and Lexington dramatics. Mr. Sonnekalb is a gradu- The wedding will take place at high | 27¢ of the Massachusetts Institute of A e e Re ] nology in the class of 1925. | . bride elect, 1764 Church street north- & west, Washinston, in the presence of | Bride-Elect Honor Guest :1“; immediate m“ix‘:;b{;:x;»fllr))::P:z.z‘ d i At prctty Aftemoo“ Tea o ceremony e fol rag eception (u”()mv- in attendance. T DU e o, i i i Senator Fred T. Dubols of Idaho, and her daughter, Miss Toussaint Dubois, entertained at tea yesterday in their home at 3114 R street north- west, in honor of Miss Catherine e s daughter of ‘former Repre- 15t showed much | Sentative and Mrs. E. D. Hays of Mis- ri, who is to be married Wednes- Assisting the hostesses were William . Borah, wife of the Branch, senior Senator from Idaho; Mrs. Ad- to Lieut. Charles Hdt son of | dison T. Smith, wife of Representa- Col. and Mrs. Charles L. Stodter of |tive Smith of Idahe; Mrs, Joshua Washington, D. . and Chicago. Miss | Evans, Jjr; Mrs. James Willlam Sutphin is the niece of Chester Apple- | Bryan, Mrs, Frederick Horne, Mrs. gate and the sister of Mrs. Ward | Henry Smalley, Mrs. Harvey D. Kramer, wife of Judge Ward Kramer, | Jacobs and Miss Eleanor Judd. Mem- all of Asbury Park. Lieut. Stodter is | bers of the Alumni Chapter of Alpha a graduate of M ichusetts Insti- | Delta Pi, the sorfority to which Miss tute of Technology, and is stationed | Hays, Miss Judd and Miss Dubois at Fort Monmouth. The engagement | belong, were present, many of them was announced at a reception heid at | June brides whose husbands accom- the Monmouth Hotel, the Suv.nhin's“mnled them. Those of the younger Summer home, it was the first big | congressional set, who are still in soclety event of the season and a | Washington, were invited. large gathering of social and prom- Mrs. E. D. Hays, mother of the inent people of the Summer colonies | honor guest, and Mrs. John Arnold of New York, Philadelphia and Wash- | Cannon, daughter of Senator and ington attended. The wedding is|Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, received with Mr. and en; noon tomorroy Mrs. Emily Phelps Barnes has an- nounced- the engagement of = her daughter Kdith to Mr. T. Harold Fox, British vice consul at Philadelphia. Society at William H. Suip h a number | | Haitd, | Menos, will sail July 14 for their home planned for the early Fall. the hostesses. Refreshments were served in the Mr. and Mre. Harold Caleb Dalton 4 dining room of the old house and on of Brookling, &ass. last week-an- the-spacious:porchy -M‘"‘"Q e and now withs with her par- ents Repre- sentative a Mys. Kiefner, soon leaving for their home in Pervyville/ Mo. | Diplomatic Corps Is Depleted by Summer Plans of Members Seaside and Mountain Re- sorts Make Appea] Those With Families. to The Minister of Denmark, Mr. Con stantin Brun, left Washington Friday for Bar Harbor, Me.. where he wiil spend the Summer months. The Minister of China and Mme. Sze motored to Ithaca, N. Y., the end of the week and will spend the F mer on the Heights, near there. They were accompanied by their daughter, Mile. Julia Sze, and will be joined shortly by thelr sons, Szeming Sze and Dedie Sze, who will come from Eng land. where they have been in schoo), The Minister_of and Slovenes, Dr. Ante Tr vichich, will remain in the Middle West until the end of the week. Minister went to deliver an add in Milwaukee vesterday Croats ich Pa Mme. Price, wife of the Minister of and her niece, Mlle. Odette in Haitl, to spend the Summer months The Minister will accompany them to | New York, returning here to remain for several weeks before joining Mme, Price in Port au Prince. The Minister of Austria and Mme. Prochnik will entertain at dinner to- morrow evening in compliment to the members of the Tri-Partite Claims Commission. The Minister and Mme. Prochnik will have as their guest for several weeks Miss Violet James, who will come from her home in Boston at the end of the week. Miss James is a sister of Mme. Prochnik The first secretary of the British embassy and the Hon. Mrs. Brooks are established in the Arnold cottage at Manchester, Mast for the season. Mr. Branko Adjemovitch, the fi secretary of the legations of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Wil return the middle of this week from Pittsburgh, where he went for a short stay. The first secretary of the Lithua nian legation, Mr. Henrikas Rabina- vicius, sailed Thursday aboard the Stuttgart for a two-month vacation in Europe. Mr. Willlam J. B. Macauley, the first secretary of the legation of the Irish Free State, who arrived in this country last week aboard the Laco. nia, will come to Washington the first of this week ‘to take up his duties at the legation. The new naval attache of the Ital- ian_embassy, Comdr. Lais, was hos at dinner last evening at Le Paraiis, entertaining in compliment to the re. tiring naval attache and Contessa Sommati di Mombello. Others in the company were Representative and Mrs. Fred A. Britten, Comdr. and Mrs. David McDougal Le Breton, Capt. and Mrs. Crain, Mrs. Albert Sparrow and the military attache and the air attache, Col. Villa and Comdr. Sca- roni. Signora Lais will remain in her Ital- ian home until ‘September before join- ing Comdr. Lais in Washington. The naval attache of the French embassy and Mme. Willm, with their children, will start by motor this week for New York and will sail from there Wednesday, July 7, aboard the De Grasse for their home at St. Jean de Luz, France. They will return to Washington in October. The retiring naval attache of the Italian embassy and Contessa Som- mati di Mombello will give up their | house at 1601 Sixteenth street the middle of this week and go to New York, where they will be until they sail Wednesday, July 7, for their home in Italy. After a brief vacation Conte Sommati di Mombello will go on sea duty, Contessa Sommati di Mombello remaining in their home in Italy. Conte and Contessa Sommati di Mom- bello will be greatly missed in Wash- ington, where they have made many friends-not. only in the diplomatic. cir- ANNE ESCH.. Returued fromschool’tn Chicago hey pavents, Inter- \ state Commerce Commissionce and Mys John JESch,. f HARRIS & EW/NG— and row with D. ¢, JUNE 27, - ] 1926—PART - 2. [, . Mr1ss N A\ 7/ EL1ZABETH WALSH, returning fromv a years;st aud travel daugh Society Breaking Ranks For Fas_}Lignable Resorts Rippon Lodge. the Ellis Country Place a Lure for Those Remaining Herc-—seaside and Mountain Resorts Equally Popular. The interstate commerce commis- sloner and Mrs. Frederick Irving Cox and the commissioner of internal rev- t |enue and Mrs. David H. Blair will mo- tor today to Rippon Lodge on the Potomac, the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hampton Ellis, where a luncheon is being given. Admiral and Mrs. W. H. Souther- land of Washington have taken the Edgehill cottage at Nahant for the sea- son. They have been on the Massa- chusetts coast in other years and have many friends in the colonies. Mrs. George Cabot Lodge and her cle, but in official and resident -society as well. The second secretary of the Peru- vian embassy and Senora de Bedoya will go to Philadelphia the end of the week to remain 10 days and will re- turn to their apartment at Wardman Park Hotel for several weeks before leaving for Peru. The assistant military attache of the French embassy and Mme. Thenault started yesterday morning for a 10- day motor trip through the North. They will be guests for a short time of Mme. Thenault's mother, Mrs. Spencer, in her Summer home at Osterville, L. 1. The attache of the Cuban embassy, Senor Don Cayetano de Queseda, will leaye Tuesday for Cuba to spend sev- eral weeks, £ t daughter, Mise Helena Lodge, are at Edgehill in Beverly, Mass., until after the marriage of the former's son, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, to Miss Emily Sears, which will take place Thursday in Beverly. After the wedding Mrs. | Lodge and her daughter will go to (Nahant, Mass.. where they will, as usual, occupy their Summer home. Mrs. George Thorpe, accompanied by Miss Jane Thorpe and Mr. George Thorpe, jr., left last evening for Lake Minnewaska, at Glenwood, Minn., to spend the Summer. Mrs. Thorpe will g0 to Newport, R. L., the latter part of September and will return to Wash- ington October 1 Dr. Ludwig Sebastian, Dr. Adolf Sonnenscheln and Dr. Alexander Tauber are among the German dele- gates to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago, who arrived in Washington yesterday morning, where the entire delegation, numbering about 35, is being housed at the Mayflower. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Catusi have taken a cottage at White Sulphur Springs for the Summer. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Titus have Summer home at Vancouver Island. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Wells, with their daughters, Miss Eleanor Wells {and Miss Marian Wells, are now in Florence, Italy, and on their return to_this country will go to New (Continued on Sixth Page.) RM.Ccutt from Briavcliuf off forEurope. closed their house and gone to their| el (Continued on ®ixth Page) 4 ‘abroad MI1SS MARY LOUISE JOHNSON, accompanying her father; My PaulEvarts Johnson,to thejSemi-Cenlennial at Biflings,Mont. MIssyALICE'CUTTS, teviof Col.a.nd.TMfS& s, June graduate and soont Department of State Prepares Young Men For Foreign Posts Graduates of Classes As- signed to Duty in Old World Capitals. When the former Secretary of State, Mr. Charles Evans Hughes, opened the Foreign Service School, his ulti- mate intention was to provide a period of vocational and probational training for the young men who had successfully passed the requisite ex- amination to enter the diplomatic service, and who by so doing had be- come attaches of the State Depart- ment. All this the erudite former head of the American foreign office has accomplished, and more besides. For he has opened social opportunities of the most significant character in the National Capital, and.scanning the names of the men who completed the course a few weeks ago and who already have been assigned to their first foreign duty is to see how de- lightfully social ends from all parts of the country have become knit to- gether. There were 13 members of this class, which is the first to have been tried and proven in the final test which is applied to. them by a regular board of directors and instructors, all hold- ing prominent posts under Secretary Kellogg. Of these 13, David Kirk- patrick Estes Bruce, who married Miss Ailsa Mellon, has centered much lime- light béfore and since his appointment as vice consul in Rome. But the others made the same record as Mr. Bruce and start their careers on equal terms. Mr. Ellis O. Briggs of New York City, who entered the school on its opening day, April 20, 1925, has been appointed vice consul to Lima, Peru. Mr. Early B. Christian of Shrevesport, La., has gone to the Irish Free Stdte, and is now attached to the consular office in Dublin. Mr. | | | | Late June Days Show Important Weddings Washington Brides Display Originality in Ar- rangement of Detail—Sears-Lodge Wedding and Other Out-of-Town Nuptia] Events. The marriage Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Grayeon Brady. to Maj. Er- nest Harvey Van Fossan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Harvey Van Fossan of Lisbon, Ohio, took place vesterday at noon. The ceremony was performed in the Church of the Covenant, the pastor, the Rev. Dr. Charles Woods, offictating, and the bride and bride- groom and_their attendants stood at | {the rear of the church and held an |p, informal reception after the ceremony. Large ferns, pink rambler roses and delphinium were used to decorute the church, and the bride entered to the wedding chorus from grin,” sung by the choir. The bride was escorted by her broth er, Capt. J. Camden Brady of Norfolk. and wore a gown of white bridal satin trimmed with old family lace and or- ange blossoms. Her tuile vell, which formed a train, was held by a tlara of lace worn by her mother, and she car- ried calla lilies. Mrs. J. Camden Brady, sister-inlaw of the bride, and had a gown of pink crepe chiffon, made over pink satin, with which s wore a large pink Neapolitan Straw hat, trimmed with chiffon and carried ink sweet peas. Miss Jean Van san was maid of honor for her sister and was in lavender crepe chiffon, made over satin of the trimmed_with chiffon to match, and 0s “Lohen- | was matron of honor, | ame shade, | 5 O sureet, the Foundry ence Blackburn at 152 Rev. John ¢ fllian Methodist ng. at 4 ¢ soprano, sang preceding the ceremony, and was accompanied by Miss Grace Wanita Gardner, sis- the bridegroom, who also play- wedding music. ide's costume was of white rimmed with lace and she cture hat of white horse. d trimmed with white flow- ied bride roses and llies nd AQuring ter led the The | | &€ wore 4 br: lers. s {of the v | Miss | for_her sister ar (Continued on Se 1 of honor venth Page.) e Vacations for Members Of Congressional Set Representative and Mrs. Henry Al len Cooper closed their apartment at the Rochambeau yesterday and are leaving for the'r home at Racine, Wis.. they will attend Home-coming Louis T a brief Fad from McFadden 1y 2 with a spend sev- their who nouth Collex 1il from New York time she carried lavender sweet peas. The | bride’s other attendants included Mrs Louis Montfort, Mrs. Amos Pagter formerly of Clarksburg, W. Va..; Mrs Joseph_Claffey, formerly of Parkers- burg, W. Va. Mrs. John Barnee Mil- liken of this city, and Miss Alma Haw- thorne of Asheville, N. C. Their dre; es were made allke in pastel shades of taffeta and maline, and they wore large Neapolitan straw hats trimmed with maline to match their dresses, and carried arm bouquets of garden flowers. Little J. Camden Brady, Jr., was ring bearer. Mr. Leslie A. Smith was best man, and the u;shers included Mr. Robert Leland Van Fossan of New York, Mr. Austin C. Waller, Mr. John Barnes Milliken, Mr. Park Galleher and Mr. Bruce E. Clarke, all of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Brady and Mr. and Mrs. Van Fossan stood with the wed- | ding party to receive after the cere- mony. Mrs. Brady's gown was of black and white chiffon and her hat matched her costume and she had a corsage bouquet of lavender sweet peas. Mrs. Van Fossan was in beige chiffon, with hat to match, and wore a corsage bouquet of butterfly roses. A wedding breakfast followed in the home of the bride for only the mem- bers of the wedding party, and pink roses and ferns were used in the house. Maj. and Mrs. Van Fossan left later for a wedding trip, the bride traveling in black flat crepe lined with white satin and a black satin hat. They will make their home at Wardman Park Hotel on their return ‘The bride was born in Clarksburg, ‘W. Va., and has made her home for the past 18 years in Washington. She is well known in this city, having held the position of assistant to the director general of railroads, the high- est woman official of the railroad ad- ministration during the entire war, and has taken a prominent part in the Red Cross. Since the war she has been actively engaged in various philanthropic work. Maj. Van Fossan was born in Lisbon, Ohio, and is a graduate of the Oberlin College of 1909, and took his legal de- gree at the Columbia University in 1913. He entered the World War in April, 1917, serving in various camps, ,and later in the Secretary of War's office. He holds the commission of major in the Judge Advocate General Reserve. He was a member of the ‘War Department Clalms Board and chief council of the War Credits board; he served with the special Panama Canal Commission and later as assistant counsel and director of claims of the United States Shipping Board. The past two years he has been practicing law in Washington, and a few weeks ago was appointed by President Coolidge a member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals. Miss Theobelle Stiles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Wesley Stiles of St. Cloud, Minn., was married vester- day afternoon, to Mr. Allen Howard Gardner, son of Mr. and-Mrs. T. G. Gardner of Ulysses, Pa. The ceremony took place in the home of Miss Flor- will g0 to New York tomorrow to see the son-in-law and daughter of Dr.and Mrs. Horen, Lieut. and Mrs. William C. Bennett, jr., safl July 2 for the Canal Zone, where the lieutenant goes for station. Miss Jacqueline Du Puy will leave tomorrow for Winthrop, Me., where she will visit Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Bralnard. Mr. and Mrs. Du Puy and eline Du Puy will motor to op late in July to visit Mr.and Brainard. ————e Officialdom Secking Summer Rest and Cha | _The Kello, Prince Princess home in Mrs. nge Secretary siphus and Crown Sweden in their . Paul, will return to Wash ington Frida Secrota and Kellogg have closed their hous Nineteenth street and will Beauvoir. which the 'n y of State and . Grew huve leased since coming back to Washington. Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg will go to Monticello Sunday, and the Secre- tary will make an address July 5 at the Independence day celebration there, Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft have closed their house and gone to Murray Bay, Canada, to spend the season in their Summer home there. Mrs. Joseph C. G Undersecretary of State children will g0 to Dublin day, to remain through the Undersecretary joining whenever possible. wife of the and their H. F & the seas n, thery Representative and Mrs. James T. Begg_are guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Fickland Gilliland in Balti- more. Mrs. Begg and her son, Mr. James T. Begg, will leave early this week for their Summer home at Cedar Point, Ohio. ¢ of the Treasury Dewey will close here tomorrow and, ac- their daughter, Miss and their son. M. jr., they will go fo spend a_few days with s mother, Mrs Albert B. and M Dewey will sail Saturday for a_ Euro- pean trip. During their absence their son will be at the Fort Adams citizens’ training camp, and until that opens he and Miss Dewey will be at West Point. Miss Dewey will later join her grandmother at Watch Hill to spend the early Summer. their house companied b Suzette , Dewey Charles to Watch Hill, The United States Ambassador to Belgium and William Phillips will spend the Summer in southern France and will not return to this country and open their Sumnier home, Highover, at North Beverly, Mass., as they aid last year. ¢