Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-26
MRS. MCLEAN BUSY.
Social Duties Occupy D. A. R. Presi-
dent General

Mrs Donald Mclean, president general of
the Daughters of the American Revolution
is immersed in social duties incident TO
election to the high office just now. Mon
day, after the adjournment of the board
meeting of the National Society of the d A
r., Mrs. Mclean, who was to lunch with
Mrs. Stephen B. Elktns, asked permission
to take the members of the national board
of management with her for cup of tea
Mrs. Elkins, who has long been a warm
friend and admrer of Mrs. Mclean at
once gave her consent, but instead of cup
of tea, one of the most elaborate and per-
fectly appointed luncheons of the week
greeted the fifty ladies who accompanied
the president general to the hospitable home
of the Elkinses.
Mclean was the guest of honor at the we'd
ding and reception of Miss Julia Smith,
daughter of Mrs. Clarendon Smith, vice
president general for Arizona. This even
ing Mrs. Mclean will be the guest of honor
at a dinner to be given by Mrs. Stephen B.
Elkins. Later she will attend for a few
moments, the reception given by the de-
partment of the District of Columbia aux
iliaries to Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery of Cleve-
land, judge advocate general of the Ma
tional Auxiliary to the Spanish War Veter-
ans. Mrs. Avery Is editor of the D. A. R.
magazine. AT midnight Mrs. Mclean will
NC ID Butob dL tilt supper dI TIC NEW w mar u,
given after the society theatricals there.
Thursday, Mrs. Mclean goes to Baltimore
on invitation of Mrs. j. Pembroke Thorn
state regent, and Mrs. Leo Knott, vice state
regent, as the guest of honor at a reception
by Baltimore Chapter, D. A R. She will be
the house guest of Mrs. ]. d. Ingleheart
Friday, Mrs. Mclean will go to Atlantic
City, where she will be given a reception by
General Lafayette Chapter, d. A. r., Mrs
Doughty, regent. All the New Jersey Off
GERS of the ID. A. r. are to be present, in
Guiding Mrs. Althea Bedle, vice president
general for New Jersey.
Next Monday Mrs. Mclean will attend
the session of the Sons of the American
Revolution in Philadelphia by special In
vitation, an honor 1t is said, never before
conferred on a president general of the
d. A. r. Tuesday she will return to Wash
ington to attend the dedication in Arlington
of the monument erected there to the MEM
DRY of Spanish war nurses. She has con-
sented to make short address. Wednes-
Mrs. Mclean will be the special guest of
the Sons of the American Revolution at a
banquet that evening.
Mrs. Mclean states that the next meeting
of the national board of management will
be held in this city the LIST of June, the late
April meeting making unnecessary meet
ing in May. 1t is not Mrs. McLean's in
tention to make any radical changes or
notable departure from the routine so long
established, and she will thoroughly ac-
quaint herself with the affairs of the
national society before she does anything.
She states that she will make UP her COM
mittees slowly and carefully, with view
to placing upon them women who will per-
form the duties assigned them. She de-
clares that 1t will be her patriotic duty,
well as desire, to push to completion Con-
tinental Memorial Hall. which she hopes to
help make the most beautiful and artistic
building in the national capital.
Mrs Mclean will not take up her resi-
dence in Washington before autumn, If
then. She declares that she can reach
Washington just as easy as she can the
down town district of New York, and as
she holds herself in readiness to come over
on moments notice, it does not seem
necessary to her to make the change. 1t is
well known that Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs.
Fairbanks never spent the summer in
Washington. Mrs. McLean's plans for the
winter have not been outlined, but it is
thought very probable that she Will spend
the social season here.
Mrs. McLeans friends are keeping her
apartments at the Arlington bower Of
blossoms, and besides half bushel of con-
gratulatory kilograms, her mail has grown
to such enormous proportions that 1t takes
t1,.t i,,ns Of nra attend