The Washington herald., 1911-01-01
. HE flood gates OF social gayety
will be thrown open tomorrow
with the great reception Of the


will be thrown open tomorrow
with the great reception Of the
President and Mrs. Taft to OFF,
cial Washington and it's citizens. Ine
socially overworked women on that day
are always the Cabinet women, who
have to stand in line for several hours
during the Presidents reception and
smile and seem happy, then rush to their
own homes and hold large receptions
there They have just time to snatch q
little lunch between these two functions.
The New Years reception at the White
. House is always the most brilliant func-
tion, as it is the one occasion when all
diplomats and army and navy men wear
court dress and fuIl-dress uniforms at
the same function.
This year will see a new dean Of the
diplomatic corps, who is always the per-
sonaEe to give the first greetings to the
President on that occasion. This time IT
is Baron Hengelmuller, of the Austro-
Hungarian Embassy, one of the most IA
miliar figures in Washington. 1t is un-
fortunate and much regretted that the
illness of the baroness will prevent her
from-being at his side. They are among
the best known and most popular MEM
bers of the corps, and have been identi-
fed with the diplomatic circle here for
eighteen years.
In that time the baron had been pro-
NOTED from Herr Hengelmuller 10 Baron.
and from minister plenipotentiary to am
af fhn
to the very head of it.
The next body to greet the Chief Ex-
ecutive, after the diplomatic corps. is the
Supreme Court of the United States. 1t
also has a new head, in Chief Justice
White. He also is a well-known figure,
as he has been connected with the Su-
preme Court for many years as Mr..
Justice note of sadness VII be de-
tected when the Senate passes through
the Blue Room, for it will be a fare
well furction 20 so many familiar and
noted figures in public life here. The
changes will be noticed in this body
more than in any other.
The members of the Cabinet circle
who spent Christmas out of town have
all returned, and have their prepara-
tons for the New Years Day all but
carried out The Vice President and
Mrs. Sherman returned to their Washing
ton home Friday and brought with them
their two sons, Richard and Sherrill, each
with mis- wife. and Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer.
of Utica, all of whom will be at the
reception on Monday in the White House
and later in the afternoon at the Vice
Presidents.
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returned the middle of the week from
their farm at Valley Forge, Pa, where
they spent the Christmas season with
the entire family circle. Mrs. Knox will
lay aside her mourning sufficiently to en-
tertain the members of the diplomatic
corps at the customary breakfast given
by the Secretary of State to that body
There is an innovation, however, this
year in the arrangement of this affair, as
1t has been the custom heretofore to ask
all ambassadors, minister's secretaries
attaches, and student and honorary at
taches and the women of their families.
The list is now said to be curtailed and
includes only the ambassadors ministers,
counselors, first secretaries, and military
and naval attaches and their families,
which will make the function far easier
to handle. -,.rs. Knox will be assist
ed On this occasion by Mrs. Huntington
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the Assistant Secretaries of State, and
Mrs. David G. Adee, sister-in-iaw of the
Third Assistant Secretary of State, who.
with her several daughters, makes her
home with him
One of the most interesting figures in
diplomatic society this winter in Wash
ington will be the wife of the first secre-
tary OF the Turkish Embassy, recently
arrived in Washington. Nine Abdul Hak
Hussein, who is an Englishwoman, and
will be much identified with social func-
tions. This will be the first time woman
in the embassy family has ever mixed
with society. owing to the close keeping
of the Turkish. women.
Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the
Speaker OF the House of Representatives
and hostess for her father. is i'll in Dan
vile. their home where she went to spend
Christmas, and will not be able to return
to- Washington for some time. She had
al, interesting list of assistants. for her
New Years reception on Monday, but
has been compelled to cancel her recep-
ton