The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-15
WILSON GREETS
OAR. congress

Byrd Jones, Miss Mary Dallas Strong
Miss Charlotte Pendleton, Mrs. @. W.
Atkinson, Miss Richardson, Mrs. Mary
Jackson, and Miss Polkinhorn.
Mrs. Bella M. TRULY made the presen-
tations. Mrs. George W. Trowbridge pre-
sided at the tea table.
Countess Spottiswood Mackin. who is
a member Of the New York city chapter,
one of the most important in the So
ciety, and OF the FTanco-American Com
mittee of which Mrs. John Miller Horton
is chairman, will give a large reception
at the Brighton Friday afternoon, In
honor of Mrs. Matthew T. Scott and Mrs.
John Miller Horton. All national officers,
delegates and visiting and resident D.
A r. are invited to attend.
Mrs. Leonard c. Hoffman, wife of the
aid of the Admiral OF the Navy, George
Dewey, is very active i'm the District of
Columbia work of the d. A. R., and is
a member of the house committee.
Mrs w. z. Calender was a charter
member Of the Henry Laurens Chapter,
of Laurens, S. c., and organized and
was the first regent of the Falls Church
Chapter, of Falls Church, Va. Mrs. Cal
lender is the Virginia president of the
Daughters of Founders and Patriots of
America. She is a member of the house
committee for this congress.
Mrs. Bertha Lincoln Huestis, of the
Dubuque, Iowa; Chapter, is a we'll known
singer of the District of Columbia, and
is also well known in the literary world.
Mrs. Huestis will sing the Iowa State
song at one of the sessions of the con-
gress.
Miss Nancy Johnson, daughter of Rep
resentative and Mrs. Ben Johnson, is one
of the pages at the congress.
The Chapins' womsn's Christian Tenn
perance Union has invited the d. A. r.
to a silver musical tea at the Raleigh
Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs.
Theresa A Williams is the president of
this association.
The annual Dixie ball by the Robert p
Lee Chapter, No. GA, of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy will be
held on April II. Many of the members
of the d. A. r., who also are members
of the L. ID. c., and their friends plan
to attend this ball.
When the Alabama State report is
read Alabama written by Mr.. Henry
Armstrong, of the Treasury Department,
will be sung.
Mrs Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue,
founder and regent Mrs. Charles ID.
Robinson, regents alternate: Miss Es-
telle w. Hathaway and Mrs. Paul Schay
are the representatives of "Old North"
Chapter. of Boston. in attendance at the
Continental Congress, d. A. r. Mrs.
O'Donoghue is at the Brunswick, 1892 /
Street Northwest. She will remain in
the city for several months, and will
attend the general court of the Founders
and Patriots in May.
Mrs. Howard Hamilton Baker, of Buff
falo. N. Y, one of the best known con-
traltos on the concert stage. will sing
90 Rest in the Lord from Handel's
Elijah at this mornings session.
Miss Goode, the daughter of Mrs.
Rhett Goode. State regent OF Alabama,
and Bryan Tomlinson, son of the late
John Tomiinson. of Alabama, were the
special guests of Secretary of State Will
lam Jennings Bryan at the opening ses-
sion yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Bryan rs a warm personal friend
of both families. John Tomlinson was
for years prior to his death the Bryan
leader in Alabama. Yesterday Mr..
Bryan heard that Miss Goode and Mr.. |
Tomlinson particularly desired to hear |
his address at Continental Memorial |
Hall and he arranged that they be grant |
ed special dispensation which would |
permit their attendance at the after |
noon session.
Miss Goode was much impressed with |
President Wilson. II have been so de- /
cived through his pictures" she said, II |
thought he must be so coldly intellectual |
as to obscure entirely his human side. l |
was most happily disappointed when I |
heard him talk and saw him SMILE he |
seemed to come so close to his audi |
ence in his brief address, partly through |
what he said, and very largely through |
the way he said it,
Mrs. George Durbin Chenoweth is here,
delegate from the Ann Whital Chapter,