Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-08
Many Hospitalities Make Today's
Record Brilliant-0ficial At
Homes, Luncheons, Dinners.
Secretary and Mrs. Lansing Enter
tain Diplomats-Gayety at Chevy
Chase Club Last Night.

The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Lansing will entertain at dinner this
| evening, this being one Of a series they
are giving for diplomats. Among their
guests will be their house guests. Mr..
and Mrs. Seymour Knowlton of New
York.
Capt. and Mrs. Albert Niblack were
| hosts at dinner last evening, entertain
| ing at the Chevy Chase Club in COM
pliment to Mr.. and Mrs Benson B.
Sloan of New York, who are spending a
few days here.
| Gen. and Mrs. William c. Gorgas re-
turned to Washington yesterday from
q short visit to New York.
Commander c. T. Jewell, U. s. n, en-
tertained at dinner last night at the
Chevy Chase Club in honor of Miss
Shipman of Cornish. N. H, who Is visit
ing her grandmother, Mrs. James Bid
die Dr. and Mrs Cary Grayson chap
eroned the party.
| All of the ladies of the cabinet will
| receive with Mrs. Lansing, wife of the
Secretary of State. Wednesday, Febru-
airy IA.
! Under the auspices of the District of
Columbia Red Cross Chapter public
|
morrow morning at 1890 o'clock to
| discuss and formulate plans by which
| the women of Washington may form
| a valuable auxiliary to the Red Cross.
| An organization meeting was held yes
| terday in the rooms of Miss Mabel
Boardman at the Red Cross building
| by the members Of the executive COM
| mittee of the laywoman's service of
| committees were appointed. Miss Mabel
Boardman Is chairman Of the execu-
| tive committee and also of the ways
and means committee. Other chair
| men who have been appointed are Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock. Mrs. Garrison Nc
Clintock, Mrs. Randall Hagner, Mrs
Theodore Richards, Mrs. c. c. Glover
IT., and Mrs. ]. C. O'Laughlin. One of
the most important committees will be
the motor committee, which will be
composed of women competent to drive
motors.
Mrs. Theodore Richards, chairman of
the Navy Womens Section of the Lay
Women's Service League American Red
Cross. requests all women associated
with the naval service to attend the
| meeting to be presided over by Miss
Boardman at Rauscher's, a 1880 to-
! morrow morning. They may register
there or send their names and ad-
dresses to Mrs. Richards. 1907 18th
street.
The Secretary of the Interior and
at a dinner given by Paymaster and
! Mrs Emmett c. Gudger. last evening
| aboard the L. S. 8. Mayfower.
| A variety of spring flowers formed
Senator and Mrs. Atlee Pomerene. Sena-
tor and Mrs. James A. Reed. Senator
| and Mrs. Key Pittman, Senator and
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis. Senator
and Mrs. ]. c. W. Beckham. Senator and
Mrs. Thomas ]. Walsh. Rear Admiral
| James H. Glennon, commandant of the
navy yard. and Mrs. Glennon; Repre-
sentative and Mrs John II. Small. Rep
| resentative and Mrs. Lemuel P. Pad
gett. Representative William B. Oliver,
| the assistant secretary of agriculture
and Mrs. Carl Vrooman. Mr.. and Mrs
| Adolph Casper Miller. Miss Agnes Hart
! Wilson, Miss Willie Duncan, DR.. and
Mrs. Loren B. T. johnson, Miss Hunkins
of Montana. Lieut.. Osborne, Lieut. Van
Valzah and DR.. Wheeler.
4 Mrs. Howard s. Nyman entertained
at buffet luncheon at her residence in
18th street today in compliment to Mrs.
Louis Lombard
i reading by Mrs. Dupont Joyce pre-
ceeded the luncheon
I Frezia and Lady Hillington roses
. formed the decoration throughout the
drawing room suite. and the guests in
cluded Mrs Richard Hamlen Jones and
!; Miss Marilla Jones of Chestnut Hill.
Mass. house guests of the hostess
Ger. Ticker II. Bliss entertained at
dinner last evening at his home in l
street in honor OF the Secretary of
War. Mr.. Newton D. Baker. The other
!: guests were Gen. Hugh L. Scott, Gen.
; William c. Gorgas. Gen. Henry G.
Sharpe, Gen. William Crozier, Gen
Ernest A. Darlington. Gen. Enoch H.
Crowder. Gen. Frank Mcintyre. Gen.
George p. Scriven. Gen. Henry P.
Mccain, Gen. William A. Mann, Gen.
: william NJ. Black, Gen. Abel L. Smith
Gen. Thomas Cruise and Gen. Joseph E
Kuhn.
The shop which a number of smart
woman are running at 607 18th street
for the benefit Of the American fund
. for French wounded, the British Amer
: lean war relief fund and the Red Cross