The Washington herald., 1917-04-04
President and Mrs. Wilson
Golf Luncheons
and Dinner Parties and
Benefit for Blind Soldiers
Are Sole Hospitalities.

When the political excitement OF Mon
day and its consequent reflection In So
clety had subsided the smart world set
tied again into its Lenten stride and
Holy Week Is being strictly observed.
The President and Mrs. Wilson were OF
to the links OF country club early yes
terday morning and spent several hours
at golf before returning to the White
House.
The Capitol is still a mecca for So
ciety folk. who find much interest in the
opening Of the new session. Mrs. T. De
Witt Talmage and her house guests,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Temple Graves, Of
New York, attended the session yester-
day morning and had luncheon at the
Capitol. Mrs. NTalmage entertained at
dinner last evening for Mr.. and Mrs.
Graves, when a company of twenty was
invited to meet them.
Mrs. Talmage and Mrs. Graves will be
at home, Informally. this afternoon from
5 till I at the Highlands.
Another interesting visitor in Wash
ington this week Is Miss Elizabeth Sam
uel. OF Philadelphia, fiance Of DR.. George
n. Poulieff, secretary OF the Bulgarian
Legation, who is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Malcolm McConihe. Miss Samuel
was the honor guest at dinner which
Mr.. and Mrs. McConihe gave last even
ing.
The Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
Franklin X Lane and Col. and Mrs.
George Duncan were guests yesterday
afternoon in the box of Mr.. and Mrs.
John H. Hewson, at the entertainment
for the blind soldiers Of Belgium. France
and Great Britain. at the Belasco. Others
who entertained box parties were Mrs.
Stephen B. Elkins. who guests were
Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage and Mrs. John
Temple Graves; Mrs. Thomas Ewing,
Mrs. Charles L. Fitzhugh, Mrs. Henry
". Fitch, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood,
Mrs. Dimock. Mrs. William A. Slater,
Mrs. John Fl. Hewson. Mrs. William
Cary Sanger. Mrs. Marshall c. Rives. jr. !;
Miss Goldman and Miss Charlotte Cullen.
Among the young women who assisted
as ushers were Miss Sallie Beecher Mrs
Gardiner Bell. Miss Amy Bennett, Miss
Lillian Birney Miss Edith Blair, Miss
Minna Blair Miss Amy Brooks, Miss
Lydia Chaplin. Miss Margaret Clark. Miss
Juliette Crosby. Miss Ann Day. Miss
Laura Delano. Miss Louise Delano. Miss
Alice Downing. Mrs. William Flather.
Harlow, Miss Adelaide Heath. Miss Anne
Hopkins. Miss Candace Howard, Mrs.
Howard Hume. Miss Sophie johnson,
Miss Camilla Lippincott. Miss Kath-
inc McClintock. Miss Eleanore Morgan.
Mrs. Georgia Schofeld. Mrs. Scott
Miss Caroline Nash Mr.. Newbold Noyes.
Mrs. Lyman Pratt, Miss Mary Sanger.
Thropp, Miss Adelaide Tuttle, Miss
Margaret Tuttle and Baroness Lilly Won
Winckler
The patronesses were Mrs. Larz An
derson, Mrs Charles ]. Bell, Mrs
George Barnette. Mrs. j. NJ. Biddle, Mrs.
Charles Henry Butler. Miss Blunt. Miss
Goldman. Miss Charlotte Cullen. Mrs. H.
F. Dimock. Mrs. John Allen Dougherty,
Mrs. stephen B. Elkins. Mrs. Richard
Ely. Mrs. Charles Fitzhugh, Mrs. Mar
shall Field. Mrs. John Gibbons. Mrs.
Archibald Hopkins, Mrs Richard Har-
low. Miss HeGeman, Mrs John w. Hew-
son. Mrs. Nevil Munroe Hopkins, Mrs.
Ralph Jenkins. Miss Kibbey. Mrs Lit
tauer. Mrs. Randolph McKim, Mrs.
Charles McCrawley. Mrs. George Marye.
Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins, Miss
Mary Pattten. Mrs. P. Lee Philips. Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Mrs. William C.
Rives. jr.; Miss Jane A. Riggs, Mrs.
William Cary Sanger. Mrs. Hugh L.
Scott. Mrs Thomas o. Selfridge, Mrs.
Walter Tuckermann. Mrs. John w.
Weeks and Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood.
Mrs. Samuel B. NJ. Young left WASH
ington yesterday for a weeks visit at
Boston.
dTen arrived in Washington yesterday
from New York to spend April with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs William K.
Merriam.
The Congressional Club has called a
business meeting for this morning at 1O:SJ
at the clubhouse, New Hampshire
avenue and L street A number of
matters Of Importance will be taken under
consideration.
Owing to the Easter Monday dinner
dance at the Columbia Country Club the
progressive bridge party will be postponed
from that date until Monday, April 23.
Miss Maude WCtmOre acted as hostess
at a luncheon at the Shoreham yester-
day. the company numbering between
thirty and forty ladies. Miss Wetmore
who is well known in Washington So
Ciety. having lived here many years when
her father was Senator. Is accompanied
by Mrs. Van Rensselaer,, OF New York
Mr. and Mrs. l.. o. Cameron will close
their house on Wyoming avenue today
and will motor to New York, where they
will make their future home. They will
be the guests for few days of Mrs