The Washington herald., 1917-02-14
President and Mrs. Wilson Hosts
At Dinner for Speaker of House

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Welcome" the society's greeting to its
guests. The double doorway at the south
end of the ballroom was hidden under an
arrangement of paper lace and formed
an effective frame for the living tableaux
OF an old-fashioned valentine which was
displayed during the course of the even
ing, with Miss Virginia Hereford posing
as the central figure. A grand march, led
by Capt c. c. Calhoun, president of the.
Southern Society, opened the function
and was followed by general dancing.
when red balloons and red hearts were
the favors, and a buffet supper was
served at midnight.
The guests were received by Capt CAL
houn, assisted by the Secretary of the
Navy, vice president of the society, and
Mrs Daniels: Gen. William C. Gorgas, a
former president of the society, and Mrs.
Gorgas; Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, Mr..
Robert w. Woolley and Mrs. woolley,
Gen. Frank Mcintyre and Mrs. Mcintyre,
Representative Cone johnson and Mrs.
johnson, Mrs. Maude Howell Smith and
Mrs R. D. Shepherd.
Following the reception. the receiving
party was conducted to a box specially
reserved alongside the Presidential box.
which was set apart for the President
and Mrs Wilson, who, though specially
invited guests, were unable to be present.
For its next function, aside from its
regular literary and musical program, the
executive committee of the society is
planning a micarme party for the benefit
Of the entertainment to be accorded the
veterans at the reunion OF the United
Confederate Veterans to be held in WASH
ington In June.
Maj. and Mrs. Earl I. Brown were
hostsN at dinner last evening when their
guests included Capt. and Mrs. J. ].
Loving, Capt. Gotwals, Lieut.. and Mrs.
William Henry Holcombe, Lieut.. and
Mrs. Bertram. Mrs. W. G. Anderson,
wife of Maj. Anderson, who Is stationed
at Panama; Lieut.. Feivert, and Miss
Mary Lilly Fisher. house guest of Mai.
and Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Thomas L. Hume will be at home
today and the remaining Wednesdays in
February.
Mr.. and Mrs Howard Reeside enter
tained at a young peoples dance last
evening at the Congressional Club.
The hall was converted into a garden
OF flowers and palms, lighted with
colored lanterns, and decorated with
smilax. flowers and ferns. At the top
OF the stairway on the second floor was
flower decked gateway, leading into
the auditorium which represented a rose
garden lined with cedars and decorated
with hower-flled hanging baskets.
A large moon which peeped over the
sloping roof OF a Japanese tea house,
furnished-the only light.
In the receiving party which was
stationed before a flower covered lattice
were Mr.. and Mrs. Reside and their
house guests. Mr.. and Mrs. Hazard
Lippincott. Mr.. and Mrs Alfred Lippin-
colt and Miss Estelle Lippincott, all of
Philadelphia Assisting were Mrs. Atlee
Pomerene. Mrs. Horace N. Towner, the
officers OF the Congressional Club. the
members of the club from New York,
Mrs. Joe Henry Eagle, Mrs. Robert S.
A. Dougherty. Mrs. J. d. G. Knight, Mrs.
Cone Johnson and Mrs. Wallace
Dempsey.
Mr.. Harmer Reside. son of the hosts.
and his classmate, Mr.. John Owen, Of
Wisconsin. came to Washington from st.
Luke's School to attend the party.
An exhibition of pictures by Monsieur
Charles Duvent, the French official war
painter, will be open on Thursday at the
Octagon House, Eighteenth street and
New York avenue, for two weeks, from
q to each day.
The pictures are water color paintings
OF the battlehelds and incidents of the
American war relief work as the artist
saw them in Belgium, Artois, Champagne,
Alsace, and in Morocco.
Monsieur Duyent, who at the age OF Is
had a picture in the French salon, and
at "a won the "Hors Concours' prize
there was wounded early in the war and
invalided home. Unable to fight, be was
still able to paint, and was sent back to
the front, commissioned by the French
,fv,tS NP oil 20 init
France destroyed. This collection Is the
result OF nearly two years work under
shell fire. 1t is for sale as a whole at the
price of $4,000
Mr.. Holmes, the well-known American
artist, is hanging the pictures, and
Monsieur DuveEt is arriving himself to-
day. The pictures had enormous sue
cess in New York and are to be shown in
the principal cities of the United States.
In Washington the exhibition is for the
benefit OF the work of the surgical dress
ings committee, and 80 cents admission
will be charged.
The committee in charge of the pictures
consists of Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Miss
Goldman, Miss Davis, Miss Mary Sheri-
dan, Miss Farrar Smith, Mrs. Stephen
Bonsal, Mrs. Mathewson, Mrs. Fred
Brook and Mrs. Arthur Willert.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Charles G. Treat.
U. S. A, has announced the engagement
Of their daughter Margaret to Lieut.. A.
v. Arnold, Fifth United States infantry
The wedding will take place in the early
spring at Schofeld barracks, Honolulu
where Gen. Treat is stationed.
Mrs. Bo Sweeney. wife OF the Assist
ant Secretary Of the Interior, received
yesterday afternoon at the Highlands for
the last time this season. She had with
h. Mrs. Beckham. Mrs. Morris Sheppard,
Miss Lansing, Miss Lea, Miss Stone Mrs
Gait, Mrs. Mcfarland and Mrs. Hurley
Miss Ellie Lejeune, whose engagement
to Lieut. James Blair Glennon was re-
Gently announced, was the guest of honor
at the luncheon which Lieut. GIennon's
mother. Mrs. James H. Glennon, wife of
Rear Admiral Glennon, commandant at
the navy yard gave yesterday. The other
guests were Miss Lejeune's house guest.
Miss Chamberlain, of Oregon; Mrs John
Harrison Knapp, Mrs. Edward Randolph
Eberle, Miss Blanchard Scott, Miss Mary
C1eaves Daniels Miss Marparr+