The Washington times., 1917-02-05
PRESIDENT AND WIFE
GUEST OF DANIELS
Literary Lights Among Those
to Meet Executive at Sec
retary's Office.
TO ATTEND RELIEF BALL.
Southern Function at Willard
Tonight Will Be a Gala
Affair.
TO ATTEND RELIEF BALL

The President and Mrs. Wilson will
dine this evening with the Secretary
Of the Navy and Mrs. Daniels, who
have asked a distinguished company
Of guests from out of town to meet
them. The party will include a num-
Der of persons prominent in the lit
erary world.
The table will be decorated after
the manner of an old fashioned spring
garden, with violets, hyacinths, and
pink and white camelias, sent from
North Carolina.
The Southern Relief Ball, to be
held at the Willard this evening, will,
as usual, be one of the gala events
Of the season. A box has been re-
served for the President and Mrs.
Wilson, Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall,
wife of the Vice President, and the
ladies of the Cabinet will be in the
receiving line, and among the guests
will be many distinguished visitors
from the South. Others in the receiv-
ing line will be Miss Mamie Ran
dolph Heth, president of the South
ern Relief Society; Mrs. Claude Swan
son, Mrs. Odenheimer, president gen.
eral, U. D. c., and Mrs. Mulcare, di-
vision president, U. D. c.
wing CuSNOIl CSIdOiASAlCN
several years ago, selection will be
made by a competent judge of the
handsomest matron at the ball and
the most charming maid, this modern
Judgment of Paris" adding a fill-up
Of interest to the function.
Mrs. Moran to EentertaIn.
Mrs. F B. Moran will entertain at
dinner this evening. taking her guests
later to the ball, where she has
box. In the party will be Senator and
Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, who are the
guests of honor: Mrs. Wellington Koo,
wife of the Chinest minister; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Campbell Graef, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Lombard, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Penfield, Major and Mrs.
James A. Shipton, Miss Mary Temple,
Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm McConnihe,
farland, Brigadier General LAUGH
heimer, Rear Admiral Frederic r.
Harris, ]. E. Lefevre, charge deaf
fairs of Panama. and Edwin Flather.
Mrs. James Pryor Tarvin will be
unable to attend the ball on account
of illness, but her box will be occu-
pied by Senator and Mrs. ]. c. w.
Beckham, of Kentucky; Miss Marie
Sims, Miss Matte Marschall Curd,
Walter Thurston, of Mexico City; The
MacneiI, of Barra; Edward Dewey,
and John W. Belt
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walker Hol-
combe will give a dinner before the
ball, as will Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
d. McKenney and William E. Fowler.
Among Mr.. Fowler's guests will be
DIR. and Mrs. Alexander d. McCon-
nachie, of Baltimore.
The list of box holders includes the
President and Mrs. Wilson, the Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall, Paul
Hudson, of Mexico City; Mrs. Dennis
Upson, Mrs. Edward c. Walker, Mrs.
Gibson Fahnestock, Mrs. Edward T.
Stotesbury, Thomas F. Ryan, Mrs.
Oohn Miller Horton, William E.
Fowler, Mrs. George de B. Keim,
Mrs. E. W. Cole, Mrs. Thomas F.
Walsh, Mrs. Hoke Smith, Mrs. Will
lam McC Ritter, Mrs. William
Graeme Harvey, Mrs. r. D. Shepherd,
Paul E. johnson, Mrs. Paul Warburg,
Col Robert NJ. Thompson, Miss Mat
tie Marschall Curd, Mrs. Frances Ber-
ger Moran, and the officers of the
Daughters of the Confederacy.
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The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Lansing have as their guests for
this week Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour
Knowlton, of New York. Secretary
and Mrs. Lansing will be hosts at
dinner Thursday evening, when their
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