The Washington herald., 1919-12-21

at a few other. parties. The Lansings
are going to spend Christmas with
MI. Lansing's sisters, the Misses Lam
ing in WATERFOWL. N. Y. Like the
Marshall's they were dined a great
deal last week. the most important
party. perhaps. being the dinner which
the Spanish Ambassador and Nine.
Riano gave. Mrs. Lansing did not
receive last Wednesday, as she pre-
sided at the tea table at Nancy Lanes
debut.
Mrs. Alexander made her second
public appearance as Cabinet lady
as the guest of Miss Margaret Wilson
in the Presidential box at the New
York Symphony concert early in the
week. All Of the guests were wives
of Cabinet officers. Just such an ON
cial party as Mrs. Wilson would have
entertained IL she had been acting
as hostess. The very next day Mrs.
Wilson attended the matinee, the
first time she has sought any pleasure
since the Presidents illness. She gave
a little matinee party and had as her
Iguests her mother and sisters, Mrs.
William H. Boiling, Miss Bertha Boil
ing and Mrs. Alexander Hunter Gait.
The President and Mrs. Wilson cele-
sary on Thursday very quietly. The
year before they celebrated 1t In
Paris. Their anniversary this year
was Just about such a cold dreary day
as was their wedding day. The
weather man certainly did his best
the last few days to show his Christ
lmas spirit. with his cold and snow.
lQUIET CHRISTMAS
AT WHITE HOUSE.
Christmas at the White House will
be unusually quiet this year. as Ad-
miral Cary Grayson fears a houseful
of children. who ordinarily would
spend the holidays there, might dis
lturb the President and check his con-
tinued Improvement
Definite plans OF the President S
holiday nave not been made public.
but it is probable that Mrs. Francis
B. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson
will be the only daughters TO eat
christmas dinner with their father.
Mrs McAdoo is not expected TO spend
the holidays here.
The absence of any children at the
White House next week probably VIII
| mean that the time-honored Christ
mas tree will be missing. The week S
program is being arranged in accord
ance with suggestions made by DR..
Grayson, who does not want anything
to interfere with the Presidents re-
covery.
The snow storm was evidently the
tail end of bigger ones at sea. storms
which delayed the arrival of seven or
eight liners and some 1900 passengers
: from three to five days.
A number of the passengers were of
! M ri otn Mt a N.
among them the Cuban Minister and
Nine. de Cespedes and their niece
: Miss Anita de Lima who have been
abroad since the middle of the sum-
mer Carl Vrooman was in New York
for a week waiting for Mrs. Vroomar
who was due to land from England
last Monday and didn't arrive until
Thursday. She has been doing relief
work abroad for a year. Nine
Grcutich went to New York the END
of last week to meet Lady Campbell
Of England, who was to be her guest
but had to return without her. She
arrived finally on Friday and came OF
to Washington.
The Rotterdam alone brought sew.
eral of interest to Washington after
one of the toughest voyages in I'll,
memory of veteran mariners.
ne women were, In aCOluOn 10 MIS-
: Vrooman, wife of the former Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture. the Princes:
: de Hohenlohe. who. before her mar
I riage. was Miss Catherine Britton
, daughter of a prominent attorney
| here. The prince accompanied her
: The third woman OF note was the wife
, of the president of Cuba. Mrs. s
Menocal
The Rotterdam also brought Lady
Had;ield. formerly Miss Ida Mcmillan
of Washington. half-sister of George
W. Wickersham She has five medals
: for war work. Countess Ella Ma
tuschka. formerly Miss Ella Walker
of Detroit. learned when the Rotter-
dam locked that an uncle, who was
to have met her. died several days
ago in the Biltmore Hotel in New
York.
The vessel was literally sheathed in
ice. The forward deck rails were
twisted and broken. Many of the
bars protecting the cabins were
smashed.
The curious anomaly of q man who
once left this country as an Austrian
enemy alien returning as a friendly