Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-04

! The acting secretary of commerce
and Mrs. Edwin +. Sweet We're hosts
i at dinner last evening, when their
guests were: Gen. and Mrs. William
| Ham, Col. and Mrs. Smith. Col. and
| Mrs. Babcock and Mr.. Albert Lee
/ Thurman. solicitor of the Department
! of Commerce. The officers present
/ served with the army of occupation
) ut Trier and Coblenz. when Miss
! Sophie sweet was doing Red Cross
! relief work in those neighborhoods
! Miss Sweet worked with the Red
! Cross abroad for about Il year and
| was stationed the greater part of the
| time in and near Paris. but worked
with the army of occupation for about
! four months.
! Secretary Sweet and Miss Sweet
| will leave Washington Saturday for
| Savannah. Ga, where they will spend
! Commercial Congress. Another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cornelia Van r. Campbell.
/ returned yesterday from a fortnight's
! visit in New York. Philadelphia, Bos-
| ton and several other places.
| Miss Margaret Wilson. honorary
president of the Southern Industrial
| Educational Association, heads the
! list of trustees and officials of the in
| stitution concerned in giving their
! annual benefit Christmas sale for the
week of December 5 OF articles mad"
4 !
| and children, at the headquarters, 1928
! Connecticut avenue. Many of the ar
| tlcleS are such as Were used in the
| colonial homes of America from the
time of the first settlers and show n
! continuation of the arts of the hand
| loom taught by our grandmothers
! Articles especially interesting are
| the knotted bedspreads, copies of old
ones found in the cabin homes; has
| kets and hand made toys. The trus-
! tees of the association are: Honorary
| president, Miss Margaret Wilson
president, Capt. c: c. Calhoun: Mrs.
| J. Lowrie Bell, Mrs. Charles Henry
Butler. Mr.. 7. p. Claxton. Mr.. Her
! bert E. Day. Mr.. Joshua Evans, Mr..
! Thomas Nelson Page. Mr.. Leigh Rob
1 inson. Miss Julia D. Strong. Rev.
Or. James II. Taylor. Mrs. Richard
| Wainwright and Mrs. c. David White
No announcement cards have been
. sent out. but the friends of the as
ISOLATION are invited to attend.
! Senator and Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry
[ have gone to New York and are at
{ the Plaza.
; Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes Newberry. who
| were guests of the parents of the
former. Senator and Mrs. Truman H.
Newberry. have returned to their
home in Providence, r. 1. They were
at Hot Springs. Va, with Senator and
Mrs. Newberry during the Thanks
giving holidays and returned to Wash
| ington with them for q short stay
| here. While at Hot Springs Senator
/ and Mrs. Newberry had all of their
children with them.
| Alfredo Nicholson second secretary
of the Colombian legation in Wash
| ington. will join the New York board
| of information. now In charge of
Jorge A. Gonzalez Ponce and Mr..
recently in New York.
Mrs Charles Summer Hamlin, Mrs.
Downing and Miss Louise Delano.
! chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee of the Junior League, will re-
| ceive the guests for the first of the
! series of dances to be given at Rausch-
! er's tomorrow evening.
| Lieut.. Col. Edwin NJ. Watson. U. s.
! A.. one of the White House aids. will
make the presentations.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Tuckerman,
Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney and a
number of others will entertain din
ner parties preceding the dance, which
! will begin at $3.50 and continue until
O'Clock.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George f. Hamilton
with their family. returned to their
! residence, 1926 New Hampshire avenue.
yesterday, after spending the summer
and autumn at stone Ridge" their
place on the Rockville pike. Their
son-in-law and daughter, Maj. and Mrs.
| William F. TompkinS, have taken an