The Washington herald., 1919-02-11

A reception In honor OF Count
Alfred skarbek de Korzybski
OF. the Polish Commission and
Mrs. Court F. Wood. president
OF the Federation Of women's
Clubs, will be given next Sunday
by the patrons OF the Beaux Arts
Salon. 1913 H street, for the French
Club, Miss Martha Prewitt will pre-
sids at the tea table.
The honor guests at last Sundays
reception were Nine. II. Laman Trip,
a weI-known writer and wife Of Dr.
Laman Trip Of the Netherlands Le-
cation, and Mr.. William Tyler Page,
author of Americas Creed" Nine,
Laman Trip made an intensely inter-
esting address on Hollands Position
In the War and Mr.. Page spoke on
the history of THE Greed"
Miss Maude Z. Fowler presided at
the tea table and she was ably as
sisted by Mrs. Irma p. Jewell. Miss
Pauline Resnikoff, Miss Blanche Kir-
wan. Miss Ruth Page Roberts, Miss
Austin and Miss Cooper. The deco
ratiye scheme was in orange, the COL
ors of the royal house of the Neither
lands.
1t will be a disappointment to his
many friends no less than it was to
himself to learn that Maj. Went
worth w. Peirce, of the 1l5th Ma
chine Gun Battalion, Thirtieth, or
old Hickory" Division, would not
sail for America with his division,
but having been transferred to the
Third Division of the regular army,
has gone to Coblentz, Germany, with
the army of occupation.
So sure was he of coming home
soon, Mai. PCirce had bought gifts
and souvenirs for his relatives. lie
tried to get the order changed, until
he found that it came from Gen.
Pershingf himself and was the re-
suit of the majors fine military
record. But in writing to his
mother, Mrs. T. B. Peirce of this
town, ne said: 1T would have been
honor enough for me to go home
with the men of my battalion. and
with the Old Hickory Division"
Char aIacteristiCally. ne adds however,
that he would do his duty as a SOL
dier. even though it kept him from
his loved ones another six months.
Mai. Peirce is the brother of
Mrs. Wallace Grayson Orme of
Washington and of Mrs. Gibson,
Wife of Lieut.. Commander Gibson
L S n, detailed for duty in Wash
ington. His wife, Mrs. Peirce is
residing in Washington while Maj.
Peirce is overseas.
Mrs. Gustavus George Reiniger. for
merly Miss Annie Wright Huske, who
has been spending a short time in
this city as the gu,-t Of Miss Dorothy
Campbell. has left for Chicago to
join Maj. Reiniger, who has just re
ceived his discharge. and is now en-
gagged in business in that city.
There will be a meeting of the Free
Milk for France Committee this
morning at II O'Clock AT the head
quarters, Fourteenth and + streets,
to conclude the plans for the Mardi
Gras fancy dress ball to be given
March I. On the ball committee are
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry. Mrs. Arthur
Glasgow. Mrs. Walter Dillingham;,
Mrs. Breckenridge Long, Mrs. George
Draper. and Mrs. Joseph Letter.
Mrs. John Pitney is chairman for
the cigarette vendors. among whom
are Miss Katherine Wilkinson. Mrs.
Shelton Pitney. Mrs. Albert Hoffman,
Mrs Harry Davidson. Misses Louise
and Frances HOar, Miss Louise De
lano. Miss Sally Beechcr. Miss Edith
WaIIach. and Mrs. Melville Wallac',
all of whom will be in fancy dress.
Mrs. Warren McConihe. the presi-
dent Of the organization, has written
that she will bring down a party from
New York for the ball
Meyer Davis VIII play, and it is
expected that it will be an alI-niGht
party.
Volunteers are working night and
day at headquarters making apple
blossoms.
Many of the boxes have already
been sold and the tickets will be on
sale at headquarters by the last of
this week Reservations can be made
at any time by telephoning Franklin
500. Everybody who buys a box for
this ball will have the satisfaction Of
knowing that by so doing they are
supporting three little French babies
for one whole year. As s3G a year
actually feeds one baby, one of the
members of the comittee has volun-
teered to donate the additional s. to
the price of every box sold, in order
to cover the cost of supporting three
little babies for one year, which would
be SlOS.
Among the patronesses are Miss Jo-
sephine Patten. Mrs. COlville Barclay,
Mrs. Richard Townsend, Mrs. Henry
F. Dimock. Mrs. Willard Salisbury.
Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Mrs.
John + Wilkins, Mrs. David F. Hous-
ton, Mrs. Thomas L. Marshall, Mrs.
william Howard Taft, Mrs. John Pit
ney. Nine. George Bakhmeteff, Mrs.
Robert Low Bacon, Mrs. Larz Ander-
son, Mrs Edison Bradley, Nine. Col
w
George Draper, Mrs. J. S. F'relinghuy-
sen, Mrs. Arthur Glasgow. Mrs. Cary
Grayson, Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman,
Mrs. William $. Innis. Mrs. Frank B.
Kellogg, Mrs. r. II. Kimball, Mrs.
Francis Lloyd, Mrs. Breckenridge
Long. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs.
MediII Mccormick. Mrs. Charles Mum,
Mrs. Fleming Newbold, Mrs. Frank B.
Noyes, Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Mrs. Orrne Wilson.
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth. daugh-
ter of the late James Hay, once Sec
retary of State, will read from her
iIlustrious fathers poems at the mat
inee given by the League Of Ameri-
can Penwomen. at their authors car
nivaI and ball to be given at the New
Willard Hotel the night OF the 14th
and the afternoon of the 18th of Feb
ruary. The matinee Is featured prin-
cipally for children. but the grown
ups are as interested in it as much
as they are in the novel and unusua!
features of the evening entertainment
Other features include the appearances
of Marguerite Clark, the most beloved
Of all the movie actresses, and the
singing of Indian songs.
Miss Lenora Sparkes. well-known