Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-19

The first at home of the season Oh
Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall on wed
nesday was the signal for a regular
onrush of senatorial women and OF
fetal and diplomatic society in gen
eral, and the counterpart OF the al
home" will be found on w edhesuas
when Mrs. Marshall will receive 10.
the second time. Calling, discontinued
during the period of the war, was re
sumed. and the diplomatic days at
home re-established in the past two
weeks give society it's interest ana
variety as of old. Perhaps Just as the
moment in the varied rush OF events
these at homes may not impress one.
bI1t who was there in washington
society years ago but that recalls win
keen delight the times they cropped
in for cup of tea with LORD ana Lazy
Pauncefote, once hosts OF the BRUSH
embassy. or. more interesting If less
stately. the lively tea-drinking bouts
at the Chinese embassy when MI. WI
was minister and the entire popuia-
ton of Washington anxious for MS
hospita1ity-and tea cups whien thes
often carried home as souvenirs.
Once asked what was the real
pastime in Washington for society
folk, the answer was dining, and tnal
is just as true today, but IN mucn
saner sense. Hostesses no longer es-
say to engage cabinet members, am.
honor three months ahead of time. but
have abbreviated it to week or two
One would, however, like a peep at
the social calendar of the Spanish
ambassador and Sonora de Riano. who
were guests of honor at a dinner
every night of the past seven. and
will be again for this. week when
they are not themselves serving as
hosts.
There were several rich treats, aside
from the exhilarating atmosphere of
dancing and dining, in the two pic
ture shows. the one at the Corcoran
Art Gallery opened with a private
view on Tuesday afternoon, when 242
paintings from British artists were
shown, and are still the magnet
the other the collection of portraits
of foreign and American notables
painted on ivory by Mrs. Edgerly
shown in the drawing rooms of Capt
and Mrs. Perry Belmont on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
The symphony concert on Tuesday
afternoon, teas, luneheons and other
events filed the week to overflow
ing.
1t is at the picture shows and con-
certs that one meets the large group
of men and women who just now
social events. the men of scholarly
bent and the women for the most in
mourning. It was at the Corcoran
Gallery and again at the symphony
that one met Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,
Mrs. James r. Mann and others who
are in social retirement on account Of
mourning. Mrs Mann was also in the
long line of prominent women who
visited the Edgerly exhibition.
The large ball Wednesday night for
the Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital; the
dinner on Monday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. George T. Marye as hosts; din
ner at the legation of Sweden on Tues
day night with the minister and Nine
Ekengren as hosts. and a dinner on
the same night with Senator Phelan
as host: a round dozen of dinner
parties Wednesday evening preceding
the ball, at one of which Capt and
Mrs. Walter b Schoelkopf will be
hosts for the new Serbian minister
and Nine Grouitch, and Mrs. Frederic
A. Keep as hostess for a large dinner
at Grasslands In honor of her sister.
Mrs. Winthrop Murray Crane: at
homes on Wednesday with women of
the cabinet. including Mira Carter
Glass. wife of the new Secretary of
the Treasury, for the first time, and
many senatorial women giving their
initial receptions. the week is more
than well filled.
In the departure or MISS Agnes
Peter. daughter of the late DIR. Ar
instead Peter. Of this city. for France
to take up Y. NJ. c. A. work there
sailed the linea1 descendant of Mrs.
George Washington. to give aid in
time of need to the land of Gen.
Lafayette. who. upon the several oc-
casions of his visits to this country
was the honored guest of Gen. and
Mrs Washington at Mount Vernon.
Miss Peters departure received the
merest passing notice in the local
papers, yet it Is to be doubted If any
other lineal descendant of Martha
Washington is today in France in any
capacity, certainly not in Y. NJ c. A
work. the extent and Importance OF
which, to stricken France from the
outset of the war, can never be ade-
quately narrated.
Miss Peter was born and has lived
all her life at Tudor place, on George
town Heights. in the stately colonial
homo of her grandmother. the late
Mrs. Beverly Kennon. who. as child
knew Gen. Lafayette at Mount Yer
non, and who had been there the daily
companion of Lafayette's son. whom
his father sent for safety to the
keeping Of his trusted American
Nriend during the dark days of the
reign of terror in France.
Upon Lafayette's second visit to this
country. quarter Of a century later
Mira Kennon, then a young matron
AntApfofnaA him Ia rca Uordar