New-York tribune., 1920-03-28
spring Lures Washington
Society to Riding Paths
Cross-COuntry Paper Chases Grow i'm Popularity;
Balmy Weather Attracts Women to Golf Links;
Woman Judge Gives Luncheon for Judge Norris

| Club are gay with bright colored
sweaters and the lounge is thronged
at the tea hour. The Sunday lunch
cons, with the trap shooting to follow,
at the Montgomery Country Club are
also enjoying renewed popularity.
Considerable interest is being dis
played in the plans for the horse show
the annual meet of the National
Capital Horse Show Association
which will be held from May 1S to 22.
General John j. Pershing is taking an
active interest in the preliminary ar
rangements for the show, and it is per-
sistently rumored that he is to be
made an officer of the association.
The show will be held at Arlington
Park, one of the best equipped horse
show grounds in this part of the coun-
try; and racing will be a feature of
each day. Among the enthusiasts who
have presented cups for the forthcom-
ing show are Brigadier General James
Thompson, Larz Anderson, Mrs. Helen
Buchanan Jones, Miss Evelyn C. Pres
colt, James H. Parmalee and Dennis
Upson. The New Willard, Wardman
Park Hotel and Gait Bros also have
put up handsome cups.
Many Dinners and Luncheons
Dinner parties continue to be tho
most popular form Of Lenten diversion,
with occasional luncheons and small
teas thrown in for good measure. And
Of late most Of them have had one or
another Of the early spring visitors to
washington as the honor guest. Mrs.
Willard Salisbury, for instance, is be-
ing constantly entertained. She is
spending several weeks at Wardman
Park Hotel, while her husband, some
time the President pro tempore of the
Senate. is in Augusta, Ca, golfing with
Frederick H. Gillett, Speaker Of the
House OF Representatives, and her
trends IN Washington are making
much OF her. Mr.: Salisbury is expect
ed to arrive in Washington early in
April and after that Mrs. Salisbury
expects to do bit of entertaining on
her own account.
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis is an
other former Senatorial hostess who
has been revisiting Washington and
for whom there has been round of
parties. She left town the middle of
the week to pass q few days in New
York with Mr.. Lewis and expected then
to start South to make series of visits
during the several weeks of her stav
in the capital, first as guest in the |
home of Senator James Duval Phelan
and later at the Shoreham, there was
scarcely day but that she had en-
gagements for luncheon, tea and din
ner, with probably bridge in the after
noon and dance to bring the evening
to a close. Mrs. Lewis expects to be !
back in Washington for a few days
about the middle of April on her way
back to her home in Chicago. This
summer she will go abroad as dele
gate to the International Council of
Women, which is to meet in Berne. She
has only recently returned from a long
stay in Europe, during which time she
served in the French military hospitals
and was twice decorated by the French
government.
Several Parties Given
Parties also were given during the
week for Mrs. Lewis Nixon and Mrs.
Emerson Howe. of New York, who we're
guests for q few days of MRS. G. G.
Calhoun; and for Mr.. and Mrs. Edison
Bradley, who stopped over for a week |
at the Shoreham on their way from St.
AupuStino Fla fo +ho;r ro,;J.