The Washington herald., 1920-12-31
Quiet Neu
Year Here
Customary Reception at
White House Is
Omitted.
By EVELYN C. HUNT.

New Year viii be a quiet day this
year at the white House and at the
homes of the Cabinet families.
Owing to the illness of the Pres
ident there will be no Official recep-
tion at the White House.. Prior to
the war these functions were annual
events in Washington and marked
the day with special briiiiancy in the.
social calendar. During the war
they were suspended as were other
formal functions and last January
when IL had been announced that
the White House would again be
open on New Year Day, the illness
OF the President made 1t impossible
to carry out the reception plans.
President Wilson will probably
spend the day. as he did Christmas
quietly at home with Mrs. Wilson
and. his daughter, Miss Margaret
Wilson.
The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall willsbe at home after 4 o'clock.
NEW YEAR BREAKFAST
ALSO OMITTED.
Another customary New Year
function doomed to be omitted this
year will be the breakfast In honor
of the members of the diplomatic
corps given by the Secretary of
State. This year the absence of Sec
retary Colby in South America will
eliminate the breakfast from the
social calendar. The place gener-
ally occupied by the breakfast will
be filled, however. by a reception
in the late afternoon to be given
by Acting Secretary of State and
Mrs. Norman H. Davis. They will
receive the members of the diplo-
matte corps. their wives and fami-
lies, from 5 to Z o'clock, probably
assisted by officials of the State De-
partment and their wives.
Mrs. Colby will have with her
over the New Year Miss Mary Lock-
wood. of New York.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Newton d. Baker will be at home
at "Beauvoir" after 4 o'clock. Mrs.
Baker expects to have assisting her
Canon and Mrs. ]. Townsend Russell.
who are planning their departure
shortly for South America.
Mrs. Baker will be the dinner
guest this evening of Col. and Mrs.
Marshall. afterward foing to the
army dance at 240O sixteenth street.
Tomorrow the Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Josephus Daniels will
be at home from 3 to I o'clock. The
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Houston, the Secretary of Agricul-
ture and Mrs. Meredith and the
Postmaster General and Mrs. Burle-
son will not receive, and the Sec
retary of Commercs and Mrs. Alex
ander and the Secretary of Labor
and Miss Wilson. being in mourn
ing. will, of course. not keep open
house.
Mrs. Bainbridge Colby will enter
tain at dinner tonight taking her
guests later in the evening to the
dance Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale
Mclean will give. 1t promises to be !
a very large and ultra-fashionable
ball.
The Ambassador of France and
Nine. Jusserand will be honor
guests at dinner on January "a of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edson Bradley. Mr..
and Mrs. Bradley will entertain at
dinner again on January IS.
Mrs. Bradley will be at home to-
morrow. She will be assisted by
Nine. Riano. Mrs. Mahlon Pitney,
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, Mrs.
Horace Westcott, Miss Margaret
Harding. Mrs. Frederic Atherton and
Miss Mildred Bromwell.
The Ambassador of Great Britain
and Lady Geddes were the guests of
honor at dinner last evening of the
Postmaster General and Mrs. Albert
S. Burleson.
Lady Geddes was the guest of
honor at luncheon yesterday of Mrs.
Calderon Carlisle. Among the
guests invited to meet her were
Mrs. Mahlon Pitney Mrs. Thomas
II. Baynard and Mrs John b. Ham