The Washington herald., 1920-10-17

! schemes being discussed throughout
] the world.
| SMART LIST OF
PATRONEssEs.
The patronesses for this interest
ing event are: Mrs David F. Hous-
ton, Mrs. Hennen Jennings, Miss
Mabel T. Boardman. Mrs. Julian
James, Miss Mary Gwynne, Mrs.
George T. Marye, Mrs. G. F..
T. Bratenahl, Mrs. George Bar
rett, Mrs. Alice Barney. Mrs.
Louis F. Post, Mrs. Ernest p.
| Brown and Miss Leila Mechlin.
CONCERT FOR NATIONAL
PEACE CARLTON.
The list of patrons and pa
tronesses for the concert which is
to be given on Friday night, Octo-
Der %. at the Memorial Continental
Hall, D. A. r.. is growing and great
impetus is given to the sale OF
tickets by the fact that Margaret
Fontrese, who will sing the part OF
"Amneris," was the original model
for the wonderful war posteh The
Greatest Mother in the World" This
statuesque mezzo-soprano with a
gorgeous voice has had triumph
after triumph in concert, and at
her recent festival appearances
added new laurels to her fast
growing popularity.
Seats en- bloc have been
purchased by Mrs. W. X Van Rey-
pen, Baroness Serge Koetf, Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, Mrs. John Her
vey Young, Mrs. Floyd Waggeman,
Miss Jessie c. Mcdonald, Mrs. J.
B. Kendall, Mr.. and Mrs. Bush
Brown, Col. Eric Fowler, Mrs. Her
man Gasch, Mrs. Victor Kaufman,
Mrs. Charles Fairfax, Mrs. Marga-
ret Zimmele, Mrs. John Gaynor.
Capt. and Mrs. Chambers, Mrs. L.
MacD. Sleeth, Mrs. Isaac Cans and
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Neuhauser.
I The concert is the opera Aida"
in concert form and a splendid
response has been made by the mu-
sicians of Washington, enabling
Daniel Breeskin, conductor of the
Rialto Theater orchestra to aag-
ment his splendid orchestra by such
musicians as Herman Rakeman,
,Ernest Lent Richard Loreburg, Mr..
Stake, Mr.. Norman and Sol Minister.
| The concert is under the auspices
Iof the Arts Club of Washington in
the interest of the National Peace
Carlton, which the Central FEEDER
alton of Women's Clubs has Just
voted to sponsor.
! The wounded soldiers and sailors
! at Walter Reed Hospital and the
Naval Hospital were the honor
\ guests at two charming parties last
week, one with Mrs. Edwin T. Mere
dtth, wife of the Secretary of Agri-
! culture, as hostess, and the other
was given by Mrs. Julian James at
/ the Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason
! House. Mrs. Meredith entertained
| at her gorgeous apartment at the
corner of Eighteenth and Massachu-
| setts avenue. 1t is just lovely and
| perfectly huge; has some twenty
| two rooms, with a bath for every
bedroom. You could put an entire
apartment of the ordinary apart
ment house in the drawing-room
alone. From Mrs. Meredith's bed
| room to her drawing-room Is one
city block.
She keeps open house there, too;
is scarcely a day without company.
They seem to have an endless num-
Der of friends and always put them
up when they come to the Capital
They expect to have a house full Of
guests during the bankers conven-
tion. While the party was in full
swing Thursday in walked Earl II.
Butler of Des Moines, Iowa, and his
brother-inslaw, quite Unexpectedly,
but most welcome. They had been
| motoring and Mrs. Butler had gone
on while the men stopped off for a
visit. I don't blame them for visit
ing the Merediths either. for many
reasons; first, because Mr.. and Mrs.
Meredith both make charming hosts
and then they have the best cook in
town, really. I never tasted such
biscuits as she made for the party
Thursday. And Mrs. Meredith says
she has had that cook for over
twenty years. 1 think she has had
her butler about as long, too. I've
about decided that the Cabinet
ladies of this administration must
be exceptionally clever housekeep-
ers and have wonderful dispositions
for practically every one of them
have servants who have been with
them for years and years.
WOUNDED SOLDIERS
WERE VERY HAPPY.
Mrs Meredith's party was such a
jolly one and / never saw such
happy, contented faces of those poor
men had-especially after refresh
ments were served. Small tables
were set around so that they all
could eat comfortably and such a
repast-most elaborate and Just the
very best of everything; such good
coffee and those biscuits-they Just
melted in your mouth. There were
almost 200 to feed, tool After they
had eaten, several of them lounged
back in their chairs, stretched out
their legs and had such an express
sion of complete, satisfaction and
contentment as I've not seen in
many a day, while pretty girls how
cred over them and waited on them
and gave them cigarettes by the
handful; tucked pillows back of
them and looked after their COM
fort generally
There was an elaborate varied
program which the boys seemed to
thoroughly enjoy and then some of
them danced-there was a large and
particularly good stringed orches-
tra-while others played games. 1t
must have made Mrs. Meredith feel
pretty comfortable to see what
perfect afternoon-(and evening.
because at $3.50 they weren't think
ing of going home apparently; the
tables were removed and the orches-
ira playing again)-she was giving
those men who deserve the best