The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

extended the glad hand to the Bankers
i Association even though there was no
official entertaining In their honor. With
the President i'll and the White House
giving no functions, the Vice. President
and Mrs Marshall away. and ct least
half OF the Cabinet off campaigning.
there wasn't anybody of the immediate
Administration circle who could do any,
thing official.
The Marshalis, by the way. spent the
last week end with Gov. McCorcltle of
West Virginia. the Vice-President hav-
ing been campaigning In that State.
That Is the furthest East they have been
since Congress adjourned, and there
was a report that they would be In
Washington for q day or two early In
the week. But they didn't get here.
They went up into Kentucky instead.
where the President had several
speaking dates.
Secretary Houston. who might have
been regarded az the logical host of the
bankers, did nothing for them beyond
delivering an address a. their Wsdnes-
day session. Mrs. Houston said Tues
day evening that she was not attempting
anything like ar official function for the
convention as q whole. She and Mr..
Houston did a good deal OF individual
entertaining OF members, personal
friends and bankers who have been par
ticularly helpful to the Secretary of the
Treasury as he has travelled over the
country. on official business.
That was a wonderful party that Mrs
Meredith gave the boys. Some bircnday
partyr one of them said as he helped
himself painfully. but Oh SO cheerfully
past the lounge upon which | sat. And
then ne added III response to an inQuiring
81 mi h.
day. but my anniversary. You see its
rust two years to-day since came to
the Walter Reed Hospital. but I'll soon
be out now. Glad | didn't get my dis
charge before ] came to this. Think
what I'd have missed ~
He said II with a cheerful grin and
seemed to think the only three months
more" which he expected 10 have to
be in the hospital was q mere bagatelie
not worth mentioning: But two years
Doesn't II bring us up standing with
feeling that most Of us are going about
our business with cheerful theory that
The war is over and worrying and fuss
ing horribly over the high cost of living
and other problems. In those days we
were all tumbling over one another to
do something for our fighting men. and
| all kinds of entertainments were planned
! for the lads in the hospitals. But now
well. the war is over
Anxfos tue Aid Soldiers.
| One felt grateful TO Mrs. Meredith for
remembering still and for giving between
| 15O and zoo of the boys from Walter
Reed and the Naval Hospital treat
| which they will remember and talk about
| f. r months. and inviting number OF
distinguished people to meet them and
help entertain them and do them honor.
| Personally having been tempted BY the
| perfect day to go down TO the opening
| match of the polo tournament. l only got
in for the end of o perfect day. But they
odd me that earlier the Secretary OF
War and Mrs. Baker had been there.
with Betty. and. / think. Jack. And
that Secretary Baker had made very
nice little talk, and Mrs Baker" had sung
for them They had the two clever little
German girls--pretty little blonde crea-
lures, whose father Is in Secretary Mere
dith's ofIice--to dance for them And
the boys found them entirely delightful,
so they gave encore after encore, and the
group which captured them for supper
was the envy of all the others.
Mrs. Meredith had receiving with her
Mrs. Baker and Mrs A. Mitchell Pal
mer, Mrs. c. c. McChord and Mrs
Louis Hertle. and making themselves
generally useful were Mrs. Phil Kauff-
nlnnn. Mrs. Howard Hume. Mrs. George
Leroy Boyle. Miss Frances Hampsor
and half dozen others OF the younger
| SGT.
The rooms are perfectly huge. and
q ough the Merediths live in an apart
| rrent II is an apartment OF twenty-five
| rooms. There was an orchestra of eight
| pieces PLAYING music that set every
| nodys toes tinglinE.
They all did exactly as they pleased
there were card tables. IL they wanted
TO play :, there was a lively crap game
going on in one corner, TO which no one
| took exception there were cigarettes
| everywhere. and the boys smoked from
/ the moment they came in until the big
lorries came TO take them back 10 the
hospital. fully an hour later than had
been intended. and their pockets were
filed with more cigarettes to comfor,
them later on.
breaking a Long Fast.
Mrs. Baker told me later that one OF
the men had told her that this was the
first private home he had been in here
which, probably means since he answered
the call and went off to fight for world
freedom: and the Meredith home was
n wonderful place TO break so long o
fast in. Even without such long alb.
stinence Il ls genuine delight 10 roam
boz { the Meredith apartment. with its
beautifully proportioned rooms and per
lection Of detail II is the Bliss apart
+ ment which the Merediths rented fur
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