The Washington herald., 1920-01-04

on the first floor when the crowd
permitted. The assistants included
Maj. Gen, and Mrs. Barnett. Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Robert E. Countl
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Earle, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Thomas Washing
ton. Rear Admiral and Mrs. r. s.
NGriffin, Rear Admiral and Mrs. ID
yid W. Taylor. Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Niblack. Rear Admiral and
Mrs. c. w. Parks. Rear Admiral and
Mrs. George r. Clark. Surgeon Gen.
eral and Mrs. BREASTED and Paymas-
ter General MCGOWAN. Other assist
ants included Mrs. Bagley and the
Misses Bagley, mother and sisters
of Mrs. Daniels: Comdr. and Mrs. II.
Merritt Stanhouse, the latter for
merly Miss Mary Cleaves Daniels,
niece of the Secretary: Miss Nancy
Lane. Miss Ann Gordon. Miss Del
phine Heyb Miss Jessie Wilson.
Miss Mary Gusts Lee. Miss Ammo
Carter DuIany, Miss Ann Craven. Miss
Marguerite Skirvin. sister Of Mrs.
George Mesta with whom she Ia
spending the winter and Miss Lillian
Newlin, OF New York. who Is her
guest. Comdr. Foote. aid to Secretary
, Daniels: Comdr. Claude B. Mayo and
Comdr. Gormley alternated in making
the presentations.
MRS. ALEXANDER
GAVE RECEPTION.
That day Mrs. Joshua w. Alexan-
der, wife OF the new Secretary OF
Commerce. held her first large re-
fception since her husband became a
Cabinet member. The first formal en-
/ fart inin0 for sham Nufn 80 Nil
this week, the Assistant Secretary
and Mrs. Edwin F. Sweet will give q
dinner in their honor Tuesday eveI
ming.
Two OF the outstanding features Of
New Year Day were the breakfast
which Mai. and Mrs. Gist Blair gave
at Grasslands and the one with
Charles Henry Butler as host. Both
are annual affairs though both were
suspended during the war. This was
the first large party that the Blairs
have given since their return to the
city at the close OF the war.
Both parties boasted most
distinguished company and I am sure
both claimed many Of the same
guests. AS the Blair party was fol-
lowed by dancing quite a few went
out to the Country Club later after
attending the Lansing breakfast and
the Butler party.
The latter function is always q
particularly enjoyable one as the re-
past Is noted for its deliciousness,
every Wand used always coming from
the Butler summer place, Montsweag
Farm in Maine. 1t is generally called
stag party, but Mrs. Butler always
assists her husband in receiving and
generally asks a few of her close
women friends to help entertain the
men-usually women who have Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Butler on the farm.
This year each guest was given
! a very attractive souvenir or menu
card of heavy cardboard tinted in
stripes Of all of the palest colore
prettily blended. On the front was
a photograph of the farmhouse at
Montsweag from the brook" II is
a, most attractive and picturesque
farmhouse, one that makes you
long to spend some of the warm
summer days there. 1t is q big,
roomy house with big. wide We
randas at both ends and a fine road
way winding around and up to it
the house is on a small hill over
looking the Montsweag Brook. In
side of the souvenir was the menu and
q little account of the Montsweae
farm as follows:
MoNTswEAG
FARM MENU.
"Montsweag Farm Breakfast
| Montsweag Baldwin apples-baked;
Montsweag smelts-caught through
the ice of Montsweag Creek; Monts-
weag Plymouth Rock eggs; Monts-
weag fresh ham; Montsweag old
| fashioned, yellow-eyed beans. baked
with Montsweas pork; Montsweag
Green Mountain potatoes. baked
with Montsweag butter; Montsweag
pickles and preserves: Montsweag
| Farm deep-dish breakfast apple pie
| doesn't It make your mouth
, waterD ISL.
New Years Day. 1920, 1885
/ street. Washington, D. c."
On the other side 1t said:
"Montsweag Farm is located at
Montsweag Corners, in Woolwich
and wiscasset. in the State OF
Maire, on the PortIand-Rockland
State road, half way between the
Bath-woolwich ferry over the Ken
nnebec and the wiscasset-Edge-
! combe long bridge over the Sheep
scot. and where Montsweag Brook
fails into head Of tide of Monts-
weag Creek, which broadens into
Montsweag. Bay, of which the At
lantic Ocean forms a part. Monts-
weag is the old name given, by. the
| Indians to the spot where the fresh
water Of the brook and the salt
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