The Washington herald., 1920-10-17
SOCIETY

their place at Winter Harbor, Maine,
were at st. Marks the other evening
with another couple. They were at
the polo field on Thursday. too.
At another table at st. Marks
there was an interesting little par
ty comprised of Mrs. Blaine Elkins,
Mrs. Clarke Waggaman, DIR. Louis
Lehr and Morven Thompson. Mrs
WagGaman was at Chevy Chase
Sunday at teatime also. Col. T. Q.
Donaldson had two or three friends
supping with him to celebrate the
news he received that day of the
birth of his first grandchild, a son
born on October in Coblenz to
The school girl daughters of Maj.
Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant
of the Marine Corps, and Mrs. Le-
and Virginia-were
there with a party of young people,
including Capt. Earl II. Jenkins,
generally called by his intimates
"Billikens," who has been stationed
at Quantico for some time but was
recently assigned to duty in WASH
ington. Gen. and Mrs. Lejeune have
taken possession of the comman-
dant's quarters at the Marine Bar
racks, after being at Quantico all
summer. Laura Lejeune may be
debutante this winter. Both of
those girls are very pretty. Their
older sister, Mrs. J. B. Glennon, Is
also in Washington for the winter.
BRITIsHER's DANCING
MEETS WITH PRAISE.
Decidedly the best dancer on the
floor at st. Marks that evening was
A. p. Graves, of the British En-
bassy staff. How he can dancel
And he knows all of the new steps
too! He had with him that evening
a very good looking young woman
whom / know but can't place just
now. She too dances very well.
They were together the next even
ing out at Wardman Park Hotel and
it was a pleasure to watch them
dance. They park" too, when they
dance, sometimes. Do you know
what parking is? The young lady
had on a very good looking gown
that evening, a straight-line model
of gold net over cloth of gold, the
tunic and drop skirt both being
edged with a twelve-inch band OF
heavy. elaborate gold lace. 1t is a
handsome imported creation, simple
but yet unusual. have long ad-
mired the frock, which / saw in one
of our smartest shops in the spring.
Mrs. Fred Britten, who returned
the first of the week from several
months stay in Europe, was watch
ing the dancers that evening at
Wardman-when she wasn't busy
receiving greetings from her many
friends who gathered around her to
welcome her back. She looked very
smart in a new frock I'm sure she
brought back from Paris, and a big
becoming black hat l think also
came from gay Paree." I saw
George Oakley Totten out there re-
Gently, too, also at Chevy Chase last
| Wednesday, and he was telling me
Of the great interest he is taking
now in the Washington Opera Com
pany; interest aroused through the
lovely garden party he gave last
spring at his charming Sixteenth
street residence when the opera
for his guests.
The company. headed by the
capable and talented Edouard AL
bion, is planning big things for this
winter, and will probably put on an
opera early in December. Mr.. Tot
ten on both occasions was with a
small party of men which included
DR.. de Beaufort of the Netherlands
/ legation, who is wonderful dancer
and seems to thoroughly enjoy
dancing, too. ! haven't heard OF
George Totten doing much riding
these days. He use to be so fond
of the sport and was out on his
horse almost daily.
Charity balls and charitable ap-
peals-also tag days, silver teas and
such are rapidly crowdiug the social
calendars-what better proof could
there be that the season is actually
under way? Each day new dates
are announced for charitable func-
tions and announcements are being
made for large er Entertainments OF a
mi-public sort that always mark
each season. Organizations are be-
ginning to entertain and stir
things up" a bit. Things certainly
began to stir last week, For ex-
ample, just last Wednesday Mrs.
David Franklin Houston, wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury. made
all arrangements for a meeting at
her house of the committee of the
Child Welfare Society of Washing
ton to arrange for a concert to be
given on November as a benefit
for the society; it was pontponed
at the last minute, but will soon
take place.
The committee has arranged sew
eral entertainments for the benefit
of the vocational class of convalesc-
ing soldiers at Providence Hospital.
under the auspices of the American
Women's Legion. 1t will have a
tea and sale at Providence Hospital
October 20, from 2:30 to s o'clock,
when the patients will offer the ar
tIcles made by them under the vo-
catiOnal training system. The COM
mittee will receive the guests in
the corridor hall of the hospital.
Arrangements will soon be complet-
ed for the concert November with
Jean Gordon, soprano, and Crimi.
tenor, as the artists and for the ball
on November II, Armistice night,
for the benefit of the fund to carry
on the Amcricanization work of all
the units of the legion. Mrs. James
w. Wadsworth, Jr, president, will
head the receiving line The tea
and sale on October 20 will be under
the immediate auspices of the Nc
Coy unit. Mrs. Mccoy, wife of Judge
Walter 1. Mccoy, being chairman.
The unit was named in honor of
their son, who lost his life overseas
in the war.
APPEAL FOR
OLD CLOTHES.
Then last week Mrs. Thomas p.
Walsh and her devoted assistant,
Mrs. Allan Dougherty, made an ap-
peal to the people of Washington
an appeal for children's garments
of all Kinds to be used for the needy
children Of the District as they have
already started their work-rooms