The Washington herald., 1920-07-11
By z. c. DRUM-HUNT.

ooen away ana just returned.
One remark or the other is made
by everyone you meet just now.
OF course July Is the month when
the majority who are planning to
take any kind Of a vacation at all
depart and the number of houses
with boarded doors and windows is
increasing every day. But also
most of those people who went out
TO the two conventions are Begin
ming to drift back into town and
this week will see even more OF
them in Washington. as many did q
bit OF sightseeing en- route home
after the close Of the San Francisco
convention. Then large numbers Of
people. both in society and out.
passed the Fourth Of July holidays
out of the city at one place or an
other but returned about the mid
die of the week.
So the throng comes and gocs.
Yet IL you go out TO the Chevy
Chase Club on Wednesday or Satur-
day nights for the dinner dance
you think that just everybody is
. there and after all really very few
folk have left the city. There are
dinner parties. galore there every
week. Also. somebody gives a
large party and the long list OF
distinguished guests makes you
wonder how you ever believed for
minute that the city was de-
serted.
Think, for instance, of the
luncheon which Norman H. Davis.
Undersecretary of State, gave
last Friday for Don Manuel Con-
dra, president-elect of Paraguay
and formerly Minister Of Paraguay
to this country. who arrived from
Europe last week and is taking his
family back to Paraguay after
fransactiag some oficial business
here. He leaves here tomorrow for
New York.
DR.. Gondra will be the guest Of
honor at a banquet to be given At
the Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
next Wednesday evening by the
Pan American Society. He will sail
shortly for Paraguay, where his in
auguration will take place on Au-
gust IS.
SECRETARY BAKER
GUEST OF HONOR
Let's seei At that party were the
Secretary OF War. the Secretary OF
Commerce. Hugh Gibson. American
Minister to Poland: Boaz Long.
American Minister to Cuba; Daniel
r. Mooney. American Minister to
Paraguay. who is In Washington for
a brief visit; Admiral william 9.
Benson, Rear Admiral RoperI
rCoontz, w. P. G. Harding, governor
of the Federal Reserve Board; Will
bur J. Carr. director OF the consular
service and assistant to the Secre-
tary of State; Van S. Merle Smith.
Third Assistant Secretary Of State;
John Barrett. director general of the
Pan American Union; DR.. L. S. Rowe,
hchief of the division of Latin-Ameri-
can Affairs of the State Department;
B. Sumner Welles and ]. H. Mur-
ray. Of the Latin-American division,
and DR.. Francisco ]. Yanes, assistant
director of the Pan American Union.
Who says everybody is out Of
town! Again: il was an interesting
company which Gen. and Mrs. T. Q.
Donaldson asked out to the Chevy
Chase Club Wednesday evening to
meet the Secretary of War and Mrs
Baker Their guests included Misc
Katherine Lowe who is visiting Sec
retary and Mrs. Baker; Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. James W. McAndrew, Brig.
Gen Pearson Menoher. Surgeon Cen
eral Merritte W. Ireland, Col. and
Mrs. Charles H. Patterson, Col. and
Mrs. Clarence Ridley. Col and Mrs.
W. c. Rivers. Mr.. and Mrs. Morrill,
Chamberlain, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Walker, Mr.. and Mrs. John Harvey
Young, Mrs. F. B. Moran. Mrs. Har-
riet Holiday. Mrs. William Strother-
Smith. Col Arthur Allen and NAL
colin McConihe.
I noticed, too. that Joshua w.
Alexander, Secretary OF Commerce,
United States Department Of Com
merce; Admiral w. S. Benson, chair
man of United States Shipping
Board, former chief of operations,
United States navy; FREDERICK A.
Pezet, ambassador to the United
States from Peru; ]. Antonia Lopez
Gutierrez, minister to the United
States from Honduras: Joseph z.
Lefevre, charge d'affaires Of the
legation of the republic of Panama;
Duncan U. Fletcher, United States
Senator from Florida. and member
of the international high commits
sion; Philander P. Claxton, commits
sioner of education. United States
Department of the Interior, and Dr.
r. ]. Yanes. assistant director of
the Pan American Union; also John
Barrett are sore of the prominent
people who figure in society, who
are TO lecture at the summer-school
of Pan American and Foreign Com
merce, which will open July 10,
which sounds as IL they would
spend the greater part of the sum-
mer here.
GIRL SCOUTS
GIVE SMART TEA.
Then just look at the smart
crowd that attended the tea riven
the middle of the week by the Dis
frict Girl Scouts for their vice com.
missioner. Mrs. Newton D. Baker,
wife Of the Secretary of War. at
their attractive Willow Tree Tea
House in East Potomac Park, which
is being operated by the Girl Scouts.
There were just lots of interesting
people there that afternoon. like Nine.
Srouitch, wife Of the Serbian Min
tster: Mrs. Richard A. Harlow. Col
and Mrs. Clarence Ridley. Mrs. WAL
ter Tuckcrman. who left a day or
two later for her summer home at
Southampton. L l.; Mrs. Frederick
Brooke. Gen and Mrs Lansing
Beach. and rany othcrs. II was
quite delightful affair. with the
Marine Band Playing all afternoon
and the Girl Scouts busy. and the
autos flashing by. and the weeping
willow trees, and the watcr-ah,
you know how lovely II Is down
there, without my telling you. And