The New York herald., 1921-01-09
Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall Are Entertaining
Extensively.
WASHINGTON, D. O. Jan. I.


THE week began with the first of
the series Of three dances which
the one Hundred Club, an or
ganization OF the younger married set
(Which does not quite shut the door
on the face of those of us who should
have married but. haven't" as one girl
pat 1t who has been most popular for
several seasons, bur who still paddles
her own canoe) plans for this win
ter. This One Hundred Club is per-
haps the smartest of all the dancing
clubs of Washington and is run by a
committee which includes Mrs. Syl-
vanus Stokes. Jr.; Mrs. Cromwell
Brooks, Mrs Warren Delano Robbins,
Mrs Scott Thropp and Miss Gladys
Hinckley.
For Monday nights dance the Syl-
vanus Stokeses were hosts. The next
is to be on February at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas I. Gaff,
and the series will come to a brilliant
finish with a costume ball on March 3,
the eve of the inauguration, at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Stokes Each of
these undoubtedly will be preceded by
a number of exclusive dinners, even
as Monday nights was.
Among Mondays nights hosts We're
the Garrison McClintocks, the Fred
erick Huidekopers and the Peter
Goelet Gerrys, who entertained rela-
lively small companies, and Mrs.
Cromwell Brooks, who had a rather
large one. Her guests, among whom
were all the members of the commit
tee "hereinbefore mentioned" were
invited to meet Mr.. and Mrs. John
Kearsley Mitchell Sd of Philadelphia,
who were her guests at the time.
Spring Flowers on Tables.
Miss Marguerite CapertoH, daughter
of Rear Admiral and Mrs. William b.
Caperton. who is spending week with
the SyNanus Stokeses, arrived in time
for the ball and went with her hosts to
Mrs. Brookss dinner. Here the guests
were seated in groups at small tables,
with baskets of spring flowers on each
Among Mrs. Brookss out of town guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. a. G.. Wellman or
New York, Mr.. and Mrs. John Garrett
the Scott Thropps (she was Rebekah
Wilmer, and they are with her parents
for the winter) Honor Smith of Bal
tinore and Mr. and Mrs Frederick IL.
Prince of Boston. Also she had a lot
of the army and navy bachelors and
widowers-not Gen. Pershing he was
at the Gerrys that night-Gen. March,
Gen. Squier Gen r. l.. Hines, Rear Ad-
rniral Andrew T. Long, and one lonely
Senator, Walter f. Edge Of New Jersey
who stands high among the official
eligibles.
Senator Edge seems 10 enjoy the
Of "a official
bachelor and a man with home and
family. He seems to belong, with
pretty nearly any set that he feels like
mixing with He has taken the big
Rhode Island avenue residence which
Mrs Alice Barney decided dozen years
ago was too big for her, and has rented
it. For two or three years 1t was the
Washington headquarters of the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage Association
who vacated it last spring after the
suffrage amendment had been put
through. Now Senator Edge lives there
"a widower with small son--and
with Mrs Phillips. the baby's grand
mother-his mother-in-law, and an ex-
tremely attractive woman--looking ar
ter the youngster and playing chateiaine
for her clever, good looking son-in-law-
It's an interesting household
However, ION with the dance !! or
back to the dance lhese udhCsS "
the Hundred Club were so very success
full last winter that those who are for
tunate enough to be i'm on them are
not likely to miss any one of them this
season. for they are regarded as quite
decidedly the right place TO go.
on Wednesday night came another
dance-and a very exclusive one, even IL
IL was in the nature of a charity ball
the Serbian Aid Ball at the residence
of Mr.. William Phelps Emo, lIl y
street Il was really ball for the
benefit of the Margaret Dodge Sewing
Circle-and II the Hundred club is the
smartest of the dancing clubs the Mar
Saret Dodge Sewing Circle, which meets
every Tuesday at Mason House to sew
for the destitute babies and orphans OF
Serbia. is quite the smartest oil the
seasons philanthropies.
The ball Wednesdas night was run
by a committee of women. Mrs. j.
borden Hartman was at the head OF IT
and has associated with her Mrs. Joseph |
F'relInghuysen. Mrs. Robert Leslie
Craigie. Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins,
Mrs Randall Hagner, Mrs. Claude Mayo,
Mrs Scott Thropp. Mrs. Richard II. KIM
ball. and as treasurer Mrs. Sheldon
Whitehouse the latter a recent bride.
daughter of Mrs. Charles b. Alexander
OF New York and niece of Mrs. Charles
r. Crocker, who always has shown
warm interest I'm the Serbian relief
ever since the first visits OF Mme
Grouitch in it's behalf. when her hus-
band was Serbian Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs.
Like Christmas Eve Dance.
'These women did not attempt to put
over very big dance. They limited
their tickets TO ESQ Also II had all the
gayety OF a Christmas eve party. which
Il was. For the date. January 5, was
selected because IL was the eve of the
day celebrated as Christmas by the
Greek Church. which still uses the old
Gregorian calendar and Is thirteen days
behind the rest Of Europe in its festivals.
Mr. Emo himself had little party
at his house for the event. Mr. and
Mrs. Walter r. Schoelkopf, the latter
attached to the American Embassy IN
Paris. and the couple home on leave.
have been his guests for tho last fort
night and his niece. Miss Alice Emo.
came from her home at Princeton Tor
the ball The Laucs-the formers Sec
retary Of the Interior and Mrs. Lane
who had been his guests for n few
days Just before Christmas had trans
ferred themselves to the Adolph Caspar
Mlllers. among their cosest friends In
Washington. and on New Years Eve
took their departure. They were headed
for Rochester, Mimi. where Mr. Lane.
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