The New York herald., 1921-02-06
Everybody Trying to Get
Through With Parties Before
Administration Changes.
WASHINGTON. Feb. s.

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1t Is positively inhuman to
have such an early Lent to shorten
the season in the last winter of an
administration. You hear lot about
the legislative jam. but that is mere
bagatelle-and anyhow it's biennial up
at the Capitol compared with the So
cial jam when everybody is trying to
get through all the usual parties, with
about two weeks Topped off from the
average season. and to jam in all sorts
of farewell hospitalities for prominent
and more or less popular outgoing Of
ficials and their wives, who are, on
their side, trying to pay off all their
own accumulated social debts.
1t was so perfectly impossible to
crowd one-half of the things that
people wanted to do into the few re-
naming week days that last Sunday
was rather buster than usual, and to-
morrow bids fair to run it close
second.
Perhaps the most brilliant Of last
Sundays affairs was the breakfast at
C Belgian Embassy for Mrs. Henry
p. Looms Of New York and the Coun-
tess d'Ursel. who were in Washington
for a few days. OF course the cards
went out in the name of the Belgian
Ambassador and Baroness de Cartier.
but I'm not sure whether the Baroness
was able to go to her own party as
she was quite seriously i'll about that
time and had to cancel several en-
gagements. She was not at the French
Embassy dinner on Tuesday night, at
which Baron de Cartier and Lady
Geddes were the ranking guests.
Then there was the Joseph Folks
luncheon in honor of former Gov. and
Mrs. James NJ. Cox of Ohio, who had
been the Ansberry's house guests for
week. And Mr.. and Mrs. Preston
Pope Satterwhite of New York had
arrived to be Mrs. Cromwell Brooks's
guests for the first half of the week
and the Edison Bradleys' for the last.
They carried out the first part Of their
programme, but Mrs. Bradley was so
very much under the weather that
they decided it would not do at all to
impose on her hospitality and betook
themselves to the Shoreham instead.
Very Much Entertained.
Wherever they were. however, they
were very much entertained. Mrs.
Charles Bromwell gave a luncheon for
them on Sunday. One doesntsquite like
to say 'in their honor" when the COM
pany included such ranking official
| guests as the Spanish Ambassador ana
Nine. de Riano, the Ambassador OF Ar
gentina and Nine lie Breton. General
| Pershing and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland.
| The latter returned the following night
| for the dinner which the former Am
bassador to Russia and Mrs George
Marye gave for Lady Geddes, for which
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Brown OF Bal
| timore also came over.
The Satterwhites and their young host
ess were entertained at dinner Sunday
night by Mrs. John f. Rodgers, and
| fancy they motored out Sunday after
noon to Highover to the second of Gen.
Pershings Sunday afternoons. 1t really
| seemed the previous week as II there
couldn't possibly be any one left to call
on him, but the second party was just
as successful as the first, and that in
spite of its being q rainy day. In fact
that only helped things out by giving
an excuse for a lovely cracking log fire
which made everybody glad to get there
and sorry to go.
Mrs. Warren helped her distinguished
! (step)son-in-law to receive as usual, and
he was further assisted by Mrs. Newton
| d. Baker, wife of the Secretary Of War,
with Mrs. Mahlon Pitney and Mrs.
Frank Kellogg alternating with Mrs.
Fox Connor and Miss .Boardman at the
table. Gen. Pershing is having the last
| of his pink teas" tomorrow afternoon.
and it's a perfectly good bet that he will
have Just as many and just as smart"
visitors then as on the two previous
Sundays.
There has been considerable genial
| joshing about the Generals pink teas.
OF course it's an innovation for a lone
man to set aside series of days on
which he will be at home to his friends,
but It seems to be a popular one. At
least 1t is when Gen. Pershing is the
lone man.
Perhaps 1t viii be as well to chronicle
right here that last Sunday relieved the
curious situation described in my last
letter. with the First Lady. and the lady
who's going to be First Lady, and the
lady who had hoped to be First Lady
all In town at once. Mrs. Harding and
Mrs Cox both left town on Sunday. leav-
ing Mrs. Wilson In sole possession of
the field-and Mrs. Harding practically
in sole possession Of the limelight which
followed her to New York
wilson's Prepare to Move.
Mrs. Wilson hasn't done anything
worth chronicllng. She is packing up
gradually and is putting in much of her
spare time planning the furnishing Of
her future home UP on street, which
is not to be formally turned over to
her for another week. She has done
about all the entertaining she expects to
do at the White House. except, of course.
for members of her own family and a
few close friends who come and go al
most as members of the household. The
most important changes in her new
home are those that are to be made In
the second floor. which is to be given
over almost entirely to the Presidents
library and where he hopes in the
spring to resume his literary work.
They seem to be making no summer
plans, and as their new home Is one OF
the rare city houses that has n consid-
cradle garden and broad porches pecu-
liarly adapted for a convalescent who
should spend much OF his time In the
open air. 1t is quite probable that they
will spend practically the entire summer
right here In Washington.