The Washington herald., 1921-04-10
LOOKS Forward
TO HORSE SHOW EVENT.


SOCIETY LOOKS FORWARD
TO HORSE SHOW EVENT.
~ OCIETY IL anticipating with
great Interest today the nrst
~ outdoor horse show event Of
the season in Washington. Today
the American Remount Association
will stage its ffth impromptu horse
show at the west end OF the polo
field in Potomac Park At . o'clock
instead Of giving Il at the Riding
and Hunt Club as they did through
out the winter. Competition. as
always. Is open to the public and
there 10 no entry fee Last Sunday
/ noted that Rev. DR.. wallace Rad
cliffe protested against the use of
Potomac Park for a horse show on
Sunday in his sermon at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
A large share OF Washington So
ciety, the horse-loving members.
went 70 MiddIeburr. Va. the end
OF the week to see the close OF the
Middleburg Hunt Club hunting
| season. Yesterday handsome
silver cup was awarded for the
| four-mile steeplechase run over
the farms Of Raymond Belmont and
Oliver Iselin. jr.
Boxes are being sold now and
house parties being planned for
the annual National Capital Horse
Show and Amateur Racing Asso-
citation, which will take place from
May IL to the 17th-a rather un-
usual ARRANGEMENT of dates. for the
18th IL a Thursday and the 18th
Tuesday. which sounds like the
horse show will go on through the
week and including Sunday. Al
ways before the show has opened
on a Tuesday and closed on a Sat
| urday, five days in all. People
from all over the country gather
here each spring for this show.
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met Miss Alice Robertson, the
Congresswomsn, last Monday: she
was the guest OF honor at the Ma.
| tional Women's Press Club weekly
luncheon. Miss Alice-she says
| everyone calls her that out home
was an anti-sufragist and she be.
| gan to give some Of the reasons
why she was. in an address she
made that afternoon. but found
her logic very poor indeed. In fact
1 thought it was lacking entirely.
SAYS sUFFRAGIsTs
TOOK UNDUE ADVANTAGE.
was quite amused when she
said that the suffrsgists slipped il
the bill granting suffrage &C
women while the antis were busy
doing war work Some slibi,
should say-certainly an amusing
one. Then she explained why
though not approving of women il
politics, she entered the political
game at the very first opportunit,
but again / didn't quite get hel
| point. Miss Robertson so fire.
Quently knocks members Of her sci
in the different talks / have hearC
her make and have read that
have lost patience with her. Sh,
told us at some length last Monda,
that she had always done a man
work-perhsps she has almost for
gotten she is a woman and one o
the sex she slaps at occasionally
She is ''agin" the League Of womel
Voters, that organization that h
sponsoring. for instance. the ma
ternity bill and which is strivinl
to educate women as to their du
ties OF citizenship.
Miss Robertson seems to dislik
their interfering at all with tn
machinery of Congress. and thei
| Attempts TO legislste welfare bill
through that body, and yet she her
self is a woman and a legislator
She also spoke last Monday of no,
few women she found who kne,
anything about politics or votinl
and added that she soon found ths
, few men did, either. and spoke c
her desire-felt IL her duty-to hel
educate women on such subjects
the same thing the League {
Women Voters is doing. Fortu
nately few OF the Press Club men
bers agreed with Miss Robertso
on any subject she spoke OF ths
, day. I think few women would
Most of the club is fearful that tn
public will mistake her for a fsi
: representative Of her sex.
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LARGE NUMBER
OF ENGAGEMENTS.
: The close of the week finds
large number OF new engagement
announced and more wedding date
arranged. 1t is spring, you know
The wedding yesterday OF Eliphalt
! Andrews and Helen Coles Tucke
, was a beautiful as well as fashion
able affair
! Mrs. william II. Pearce announce
last week the engagement of he
; daughter, Adelaide. to Theodore
; Noyes. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodor
w. Noyes. The wedding will TAX
place early in June. She is one &
the prettiest. sweetest little. girl
!, I've seen in many a day.
~F double interest here was n
sl( announcement of the engag "a
eO nent of Miss Beatrice Hal
Pollock, daughter OF Capt. Edwin
Pollock and Mrs. Pollock. to Lieu
: comdr. Robert S. Chew. jr., Suppl
Corps, U. S. n.
Miss Pollock was a debutante hel
winter before last. Lieut.. Comd
Chew. who is the son OF Mr.. ar
: Mrs. Robert S. Chew, OF Washinl
! ton, is on duty at the Naval Trair
a ing School. Newport.
The wedding probably will tai
7 place in the early part of June
Jamestown. r. l., the summer hon
: Of the brides parents.
y The engagement of Miss Jul
o Athena Sudduth, of Mississippi,
e Lieut.. William Maynadier Miley, sc
e OF the late Col. John d. Miley ar
n grandson Of Brig. Gen. Alfred Mo
= decai. has been announced also. tt
|. wedding will take place on April
r at Agricultural College. Mississippi
: where Lieut.. Miley is on duty.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron s. Adams Z
= day are announcing the enEagemel
r OF their daughter. Marie Holtzms
adams. to Mai J. Craig King.