Evening star., 1921-04-10
Congress Will Bring Many
New Faces Here Tomorrow
Mrs. Harding to Meet Newcomers Over Cup of
lea in the East Room at the White House.

Not in several generations will so
many new faces be seen in the legis-
latlve halls as the convening of Con-
sress brings tomorrow. They are not
as numerous in the Senate-eleven in
total-and of these, Senators Nc
kinley of Illinois, Weller of Mary
land. Cameron of Arizona. Caraway of
Arkansas and aWtson of Georgia have
served in Congress before. But the
House offers complex problem. and
Mrs. Harding is evidently making
her plans early to become acquainted
with the scores of women who have
| come to Washington for the first time
\ and must be appalled, by the magni
tude of the task before them. All
| during this month and next, until
the weather is mild enough for al
fresco fetes. small company, select
ed from cards left, will be invited
! weekly to have cup of tea and
short chat with the first lady, in the
| cheerful. homelike red room.
Unlike many other mistresses of the
| White House. Mrs. Harding is not
! wasting an ounce of energy on in
| terror decorations or changes, but is
accepting the mansion just as it is
and bending her efforts toward
| knowing the women with whom she
! must come into such intimate rela-
tions for the next four years. She
| has already added perceptibly to the
| large circle she knew when her hus-
| band was in the Senate, and in one
| short month. mas received at least
| fourth part of ofticialdom. a task
| hitherto spread over an entire sea-
| son. Never was the White House
more beautifully adorned in flowers
| and more appropriately, great, tall
| clusters of white blossoms softening
the golden tones of the east room,
with pink and red to liven the smaller
! reception room. and gracefnl
mounds of green in the formal vases
in the corridors. Mrs. Harding is
partial to sweet peas and some ex-
quisite hues are often used in low
, basket on the breakfast table.
One of the important social addi-
tions to the lower House is Ogden
Livingston Mills of New York, who
has taken over. furnished. the old
| fashioned house in 32d street. George
town, which was occupied last winter
by Mrs. George Won l. Meyer and her
daughter, Nine. Brambflla, and Signor
Bram billa of the Italian embassy. In
1911 Mr.. Mills married Miss Margaret
S. Rutherford, daughter of the sec
ond Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt. She
is an exceedingly handsome and ar
tistic looking woman. and gives much
time to various art pursuits. 1t was
| she who took over the treasures OF
her mothers home, $50 5th avenue,
when that beautiful mansion was sold
for business purposes. Mrs. Mills and
| her sister, Mrs. Barbara Hatch. spent
| the winter in the late Vanderbilt
home and were engrossed in having
| the new owners make the French
mansion into banking establishment
without running any of its exterior
Hines. The most valuable of the paint
| ings were devised to the Metropolitan
Museum, but those bequeathed to the
| Duchess of Marlborough will remain
| in this country at least until after the
heavy taxes for moving them are re-
moved.
! Mrs Lindley NJ Garrison has been
placed in deep mourning by the death
of her mother. Mrs. Samuel Hildeburn
of Philadelphia. and will in all proba-
bility omit her usual spring visit to
Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh. Mrs. Hide
burn had lived very quietly in Allan
tic City since the death of her hus-
band. Capt Hide burn of the Army.
which occurred in 1891 But her fam
lily was among the most prominent So
cially in the Quaker city, and both her
husband and her father-in-law were
among the charter members of the
old Philadelphia Club. Mrs. Samuel
w. Morton is another daughter well
known during Mrs. Garrison's regime
=
Hildeburns have many local kinspeo-
pie, the Kings of Georgetown and of
Richmond being among them also
the Butt family of lower Virginia.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. T. Miller of Ceve-
land, who was the president and part
organizer of the Women's Harding
for-President Club, will be among the
visitors Of the present month, Der
visit being prompted by an invitation
from the President and Mrs Harding
and by a desire to review Washing
tons municipal operate venture at
close range. Though pre-eminent in
he political field, Mrs. Miller has re-
Gently embarked in an ambitious
amateur theatrical venture and has
leased a large theater in Cleveland
for six months and given it over to
trying out local talent in a stock
company. The daughter of the late
w. S. Tyler and inheritor of his vast
fortune, Mrs. Miller disclaims any
philanthropic motive in her stage ac-
tivities. Her splendid home in Eu-
cid avenue has a large and conven-
lent private stage and hall and here
she is giving entertainments to her
friends. clean. entertaining. whole
some plays. which. If they please the
smaller cultured circle, will be put on
the stage for the benefit Of all.
Ehe says it is the finest business in
the world to uplift the stage and she