The Washington herald., 1921-12-14

OF HONOR AT DINNER
The Assistant to the Attorney
General and Mrs. Guy Despard
Goff entertained at dinLer last
evening in honor of the Chief Jus
tice and Mrs. william Howard
Taft. Covers were laid for twenty.
Mrs. John Richie will be hostess
Tuesday afternoon at the first Of
her series OF card parties, The sec
ond oLe will be given next Wednes-
day.
Madame Yasushi Tail. wife of
Lieut.. Comdr. Tail Of the Japanese
naval delegation. will entertain at
tea this afternoon.
Mrs. j. Mayhem wainwright, wife
OF the Assistant Secretary of War.
| VIII not begin her afternoons at
home until the second Wednesday
in January.
Mrs. William c. Rivers. wife of
Col. Rivers. of Fort Myer. will not
be at home Fridays until January 6.
Representative and Mrs. Frank
Hamilton Funk and their daugh-
ters. Miss Mary Funk and Miss
Florence Funk. will sail today for
Panama as members of a Congress
sional party which is visiting the
Canal Zone. Their son, Benjamin
F. Funk. I'd, student at Yale Uni
versity, and some of his class
mates will spend Christmas in Mr..
and Mrs. Funk's apartment at
tative Funk's mother, Mrs. Benjamin
F. Funk, whose husband was in
Congress for many years. is now in
Washington and is staying at the
Powhatan.
Mrs. Wallace II. White. wife of
Representative White, returned yes
terday from Lewiston. Me, where
she spent the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. william f. Shivers
will be the guests for Christmas of
Mrs. Shivers' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank p. Leetch, of Georgetown.
Mrs. Alice Barrows Fernandez, of
the Bureau of Education. will speak
on The Work. Study. Play Plan
The Solution of the School Building
Problems in Cities" at the monthly
forum of the College Women's Club.
1922 / street northwest, Wednesday
evening, December 81. Following
the address there will be dis
cussion. Mrs. Edward T. Costigan
will preside.
Mrs. Julian S. Carter, OF Balti-
more. arrived yesterday to attend
the Opera Ball tomorrow evening.
Mrs. Carter is at the New willard.
TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB
TO READ CHRISTMAS PLAY.
The French section of the Twen-
tieth Century Club will meet with
Mrs. John Van Schaick, jr., 1917
Massachusetts avenue. this after
noon at $3.50 O'Clock. Members will
read a Christmas play in verse. by
the Belgian author, Franz Ansel.
This will be the only meeting in
December.
Mrs. Wade II. Ellis had as her
guests at the drill at Fort Myer
yesterday afternoon the former Am
bassador to France and Mrs Will
Id III VI. oHdIp, anu MTS. DdNlu moore,
of Ohio. Mr.. Ellis is in New York,
where tomorrow evening he will at
tend the farewell dinner in honor
of Marshal Foch.
Former United States Minister to
Persia and Mrs. Charles f. Russell
entertained at dinner at the Univer-
sity Club last evening. when their
Mira Hussein Khan Alai; the
Charge d'Affaires of the Austrian
Embassy and Nine. Prochink; the
Dean OF the American University
and Mrs. Albert II. Putney. and Mrs.
Oaston, the daughter of the hosts.
The Commandant Of the Navy
YaBd and Mrs. John II. Dayton gave
a large tea dance yesterday after
noon at their residence in honor of
Miss Laura Lejeune. whose young
friends were the guests of the occa-
sion. Mrs. Dayton was assisted in
receiving by Mrs. John A. Lejeune.
wife of the major general of the
Marine Corps. and Miss Laura Le-
jeune. The dining-room was. deco
rated with poinsettias, and the
drawing-room and library with
roses and chrysanthemums. Music
was furnished by the Navy Yard
Orchestra. Mrs. Lejeune and Mrs.
Dayton are cousins, and are both
former Portsmouth, Va, girls.
Mrs. Edison Bradley was hostess at
a luncheon yesterday in compliment
of Mrs Felix Doubleday, of New
York. who Is Mrs. Bradley's guest
Those asked to meet Mrs. Double
day were: Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry.
Mrs John Gibbons, Mrs. Henry Getty
Chiffon. Nine. de With, Miss Isa-
belle May. Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
Mrs. Francis, Miss Gladys Hinckley.
Mrs. Marshall Langhorne and Mrs.
Herbert Shipman.
Judge George A. Garden. of New
York, who is stopping at the Shore