New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
rail IJsllers i'm
4 Ipr,ten Season
Ia W Waslninggtorl
and High Ameri-
r. 81, Officials Dance Until
T,avu of Ash, Wednesday
!. Cav Mardi Gras Affair
-ostumes Picturesque
,.oeressionaI Club Gives
Annual Breakfast for Mrs.
wilson and Mrs. Marshall
~, n..snnt y 10 rhe Trlhane

y 4
.ncsstv. which promised for a time !
In mildly and sadly from the |
1 - nverworked social program Of /
,seter in d reposeful forty days |
-ssf. took on q new lease Of life
i asnced in the cold gray dawn OF !
es Wednesday. The Mardi Gras ball
e.. Shrove Tuesday night by Captain
4 + Mrs. Clarence c. Calhoun, Of
es.b;ngton. and Mrs. Emerson Howe,
ai ysw York, was for Mrs. Peter
,,..-v ~ daughter OF the former, whose
.-,i .-,;see took place in New York
:. .,',ss g,ssnths ago, and for Miss Eliza
.ss Howe, daughter OF the latter,
Il IN girls being debutantes of last sea
a,,r,bsssadors. ministers and many OF
! higher figures in American official
H.. b;d beneath picturesque garb and
tucked through an evening Of beauty
~ frr The Ambassador from Spain
.aS Sonora de Riano, the Ambassador
AVA Peru and Sonora de Pezet, the
E,az;laa Ambassador, the Minister
i.ar Serbia and Nine. Grouitch,
g,;n.e de Bearn.- counsellor of the
g,.snk Embassy: the Counsellor Of the
ps.s;sn Embassy and Nine. de Bach,
W. Wv colby, wife Of the Secretary Of
Satss Mr.. and Mrs. r, R. GOWN, the
Ssereiarv of War and Mrs. Baker, Mrs.
rbarIas Boughton Wood, and almost
~ entire contingent of the younger
4 e. We're there.
The costumes were varied and
s.autiful. almost every country being
-.nresent in various phases of its life.
Grsndses, princes, paupers and the
sensIeinen and ladies Of history roll
|icked through the Jazz dances OF the
dsy With abandon.
Captain Calhoun appeared as Dante,
With fhe wreath OF laurel. and Mrs.
cslhean as a Watteau figure in white
s,sin and Jewels. Mrs, Howe wore
csstuus in brocade copied from q IA
nous Natter canvas.
Congressional Club Entertains
Anosher phase of Washington life
was shown in the annual breakfast Of
.ae Congressional Club given at Raus-
ehertsS earlier in the day, when seve~
a hundred women-Wives, mothers or
sisters of Senator's and Representative
we're hostesses to Mrs. Wilson and
lirs. Marshall There ara large num-
.DeT UL iIiGutSu NOHltGi III Oi42Old4 Al1Cs
as was shown by the snappy program
which followed the breakfast. At the
sabIeeof honor we're Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
MARSHALL, Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett,
Mrs. Charles s. Ward, Of New York,
hrs JosephuS Daniels, Miss Alice
|2sige, Mrs. Calvin D. Paige, Mrs. Atlee
Pomerene. Mrs. Irving l.. Lenroot and
Mrs. Henry W. Keyes.
Mrs. Keyes turned the rather solemn
breakfast into laugh-feast, by read
ing her own sprightly lines, "If Shake
speare came to Washington" Then
there was a Shakespearean Skit, "The
LadjgS Speak At Last" said to have
been.swritten by Smith College women.
In it'Portia, Juliet. Lady Macbeth and
0phelia were brought down to date in
q langhable manner.
AZ reception given in the Com
gressionai Club house Thursday night
the sspeaker and Mrs. Gillett were
guests, OF honor, all of the higher off,
elais as well as many diplomats being
invited.
Harding Effects Transferred
Mrs. Warren G. Harding, who spent
;ae greater part of the week in Wash
,agton, sent all the effects from the
harding home in Wyoming Avenue to
me white House--at least, all that she
gShed transferred at this time-Mrs.
WILSON, directing how they should be
esred for. Mrs. Harding visited in such
g9let way, II at all, that no one was the
WISER, and the most obscure person in
me- me- world could not have slipped into
Nasnlqgton more quietly or deported
AerssH more simply while here.
Vaite a little stir has been created
y Me arrival of Prince Bibesco, Min
as1 sef from Rumania, and Princess
Hpesco. I1e Prince and the Princess,
.u!lheriy Elizabeth Asquith, have 9
ysAe at Wardman Park Hotel. The
nacess already is known on the bride
ga'as through the parks and she has
.yataed .lt the whereabouts OF the country
uAos' with their golf coures and tennis
,SaaTs' AT the Mardi Gras ball the
pls.aisSer appeared as an Eastern
Houri. '--' ~S O." 1A''S'efn u
AOiandi Ricci, the new Ambassador
,,un italy, has arrived and will at once
5.sSent ms credentials. Several mem
T.a yS.s ot the embassy staff went to New
VIZ 70 meet and escort him to Wash
i$ygsef. $g. The Counselor and Charge
aastrea of the embassy, Signor
-. ,%..amntila, and his American wife, who
,oa 5ss 5nlsrmerly Julia Meyer, of Hamil-
va, y aass., have sailed for Italy.
o.,,u siaS tea, day for soldier is inter
Saag, and while General Pershing
sos soSs not sit behind his own tea urn
~ pour," he has shown himself to
! t aa Incompatible host in his days
s.is = a9ine on Sundays. He leased High
lug, the suburban home Of Mrs.
ss'ufy' {. Corbin, on his return from
ssaee and, wishing to return some of
nospitalities showered upon him,
ass turned host for the "at homes"
long series of dinner parties. A
i. members of his staff keep house
~ aim, but on pink tea and dinner
4: a ne asks Mrs. Francis Warren.
II Siss,of Senator Warren. of wyoming
ss. aasher-in~law, TO preside fox him.
~ s GSiIlett, wife of the Speaker, as
VI Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Joseph S.
Sf.alshgauysen, Mrs. Delano Robbins,
easi, M chamberlain and Mrs. Henry c.