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The Washington herald., 1921-01-16

A very Interesting person at the
charity BALL oon't seem TO be
able to get away from Mondays
bslI-was Miss winifred Holt, who
was a guest in Mfs. Stephen D.
Elkins box. :
A Worldwide campaign 90 elimi-
nate blindness was inaugurated
here that same day by Miss Holt
who Is Of New York and q prom
inent welfare worker for the blind,
at a meeting arranged for by Mrs
Julian James and presided over by
Surgeon General Merritte W. Ire
land Of the United States army,
held at Mason House.
Educational and social centers for
the blind will be established in
Europe and the Orient and work
already undertaken in this country
will be continued and Gmplifed. IL
was brought out at the conference
Miss Holt, who founded the Chain
Of Lighthouses for the blind that
have been established during the
last fourteen years in this country
and abroad, pointed out that II
would cost at least $4,000. 900 "a.
launch an effective campaign.
The audience included LADY
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ample and incentive for the women
for she feels that it is a great ex-
Throughout the country who are
endeavoring to hnd expression
through literature and its kindred
arts Mrs. Harding is a composer
to and an accomplished pianist.
+. The League Of American Pen
5 Women, which has been organized
: with headquarters in Washington
Tor twenty-three years, has had the
! patronage of the White House and
4 Official circles through each admin
2 istration, Mrs. Cleveland being the
FIRST White House lady TO give 1t
marked recognition. Mrs Taft, who
has since entered the list Of writers
in her story of her experience as
E mistress Of the White House. was
Z noted for drawing around her and
: President Taft the interesting circle
OF writers, artists and musicians of
.ha Capital Mrs. Wilson broke a
3 well established precedent of never
attending any public function with
out the President when she paid a
b visit two years ago to the league
. headquarters during Mrs. Isaac
& Pear5on's administration.
- Last year one Of the very few
social events which she attended
Nas the Authors Carnival Ball and
Book Fair, the annual event given
: h the league to raise a fund for the
b-neht of the struggling young
N.Orkers in the arts to find a place
= professionally. Miss Margaret Will
p son, noted nationally as a musician,
? is a member OF the League of
American Pen Women.
Mrs. Harding's acceptance OF Mrs.
/. keyes' invitation was announced at
the Wednesday afternoon tea at the
league headquarters. AS Mrs. Hard
d ing is entering as an active member
The usual procedure for the admis
sion Of members will be carried
- through. On Saturday evening the
membership committee will meet to
pass upon credentials; the chair
. man of this committee is Mrs. Larz
. Anderson, who is taking a most
d active interest in the organization
q this year, but who is out of town at
present. Mrs. Virginia King Frye,
past president Of the league, vice
. chairman Of the committee, will pre-
e side at the meeting. The other
members Of the committee are Mrs.
Clara Sears Taylor, Miss Anna B.
Patten, Miss Mary Meek Atkeson,
and Mrs William Atherton DuPuy,
national president. who is ex-officio
member of all sommittees. A spe-
Cial business meeting has been call
ed for Monday evening at $50
o'clock, after an executive board
meeting at 1880, so all formality of
entering Mrs. Harding has been
punCtiliOusly observed and promptly
attended to, thus showing the lea
sues deep appreciation of the honor
bestowed upon it by the one upon
whom the title Of the First Pen
Woman Of the Land" is now be-
slowed.
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private car Tuesday, and will be
located during the winter at Miss
Amy Lyman Phillips house on Wells
road. adjoining Edward T. Stotes-
bury's estate. Louis Webb will prob
ably Join them soon, and Mrs. webb
Is expecting to entertain several
friends. including Mrs. C. de Rham
and Mrs. Oliver Bird, OF New York.
Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury, who
arrived on December 81 at FL Mara
sol, had an army of decorators at
work on the establishment getting
1t in readiness for Mr.. Stotesbury's
arrival last Wednesday. Much has
been done to improve the grounds
OF the estate. including the building
of a beautiful Spanish wall along
the ocean front. over 100000 plants
and shrubs have been planted there
since last season. The lake front,
with its beautiful park and tea
honse, which Mrs. Stotesbury ex-
poets to open soon, will be one Of
the show places Of Palm Beach this
season.
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convention has been set aside to
hear representatives of the various
political parties and Miss Robertson
is to represent Republicanism. An
other interesting person 1 ran into
last week was Mrs. Fred Gebhard,
who lives with her sister, Mrs. G. c.
Stouffer, at 1907 Kenyon street-she
is Katherine Stoufrer's aunt, you
know. My, she is a beauty real
beauty and was one of the original
sextette in "Floradora," you know.
She halls from Virginia but has
sold her. place in that State and
has come here to live permanently.
She was the only woman selected
personally by Cardinal Gibbons to
represent the knights OF Columbus
abroad during the war, where she
inspected hospitals and camps. She
liked the work and wants to get
back there to do something in the
same Nne. She is a widow and has
lots Of money. Her husband died
about eleven years ago. He was
famous New York clubman. His
sister is Mrs. Nelson, whose daugh-
ter married Reginald Vanderbilt
Mrs. Harding was elected an hon
orary member of the Loyal Legion
recently, but thereby hangs a tale.
Mrs. Harding typewrote a brief re-
ply acknowledging the receipt of
the invitation. but when last heard
the legion didn't know whether she
had accepted the membership or not.
Mrs. Harding's reply to Mrs. Keyes
was also typewritten. President
and Mrs. Wilson have just been
made honorary members OF the
Kalorama Citizens Association, as
they will reside in that nelghbor-
hood after March 8. President-elect
Harding and his wife had already
been extended honorary member
ship for they've lived in\ that COM
munity for some time.
I'm thinking what the city Is 60
ing to do without some Of the people
who will leave when the administra-
tion goes out of office, for they have
become almost indispensable. Take
Miss Sophie Sweet, for instance, she
is the daughter of the Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce Edwin Sweet,
of Grand Rapids, Mich. She is pres
ident Of the Junior League, and is an
indefatigable worker among the
needy of this city. She and her sis
ter, Mrs. Cornelia Van r. Campbell.
SpClu all lllllc uO-
ing welfare work. At Christmas
time they nearly worked their heads
of. Parties always take second
place with them when there is any
work to be done. And there are
many women who do similar work,
and yet are only temporary resi-
dents, coming here with the Wilson
administration.
Mrs. Campbell gave a dinner party
Friday night before the Junior
League dance. There were a dozen
or more dinners given before that
party. 1t was just as great a sue
css as all of those league dances are.
The Junior League party was one
of the many dances of the week.
was talking about the charity ball
| a little while ago and got side
tracked.
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AMONG THOSE PRESENT
WAS NINE. HENKLEVsKY.

Among the dancers at the D. A. r.
party ! saw that attractive little
Nine. Benklevsky, whose husband,
you know, is naval attache of the
Russian Embassy. She dances beau
tifully, don't you think, and is so
charming. She was wearing a very
becoming frock in sapphire blue
tulle with the popular bouffant et-
feet at the hips. Her cloak, I not
iced as she was going. was rather
unusual. 1t was a creepy thing in
several shades Of orange, beautifully
embroidered across the shoulders.
Lady Geddes arrived late at the
party and was only in time to re-
ceive a few of the late guests. She
had been at the dinner dance Mrs.
Marshall Field was giving that
night and was having such lovely
time that she hated to leave. Lady
Geddes is so popular that she seems
to have quite a time dividing her
evenings between the many host
esses and ball committees who feel
their parties would not be COM
plete without her.
Mrs. Glen Fay jerks, wife OF Col.
Jenks, who was chairman of the
ball committee is a bride of only a
few months, I understand. She is
very attractive, I might add, and
will be a charming addition to
Washington army circles. she was
wearing that evening a delectable
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MANY DINNER PARTIES
HELD DURING WEEK.

n HANY dinner parties, big and
|" little, formal and informal,
W were given before that ball.
Most of the dinners of Tuesday even
ing ended at the Americanization
ball. which was given at the Had
leigh Hotel by the District of Co
lumbia Chapter of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution to raise
funds to carry on their educational
work among the foreign women Of
the Capital. Mrs. Colby, Lady
Geddes and Mrs. Newton D. Baker,
wife of the Secretary of War, were
in the receiving line in addition to
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, presi-'
dent general of the D. A. R, and
several other officers of the general
society and the regent of the local
chapter. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott took
great interest in that ball as she
does in all efforts of the D. A. r.,
and was one of the patronesses.
The party on Tuesday evening was
a decided success. I saw Mrs. Baker
dancing with Gen. Connor. You re-
member he used to be down at Camp
Humphreys, but has recently been
transferred to Washington, in
charge of army transportation or
something. Mrs. Baker was carry
ing the loveliest fan, an exquisite
thing of old brocade and ivory. She
told me that friend of hers sent
the fan to her from Paris, getting
Gen. March to bring it home with
him when he was last over there.
Speaking of the fans reminds me
of some rather unusual ones ! have
seen OF late. Mrs. Cromwell Brooks
was carrying a lovely thing at the
charity ball on Monday night. 1t
was Of sapphire blue sequine and
sparkled like a bit of water under
moonlight. Another fan have seen
Mrs. Brooks carry is of white un-
curled ostrich feather, striped
across the feather with broad pink
stripes. giving the effect of a stick
of peppermint candy. This particu-
lar fan caught my eye because it
was the first striped one I had seen.
The majority of them are in vari-
gated or solid colors.
think those single-feather fans
are quite attractive, too. l saw lit
tie Therasa Crosson at the D. A. r.
ball with a particularly beautiful
one in sapphire blue. She was wear
ing a simple little frock of black
velvet and the fan was the only note
of color about her costume. I no.
ticed the long end of the fan around
her neck and it looked quite effec-
tive against the white of her throat
and black of her dress. Her very
youthful escort seemed to think so,
too, might add. I believe Margaret
Crosson was on the dance commit
tee, but 1 didn't see her there.
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Press Club luncheon, Thursday, and
several teas I happened to attend.
You know about her, 1 suppose;
everyone seems to have heard of
her. She Is that clever English
authoress who is touring the United
States to gather material for a book.
Not that she intends to produce an
exhaustive treatise on the country,
its people, and manners. Oh, dear,
no! She claims that after spending
twelve months travelling through
the United States she has decided
1t would take fifty years to gather
and a whole library to contain a
really comprehensive work on this
country.
Her plan is to write q series of
little pen sketches of the cities she
has visited, the people she has met,
and the Impressions she has gained
during her trip. "Atmosphering in
America" I think, she intends to
call it. Miss Parbury is a great be-
lever in the Importance Of at
mosphere." She claims-and right
ly so, I believe-that every section
of the country, every city and al
most every person has a different
atmosphere" - one that belongs
distinctly to them.
I am glad to say that she is a
special admirer of our own city of
Washington. She was here a year
ago, at the beginning Of her trip,
and intends to return before she
sails for home. She was telling me
that Washington, OF all the cities in
the United States, is the one that
reminds her most of the Old World.
She bases her contention not only
on the grounds that the city is
more beautiful, but that the people
are different. walls and streets"
she said to me, do not make a city
or entirely create the atmosphere
that surrounds it. 1t is the people
within the walls and walking on
the streets that really matter"
This book of Miss Parbury's is ia
be illustrated by a number Of little
sketches made on her trip-for she
is an artist, too, as well as a writer
and several that have been made
for her. One in particular that she
was telling me about is a little
sketch OF Caruso, sketched by the
singer himself for her. 1t Is said tC
be one of the cleverest things he
you know Caruso is almost as clever
an artist with the pencil as he is
with the voice-has done and Miss
Parbury priced it quite highly.
Miss Parbury is a singer, too, her
self, in addition to being an artist
and a writer. She has a magnificent
voice and has sung a great deal II
the United States for charity.
believe she sings with an organ.
From her trip Fiss Parbury alsc
expects to gain material for a serie!
Of little pen pictures she is going
to write for a New York syndicate
Faces and Phases" I believe II
what she said she is going to cal
the series.
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MRS. SLATER BUILDING
PALM BEACH HOME.

Mrs. E. Hunt Slater, OF Washing
ton. is building one of the most
beautiful houses in Palm Beach at
the corner OF Dunbar road and the
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
TRIP FROM NEW YORK
MADE VIA AIRPLANE.

BY the way she flew down from
New York. She is greatly interested
in flying and some one was telling
me that she was the first woman
in England to go up in a plane.
During her trip through the United
States she has seized every Oppor-
tunity to fly and she told me laugh
ingly that she was going to be able
to write her book from the air as
well as from the ground. She was
telling me of having foreseen-'way
back in the early days OF aviation
Of the tremendous possibilities that
lay behind the airplane. Her family
she said, threatened to have her ex-
amined by an alienist when she
stated in a newspaper article that
the time would come when a woman
in London would fly over to Paris
in the morning. buy a bonnet and be
back in London in time to wear 1t
at tea.
At the Press Club she was tell
ing us about the Friendship Club
she is organizing in Great Britain,
with the hope of starting a similar
organization on this side of the
Atlantic and on the Continent.
The idea of the club, she said,
originated during the war when
the English people came to realize
what a precious possession friend
ship really was. 1t is to be so ar
ranged that a stranger going to
LOndOn-or any city having
branch of the club-Can Immediately
get in touch with the people inter
ested in the things he or she is in
terested in and make friends
among people likely to be most
congenial. In flying days, she
thinks, people won't have time to
hunt around in the old way for
friends in a strange city. They
will want to find them quickly and
without so much red tape and for
malities.
Miss Parbury is a stunning look
ing woman and looks every inch
the English gentlewoman. She is
quite tall, with lovely red hair and
perfect complexion. Her mouth
is particularly lovely. 1 don't think
1 ever saw a more beautifully
shaped one and her eyes are quite
fine. Her complexion is one of her
greatest assets, l would say. Eng
lish women very frequently do have
fine skins, 1 have noticed, but Miss
Parbury's is unusual even for an
Englishwoman.
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HER "WRITE-UP"
NOT TO BE CRITICAL.

DEFORE leaving US Miss Par
X bury begged US not to be-
~ lieve she was going to be
horrid and critical just because she
was going to write us up" She
said one American lady she had met
on the Pacific Coast had said when
she heard of the coming book, "Oh,
1 suppose you are going to be
beastly rude"
Il admit" she said. that quite
frequently my countrymen have
been rude when they wrote. up
Americans but it was because they
had tried to grasp the whole mean
ing of the country in a few weeks
visit and to write a whole library
in one small volumn." Miss Par
bury has excellent Affiliations in
both London and New York society.
She has a permanent suite at the
Commodore and a country house on
Long Island.
Another interesting guest at head
quarters was Mrs. Maryland Allen.
Of Portland, Greg, noted writer Of
South Sea tales. Mrs. Allen is stop
ping at the Occidental while in
Washington.
Mrs. Edward z. Holland, wife of
representative Holland, of Virginia
served at the Wednesday afternoon
reception, assisted by Mrs. Mary
Deborah Collins, Mrs. Harry A. Col
man, Mrs. ]. Harry CUNNINGHAM and
Miss Emily Davis.
Another interesting visitor in
Washington last week was Miss
Alice Robertson, the newly elected
Representative from Oklahoma
met Miss Robertson at the head
quarters of the National wom-
ans party where she was entertain
ed at luncheon on her first day In
town. 1t rather amused me to see
thls quondam valiant leader of the
'antis' lunching amicably in the
very stronghold of her militant
opponents. You knew, Miss Robert
son was the president OF, the anti
Suffrage organization in her State
and a very active and intelligent
reader she made, might add.
Miss Robertson will be a sneal.ar
before the National woman's party
convention in February. She is
scheduled to appear as the repre-
sentative of her party-Republica
to make a plea for the support
and votes Of the members of the
Woman's party. A day during the
The Washington herald., 1921-01-16
CLEVER BRITISH AUTHORIZES
VISITING HERE

q HE ran down from New York, I
understand, to speak at the
~ meeting Of the Penwomen's
League, and while she was here
managed to drop IN at the Women's
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CONTINUED on PAGE THREE.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-03

tremendous propaganda" for the sales
tax, Senator Pcnrose said that two
weeks ago twenty Republicans were for
1t and now there are thirty. He esti-
mated it would raise 100000.
Calder Withdraws Amendment
A feature Of the days proceedings on
the floor of the Senate was the intro
duction by Senator Calder Of an amend
ment to raise the number Of revenue
collection districts from sixty-four to
sevcnty-four. New York City would
get one. The amendment was severely
scored by Senator King, who denounced
it as scheme to get places for
"hungry Republicans"
Senator Calder finally withdrew it on
advices from leaders that this was not
the time to press it.
An amendment was adopted under
which mutual life insurance companies
would be taxed under existing law.
They have protested strongly against
having their taxes increased.
Taxes on the admission fees to com
munity center motion picture shows
would be exempt under another amend
ment, and still another provided for
adding a tax of Ave cents gallon on
soda fountain syrups to the two-cent
tax already provided for. The rate on
carbonic acid gas would be reduced
from five to three cents pound.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
Closer Cooperation
Between Employers
And Workers Urged
C.. e. Roberts Addresses
Convention of Industrial
Relations Association on
Avoidance of Labor Strife

Labor disputes can be avoided if the
heads Of big industries and their en-
ployees establish basis for closer CO.
operation, George F.. Roberts, vice
president of the National City Bank,
told the members of the Industrial Re-
lations Association OF America at their
annual convention yesterday at the
Waldorf Astoria.
Referring to the refusal Of labor
unions to "relinquish the standard of
living created during the war;" Mr..
Roberts said:
"The report of the National Bureau
of Economic Research shows that the
purchasing power of incomes as a
whole was only slightly raised during
the war. There is no room for doubt
that if all wages and prices could be
set back to where they were before the
would be better than it is now, be-
cause industry would be in equilibrium
and the state of employment would be
better"
Opinion prevailed among the mem
bers that "employesr and workers are
fast seeing the advantage of working
in closer relation" Other speakers
were w. II. Nichols jr., president of
the General Chemical Company; S. R.
Rectanus, director of employment of
the American Rolling Mills Company;
Earl B. Morgan, of the Curtis Pub
fishing Company; R. A. Sigsbee, of the
Federal Reserve Bank; Lawrence
Washington, of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company; Charles II. King,
director of personnel of Best E. Co.;
Henry C. Link, of the United States
Rubber Company; C. r. Dooley, of the
Standard Oil Company; J. E. Culliney,
of the Bethlehem Steel Company, and
E. 3. Merriam, director of industrial
relations Of the General Electric Com
pany.
The convention will continue to-day
at the Waldorf Tomorrow two day
session will begin at the Astor.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
U. S. Protests Chinese
$500, 900 Loan Default
Failure to Pay Chicago Bank Is
Serious Breach Of Faith,
Schurman Tells Picking

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. - Ministe,
Schurman, at Peking. has called the
attention of the Chinese government tc
the seriousness of the failure of that
government to meet its payment OF
principal and semiannual interest on
the S5,500,000 loan extended by the
Continental and Commercial Trust and
Savings Company OF Chicago.
Payment of the loan and the last
half years interest was due yesterday
and Minister Schurman was directed
by the State Department to indicate to
Chinese officials the feeling of the
United States government that default
ing such obligations constituted a very
serious failure of governmental stabil-
ity.
The matter of the loan, it was stated
authoritatively in other quarters here
to-day, would be taken up with the
Chicago bank by Chow Tsu Chi, Minis
ter of Finance of China, who is now
en- route to the United States in con-
nection with the Far Eastern and Pa
cific conference.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-03
InterborO Heads
.Assailed i'm Bronx
Grand Jury Report
'sCrimi,,al Negligence'' Is
Charged in Subway Con-
ditions; The Transit COM
mission Also Attacked

The Bronx August grand jury yester-
day handed up presentment to Su-
preme Court Justice O'Malley severe
ly criticizing directors of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company and
Governor Miller's Transit Commission
for the transit situation in the Bronx.
'lf the railroad directors cannot be
induced by sense of duty to furnish
the rapid transit they contracted for"
reads portion of the iury's report,
their consciousness of grave public
danger which now exists should be suf-
iiclent to bring them to introduce with
out delay the safeguards and protec-
tion which humanity demands.
This grand jury, by this present
ment, solemnly warns and notifies the
officials of the lnterborough Rapid
Transit Company that, in its Judgment,
the conditions now prevailing border
on criminal neglect, and in the case of
deaths to travellers shall be deemed as
evidence of the intent and motives of
lhose responsible.'
The jurors say that they made dill
gent inquiry into conditions existing
at the 167th Street subway station on
the Jerome Avenue line to determine
whether the L. r. T. directors "were
guilty Of criminal negligence in failure
to maintain proper Safeguards at the
points complained of. to prevent per
sons standing near the edge of. the
platforms from being pushed into sthe
path of the trains"
The presentment criticizes the Tran
sit Commission for not keeping q
promise to conduct all immediate in
vestigation of the conditions at the
18TH Street station and to effect i'm
mediate relief and declares that, cal
though almost month is passed since
the Commissioner of the Transit Com
mission appeared before US and
promised to give us facts, we have not
received from him any report of his
Investigation"
Major General John F. O'Ryan is be-
lieyed to be the Commissioner referred
to-