The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-12-11
oou.iuned from pnne Eve.

had guests. for luncheon that day.
The Junior League gave the first
dance that evening Of a series they
give every winter; very smart sub
scriptfon affairs. which are favored
by the younger set in society. hs
usual. It was preceded by a num-
Der of dinners.
East night everything social was
Ireglccted for the dinner OF the
Gridirou Club, the most famous
body OF newspapermen In America.
when the guests included the Prest-
dent and Vice President. the i'm
portant delegates. aud distinguished
citizens from many nations, the
Speaker of the House, the CHIEF
Justice of the Supreme Court, WILL
lam Howard Taft; Cabinet members
Senators, Representatives, and
statesmen from far and wide-ss
notable an assemblage as ever got
together anywhere. perhaps.
GAY SOCIAL AFFAIRS
AT FORT MYER.
reallye cannot remember all the
large and particularly interesting
parties of last week. Undersecre-
tary OF State and Mrs. Fletcher had
a big ard very select dinner party;
the Robert Lansings had dinner
guests: the Persian minihter gave a
dinner: there were lots of enter
tainments of the same sort. And
Fort Myer Is getting too gay for
words. They had special drill
there Friday. are having another on
Tuesday and still another next Sat
urday. Mrs. William c. Rivers. wife
of Col. Rivers, commandant of the
| post. almost always serves tea
after the drills, and she makes q
charming hostess. Las. Friday she
had Miss Ida NJ. TarbeIl receiving
with her. in addition to the ladies
| of the post.
My dear, everybody is going
home! First several delegates 70
the conference and now the literary
lions are departing. Col. Charles
Repington left last week: Lord Rid
dell Is sailing this week. He is an
| intensely interesting person In
many ways: quite an unusual char
acter. He Is the 'go-between" fol-
the conference delegates and vari.
Gus chiefs and the other newspaper
men, just as he was at the Paris
conference. He is fond of searchins
out the man on the street to see how
and what he thinks; will stop a
person and ask his way some place
| and then engage him in converse.
| ton. Besides being the head mar
for George Newnes. Ltd, you know
he himself has magazine, "lohr
! OLondon," which is very highly
thought OF in London. 1t resembles
our Bookman, only isn't quite 80
serious. Anything Lord Riddel
/ writes politically is OF particular
interest because Of the close friend-
ship between him and Lloyd George
you know. Lord Riddell is to b.
the honor guest at a large dinner
which the newspaper men in Wash.
ington. foreign and domestic, will
give for him. and for a change they
are going to ask ladies to the party
Most of those parties have beer
strictly stag, you know, until finally
the men complained that the,
wanted to meet ladies. and tn,
ladies complained that they wanted
to meet the newspaper men. Mos,
Of those English newspaper mer
came over on the same steamer TO.
gether. and they all say Lord Rid
dell added much to the enjoyment
of the trip. It seems that he
among other things. raised in one
evening 1900 for the benefit Of tn,
widows and children of seamen; no
i think II was f450. perhaps the
largest sum that has been raised
In that way in such a brief time
He did IT by his personality and
l efficiency and he contributed quit,
a large sum himself. too.
Golf is Lord Riddelrs favorite
recreation. The same Is true o,
Balfour, who Is also very fond Of
tennis, but he has not found much
leisure SO far to indulge in golf
His visits with John Garrett IN
Baltimore have afforded about hi!
only opportunities. Lord Riddell
spurred on by Joe GriGg, tried Il
arrange an international golf ma tel
here last week, one in which tn,
correspondents of the British ant
French. the Invaders. ! think the,
call themselves, would mattel
themselves against the American
newspaper men.
LORD RJDDELL RECEIVES
AMAZING INFORMATION.
Lord Riddell is considered an ex
ceptionally well-informed man-in.
deed. a very learned man. He cal
get the attention of Premier Lloyc
George probably quicker than tn,
King, he Is conversant with the his.
tories of many peoples. their Gus.
toms and their lack OF customs; hi
has interviewed the fat and the lean
the rich and the poor. the young anc
the old, the titled and the untitled
the famous and the infamous-but 4,
is probable that in all of his varied
career he has received from no one
the revelation that he received or
Thanksgiving Day from an astutt
American youth.
On this Thanksgiving Day in the
year of our Lord nineteen twenty.
one, Lord Riddell called a taxi and
started on his way to keep a dinner
engagement. Perhaps feeling, al
many great people do, that com.
munication with the lesser ones OF
the earth can sometimes be illumi-
nating-or perhaps feeling a bi,
lonely so far away from Lloyd
George-or perhaps feeling irritated
at the prospect of ANOTHER elaborate
American dinner, he addressed the
taxi-driver as follows: