New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Ambassador Riano Has as
Guest Cyrus E. Woods,
Also Honored by 9th
ers Of Diplomatic Corps
Dinners Still Continue
Absence of President and
Others Has Little Effect on
Social Life of Washington
spec,as ps.paseh TO The Tr1x~s


and Cabinet members there are yet a
.nascient number of important persons
IN Washington to make dinner giving a
pleasure.
CYRUS E. Woods, recently appointed
Ambassador to Spain, was the reason
far several interesting if small affairs,
the most important of which was the
dinner at the Spanish Embassy Mon
day night with Senior Riano as host
and twenty invited guests to meet Mr.
Woods. The Under Secretary of State
r;cht for Mr.. Woods, Mrs. Henry P.
fletcher assisting him. The dinner
nsrtv was given at their country place
At Edgemore, q pretty suburb of the
eauitai. Again the Spanish Ambassador
sined with Mr. Wood, but this time as
guest. and the Belgian Am sador,
Baron de Cartier; the Secretary Of the
Treasury, Andrew ". Mellon, Senator
phiIander C. Knox, Senator Frank B..
Rrsndagee and Senator George H.
Moses were also in the company.
The same night the secretary of the
Japanese embassy and Nine. Saburi
entertained in an informal manner at
their home at Chevy Chase in honor
Of the newly appointed American coun-
ssjIor of the Japanese Foreign sOfice,
frederick Moore, and Mrs. Moore.
There were sixteen guests to meet
them.
Members of Congress Are
Guests in Capital Homes
Nor are the members of Congress,
who are being kept in town by the
daily sessions at the Capitol, forget
ting their Inequalities, and men and
women like Senator and Mrs Kellogg
are almost every night opening their
homes to q few colleagues and others.
The departure of the President and
Mrs. Harding from the White House
was as much OF necessity as pleas
IRE. for the old mansion was in sad
need of repairs, many important things
about the place being neglected during
the war. Not only is the residence
getting the first coats of white paint
it mas had in some years, but it is also
being reprinted inside. The plumbing
has had scarce more than a few slight
repairs since the residence was re-
stored in the Roosevelt regime and, of
course. the water must be shut off from
the mansion while new piping, altera-
lions and repairs are being made to
that part of the house.
As Mrs. Harding will carry out the
ole elaborate series of state receptions
and dinners the coming season, there
will have TO be added to the linen clos
cts many new pieces, and there will be
some matching up of White House
china to replace the breakage of twelve
or sixteen years. Mrs. Harding con-
templates only very necessary repairs
and pieces of work for the preserva-
ton of the historic mansion. The
propagating gardens are also being
pushed with these state functions in
view, foretelling the old brilliant So
clal life of the White House returned.
The VicePresident and Mrs. Cool
idge also will give the series of enter
tainments allotted to them and, as the
President and Mrs. Harding may &C.
cept no outside invitations aside from
the Cabinet, they will naturally be the
rsnSlng guests at the most important
society dinner parties of the winter.
Mrs. Coolidge, who also has enjoyed
the splendid formalities at Plymouth
with hsr husband and sons, will be the
supreme luncheon guest for the whole
season. There awaits the Cabinet
women all of the responsibilities
which they rather sorely neglected
after coming into their various Offices
on March a. There is q chance of sew
eral OF them never undertaking these
social responsibilities except in a
glngerly way. AS capable and strong
as is President Harding's Cabinet, it
Is not social body.
Young Embassy Attaches
fearn Pleasures of Resorts
While several of the Ambassadors
IKE Senior Riano, the Ambassador of
Spain, find but little trouble in con-
tenting themselves in Washington,
most Of the younger members of the
corps take it as decided hardship
ana make all sorts of excuses to get
away 1t is too hot for exercising and
ouI OF door sports and informal din
aer parties and lunchcons do not take
their fancy.
y was yesterday that Mr.. Yencken,
saia secretary of the British En-
passy' left Washington for Seabright
wnere ne VIII play in the tennis tour
aaa'ens, remaining there for a week
an anu then going on to Southampton for
we tournament there After a week
~ - southampton, Mr.. Yecken will join
ms younger members of the British
s.mpassy staff at Bar Harbor, reaching
.nele tne last week in August. Diplo-
.ass ieaving earlier in the week were
as mliitary Attache of the Italian En-
10y 10y and Marquise di Bernezzo and
r;s,. oaughter, who went to Ocean
~ NY, Nd, to pass several weeks, and
ss s secretary OF the Italian Embassy
saa mme. Andrea Geisser Celesia left
React ae nays carrier. going TO Rehoboth
.S sach on the Delaware coast. About
ms same time Capt. Piero Ciyalleri
ssa NV, attache of the embassy went te
tasners Island, N. Y. from which place
~ WIZ go to Bar Harbor and South.
upton, returning to- the capital late
~ september. A new diplomat arriv-
a s curing the week was Mr.. s. Kur.
hassy. '"'s oi the Japanese EN-
,wa iss Louisa Hoar. younger of thu
en-, daughters of Mrs. Frederick II
few w. ~ VINO remained in Washington 8
C, n Gays after the Speaker and Mrs
Nssas lett Washington on board tn.
d sn. IN company with the Presi
9ass. ana Mrs. Harding, has rome t.
a. s y and will make series Of visit,
lsw we North Shore. Her brother-in
ano sister. Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald
evsn whose marriage was quite AT
ssfn rs m mid-June in Washington, have
~ ne from Bermuda and are visit
Semr.i. rosters parents. Mrs. JOSEPH
lsft MS ives, accompanied BY her son
MARI. sasnington carly this week TO,
Ives Mass. to join Lieutenant
sur sum, VINO ls stationed there for IN,
Winner; Mrs. Ives's mother. Mrs
H. berryman Holder. accomnan;e,
Ssn. mrs. Henry Wilder Keves' wife q,
I egs u keyes. of New Hamushire. Ala
sso rs ~sasins.on for Boston few day.
to psv mo,..g there in time to proceed
Es,1 sater went To thnix <n.x.I 1870