The Washington herald., 1921-04-10
BY EVELYN C. HUNT.

Congress COhNeneS lonOEro"'
All of which means that the influx
of the members of Congress Is well
under way; also the army of people
who always come to town when
that body is in session Is coming
in. After a recess of some weeks
the Sixty-seventh Congress is to
convene in extra session. The SEN
ate has been resting for three
weeks and the House for nearly
six. Capitol Hill is bustIing again
with Congressional activity. The
new members of both houses have
been drifting into the city for the
last week or so, most of them COM
ing early to prime themselves for
their new duties. The few veteran
members who took leave during
the recess are getting back.
Though the spring season has been
gay. society will get started in
earnest only after Congress Is un-
der way.
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the
Vice President, received last week
for the first time since she came to
Washington to reside and now that
she has set the example, the Cabi-
net ladies probably will follow suit.
especially after Congress has con-
vened. Most of them. however.
haven't become settled into perma-
nent living quarters, which may
cause them to postpone such for
malities for a while longer. The
Senate ladies, who abandoned their
weekly meetings and luncheons
during the Congressional recess,
will take up that work once more,
beginning this week. So many of
the members of Congress. with
their wives, went home or to some
resort, that it would have been diff
ficult to have kept the meetings
going.
THIS WEEK TO
BE STRENUOUS.
Society was strenuous last week,
but not so much so as it was the
week before or as 1t will be this
week. There was only one large
charity ball last week, while there
will be three this week, not to
mention some big affair every sim
gle day for the benefit of the Rus
sian Relief Fund. And all this, of
course, is in addition to the many
private functions and the numer-
Gus card parties and other enter
tatnments for sweet charity, which
are crowding the social calendar.
or course, the one charity ball
wasn't the only dancing affair of
some size last week. There was
Mrs Thomas r. walsh's weekly
Saturday night dance last evening;
also the recently-organized Wash
ington Cotillon Clubs first party
last Monday night for the members
and their friends at the New will
lard. Thilman Goldsborough Adams
"a hne Maryland name, at that) led
the cotillon through many intricate
figures. The party INCLUDED the Vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge; also
many prominent residents from Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York
The cotillon was formed by per-
manent Capital residents, while a
limited number of diplomats and Of
ficisls with temporary residence in
Washington were taken in as asso-
ciate members.
There was a delightful cabaret
and dance given last evening at the
Marine Barracks for some army re-
lief work, and the Army and Navy
Juniors gave another of their de-
lfghtful tea dances yesterday after
noon at 2400 Sixteenth street. but
the one big ball-the charity ball
given for the relief of the starving
in China-was very large and very
spectacular. Then the Occident was
truly transformed into the Orient,
and maids and maidens of Washing
ton hirted sophisticated fans at gay
robed mandarins. Every detail was
Chinese, and made a picturesque
scene. And everybody was there.
It was really one Of the most sue
cessful as well as unusual parties
Of the winter. and would have been
even larger IL many had not
thought they had to wear costumes
and decided they would rather stay
home than do so.
WEEK OPENS
WITH BALL.
This wrol nnens with a ball to-
morrow evening-an annual enter
tainment for the benefit Of the
Episcopal Cfildren's HOme-wh:cn
gives all signs of being a brilliant
affair. The next evening there will
be the Russian Relief ball at the
home of the former Third Assist
ant Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Breckenridge Long. That ball will
open Russian week" There will be