The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-04

OF course, fairly strung with medal
and decorations; and the handsom
clubhouse was in gala array.
So far as there was an offici;
note to the entertaining of la
week, 1t seems, on looking back,
have been struck by the militar
For there was a grist of dinner p;
ties, dinners, mostly stag parti,
for the foreign military and nav,
attaches.
FOR the rest. the unofficial WORLD
has been having il not an a.
ming at least a look-in. Congres
has not been in session and Il
entertaining for the delegates seer
to have passed its peak At lea
the fury OF the first attack h,
subsided and. while there il plen,
doing for them--and 10y them. the.
don't loom 80 large ~ to obscur,
everybody else.
AS matter OF fact some OF the
smartest and most entertaining OF
the week has been quite unofficial
For instance there was Captain
Harker's and Mr.. Tenants an.
niversary party on Tuesday night
Capt. John H. Harker and Hugh
V. Tenant, / mean, both of the
British embassy staff-who were
two years old in Washington" and
had lovely party celebrating the
fact
1t was supper party out at 3l47
Sixteenth street, where four OF the
British bachelors have set up house
keeping. They had several OF the
ladies of the British embassy circle
acting as hostesses for them and
dancing. diversified by amateur
theatricals, followed the supper.
They had about a hundred guests.
made up largely of all the smartest
Henry Getty Chiltons' for General
Lord Cavan, Major and Mrs. c. Z.
ID. Bridges, the Warren Delano
Robbins, Mrs. Grafton Minot's, and
one or two others. OF course they
were mostly official folk, in a way
but they were not for the moment
functioning officially any more
than We're the two young Britishers
who gave the party.
The British Ambassador and Lady
Geddes were there. coming from the
F1etchers' very formal dinner party
for Mr.. Balfour. the Chiltons, the
John Joyce Brodericks, and the
Robert Leslie Cragies-in fact,
nearly the entire British embassy
staff-the Warren Delano Rob
binses. the Geisser Celesias, from
the Italian embassy; Princess Ri.
besco and her cousin, Miss Tenant,
whom she brought back with hei
recently from England. and who is a
sister of Mr.. Tenant prince
Bibesco was out Of town; went up
to New York several days before
and had not returned; Mr.. and Mrs
Vincent Aston, of New York, who
were staying with Mrs. King Carley.
and Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius Van.
derbilt, jr., also of New York. but
staying in Washington during the
conference; Mr.. and Mrs. william
Stuart Reyburn Il don't really know
whether they list as 'of Philadel-
phia" or of Washington at PRESENT.:
Miss Lee and Miss de Ford. of Balti-
more, Miss Margaret Harding, Miss
Mildred Cromwell. Miss Beatrice
Beck. Prince de Bearn, of the French
embassy, and Prince Eugene Lubo-
mirski and Mr.. de Lagerberg, of the
Polish and Swedish legations, re-
spectively; Mrs. Grafton Minot, and
DIR. and Mrs. Jim" Mitchell-in
fact, the pick of the younger mar
ried set and the girls who have been
out a year or so.
THE British embassy boys a.
Washington generally calls the
collection of agreeable young bache.
Tors attached TO Sir Auckland Ged.
des staff nave been something Of
7 s. -i~ti~- of tho prftishAr'a far l.