The Washington herald., 1921-02-20
Lent Fails to Bring Stop !.
To Receptions for Outgoing
Members of Administration
By EVELYN c. HUNT.


after night. Probably they get q
dispensatien, or, perhaps, a merciful
church realizes that 1t would not do
to penalizc them for working over
time at their job, and regards all
this formal dinner giving and going
in the light OF penPnce.
COLDYS ARE SOUGHT
AT MANY ENTERTAINMENT
THE CoIbys are simply knee
deep in engagements. They
Il themselves entertained on
Sunday at luncheon and are enter
tanning again today. The Merle
Smiths gave a dinner for them on
Tuesday. The Merle Smiths gave
several parties last week. Friday
night was their dinner for the Jus
serands. The Japanese Ambassa-
dor and Baroness Shidehara are en-
tertaining at dinner for them on
Washington's Birthday, a day with
a crowded social calendar and on
the twenty-ffth the newly returned
Russian Ambassador and Mime.
Bakhmtteff are entertaining for
them but l believe Mr.. Colby has
an out-of-town engagement-an ad-
dress at Williams CoIlege-for Nat
day which will prevent his being
present in the flesh. Mrs. Colby is
to be at home next Wednesday for
the last time-as Mrs. Meredith was
this. And, be it observed, it has
not been customary for the Cabinet
women to observe their Cabinet
Wednesdays" during Lent.
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Also the David Jayne Hills are
to entertain at dinner for the Col
bys on Wednesday, February 23
and Nine Hauge, who has been on
the invalid list all winter. and Just
lately has been visiting her broth
er in Kentucky for several weeks
and 1t is to be hoped convalescing,
mas a dinner for them on the TWEEN
ty-seventh. On the twenty-eighth
Mr. Colby goes to New. York "for
a few days" very few, since he is
to speak at the opening of the
Southern Commercial Congress here
on March 2. And the family is 60
ing back to New York as fast Is
they can caper" after March 4.
cambridge Colby plans to disappear
from Washington instantly after
turning over the State Department
to his successor. On the evening
OF March he will be given
welcome back home" dinner at the
Manhattan Club in New York City
by local admirers, mostly fellow
Democrats. 1t is an open secret
the Urbane Secretary of State is
coquettinG with the possibilities
that 1924 conjurs up for ambitious
Democrats. A. stranger to most of
the party faithful up to the time of
the San Francisco convention, his
speech there ironing out Mr.. Bryan
on the league and liquor questions.
won him many admirers. All of the
present Cabinet will be gone by the
first Of the weekend following the
fourth.
Nor are they much buster tnan
the others-always excepting the
Marshalls who definitely refused to
make any engagements after the
beginning OF Lent. And the good
Presbyterians whose church pays
little attention to the penitential
season. But as Mrs. Marshall said
when l asked her if she was not
going to relent, and give some OF
her friends who had not realized
that she was having her last at
home on the last Wednesday III
January one more chance to call
on her-they simply had to have
a little time to get themselves to-
gether. before leaving Washington.
You see. we are booked for a lee
ture tour-Mr. Marshall, of course,
to do the lecturing, but I alwas tag
alonG-immediate after March 4.
which will extend over six weeks,
and take US out to the Coast. And
I have to have little time to attend
to personal affairs. My eyes need
attention; and my teeth need at
tention, and (quite simply, but with
a pathetic drQop in her voice., you
know we are taking the baby out
to our home in Indiana, so that he
will always be near us" They were
off on this sad little errand last
week-went Monday morning and
returned Wednesday evening. While
there has been no parade of grief
this winter, everybody who knows
them has realized that the loss of
their little adopted son-known as
Morrison Marshau-about a year
ago, is as great a tragedy to the
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
today as It was then.
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They are back in town now until
March s, when they have arranged
to take their permanent departure.
But except that she has promised
to head the receiving line at the
"Babies' Ball"-the ball of the
Child Welfare Society, of which
she is vice president-on inaugura-
tion night, Mrs. Marshall will prob
ably not figure socially during the
little time that remains to them.
AS she herself put it. she has been
up to her ears in the plans for that
ball-a ball which shall give the
public, visiting and resident, a
chance at festivity which Mr.. Hard
ing's request that there be no in
augural ball rather dampened. Mrs.
Marshall is deeply interested In the
Child Welfare Society and 1 fancy
regards her Wnrk In IL "a In q uuaY