The Washington herald., 1921-01-30


stance, Mrs. Thomas r. Marshall
was at home "for the last time" In
a little more than a month she and
her nice husband will be leaving
Washington for good. Nine. Bram-
billa received for the last time be-
fore leaving for Rome. All of the
Cabinet hostesses received last week
with the exception of Mrs. Daniels,
who did some calling herself on
some Of the Cabinet hostesses.
+ + +
GEN. PERSHING'S RECEPTIONS
EXCITE MUCH INTEREST.
-HE fact that Gen. John Per
shing, an unattached man, is
l. receiving on stated afternoons
just like society women do, seems
to have created a great deal of in
terest. OF course, the interest is
natural because 1t is the first time
to my knowledge anything of the
sort has been done, in this city, at
any rate, but then why shouldn't he
or any other unattached man,
who entertalns and Is entertained
very much. OF course. it takes a
celebrity like Gen. Pershing to start
thing like that and get away with
1t. And anything at all new is sure
to create interest. But 1 quite ap-
prove of the idea-I don't suppose
anyone disapproves-andt think 9TH
er men will follow suit. I have had
various inquities from people about
calling on Gen. Pershing since he
announced he would receive infor-
mally on several Sunday afternoons
One inquiry asked me whether Gen
Pershing would care to have officers
and wives (the writer spelled it
wifes. and the letter was unsigned)
call on Sunday afternoon at his at
home, so many have met him, but
do not feel privileged to call unless
invited"
presume that Gen. Pershing. like
anyone else, when they are infor-
mslly at home and don't send out
cards is glad to see almost anyone
within reason who cares to take the
trouble to call upon them, and l
feel sure that Gen. Pershing would
be glad to receive any army officer
and his wife.
MISS LoTA ROBINSON
IMPROVED IN HEALTH.
While making a round of calls
myself last week / had someone
address me as Miss Lota Robinson.
l never heard l looked like her be-
fore, and certainly she is somewhat
older than l. She is looking very
well this winter; much better than
at any time since before her illness.
She was very ILL., you know, for
a long time. 1t was her mother,
Mrs. John NJ. Robinson, of Balti-
more, and daughter-in-law Of Mon
cure Robinson, of Philadelphia, who
discovered Harry Lehr.
Mrs. Robinson was the most in
dividual member of the entire Rob
inson clan, and while she never was
a leader of Baltimore society, she
nevertheless played an important
part in the social affairs in Balti-
more, this city, New York, and at
Bar Harbor some twenty-five or
thirty years ago. With her daugh-
ters, Mrs. Robinson would make nu-
merous trips from Baltimore and
Washington to New York, and while
there always made her home at the
Waldorf Astoria.
Like Harry Symes Lehr, she had
an idea society, not only here but
particularly in New York, needed a
little pep"
These two unique figures attempt
ed to"stir things up" there, and only
those who know the inside stories
of some of the fetes Harry Lehr
arranged during the reign of the
late Mrs. Astor over American So
ciety realize what "A revolution he
caused in the fashionablej sets of
the city.
The Baltimd Robinsons never
attained" however, the prestige
which the New York and Philadel-
phia Robinsons achieved. John M.
Robinson's. brother, Randolph Rob
inson, who made his homo in New
York, had two children, the late
Moncure Robinson and Eleanor Rob
inson. The latter is now Mrs. James
Lowell Putnam.
The John NJ. Robinsons had six
daughters and a son. All made
more or less brilliant matrimonial
alliances, but the son Moncure. also
named for his grandfather, eciipsed
his sisters in a matrimonial sense
when he took for his bride Sally
bell. of Baltimore, a great grand
daughter of the late Arunah Abell,
who founded the Baltimore Sun.
The Abells are what one might
term the Ators of the Oriole CITY.
DAN CUPID TRIUMPHED
OVER LAWS FRowNs,
N Kiss ABELL was an orphan and
MI her elopement with Moncure
- Robinson, son of the John NJ
was a huge sensation. 1t
was all very exciting, and no sooner
would the young couple find a
to perform the ceremany
than the detectives following them
would rush in and forbid the we'd
ding.
They. however, finally discovered
a minister who would make them
man and wife," and Dan Cupid tri-
umphed.
Mrs. Moncure Robinson became
one of the leading hostesses of Bal
timore, but never showed any de-
sire to emulate the rest of her hus-
bands family. who became factors
in New York society.
To return to Mrs. John M. Robin
son and her daughter Lota-they
were listed, if I recall correctly,
among Ward McAllister's 400"
the fact that thew
were really "out-of- town people,
not New Workers.. Lota Robinson
has never married. Her engagement
to this or that man of wealth and
social position has been rumored
from time to time, but she evidently
prefers state of single blesedness.
She was the late Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish's closest friend, and in the
early days when there was so much
criticism against Harry Lehr she
used her influence with Mrs. Fish