The New York herald., 1922-06-18

| President had dinner that night with
the Sawyers. DR.. (Brig. GEM and Mrs.
| Charles E.. who had arranged party
celebrating the second anniversary OF
his nomination and incidentally as a
| sort of farewell to Brig.-Gen and Mrs.
| Charles Gates Dawes. 1t was an in
formal dinner party, numbering about
twenty and made up chiefly of the little
| group of small town friends" OF the
President and Mrs. Harding.
Gen. Dawes. who now registers from
| Chicago, originally came from Ohio, and
as he has stuck to his announced inten-
tion of retiring from his poet as Director
of the National Budget at the end OF
this fiscal year, and will turn the job over
to his successor on the first of July and
go gladly back to attending to his own
private business, he and Mrs. Dawes
are about leaving Washington Gen.
and Mrs Sawyer had several guests
from Marion staying with them-Mrs.
Carl Sawyer. their daughter-in-law;
Mrs. Lowell Cutlery and Mrs. Roscoe
Mezger-and they remained a day long
er in order to be lin on the dinner.
These and a few others, probably At
torney- General Daugherty, the Crissing-
ers, the George b. Christians, the Sco-
boys. would be included in an old home
week party for the Hardings.
There is no manner of doubt that both
the President and Mrs. Harding, even
though they are wonderfully good
mixers in a general way and meet
official society and the people with
whom their position brings them con-
stantly in contact most cordially, 90
thoroughly enjoy forgetting their posi-
ton and being. Just folks with their olo
friends 1t Is rumored there is as yet
no official confirmation of the rumor
,Nla n SnPn1
the Fourth at Marion among their old
home folks ! don't know that the ia
nous front porch of their Marion home
will be called again into requisition. for
l seem to remember that they rented
that house, and If they go to Marion 1t
probably will be as guests, possibly OF
the Sawyers. But Washington seems to
have it all doped out that they will make
the trip by motor starting the last or
June and reaching Marion about July,
being away perhaps a week altogether.
1t would be the first visit they have
paid to Marion since the Inauguration
and they will enjoy above all things
being among their old friends and neigh
bors for few days. Later In the sum-
mer will come their visit to Mooseheart.
ILL.,, as guests of the Secretary of Labor
and Mrs. Davis. Apparently the Davises
are planning to have most of the Cab
met there at the same time and show
off Mooseheart to as many of Secretary
Davis's Cabinet colleagues as can be
rounded up in midsummer and at the
same time have the dinner in honor of
the President and Mrs. Harding which
was omitted during the winter in the
regular rotation of Cabinet dinners, be-
cause just about the time it should have
come the Davises were very busy well
coming little Jean Allen Davis-the only
Cabinet baby of this Administration
so far.
Alaska Trip Improbable.
The Alaska trip which Mrs. Harding
seemed to feel, even when it was pro-
jected, was quite too good to be true.
looks increasingly improbable as the
season advances. Those who are most
familiar with the situation up at the
Capitol feel quite sure that Congress will
not adjourn lAefore the first of Setpem-
Der. And the Hardings will scarcely
leave Washington for any very lengthy
trip as long as Congress is in session.
Alaska is not a place for touring in
September and October So it would
seem as If that golden dream would
probably have to be put in cold storage
for another season.
The Vice. President and Mrs. Coolidge
are not making any summer plans as
! yet. Their boys will be down from
school next week (they are at MERGERS
| burg Academy, you know, but they will
not stay long in Washington. They
probably will spend good part of their
summer on their randfather's-John
Coolidge-Vermont farm. as they have
almost every summer of their lives, with
| possibly few weeks with Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Stearns at Swamscott. The Vice
| Presid dent-since one of his chief func-
| tions is presiding over the Senate--is
not likely to be away much so long as
| that august body is in session. And
now that 1t is holding night sessions he
is making practically no dinner engage
ments.
Mrs. Coolidge goes to an occasional
luncheon and presides on Tuesdays over
the meeting of the Ladies of the Senate
those of them that are not "out home"
| trying to give their husbands fences
some of the cherishing attention that the
husbands themselves cannot get away
| TO give. And nowadays, you know. the
Ladies of the Senate is practically a
| luncheon club. although IL the occasion
arose it could undoubtedly devote its
energies to matters of Importance.
Secretary and Mrs. Hughes during the
past week have been recovering from
| the social exertions involved in the fam
| lily wedding and preparing to move out
to Graystone of which. 1 understand
they took possession to-day. Graystone
! is the Armat place on the edge of Rock