The Washington herald., 1922-11-26

However, they are all drift
ing back either today or tomor-
row. About the last stragglers
>>of the official world are about
back now, too, after having
been away for a month or
more. Most of them arrived in
town the first of the week,
headed by the Vice President
and Mrs. Coolidge, who had
been out of town for several
months, reaching here in time
for the extra session of Con-
gress which the President called
on Monday and to hear the
President address both houses
on Tuesday last.
But even with Congress once
more at work up on the Hill and
most of the people who belong here
In town. society has not really got
ten under way yet. Indeed things
Seem to be later than usual getting
started. 1 have the impression
that society is not quite in the
mood for much formal entertain
ing. There are lots of parties and
informal ones, but few large formal
Z affairs as vet.
\ But II the Washington Opera
ball on Monday night. which
people seemed to regard as really
the opening Of the season. is 20
be taken as sample-or
prophecy-of what is to come,
the winter of 1929 will be both
brilliant and picturesque. 1t was
gay and colorful. artistic alike in
conception and execution. And
II went over big"
PERHAPS, too. the arms con-
ference next month will give
an impetus to the social whirl.
The Secretary Of State. Charles
Evans Hughes. you know, has
called for next month-early in
the month, too. I believe-a
conference on land disarmament
nIlu AIllCl ICldlAOilo II
Is to he a sort of family affair, the
delegates coming only from the
Americas. Some of the delegates
will be the minister of Costa Rica.
>Octavio Beeche; the minister of
Nicaragua, Emiliano Chamorro;
the minister of Guatemala. Fran
cisco Sanchez Latour. and the presi-
dent of the supreme court of JUS
tice of Salvador. DIR. Francisco
Martinez Suarez-
That conference. like every
thing of the sort is sure to
be the signal for a round of en-
tertaining Then 1 suspect there
will be some parties for Clemen-
ceau when he comes to town early
next month. although he comes
unofficially. And goodness knows
what other celebrity may turn up
almost any old time. Foreign dig
nitaries have a way of dropping
in on us suddenly, as Sir Eric
Geddes did recently. We didn't
know he was coming until he had
landed safely in New York.
A RECENT arrival-and a more
or less permanent one-of spe-
cial interest Is Commonder Gui-
seppe Catalani. until recently Ital-
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has been appointed second coun-
Tor Of the Italian embassy in
Washington. He appears in the
new diplomatic list for November,
Just issued by the State Depart
ment. as honorary minister pleni-
potentiary. second counselor Of
embassy" "title" I have never
noticed before in the diplomatic list
for any nation. l don't quite grasp
why a diplomat who has been
minister-and still has that
rank apparently-should hold the
office Of second counselor. The
first counselor-nlost of the staffs
only have one counselor-is Au-
gusto Rosso, now charge d'affaires
I'D interim.
Another unusual thing 1 noticed
in the new list of the Italian en-
bassy staff was the fact that
6. b. Ceccato. commercial adviser,
comes. before Andrea Geisser Ce-
\ l;Sia di Vegliasco. secretary,