Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-18
WASHINGTON
Society
by BETTY BAXTER,

I Special Correspondent Of The Great Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1922. By The Great Falls Tribune.
Washington, June 17.-Washington's
tropical temperature has not made any
very noticeable impression vet on the
social events, although they have
taken a more informal angle as il
were, and Out-of-doors parties are ia
vored of course. All signs point to
prolonged summer session of congress
and the ladies of the house and senate
as a rule, are following the example
of Mrs. Harding and staying in town
with their husbands, just taking occa-
sional weekend trips. The Congress
sional club has closed its doors for the
season, planning to reopen again De
cember s.
President and Mrs. Harding manage
to get away almost every weekend.
Some people seem to think it is strange
that Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge
are never guests Of President and Mrs.
Harding on these Mayflower trips. 1t
is not expected that anything will hap
pen to the yacht with the president
aboard, but if it should it would be a
tragedy to have the vice president also
involved. / don't believe the president
and vice president ever travel together.
- thNy = will NAPSStCu at tiS CulilN
place at the same time. it is arranged
for them to travel by different routes
or to start at different times, on the
principle, l suppose, that it doesn't pay
to put all ones eggs in the same bas-
ket.
Mrs. Donna Ruth Crissinger, daugh-
ter of the comptroller of the currency.
had a supper Sunday in compliment of
General and Mrs. Charles Sawyer.
They came to attend the dinner which
General and Mrs. Sawyer gave Monday
evening for President and Mrs. Hard
ing. The party was arranged to mark
the second anniversary of President
Harding's nomination and as a fare
well to General and Mrs. Charles
Dawes, who are leaving here shortly.
The guests were limited to the little
group who like to call themselves the
small town friends of the chief execu-
tive and the first lady and boast that
they hail from Main Street" Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding are hoping to
celebrate Fourth of July on their now
famous front porch in Marion and plan
to make the trip there by motor. They
haven't seen the folks back home"
since leaving for Washington March ,,
1921, and they are looking forward
with great interest to hearing first
hand all that has been going ON in
Marion.
At the dinner Monday. Mrs. Harding
looked very well indeed in a white
satin GOWN, not muchly trimmed but
with a skirt draped in the back and
with a train cut in one way. She had
sleeves in the gown, fine net ones that
reached half way to the elbow. Mrs.
Sawyer was in black lace with e
tons of jet.
The president wore just his dark
blue everyday coat and white flannel
trousers. The latest fashion seems to
be the wearing of dinner coats with
white trousers for formal parties these
warm evenings. The style is creating
interest, but why I do not see.
for it is not new. Former Senator
Ham Lewis used to frequently ap-
pear at parties in his formal evening
coat, swallowtail. with white trousers
and often duck instead of flannel. Last
summer. Prince Bibesco, the Ruman-
ian minister, and Elizabeth Asquith's
husband wore a dinner coat and white
often.
The guests on the occasion the other
of Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh's
boat party were instructed to wear
SpOIL tlOLECS dIu must VI tItH tlu.
Mrs. Walsh wore a black and white
silk pleated. ankle length sport
skirt, a black and white striped silk
sweater. tuxedo cut, and a medium
sized white straw hat trimmed with
black and white flowers-but she also
wore a wide dog collar o: >earls. with
a few very short strings of pearls
at the bottom.
Mrs. John +. Nugent on Wednesday |
gave a luncheon in compliment to Mrs.
Coolidge. Mrs. Nugent retains her
membership in the Ladies of the Sen
ate organization. which she joined when
Mr.. Nugent was in the senate, and
most of her luncheon guests were
members Of this organization. The
luncheon table was decorated with in
Vulnerable small flags in honor of Flag
lay and a centerpiece of red, white
and blue flowers. Mrs. Coolidge looked
ike a little girl that day and so pretty.
Her frock was of white crepe. simply
made but embroidered in bright colors
about the shirt, the sleeves and the
lecolettage in the Balkan peasant
which has become so popular.
One Of the incest of this weeks
parties was the tea given by Mrs.
Harding for a group of the congress
,ional ladies' aboard the Mayflower.
They took just an afternoon cruise on
he river, tea was served on board and
he marine band gave a program of
music. Mrs. Harding wore on this
tea cruise a sport costume of
'orn colored shantung. a one-piece
The skirt had panels of grass
shantung going down the full
ength of the skirt and up under the
ZEN. The sleeves of the waist and the
ollar were Of the green and with it
he wore a white sport hat, a small
model that flared off the face. and en-
the crown was a small narrow
of many colors but with green
'redominating.