The Washington herald., 1922-01-20
ignored at
White House
Diplomatic Chiefs Guests
OF President and Wife
At Dinner.
By EVELYN C. HUNT.

resident and Mrs. Harding en-
'ertained at dinner last evening in
compliment to the chiefs of the dip
iomatic missions in Washington. 1t
"'s the first diplomatic dinner
s'nee' the early days of the war
xStore we entered the great con-
49, When II was necessary to give
dinners, asking the diplomats
|oI tne allied countries to one ana
|eRoSs OF the central powers to the
liner ana the neutral diplomats to
somewhat the same style of ar
rsngement in decoration was used
mat at the Cabinet dinner of a
rev weeks ago. The state stairway
nad The same loneliness, with its
mowers and ported plants on either
sac, and there was the same soft
uraped effect of the branches o.
sntpmn leaves above the mantels
OF all OF the rooms on the lower
hoor.
me Marine Band, stationed at the
entrance hall. gave a festive note
OF color with their scarlet coats
and ,French-blue trousers.
The President and Mrs. Harding
received the guests in the Blue
Room, which was adorned with red
roses and white hyacinths, this
room being the only one in which
RED roses were used. Mrs. Harding
was Enthusiastically handsome in
striking gown OF green tafreta
embroidered in crystals of sprays
of-wheat design.
pLnner was served in the state
tnipS-room,. artistically decorated
A1th a profusion OF pink roses.
roman hyacinths. ferns. palms and
an occasional branch of autumn
leaves. The horseshoe table was
bSutiful with pink roses, Roman
ny leinths and fsrleyense ferns.
Then handsome Dolly Madison serv-
ice was used
Observed among the guests were
the Ambassador Of the French Re-
pubic and Nine. Jusserand. the Am
oassador OF Spain and Sonora de
RiaPo, the Ambassador of Russia.
Boris Bakhmeteff; the Ambassador
OF Chile and Sonora de Matthew. the
Ambassador of Argentina and Nine.
lie Breton. the Belgian Ambassador
and Baroness de Cartier. the Am
bassador of Peru and Sonora de
u
Augusta Cochrane de Alencar; the
ambassador of Great Britain and
Lady Geddes. the Royal italian Am
|bassador. Rolandi Ricci: the Sec
rotary of State and Mrs. Hughes,
the Minister of Portugal. viscount
a'Afte; the Minister of Norway and
Nine. Bryn. the Minister of Dem
mark, Constantin Brun: the Min
lister of Cuba and Nine. de Co.'S
|pedes, the Minister of Venezuela
and Miss Dominica. the Minister OF
Ecuador and Sonora de Elizalde. the
Minister OF Honduras, j Antonio
Lopez Gutierrez; the Minister Of
the Serbs. Croats anr Slovenes and
Me. Grouitch. the Minister OF Uru-
quay and Nine. Varels. the Minister
|of Poland and Princess Lubomir-
skag7Ith Minister of Switzerland
ara Nine. Peter. the Minister OF
Costa Rica and Sonora de Beeche.
|the Minister of Guatemala and Sc
nora de Bianchi. the Minister Of the
Dominican Republic and Sonora de
Joubert. the Minister of Czecho-
|slovakia and Miss Stepanek. the
Minister of Rumania and Princess
|Bibesco. the Minister of Haiti and
Mime Blanchet. the Chinese Minis
Sweden and Nine. Wallenberg. the
Minister of Nicaragua and Nine.
|Chamorro. the Minister Of Bolivia
and Sonora de Ballivian. the Min
lister OF Bulgaria and Nine. PAN
aretoff. the Minister of Persia. Mir
Ia Hussein Khan Ali; the Minister
|sf Hungary and Countess Szechen-
|Ei. the Minister OF Finland, L. As
|trom: the Charge d'Afraires of Ger
lmany. DR.. Carl Lang: the Charge
|d'Affaires ad interim of Panama
and. Senorita Lefevre. the Charge
d'Ahaires ad interim of Siam. Phra
|Sanpakitch; the Charge dAffsires
I'D interim OF Colombia. Carlos
Tribe jr.; the Charge d'Afaires
nd interim of Austria and Nine.
Procbnik. the Charge d'Affaires ad
interim of the Netherlands, DR.. w.
pde eBaufort; the Undersecre-
Afy of State and Mrs. Fletcher,
DR.. L. S. Rowe. Director General.
Pan American Union; Prince and
|Pn<ncess CantacuZene. Mr.. and Mrs
y. Horace Harding. Miss Laura Har-
Ian, Col. Clarence o. Sheriff. and
|Commdr r. s. Holmes.
Many gorgeous gowns were worn
and many gowns less gorgeous. but
none the less beautiful
Nine. Jusserand wore a gown of
softog gray satin with crystal trim
mings-
Sonora de Riano wore a creation