The Washington herald., 1922-08-27
PRESIDENT AND MRS. HARDING
HAVE NOVACATION PL ANS
Press of State Duties Keeps Chief Executive
at White House.

W. Weeks; Gen. John ], Pershing.
George B. Christian, jr.; Mrs. Harry
S. New. wife of the Senator and a
close friend of Mrs. Harding, and
Maj. o. NJ. Baldinger. U. S. A.
MRS. WOODROW WILSON
GIVES THEATER PARTY.
The latest former" member of
Cabinet to visit town was will
Hays, formerly Postmaster General,
who blew in" early in the week
and was gone before many of us
knew he was here. However, the
Attorney General. Harry NJ. Daueh-
erty caught him "on the fly" and
gave a dinner in his honor Monday
evening. An Interesting party the
same night had as hostess no less
a person than Mrs. Woodrow Will
son. who had guests in a box at
the Shubert- -Garrick Theater. With
her were Prof. Stockton Axson
and r. w. Bolling-it is interesting
to note that the first is a brother
of the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and the second brother of the
present Mrs. Wilson.
One Of the signs that the fall is
rapidly approaching is the reviving
activities of the various societies
in Washington-I understand there
are over 200 societies with head
quarters in this city. The Order of
the Lafayette is beginning to get
busy for the winter, as is the
Southern Society and the General
Federation of Women's Clubs and
one or two others. Everyone seems
to be amused as we'll as astonished
at the announcement that smoking
will not be tolerated in the new
tea room of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs-supposedly a
progressive organization. too. And
that the announcement should be
followed by the statement as "it
isn't done any more by the best
people or it won't be for long Be
sides, it's wrong" Many of the
incest people of all ages of both
sexes do it. And to say 1t is
''wrong"-how ridiculous, can
say this frankly. for I don't happen
to smoke, but 1 know so many de-
lightful women who do that IL is
provoking to read anything so alb
surd. / wager the tea room won't
be overpopular until they withdraw
the ruling. The tea room is located
in the old barn at the rear of the
new clubhouse at 1894 N street
Wedding dates and engagements
continue to be announced every
day; also dates for next seasons
buds are being announced. Appar-
emily there are going to be two
buds on THANKSGIVING Day. usually
the earliest date for debutante
presentation. Capt. and Mrs. Wal
ter Swallow have announced that
they will present Miss Virginia
Pottle. daughter of the latter. to
their friends on Thanksgiving Day.
while Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Ed
wards selected Thanksgiving Day
as a period for presenting their
young daughter. Miss Virginia Ed
wards. some weeks ago.
Miss Emma Scott Stitt, daughter
OF Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward
Rhodes Stitt. who will be a debu-
tante of the coming season, an
nouncod last week that she will
make her bow to society on Decem-
Der IA at an afternoon tea dance
at the Washington Club. Just now
the bud is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Yates at Northeast Harbor.
Me-. where she will remain for
about fortnight longer.
MANY NEW COUNTRY
CLUBS BEING ORGANIZED.
Did you ever see anything like the
country clubs springing up around
Washington? never did; every
road you motor on almost out from
the city has some sort of a country
club. They are all moving further
out, too: the city is crowding them
out. I heard that the Chevy Chase
Club Is looking for "a good buy
further out into the country as the
land they now use for a golf course
is worth too much money to be tied
Up like that. Which all sounds
reasonable.
] see that the Town and Country
Club Is being moved out into the
country, too. 1t has been estao-
lished at 1909 Georgia avenue for
some years now. which is almost in
town. A number of years ago tha,
was the Columbia Country Club.
which is now on Connecticut avenue
close to Chevy Chase Lake. The
Columbia members felt they wante~
to expand--that was fully a decade
ago, II not longer-and were being
crowded out by houses. Now the
Town and Country feels the same
way. They have bought one of the
old Peter homes--ssme old Peter
family as those who own Tudor