The Washington herald., 1922-02-05

had . luncheon party Tuesday. when
!. she, had the wives of the entente
.renyoys as her guests. Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Lansing gave a dinner and
/. there were several others. The Brit
ish Ambassador and Lady Geddes
gave a dinner Friday night for
ssChief Justice and Mrs. Taft as did
ssslso the Merediths. That was to
= have been the evening. too, Of the
Junior League dance. one of Sc
{ sr1es. and 1t was to have been pre-
. seded. as always, by several smart
: little dinners. but because of the
disaster was postponed until next
Thursday. Mrs. Meredith gave a
. luncheon yesterday. as did also Mrs.
: Fred Britton. The Geddes gave a
; dinner Thursday for Mr.. Balfour.
: But why go on,
WASHINGTON WAITING
, FOR MARGOT AsaUITH.
The high spots" on this weeks
social calendars include many Of the
functions postponed from last week ;
also the Southern Relief ball tOmOr-
row evening. a ball that always at
tracts large crowds from this dis
tinetly Southern town; the dinner
Which Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Reid Yates
VII give for the Governor of Della
ware and Mrs. W. ID. Denny; the
dinner planned by former Senator
and Mrs. George Sutherland in COM
o pliment to Chief Justice and Mrs.
Taft: a dinner to be given by the
p British Ambassador and Lady Ged-
des: the Congressional reception AT
the White House and the dinner
r which the Rumanian Minister and
Princess Bibcsco have arranged for
the 11th in compliment to the prin-
- cess mother, Margot Asquith, wife
of EngIand's former premier. Her.
bert Asquith. Washington is con-
templating her visit with great
pleasure. and some curiosity and
MUCH entertaining is being planned
in her honor. She landed in New
York last sunday and was met there
by Princess Bibcsco. and the two
are staying on there until the end
of this week. Mrs. Asquith came
over to this country to lecture and
has already lectured in New York.
Quick wOrk-she didn't rest much
after her trip across.
MANY ATTRACTED
TO ARMS SESSION.
A large and very distinguished
gathering attended the open session
of the conference last Wednesday.
Every body" was there, excepting
only Mrs Harding. and it was the
first open session she has missed.
The boxes were filled with wives of
officials and diplomats, while some
were scattered about on the floor,
and the galleries were filled with
Senators and Representatives and
their wives and daughters. Then
Gen Pershing and all of the
notables who form the advisory
committee. and the delegates were
all in the center of The big hall,
where they all worked and talked
until I thought they would starve.
for it was long after 2 o'clock be-
fore they finally adjourned.
Mrs. Coolidge sat in a box knit
ting just Ike the women use TO do
in the war days She looked un-
usually pretty that day. and she is
always pretty and always so charm
ing She had on a smart new gown
with a waist length cape hanging
from the shoulders. Everybody
loves Mrs. Coolidge! I was amused
to glance over the shoulder of the
man in frnt of me-he had bowed
TO Mrs. Coolidge a few minutes be-
fore-to see him scribbIing on a pad
he he'd and my eye caught the fol-
laEing words:
SISTER KoOlidEe's Knitting Knicks
- for Kalvin
EAt the chatty China konference.
How I wish that sister
Was knitting for a Mister
Vile and not a future President"
- Speaking of Presidents. did you
see that Mr.. and Mrs. William H.
"Tohrer. of Chicago. luncheoned with
President and Mrs. Harding last
Tuesday, Mrs. Rohrer was Mrs. Jake
Hamon. you know, I hear that the
president has made DR.. Stanley
- -Rinehart-Mary Roberts husband
chief of the tuberculosis section OF
the veterans bureau of the Ameri-
can legion in Washington He and
his distinguished and. very good
looking wife are staying at Ward
man Park Hotel indefinitely. having
their home at Glen Osborne,
: near Pittsburgh.
.Isid I tell you the interesting
sOnyersatiOn I heard between Mime.
GrsuitCh. wife of the Minister of
the Serbs. Croats and Slovenes, and
Miss Alice r. Shepard. daughter OF
Mrs and Mrs. Robert Fitch Shepard
at the last White House reception?
" J was talking to Miss Shepard when
Nine. Grouitch greeted her warmly
Saying that she had been trying 10
7-ret in touch with her for some
days as her husband had a decors- =
ton for her. the Cross of Mercy,
Yes, the Serbian government-so I
.pSstb bered-had sent through their
-,rnaipister decoration for Miss
Shepard for her Red Cross work
@during the early days Of the great
war before this country entered
the conflict. 1t seems that during
the terrible typhus epidemic N Ser
= bia. Miss Shepard formed a commit
tee at the suggestion of Charles
= s'HeHry Butler. whose son was doing
relief work in Serbia at the time,
to raise money to send an automo-
bile ambulance to Serbia. Miss
- Shepard was chairman of the COM
mittee and worked awfully hard
recalled 1t all after / heard Nine
Grouitch's conversation-and in one
week raised over $1,000. I've for
gotten the exact amount. but il was
enough to purchase the ambulance,
which was hurried to that stricken
p leSle country. / remember Miss
Shepard's "right-hand man" in rails
fhS that sum was Alice Goodwin,
who worked with her awfully hard.
recall. too. that Miss Shepard
was the first woman in the United
states to drive an ambulance for
Federal troops. She drove the am
. bulance here in the District in 1917
very shortly after this country De-
olared war with Germany. 1t was
the first ambulance any motor corps