The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-28
By BETTY HAMPER


 Special Correspondent of The Age-Heraid
 Washington, May 27.-The enter tainments Washington society is in- dulging in just now are mixture of formal and informal functions, and unofficial ones, some given for foreign notables and some for no reason at all except to have a good time. Of course with the beautiful spring weather prevailing here now, the ut-of- door parties are the most popular and several of them were on this weeks program.
 Monday Features
 On Monday there was the garden fete, for example, at the Cathedral Close given for the benefit of tho affair which always proves draw ing card mar the smart set. Also that day society headed by President and Mrs. Harding went in huge numbers to the baseball game given for the benefit of the Childrens hospital. So many of the leaders of society here are interested in the hospital and are on its board, the ball game always Is one of the events of the season.
 Formal Diner
 ucl Quitt III CoAlti9 " ii'St oHl- of doors events on the same day the Peruvian Ambassador and Mime. Pezet had large and formal dinner at the Pan American Union building in plime ent of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes and the Peruvian delegates to the Chile Peruvian con- ference. The delegates have been much entertained together and sep arately and in divers groups. At tine Pezet affair, the table was set in the patio, just beyond the entrance hall of the building, the most beautiful in the capital, and encircled the play ing fountain designed by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. with the palm trees and other tropical foliage growing there for a back ground, the lit sky above, for the glass roof was re- moved as 1t usually is, for special occasions in warm and clear weather.
 Also. on Monday there were sever al parties given---well, just because. Jules Henry of the French embassy staff had a dinner party. as did the Misses Mary and Josephine Patten, while Miss Flaminia Sarmeinto, the debutante daughter of Mime. De Ces- pedes, wife of the Cuban minister, had a group of buds for luncheon Monday. You see what variety of different kinds of entertainments there were just on Monday and the Ame was true, more or less, of the seven days.
 Senator Entertainx |. Most of Tuesdays parties. how ever were formal. There was the ball given for the benefit of the Salvation Army fund and stveral dinners given before it. among those entertaining being Senator and Mrs I A. A. Jones. Then the, Henry Whites 1 gave dinner that evening. He was formtrly our ambassador to ] France. kou Iknow.
 l Wednesday, there were a great many dinner parties among the hosts l being Lady Geddes, wife of the | British ambassador, who had been al 1 Atlantic City for several weeks. Rep l resentative and Mrs. Thomas B 1 Dunn. the commercial Secretary ol 1 the British Emb ssy and Mrs. Johr l Joyce Frederick. Major and Mrs i Stewart Godfrey who entertained fol 1 General and Mrs. Lansing Beach Mir. and Mrs. Victor Kaufman. whs had their party at the Chevy Chase I club, and one or two others. Tn. Frederick Delanos gave a dinner 10, I the French Ambassador and Mime 1 Jusserand.
 Lawn Tea
 I MT. and Mrs. Edward Colladay hat tl lawn tea that day at their Chev, Chase home. The only party tha | even suggested an official atmos I phere was the luncheon which tn, Director General of the Pan-Amer