Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24
WASHINGTON
Society
By BETTY BAXTER
Special Correspondent OF GREAT Fails Tribune
Copyright. 1922, By The Great Falls Tribune

Washington, Dee. 23.-Tomerrow is
Christmas eVe--the night before
Christmas - YOU know when all
through the house, not a creature is
stirring, not even a mouse. But we
creatures here in Washington are stir
ring. | can tell you; busy as the pro-
verbal bee. This time society gives
up more or less to the very young
people home from school for the hoil-
DAYS. But the young people don't
have parties like they used to, infor-
nal affairs. They have their formal
tea dances. luncheons and dinners and
late dances, just like the old people
l should say, older people. The list
of parties for the young people this
week are long and varied.
The White House chef, | hear, IS
planning q grand Christmas dinner
that will more than compensate for
the omission of a Christmas tree and
the usual open house reception. They
have been told that Mrs. Harding is
TO sit at the table with her husband
fer the first time since Thanksgiving,
aud that unlike the previous occasion,
she viii be permitted to break the
long fast Of a sick room diet and eat
everything she wishes. Of course, ev-
cry effort will be made to avoid any
thing bordering on to q celebration,
as Mrs. Harding is still too weak to
undergo any strain.
Some time during the day President
aud Mrs. Harding plan personally to
receive all of the executive officers
and White House employees and pre-
sent each with some token of appre-
citation. The gifts are limited to
books and he has been busy for some
DAYS inseribing each with some express
sion of friendship and his autograph:
AS a whole Christmas is celebrated
in family groups. Most of the cabinet
are having family parties here. the
only absentees being Secretary OF the
Treasury A. w. Mellon and Miss Ais
lee Mellon and the Secretary OF the
Interior and Mrs. Fall. who are spend
ing Christmas in Virginia with one oil
their s~oEs-in-law and daughter. wee
President and Mrs. Coolidge. the
Davis and Denbys and the Hoovers
have children of their own who are
young enough TO find Christmas the
great day OF the year SO the holiday
is made much of interest in families
Embassies TO Celebrate
Among the diplomatic corps. usu-
ally the embassy or legation families
and nearly every diplomatic estab-
lishmeut in Washington there VIII be
dinner parties either tonight or Mon
day. The French embassy will eeie-
brate Monday, Ambassador n
Jusserand entertaining the members
of their staff and their families and A
few French residents in Washington.
The Peruvian Ambassador and Nine.
Pezt will have a dinner Monday at
their apartment at Wardman Park
hotel for their personal and official
family. The Spanish embassy will be
en- fete tomorrow night with the Span
ish Ambassador and Nine. eRiano as
hosts for a Christmas eve party, the
guests including the embassy staff,
Spanish residents of Washington and
members of the Spanish colony in New
York.
At the English embassy this evening
was selected as the most appropriate
night for the Christmas celebration
and many good old English custom
were observed with n giant plum pud-
ding ard other of the traditional OBJ
servances of Merry England trans
planted into an American setting.
The minister of Sweden and Nine.
Wallenberg are entertaining a house
party and will give a dinner both to-
morrow and Monday. And So it goes
on down the line.
In addition to the young peoples
parties this week, there were many
entertainments for older people and
important ones, too. The Central
American delegates from South
America. for one thing, are still being
feted. They were given two dinners
by Mr.. and Mrs. Hughes, one on
Wednesday and one on Thursday night.
The delegates were divided in half.