The New York herald., 1922-04-30


and First Lady that ever have been
in tho White House. Mrs. Harding be-
longs to the L. A. p. w. She was in
vited to become member a month or
two before she entered upon her duties
as chatelaine OF the White House and
filed her application for membership In
due and regular form. So, or course,
she had to give them a tea when they
came to Washington. She must have
been rather tired by the time she got to
1t, for Tuesday certainly was her busy
day. She and the President together
received the Daughters Of 1912 that af-
ternoon. and then she received the
Danes Of the Loyal Legion. and then
she gave her tea for the delegates to the
League of American Penwomen's Con-
ference-a tea Is little more hospitable
hospitality than merely receiving, you
see
The First Lady received the PEN
women. OF course, greeting them in
the historic blue room, and they were
all ushered into the State dining room.
which was all dressed up for the party.
Mrs. Henry Wilder Keyes, acting presi-
dent Of the organization. presided over
the tea paraphernalia at one end of
the big table (Mrs. Keyes is the wife
of Senator Keyes of New Hampshire)
and Mrs. Harry Atwood Colmar over
that at the other end. Hiss Laura
Harlan managed q third tea making
outfit in the middle thereof, and as
soon as she was sure that she had
finished receiving Mrs. Harding. after
her usual gracious and hospitable wont,
Joined her guests In the dining room
and over the tea cups chatted ami
matedly with them. She does that sort
- ~F,.ll xrvalI t.Il xnrft i.
apparent frankness and sympathy and
enjoyment that warns her guests with
sense of being the personal objects
Of her hospitable solicitude Really the
more one sees Of that lady the more
one adnires her, IL only for her gallant
fashion OF throwing herself heart and
soul into her undertaking.
Perhaps the chief feature t the con-
ference was a breakfast st Warman
Park Hotel (Which was the aeadquar-
ters of the conference) on Wednesday.
There were several hundred women
there, most of them clever and many
OF them really notable at that break
fast. and a sprinkling Of men. Writers
OF some achievement. composers. edi-
tors. artists. publishers and critics
rubbed elbows at that Authors Break
fast" and / for one was quite i'm
pressed Mrs. Keyes had at the table
with her Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Hughes
and Mrs. Taft, and she read letter
of greeting from Mrs. Harding And
Henry Cabot Lodge was at that table
and Mrs. Daniel Lothrop and Mary
Roberts Rinehart, who writes better
prose than most. and Angela Morgan,
who can and sometimes does write
real poetry. and Cora Rigb.. president
of the National Women's Press Club
and w. #. Bigelow, editor of Good
Housekeeping. to which Mrs. Keyes
is a regular contributor Mrs. Geldert,
who was toast mistress. seemed to have
rallied the army and navy to her sup
port. She had Gen. Pershing, Chief OF
staff. United States Army. and Ad-
rniral Coontz. and Major-Gen. John A.
LeJeune, and Anna Katherine Greene
Rholfs was there. and Ida Clyde
Clark, and Helen Rowland, and Nine.
Grouitch, and Princess Csntacuzene.
and Basil King OF Boston, AMI Mrs.
Arthur Lee. and, well. several nunoreo
"also rams" even as you aid l.
Love Letters Of Gen. Pershing.
Mrs. Keyes introduced rather briefly
the honor guests. -
Basil King made an amusing little
talk, taking for his text the Scotchman's
remark that America was "a michty
fine country. but 1t was run by the
weemin, with a wee bit OF asseestance
frae Methodist meenisters." Gen. Persh-
Ing assured his hearers that his literary
experience was confined to series of
model love letters which he had written
as a composition" while he was at West
Point; and sadly enough he had ceased
writing love letters very soon after ne
graduated, so that practice seemed time
wasted. Which of course everybody
took with several grains OF salt And
when the General pried himself loose.
long before 1t was over. the fluffy
bunch OF pretty girls got up as mag
pages all fluttered along to be photo
graphed with hini-and perhaps you
think those sweet young things weren't
thrilled! They had thought 1t Joy
enough to be photographed in a group
around Mary Robert Rinehart. each Of
them trying to make herself believe that
she look ed like "Bab." But that paled
into insignificance beside this. Their
cup of bliss overflowed.
It really was a most interesting occa-
sion. The breakfast was supposed to
begin at noon-and 1t was getting on to
3 o'clock when / left, and even then IL |
was still "going strong" There were all
sorts OF stunts still on the program, and
one didn't quite see how they'd ever get |
through in time for the ordinary after
noon engagements. Mrs. Hughes. for In
stance. was due at a recital--Mme. Mat
zenauer, the artiste--for the benefit of |
the Wellesley College Endowment Fund. |
Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Hoover. Miss Hughes |
and Gen. Pershing were to bo members |
OF her box party that afternoon and |
she had to get away.
Another high light OF the first biennial |
conference was the costume ball which
they had last night at the Wardman
Park Inn. 1t was a brilliant and pic
turesque party and a satisfactory end
for week which had begun with one
Of the smartest and prettiest balls Of the
"Debutantes Ball." the invi-
tations called II. incidentally announc-
Ing It as their first annual and for the
benefit of the Victory Memorial Building
Fund. You know all about that. IT'S
Mrs. Henry Il. Dimock's pet project, to
which she has been for years devoting a
great deal of her time and a goodly
amount OF money and energy and draw
Ing freely on her very large social in
ruence In Its behalf.
While Ii was q benefit, It was not
open to the general public, but only to a
rather carefully selected list who we're