The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-04-23

wood straight from the sprng woods.
towering almond with it's delicate pink
and white fiuffiness. brilliant scarlet
japanese ounce and wonderful stand
ards of the famous Japanese cherry
blossoms with their delicately rose
nus ned fragrance | don't recall any
such big indoor party so late in the
season when all these spring entrance
ments We're available. II was an en-
chanting setting for brilliant and in
teresting function.
The interest began from the moment
that the trumpeters' fanfare announced
that the President and Mrs Harding
Were coming down. and preceded by the
group OF aids in dress uniform and did
you happen TO know that the Presidents
aids are the only men in the army who
wear dress uniform now all the 9TH
ers. from Pershing down, are still wear
ing the olive drab' of the old time field
uniform. which superseded the blue
when Uncle sam went into the world
war?) --they appeared on the stairway.
1t is always an interesting little pro-
cession that comes down that stairway
on these occasions--the President and
the First Lady, followed by the members
of their official family. the men on whom
the ultimate responsibility for running
the country must rest, and their wives.
Generally the interest is focused largely
on the two figures that lead il. Wednes-
day night the tail of the procession was
almost as interesting as the head For
bringing up the rear of the group that
came down from the private quarters
up stairs were Joseph Joffre. Marshal
of France. and Nine. Joffre.
1t was the first time on record, so far
as any one knows. that any one. not an
American. or indeed any one not of the
Presidents official family. has had a
place in one of these little White House
professions from the Presidents living
quarters to the Blue Room for big
state reception. And not only that but
Marshal and Nine, Joffre having
brought up the tail of the procession also
brought up the tail of the receiving
party along with Secretary and Mrs.
Weeks and Secretary and Mrs. DENLY.
The French flag-the tricoior--was dis
played along with the Stars and Stripes
and the Presidents flag. and as soon as
the party had taken their places in the
Blue Room the Marine Band. making the
usual splendid red splotch in their ac-
customed place In the lobby, swung into
THE Star Spangled Banner" and brought
every man in that soldier assembly to
rigid attention" keeping them there
while it also played the "Marseillaise."
Mrs. Harding's Gown.
Mrs. Harding's gown was one that
any woman would have looked at twice.
and IL was smilingly commented on as
Harding" blue-a strong. rather bright
blue. 1t was. of chiffon velvet, cleverly
draped and caught up under a girdle of
blue tulle that matched the velvet per-
fectly, and hid her silken hose ami her
satin slippers with their buckles of bril-
liants-a sort 81 a rounded train of the
tulle, edged with a wide buckle of bril-
liants. Mrs. Harding colors. when they
are meant to match, do match quite
wonderfully. The same thing was no.
ticeable the day before at Der tea for
the Ohio Daughters. here for the annual
Daughters of the American Revolution
congress. when she wore a delicate peri
Wrinkle blue and matched her colors per-