The Washington herald., 1922-03-12

aS snS N4S QOne ouTlnB LEnI iOt
several Seasons now, her Bible talks
winter Yesterday there was the
Lest-We-Forget bridge party.
Then quite In contrast to all OF
these Lenten-y occasions, there was
the dinner which Secretary Of Com
userce and Mrs Herbert Hoover
gave Tuesday evening for the Chief
Executive and First Lady, one OF
the series of official Cabinet dinners
for President and Mrs. Harding.
GUESTS MOSTLY FROM
OUT OF, TOWN.
Their guests were almost all from
out of town and were all college or
university presidents or deans or
was only one man who could be
cIassed at all as being Official and
that was the Assistant Secretary OF
Commerce. Claudius II. Huston.
There was not a diplomat there. In
fact diplomats are seldom asked to
these Cabinet dinners for the Presi-
dent. However. Secretary and Mrs.
WallaceS had as their guest the
Czecho-Slovak Minister, DR.. Pedrich
Stepanek and they invited the Brit
ish Ambassador and Lady Geddes,
who backed out after accepting be-
cause of Lady Geddes' slow recov-
cry from her accident while out
coasting with her kiddies- Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoover seldom entertain for
mally; only on rare occasions
when they more or less have to.
They often entertain, however. in
very deliGhtfully informal manner.
In addition to this function-for II
can certainly be called a function
there were parties galore for vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge.
In fact the Coolidges scarcely
dined at home at all last week.
Tuesday evening they were given a
dinner by Mrs. Frederick Dent
Grant and Wednesday they were
guests of honor at a dinner which
Senator and Mrs. Frank r. Kellogg
gave. Thursday the Chinese Minis
ter and Nine. SEE were their hosts
at dinner. Friday Senator and Mrs.
Howard Sutherland had dinner
for them and yesterday Represent
atiye and Mrs. Frederick c. HICKS
entertained for them. wednesday
Mrs. Coolidge was guest of honor
at a luncheon which Mrs. Victor
Kaufman gave.
Then. too. she presided Tuesday
at the weekly luncheon Of the SEN
ate ladies who last week asked the
wives Of the Supreme Court Justices
to be their guests. the first time
they've done so. that ! can recall.
Rather a busy week. I should say,
for any season. much less Lent.
But YOU see after all Lent is only
observed by Catholics and Episco-
paIians, and only by some of those.
81 nf
administration are Baptists and
those who don't profess that faith
are Methodists OF Presbyterians or
something of the sort President
and Mrs Harding are Baptists, l
know. and think Calvin Coolidge
Is. too, though his family seem to
be CongregatiOnalists. Mrs. Hard
ing. however, is keeping Lent so
far as formal entertainments go.
but I imagine il is more because
she needs a rest from the strenuous
social duties of her position than
because it is Lent.
CHANGE AND REST
DOWN IN FLORIDA.
President and Mrs. Harding are
getting a change as we'll as a rest
lust now down in Florida. They
slipped out Of town last Wednesday
before Washington knew they had
departed on a special train for st.
Augustine. Mrs. Harding being the
only lady with a large group OF
men, all "buddies" of the Chief EX-
ecutive. and they will be Joined
down there by another chum. Ed
ward BeaIe Mclean. and are plan
ming 2 trip on the Mclean house
boat. it is reported
This administration entered last
week its second year. And every
one is voting Mrs. Harding Il decid-
ed success as chatelaihe of the
White House. This time last year
even we Washington people scarce
" knew her; now we all know her
well and have become decidedly at
tached to her. A year ago this
week the host of strangers who
moved bag and baggage into Wasa-
ington. coming with the new ad-
ninistration. were just getting se:-
tied or trying to get settled. Now
they are strangers no longer. We
all know the women Of the new
Cabinet and we know their fads
and foibles. They have all been-l
almost said wined-dined and
Iuncheoned and tead and they have
all been patronesses for various
things dozens Of times.
And even that group. though only
a year in our midst, has changed
. already There is a new Postmas-
ter General. DR.. Hubert Work. His
wife Is already well known here.
and has her niche in Washington
society. as DR.. Work was Assistant
Postma ster General, and has only
moved up "one notch" as II were.
Mrs. Hays Is not as well known as
she, though her husband. Will H.
Hays, was Postmaster General for
a wear. She came on to the Cap
ital for a few days just about a
year ago for the inaugural fes-
tivities and TO get her husbanf set
tied in an apartment at wardman
Tark Hotel and then she returned
to their home in Sullivan, Ind, and
there she has stayed.
There will undoubtedly be much
entertaining shortly for the new
Postmaster General and his wiic.
and at the next state reception at
the White House DIR. and Mrs. Work
Blue Room along with the otner
cabinet members and few favored
guests. We are about to greet a
new Assistant Postmaster General
also a new Undersecretary of State
as the present one. Henry r.
Fletcher. has been appointed United
Estates Ambassador to Belgium, anG
with Mrs Fletcher will sail this
month for Belgium. They have
been very popular in Washington
where they were well known even
during the Democratic adIninistra.
tion, as he was then Ambassador to