The Washington herald., 1922-11-28
ALL STAG DINNER
GIVEN IN HONOR
OF KINGS DAY
Belgian Ambassador and Bar.
oness de Cartier Entertain
200 Guests in Celebration
for AIbeft's Patron Saint.
By EVELYN c. HUNT.


THE BELGIAN AMBAssA-
DOR and Baroness de CIR.
- tier entertained at q stag
dinner last evening at the en-
oassy in celebration Of sthe Pa
tron- Saints day Of King Albert
Of the Belgians.
State Charles Evans Hughes,
Secretary Of the Treasury Andrew
w. Mellon. Speaker of the House
Frederick II. Gillett, Senator GIL
bert NJ. Hitchcock, Senator
George Wharton Pepper. Senator
Key Pittman, Senator Walter
Edge, DR.. Nicholas Murray But
Ter, president of Columbia Uni
versity; william Phillips. Under
secretary of State; James NJ.
Beck, Solicitor General; Repre-
sentative John Jacob Rogers, ].
Mayhem Wainwright. Assistant
Secretary of War; Judge John
Barton Payne. Bishop Shahan.
rector Of the Catholic University;
Eugene Meyer, jr., Willard Sauls-
bury, Samuel Gompers. DIR. Ver-
non Kellogg, George Barr Baker,
Edgar Rickard, Mr.. Baetens, Of
the Belgian Bank Of New York.
and Count de Selys and Raoul
Tilmont. Of the embassy staff.
The dinner was followed by q
reception to which ladies were
also asked. There were some
200 guests including diplomatic,
official and residential society.
For a number of years the fete
day of King Albert has been
celebrated on November Is and
the reason for changing the an
niversary to yesterday makes an
interesting little story. All through
the youth of King Albert Leopold
of Belgium, st. Albert's day,
November 81. was celebrated Off
cially in Belgium as the fete day
of the young prince, but the
death Of his mother occurred on
that day and afterward 1t was
thought best to celebrate an an
niversary which did not have
such tragic memories. Conse-
quently St. Leopold's day, the
fets day Of the late King Leo
pold, which falls on November
Is, was chosen as the fete day
Of the present King and was
celebrated throughout Belgium
nntll thlS year.
The observance of st. Albert's
day has been resumed because St.
Leopold's day falls so close to
Armistice Day-November IL
which is celebrated nationally in
Belgium as in all the countries
which fought side by side in the
great war.
THE President had DIR. Nicholas
= Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University. as his guest
over the weekend. DIR. Butler
returned to New York last night.
Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter Of
the Secretary of the Treasury,
has postponed until a later date
the dance originally announced
for December 8.
The bachelors of the British
Embassy-about a half dozen
were hosts last evening at an
informal dance at 3147 sixteenth
street, where several of the group
reside. There were about $50
guests, who were largely from
the younger set.
The British Ambassador and
Lady Geddes were the ranking
guests at the dinner given last
evening by the commercial coun-
selor of the British Embassy and
Mrs John Joyce Broderick, pre-
ceding the dance of the British
bachelors. There were covers for
twelve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Broderick will
entertain a group of young peo-
pie at dinner on Friday evening.
I .ELAND HARRISON, Assistant
Secretary of the State De-
partment. and Alan Winslow, Of
the State Department, were joint
hosts to a large company at din
ner last evening at the bachelor
establishment at 171S H street,
where Nr. Harrison and Mr..
Winslow reside. Later the COM
pany attended the dance of the
British Bachelors