Evening star., 1922-01-29

led many whose attendance is obliga-
tory to plead i'll health and leave their
country. But to inject a little hope
into the future, he has promised an
earlier and longer spring season with
garden parties at Windsor, at Hamp-
ton Court and along the Thames above
Richmond and freer intercourse with
the >people during the rural feasts
| the British year.
The President. and Mrs. Harding
| have likewise set an exceedingly SEN
sible example in their return to the
| old ways in holding the levees of the
| supper, which in two former admin
J istrations followed fast on the heels
| of dinner, offered every sort Of OBJ
stacle. not to say peril. to progress.
and could never be a pleasure to the
guests. The ruined gowns and still
more wrecked tempers which re-
| suited from the massed and strug-
| Cling human species in the state din
| ing room of the White House, with
walters vainly endeavoring to carry
| loaded trays often containing piping
| hot coffee over their heads are a
memory which nearly all rejoice is a
memory and not a contingency. Mrs.
| Harding had evolved solution of
| entertaining every one who had the
| slenderest claim on her favor. and
| that long before the announcement
of their British majesties. The gar
dens of the presidential mansions are
spacious enough to contain all whom
she desired to honor, and there hos
pitality could be offered without the
attendant strain on the nerves Of the
guests which the evening buffet sup
per offered. She has lively recol-
lection of her own predicament dur
| ing the first years she was in Wash
| ington playing the role of a sena-
! tortal hostess. These garden parties
will furnish sufficient outlet for all
the amenities where food will be dis
pensed to several thousand persons
their old status during the years be-
| fore the Taft regime. 1t would lead
| a person to believe that King George
! and Queen Mary are taking note of
how things are going on among their
| Yankee cousins.
| That matrimony is a most popular
| institution is much in evidence in
every part of the world and espe-
cially in the official circle of Wash
| ington. Take the representatives of
| foreign nations as foregathered at the
! splendid banquet. recently rendered
ny President and Mrs. Harding. and
| 1t was seen that a mere trifle Of the
! total number remain in single
blessedness. but seven out of forty
seven ENJOYS and these included the
Mohammedan minister from Persia
VINO must perforce leave his wife at
home Time was when bachelors
and those temporarily or perman-
emily bereaved of their wives made
such large proportion of the corps
| that OF necessity. no partners of the
| gentler sex could be provided, and
[ they walked to the banquet with one
| another. Now such a small fraction
is without a chatelaine to preside at
| the amenities, a sister in the case
OF the bachelor minister from Czecho-
slovakia, DR.. Stepanek. that Mrs.
Harding experienced no difficulty at
all in obtaining a pleasant companion
of the other sex for every diplomatic
guest. which is just as it should be
at a stately and formal dinner The
| ministers from Denmark and Por-
tugal are among the established
bachelors serving here and there are
American contingent All of the
| ambassadorial circle have wives
! except the representative of the for
mer Russian regime. DR.. Boris Bak-
| hemteff, who suffered the loss of his
| wife year ago. The Italian am
| bassador's wife has never come to
this country. and he lives in bache-
| lor state, at Wardman Park Hotel
| AS conditions prevail now, the obli-
cation of calling on the ladies' Of the
/ corps ASSUMES mug proportions ana
| is not to be dismissed with few
hours activity.
The married man is much to the fore
in President Harding's cabinet, and
to the last member all have trod the
| flowery path to the hymeneal altar.
Through the lesser ring of officials
affiliated with the executive depart
ments there are very few bachelors,
and the new Congress in the lower
house. where romance flourishes with
the regularity of the seasons, does not
offer fair field for it now. Nearly all
have already made their choice, and
have brought interesting families to
swell the number of official house
holds. The Senate presents a con-
siderable proportion of bachelors. in
Guiding some of it's important mem
Frederick Hale, son of the late in
cumbent. Senator Eugene Hale. and
grandson of Zach Chandler of
Michigan. and Senator Davis Elkins,
Elkins. and grandson of another,
Henry Gassaway Davis. But the Su-
preme Court circle can present the
highest average Of bachelors, two out
of ten members, Mr.. Justice James
Clarke McReynolds and Mr.. Justice
John Hessin Clarke. The Army and
Navy furnish long and exceedingly
important list of single men, begin
ming with Gen. Pershing and includ-
ing as to the sea branch Admiral Nc
Gowan. But in the sense of Offering
many and distinguished bachelors,
Washington has changed it's aspect. in
this regard as in so many others.
Although this alien land has for
years maintained some eight or tep
different social clubs in London, it is
only within the past month that the
, Dominion Of Canada has become pas
sessed Of such a home or organized
society. The Canadian Club was opened
formally in the King Edward room of
Hotel Victoria, in Northumberland
avenue on New Year day and it will
continue to use this handsome apart
ment until the domicile recently pur-
chased of PiccadiHy is ready for oc-
cupancy. Maj. Charles L. Harrington,
barrister OF st. Johns. New Bruns-
wick, whose affairs call him frequently
to the British capital. was elected presi-
dent, Sir Gilbert Parker is vice presi-
dent and In charge of the club business
during the absence of Maj. Harrington
and he has a board chosen from
Canadians who are permanent residents
of London. Mr.. Stephen Leacock, the
versatile professor Of McGill University
in Montreal. made special trip with
Mrs Leacock to be present at the open
ting Of the social body. Lady Parker
was the hostess Of the occasion and in
addition to the charming series of
fetes which marked the first week of