The New York herald., 1922-01-29

WASHINGTON Jan. 20.
w TASHINGTON has been three
w ring society circus this week,
so many things doing and
such different things! that one simply
couldn't begin to keep up with tkem.
It's been like the old "ten, twent',
thirt' continuous performance"-do
you remember their slogan never out
and never over!" Well that's Wash
ington. The feature Of the events.
however. is the continued hospitality
, of President and Mrs. Harding at the
White House.
The conference we have still with
us, not as in its glad young days Of
last November. with all it's stars in
tEeir appointed places, and quite a
few comets running amuck in it's
armament; not as in the days that
the alert rubberneck wagons drew up
daily in front of the Pan-American
Building and at the top Of their stem
torian megaphones, identified the dele
gates to their patrons as the former
arrived for the meetings; but still
doing business at the old stand, and
few of the leaders announcing their
intention to "stick" till adjournment,
no matter how long it keeps them.
And of course Balfour and Lord Lee,
Sarraut. Minister of Colonies for
France, and Sckanzer, President Of
the Italian Senate; Admiral Kato and
Mr.. Hanihara, Jonkheer van Blokland
and half dozen others remain de-
lightful additions to society, hospitable
themselves and perfectly good ex-
cuses, individually or collectively for
hospitalities on the part Of others.
And the White House official program
of entertaining is proceeding in orderly
sequence. as in the good old days be-
fore the war: this week the big party
up there was the state reception in
honor of the judiciary, with the Chief
Justice and the Associate Justices Of
the Supreme Court as the ranking
guests and next week there will be
the dinner in honor of the Chief JUS
tfce Of the United States-and SO on. as
Per schedule.
Usual Round OF Dinners.
There has been the usual grist Of
dinners official and otherwise. The
most important was that Of the Secre-
tary Of War and Mrs. Weeks In honor
Of the President and Mrs. Harding
: third in the series Of Cabinet dinners
on Wednesday night. l understand that
Mrs. Weeks told an inquirer that it was
Just a little family dinner or words
to that effect. AS a matter of fact it
was a dinner party for about thirty,
like all the other Cabinet dinners. Six
or eight of them were from Boston
among them Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Horn
blower (Mr. Weeks is of the firm of
Hornblower & Weeks. bankers and
brokers) Mr.. and Mrs Harold Sewell.
Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer. Mrs Curtis
Guild and Mr.. w. e. Dowse. as well as
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Washburn Of
Worcester For the rest there was
Gen. Pershing, Senator and Mrs George
Wharton Pepper. the Third Assistant
Secretary OF State and Mrs. Robert
Woods Bliss, Miss Boardman, Mrs. ].
Mayhew Wainwright. wife Of the AS
sistant Secretary of War, who Is away
on departmental business trip Sem
ator Wadsworth, head Of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs. and Rep
resentative and Mrs. julius Kahn, head
of the House Military Committee.
Another dinner was given by Secre-
tary Mellon for the vice-Prcsident and
Mrs. Coolidge on Tuesday. and there
were two especially interesting dinners
at the Swedish legation--one for Mr..
Balfour on Monday and one for the
French Ambassador and Mmc Jusserand
on Thursday, with the Swedish Min
lister and Nine. WallenberC as hosts
and whether as hosts or guests the Wal
lenbergs are prime favorites-and there
were dinners for the Tefts and the
Hugheses scattered through the week,
and dinners for the Coolidges every
day--except for the last day or two.
when they have been in Indianapolis,
where they went to attend the dinner
given by the Indiana Republican Edi-
torial Association last night: and there
were dinners and luncheons for Mrs.
Newton D.. Baker UP to the time that
she returned to Cleveland-which be-
lieve was Thursday night She had
agreed to stay over Tuesday night for
the dinner which Major-Gen. and Mrs.
Tasker Bliss had planned for her: then
she stayed over Wednesday for one
which Col. and Mrs. Bricker wanted to
give for her. Mrs. Bricker, as I recall
IL. was almost as hard worked as Mrs.
Baker herself, in the matter Of making
music for the soldiers, being that lady's
pet accompanist. And even then half
the people who wanted to give parties
for her couldn't squeeze them into the
little time that she was here.
And there was entertaining for the
Merediths---the former Secretary Of
proceeding a little less breathlessly since
the Merediths are here for quite stay,
and several big crush dances, with the
Garfield Hospital ball on Wednesday.
especially honored by the President and
Mrs. Harding. who looked in on their
way home from the Weeks's family
dinner" for them, and several smaller
and smarter balls, but after all these
things are all more or less routine"
and there were several things happening
because they were different.
Farm Conference Held.
There was that farm conference for
one thing. or rather for several things,
for II was really the excuse for good
deal of entertaining. 1t was a funny
conference. II one happened to remember
that Secretary Wallace had announced
that Il would really be a gathering OF
real honest to goodness dirt" farmers.
II wouldn't occur to most people that
ogden Armour, Bernard Baruch and Eu-
gene Meyer. Jr., and Clifford Pfnchot
we're exactly in the horny handed son OF
toll catagory---callous fsted coupon
cutters, rather! Nor yet are Henry
Wallace, Edwin Meredith (the Secretary
OF Agriculture and his immediate pre-
deccssor), nor Senator Arthur Capper.
publishers of splendidly profitable agri-
cultural periodicals nor yet William
Jennings Bryan. nor Ring Lardner. more
or less successful pubicists, exactly ones
idea Of "hayseeds" nor. for that mat
ter. are Mrs. Sam Gompers. nor Mrs.
A. d. Lasker. nor Mrs. Clifford Pin