Evening star., 1922-12-24


Dougherty in her efforts to keep open
house in the Red Cross building every
Sunday in order that the many tran
sients who come for the day either
by train or motor may be given an
opportunity to- inspect this beautiful
ball. The club has assumed the task
of furnishing hostesses for January.
and Mrs. Robert Nelson Stanfeld of
Oregon has been appointed general
chairman. Mrs. New. of Indiana. Mrs.
Kellogg of Minnesota. Mrs. Henry w.
Reyes of New Hampshire and Mrs.
Robert Love Taylor wife of the late
senator from Tennessee, will be the
hostcsscs in rotation on the four Sun
days of next month. The national
headquarters of the Red Cross, form
ing one of the group of handsome
public buildings facing the Mall, is
always Il source of interest TO the
hundreds of pedestrians andA motor
lists who set out to inspect Washing
ton on Sundays. and the most casual
paSSerby can remember many pain
fully trying the big doors OF the Red
Cross, the -. a. r. and the Pan-Amer-
lean Union buildings and walking de-
jectedly away. Mrs. Dousherty has
frequently been compelled to solicit
the aid of personal friends in obtain
Ing hostess for these open days in
the national headquarters of the Red
Cross. and she hopes most fervently
that the excellent example of the la
dies of the Senate club in taking over
Il month will inspire the members of
the Congressional club and other or
sanizations to help to ease this
burden.
Mrs. Jack Gardner Of Boston who
has led an almost anchoritiSh exist
rnce greatly surp! iSed herl friends by
announcing several open days in her
famous art museum the funds col
lected by the admission price going
to the Russian refugees in -Constan-
tIhople. Three days last week and
three days during the holidays, for
20 cents, the curious or artistic may
roam at will through this house.
which has for SO many years excited
all manner of speculation. In the ia
nous Spanish cloisters group OF in
innate friends-MrS. Harold j. Cool
idge, Mrs. Randolph Sears and Mrs
John $: Ames-have been aiding Mrs.
Gardner in. receiving special guests.
TO whom tea is offered and an op-
portunity to see more intimate parts
of the art-laden mansion. The amber
collection of Mrs. Gardner, which
ranks as the most extensive, unique
and valuable in all the world, has
been exhibited in the C1oisters. and
Mrs. Gardner has been playing
cicerone for those who admire the
rich yellow stones. but know little of
their history. Mrs. Frances Hoar
Foster has been among the younger
matrnns who entertained the guests
and danced at the Saturday exhibit
tion of classic dances. OF the little
maids in this group who formed
chorus for Mrs. Fosters solos. were
Bessie Choate. Molly Merriam Wheel
= rl,f ~
Mrs. William K. Merriam. and Martha
Silsbee.
London. Paris and New York are
marking new line in the enter
aiming of buds. near buds and recent
brides. Another set entirely is called
the younger married contingent. and
the twain are kept as far apart as
east and west. y properly presented
bud in London is given what is known
as serial fete-a dance. dinner
and then the play. followed by a
light supper. all to end on the stroke
of midnight. The dance is a late
afternoon affair and the company is
of Juveniles. To the dinner
may he asked few more mature
men. their duties presumably ended
by s. Then the play to which all
the company. not otherwise engaged
IS asked. For supper. the original
dancing company will come and take
a few whirls between bites. Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt. jr., followed |
this idea in the main when she gave
the most elaborate entertainment of |
the opening season last week in honor I
of her young kinswoman, Miss Cath
cen Vanderbilt. daughter Of Reginald |
and the present Mrs. |
sydney J. Colford, ir. :. But Mrs. Van /
1erbilt could not persuade her guests I
% come in the afternoon, SO her fete 1
,egan at the usual dinner hour. was I
'ollowed by the play and then came |
he dance and the supper. but the
'treaks of dawn were visible when |
his serial was completed. But the !
entire company except the compli- |
:ated parental group of the bud was
'hosen from the debutantes. the
younger men and the maids one year
tut and such of this group as have
ng this line rigidly. Mrs. Vanderbilt |
iept her company within bounds.
At the RitZ-Carlton ball for the |
irosvenor Neighborhood House WIN
er fund. one of the smartest charity
events of the New. York season, the
tSt a bud was in evidence. Mrs. Ray
nond T. Baker was among those with
long retinue of friends. principally
,oung couples from Baltimore. Mr..
iud Mrs. Potter Palmer entertained
!; number Of young people from Chi
Ago. journeying to New York es-
tacially for the occasion The Co
qmbus O'Donnell Iselins were enter
aiming a string of Southampton So
1al lights and so. too. Mr.. and Mrs.
,harles Dickey and Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam B. Olmsted, jr. Mr.. and Mrs.
:harles Sabin. the latter formerly
Hiss Pauline Morton. well known
'ere during the Roosevelt adminis-
alton, were prominent in arranging
his ball. and had as their. guests a
eepa ant l
'here they maintain an all-the-year-
round home. When those two hos f.
Iftable British bachelors. the Hon.
frederick a. Tabor and his brother, I
he Hon. Francis II. Tabor, gave a
all at the Plaza as return compli-
hey followed the custom in London
nd asked the young married set,
hough some few Of the buds were
'resent with their welded sisters and
,rothers. In London, Paris and New
FORK the cry is, not the overwhelm-
nsly large company. but a small,
veil chosen group. who know each
ther: mix harmon;ousIy and make
or an enjoyable time. :.
Washington and New York are alike
Interested in the news coming from
.ondon that the young Earl Of Iddes-
eigh has been adjudged competent to
manage his own affairs and to take
is seat in the house Of peers. He is +
he grandson of the Hamilton Fish
Tho was Grants Secretary Of State,
nd his mother, as Miss Edith Living
ton Fish, was among the stately
Ion. Hugh Northcote In ISS3, with
rilliant nuptial scene we'll described
the time, and later hecame a not
Bile hostess in London; and in Devon
fire. Her son Is a little past thirty,
nd has always been eccentric, but