The Washington times., 1923-02-03
Plans Develop for
Hardings'
Vacation
RESIDENT HARDING has
recently stated rather rue
fully thnf>ho learns much

fully that he learns much
about his own movements, his
views on public questions, and
his inmost thoughts from the
newspapers; and this matter is
causing him considerable con-
Germ. One difficulty is that the
papers so seldom agree. me
statement that President and Mrs.
Harding are to- go to Florida as
soon as Congress adjourns, seems
to be Official but accounts vary
materially as to what they are
to do there.
A story from Palm Beach states
that the Presidential party will
be entertained by Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Beale Mclean, who have
chartered the houseboat Pioneer
especially for the period of the
Presidents visit. The Pioneer is
due at st. Augustine on February
% and the story claims that
President and Mrs. Harding will
go aboard her there, cruising
down the coast to Palm Beach.
Another current bit of "inside in
formation" is to the effect that
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Firestone,
OF Akron, Ohio, who have two
lovely homes in Florida, have
placed one of them at the dis
posal of Mr.. and Mrs. Harding,
who will occupy. it during their
Florida visit.
Both tales may be true, for
they do not necessarily contradict
one another, but it is more than
likely that the President and
Mrs. Harding have not yet made
very definite plans, and certainly
their arrangements are subject
to change as Mrs. Harding's ply
sicians dictate. 1t is in order
that he. convalescence may be
completed under sunny skies that
the trip is being arranged. and
even the Presidents weH-earned
vacation is a secondary consid-
Grafton.
NINE. WIEDFELD, wife of the
Ava German ambassador, was at
home yesterday afternoon at the
embassy, special interest attach
ing to the occasion since 1T was
the first time she has received.
The ambassador stood with Mime.
Wiedfeldt to greet their guests,
the members of his staff being
in attendance and the ladies of
the embassy, Baroness Won Lew
inski and Nine. Reisser, pres1d-
ing at the tea table, assisted by
Nine. Lang, wife of the German
consul general in New York,
whose husband was formerly
charge d'affaires at Washington.
In contrast to the old days Of
the imperial regime. when the
German, embassy was one of the
most sumptuous in washington
and degree of state was main
tanned, simplicity reigned. A few
flowers on tea table and mantels
and some bright solored embroid-
cries picked up in China and
Japan contributed the only not OF
color and gayety.
Among those calling were Sena-
tor and Mrs. Kendrick, of Wyom-
ing; Senator and Mrs. Kellogg, OF
Minnesota; Senator and Mrs. Nc
Cumber, of North Dakota; Sena-
tor and Mrs. Gooding, of Idaho;
CONGRESSMAN and Mrs. Frederick
J.. Britten, of Illinois; Congress
man James Frear, Of Wisconsin;
Congressman and Mrs. Edward
Browne, of Wisconsin; District
C Commissioners and Mrs. Rudolph,
the Ambassador Of Spain and
Nine. Riano, the Monster of Swift
xerland and Nine. Marc Peter. the
Minister of the Netherland
and Nine. de Graeff, Eric
Buxton, the commercial secretary
of Great Britain, and Mrs. Buxton;
Felipe Espil, charge d'affaires Of
Argentina the Charge d'Affaires
of Austria and Mrs. Prochnik, the
Minister. of Bolivia and Mime. Bal
livian, the minister of Colombia,
DR.. Enrique Olaya: Andor de Her
teleady, attache of the Hungarian
legation; the Minister Of Guatemala
and Mime. Latour. the Minister Of
Panama and Nine. Alfaro, the
charge d'affaires of Latvia, Cahrles
Louis Sega, and Nine. Sega; Major
and Mrs. George Totten, jr., Inter-
state Commerce Commissioner
Charles C. McChord, Baron and
Baroness Hans Won Below, and
Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews.
ONE of the events of most in
terest to Washington society
took place out of Washington
the dinner dance given last even
ing by Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt at their home