The Washington times., 1923-02-25


tons from the President and tbs
State Department before setting
forth on his journey.
He'll be busy, Of course. and
President Harding does not have
much leisure, but III wager
they'll both find time for q round
or two Of golf In the next
two or thee days, for Mr..
Fletcher is not only one Of Pres-
ident Harding's closest friends ana
most trusted advisers, but his
favorite golfing partner.
It was announced some tins
ago that the Secretary Of War
and Mrs. Weeks were going ~
Florida for a short holiday early
in March, and now 1t develops
that they are to be members e
the Presidential party. So win
Attorney General Daugherty, who
will complete his convalescenQe
from his recent illness; and Gea
eral and Mrs. Sawyer and the
George Christians and possibly
Albert d. Lasker. chairman Of
the Shipping Board. sk
Secretary Weeks Is another per.
son with whom President Hard
ing likes to play golf. and So too
is Mr.. Lasker. don't know
whether Mr.. Daugherty is up TO
golf just now. but at any rate
President Harding's party WIN
join Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale
Mclean in F1orida-and there's
the Presidential foursome AL
complete. The Hardings viii be
guests of the McLeans, for q time
at least, aboard the houseboat
Pioneer, which they have char.
+, tered.
IT'S a sporting proposition to give
a dinner these days, for, be- :
: tween the "flu" and the night sea.
sions cup on the HILL" ones list
of guests it likely to be cut in half
at the eleventh hour. Yet there
are dinners, dinners. dinners, and
for variety-more dinners. And by
a curious. quirk a large percentage
OF them are given by or for Cons
gressionals, everybody being busily
engaged in entertaining for the
lame ducks who are passing of
the Washington horizon. tempo
rarily, at any rate; for the holiday
makers in the Senate and the
House who are turning their faces
toward Europe, or Panama, 4cr
Alaska-anywhere and everywhere
as soon as Congress adjourns.
Invitations are accepted tenta-
lively, Of course, but it 1s an alg
most insoluble problem that the
hostess has to face. Will tw@
thirds Of the men Of her party
telephone about o'clock that they
can't possibly leave the Capitol
just them, but viii come later
drifting in about the time the salad
course Is reached? And II 50,
shall she stick to her seating plan,
probably arranged with prayer
and fasting and the help OF the
State Department on matters Of
precedence, or shall she segregata
the ladies at one end Of the table.
leaving the other end, Quaker
fashion, for the men when they do
come in? Or will the menfolk ar.
rive promptly, to be called away
for roll call just when the entree
is coming on? liz
That's the sort Of tragt-comedy
that hostesses have ben faced with
all week. Senator and Mrs. Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen gave q wonder
full buffet supper party on Tues.
day evening, 100 or more guests
being invited to meet the Speaker,
of the House and Mrs. Gillett--
they had a similar party a week Or
ten days ago for the Vice Presk
dent and Mrs. Coolidge-wtth q
musicale afterward ana every de- ::
tail worked out with discriminating
care to make it q success. But
before the evening was half over
there came the call of mo quorunss
from the Senate-and several Of
the Senators present stood not on
the order of their going but
marched off headed by their hosts
Into the Senate they marched