The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-15

line. And Mr.. and Mrs. Bradish
Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Hooker came down from New
York, putting up at the Hamilton
Hotel.
Moreover, in the vanguard OF
TIE visitors were the Walter Dill
linghams-Mr. Dillingham; is a
famous polo player, you know,
who are even now at the Ham
ilton and are likely to remain
some time. The. Dillinghams hail
from HonoIulu-they are sugar
people, believe-but spent a
year or two in Washington dur
ing the war, Mr.. Dillingham; be-
ing connected with one or an
other Of the baby bureaus which
sprang up here at that time, and
have come back to visit occasion
ally since.
THE city, by the way, is just
now filled with former Wash
ingtonians who are here a'visiting
and who are being made much of
by their old friends. There's Nine.
de Mohrenschildt, for example,
who was Mona McAdoo before her
marriage, and Mrs. Frederick
Sterling, formerly Dorothy Will
Jams, and Mrs. George Lewis
Mayer CMarguerite Barbour), and
Brigadier General and Mrs. Doug
las MacArthur-Mrs. Macarthur
was Mrs. Cromwell Brooks. More
over, the Glen Stewards are-or
have been-at the Shoreham and
the Julius Lays at the Hamilton,
while Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry
Purdy, after an extended absence,
are back in their own house
which was let for so long to
Senator and Mrs. Frank B. KEEL
logg.
Pretty little Nine. de Mohren-
Schildt expects to be in town
through the spring and has taken
an apartment at 1915 Sixteenth
street, the same house in which
the young Cornelius Vanderbilts
live :. Indeed, her friends
here tell me that she is seriously
contemplating making her per-
n1anent home here and that they
have every hope of persuading
her to stay on.
The daughter of William Gibbs
McAdoo, Mona McAdoo de Mohrsn-
echildt made her debut in Wash.
ington while her father was Sec
Rotary of the Treasury and was
cl1atelaine of his household-..iu
as Miss Ailaa Mellon is for her
father, the present Secretary of
the Treasury-until his marriage
to Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter
of President Wilson. Her marriage
to young Ferdinand de Mohren-
schildt. an attache of the Imperial
Russian embassy in the old
Czarist regime, took place in the
early days Of the war.
Indeed you must surely reIrlem-
Der her wedding in historic st.
SOhn's Church, for the President
and Mrs. Wilson were there, with
their official family, and beside
the members of the diplomatic
corps, there were present the
members of two Missions be-
heve it was the French and Brit
ish missions. headed respectively
by Rene Viviani and Balfour,
noE Lord Balfour-and the uni
forms of the men were as varied,
rs brilliant and as colorful as the
gowns of the womerfolk.
Poor little bride, her happiness
was short lived, for her young
husband, who had decided TO
make a good American OF himself
after his government was knocked
out from under him, died during
the influenza epidemic Of 1918;
and since that. time his widow
has been living rather quietly in
New York.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman had
q tea on Friday afternoon at
which Nine. Mohrenschildt shared
honors with Mrs. Richard Kimball
Shes another visitor in Washing
ton, hailinS from Tennessee, / be.
iieve. but apparently she has been
much in New York since she is
particularly chumrny with Mrs
Hartman. Mrs. King Carley and
otharS who have New York af.
Citations.
MRS. FRED STERLING is
staying with her mother,
Mrs. John r. Williams. and her
husband. counselor and until re-
Gently charge d'affaires of our
embassy in Peru. Is to join her
within a few weeks, I believe.
He Is coming home on leave, but
had to remain al his post until
the induction Of tho new Ameri-
can Ambassador, Senator Miles
Poindexter. The Steriings have
been two years in Peru-it
doesn't seem possible, does it,
that they have. been married SO
lone?--ko it Is quite on the cards
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