Evening star., 1923-09-30
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mrs Coolidge Expected Soon to Announce Society
Season Schedule -Climpses of New
Regime in Washington.

No speculation, proves so, fasclhat-
ing as that which concerns the ohiciai
season, the schedule of which Is
shortly expected from Mrs. Coolidge
Once rigidly confined between Janu-
ary l and Ash Wednesday, the olhciai
amenities have overleaped these boun-
daries, and at least three of the LATEST
mistresses of the White House nave
been compelled To steal week or
two from the little season" inaugu-
rated in November and presumed to
last until the new year ushered IN
the season proper. Mrs. Taft gave
the cabinet dinners in December. and
the second Mrs. Wilson and Mrs.
Harding both took over that idea in
order that the few weeks from New
Year until Lent would not be un-
pleasantly crowded with White House
functions. Now there is hint that
not only the cabinet dinner, but also
the speakers, could be Logically
placed in December. when congress
conveneS, and when the amenities
with the chief officers paruclpatmr,,l III,
would he most logically given Inc
sneakers dinner is an innovation
and was written into the social cai-
endar by Mrs Roosevelt because OF
the utter impossibility of placing the
presiding officer of the House mar
moniously in any other clacle oI on,
cjals. Mr.. Cannon was the nrst speak
eT so honored and with him the heads
of all the important committees seiH
ing under him were entertained WIN
many distinguished men from nnIl @
parties in and out of the Capital Inc
t-a a
on terms of unusual intimacy Win
President and Mrs. Coolidge, ana the
sneakers dinner under the new re
eime will attract universal interest,"
Mrs Hardings expected return 10
washington will add distinction 10
the residential wing as Well as 10
official society. For the first tlme IN
history a mistress in the Ihte
House NAV find a circle of its former
mistresses residing in the city. the
widow of the twenty-ninth PRESIDENT
will, of course be the object OF rev
erential interest and sympathetlc a.
tention from the republican party
that Dolly Madison was TO the uehh-
ocratic party almost century ago
when she came back to Washington
IN live Mrs Wilson, like her nus
band, desires to live in utter seciu-
sion and claims no official preStlse
OF any sort Mrs. Taft Is, however
head of the judicial division or the
three-fold government of the Ameri-
can republic, and her duties and pre-
negatives are as dehnlte as tnose ~
the wife of the President. But sne
derives additional prestige even IN
her exalted station from the fact that
she was for four years the tirst lazy
of the land These four ladies, living
contiguous to each other as Instances
go in a large city, make dlstlhet
=; ;.,h inf ra
important in the annals of the zap
ital and which no doubt Will lead the
present amiable and gracious chate-
laine of the nation to make some
new rules which will relate to them
and the courtesy due their former
position.
Something of what the world. the
new world, at least. owes to what
is now the eighth consresslonal dis-
trict of Virginia is made clear by
quier Historical Society. of which
Mr.. Harry c. Groome, well known
and widely connected in Washington,
is the editor. Within the confines
of the eighth district were born
George Washington. the numerous
Lees of colonial, revolutionary and
Of later fame: John Marshall, James
Monroe and five generations of that
noted family of Fairfax, of whom the
present holder of the title. Henry
of lords. represents the family which
was once suverain over the whole
of the Old Dominion. Mr.. Groome,
who began his history of the north
ern part of Virginia and by all
odds its most important in the ac-
tual as we'll as the historical sense.
about 1918, was compelled to rest
from his studies due to the world
cient progress to warrant issuing
bulletins from time TO time before
he undertakes TO get his volume
into book form. AS the secretary
Of the President. Mr.. j. Bascom
ninth district. his father having been
his predecessor for some years,
these studies are of tremendous in
terest to him. In fact parts of the
old Fairfax domain and of the his
toric holdings of the Lees of Raven
wood lap over into the ninth. He
has an actual interest in the recital.
In addition, he comes of a family
who took out patents on the land in
the. same generations as the Wash
Groome is making a special study of
land and patents and spends much
time among the old court records i'm
Washington.
Former Senator J. Coleman Dupont
has spent the entire summer in
Europe. and since he intends to re-
main there until about November /,
Mrs. Dupont sailed last week and will
join him in Paris. Gen. Dupont, who
was one of the energetic, thorough
members of the upper house, has,
since leaving public life. begun an
exhaustive study of the modern
hotel. Rumor has it that. having
acquired splendid site in New York
at 5th avenue and 59th street. now
occupied by the Hotel Savoy, he in
tends to erect what will be the
worlds greatest hostelry, the last
word in everything. No one, knows
the American hotel more completely
than Gen. Dupont, but he determined
to know the most famous ones in
Europe just as well. So he has stayed
for weeks in celebrated houses in the
old world capitals, in fashionable
spas and sea shore resorts and has
even journeyed to Cairo to look over
the historic Shepherds, which it's
admirers claim figures more extern
sively in modern literature than any
hotel in the world. Atlantic City,
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