The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-06
W ashiington To
Entertain
D. AR.

number OF the members will 70 from
Birmingham. Among them will be Mrs.
William H. Smith, Mrs. Joseph r.
Estes, Mrs. Watt T. Brown and Miss
Mary Adelia Smith, who viii be one
of the pages
Dolly Madison, in Washington
newspaper, has the following to say of
the coming Congress. Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook will be pleasantly remem-
bered by friends in Birmingham, where
she recently was guest of the ID. A. r.
Lent has brought very little let-up in
the social pace here, and the slowing up
Of that one might have expected during
Holy Week is not so likely to materiAl-
lie as it would If Holy Week did not
happen also to be d. A. r. Week. The
Daughters can always be trusted to stir
things up a bit-swarming all over
the city, from Capitol to White House,
and simply taking possession of the
Willard during the week in which falls
April 19-the anniversary of the Battle
Of Lexington. OF course, they are not
here to play-but there's a whole lot
of entertaining, by, for and of the dele
gates and officers.
The president general, Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook of Cooksburg, Pa. has
been in town fully two weeks-in fact.
abe has been in Washington most of
the time since the first of January,
except that she recently made a swing
through the south-supposedly staying
at Wardman Park Inn--but one had
to take it on faith, for she's never there.
and all the inquiring soul gets out of
Wardman, is Mrs. Cook doesn't an
swer - from a sweet-voiced operator.
A matter of fact, Mrs. Cook puts in
union day,s''and then some" down at
Continental hall, with her aides and
lieutenants (such of the national Off
GERS as are in town, and the heads of
the important committees),, getting the
bearings adjusted and 1.-THE machinery
thoroughly oiled for NE coming "Con-
tinental Congress-"
Of course plans are long way from
being complete-but the. most orna-
mental session of the Congress is going
to be more ornamental than usual this
year, as it is to be held in the evening.
with the President, the Secretary of
State, the French Ambassador, the
British Ambassador, and one or two
others of the important diplomats and
officials on the platform, Extending
greetings and their wives looking
down from the boxes, and, of course,
the marine band, or at any rate, a
good part of IL in attendance. 1t will
take place Monday evening. This SEES
sion at which the powers that be
usually welcome the Daughters is al
ways brilliant one, but it has usually
been held in the daytime. In the eve
ming, with the electric lights, and the
greater opportunity an evening func-
ftion gives for elaborate costumes and
handsome jewels, it win be spectacle
very well worth while. -
The national board meets ON the Sat
urday before the opening of the Con-
gress, i. e., on April IL, and the women
OF the Pennsylvania congressional del
egation, headed by Mrs. George Whar-
ton Pepper and Mrs. David A. Reed,
have asked to be allowed to entertain
the entire board at luncheon, in honor
of the Pennsylvania president general,
and the invitation has been accepted.
Probably most of the women of the
Pennsylvania delegation here are
Daughters anyhow, and they are plan
ming what should be very brilliant
function in the banquet hall of CONT
mental memorial hall. 1t will be of ne
cessity luncheon of something more
than hundred guests-about as many
as the banquet hall will accommodate,
as the congressional delegation-the
hostesses-numbers somewhere. about
forty; and the board with the national
officers, twenty vice presidents gen.
eral, and the regents of every state, runs
up to sixty or eighty, depending on how
many are here for the occasion. So
there are to be no outside guests; but
even at that, it will be a good deal of
q party.
The president. generals reception
comes on Tuesday night, and it will be
preceded by dinner which Mrs. Frank
Hight will give at the Willard in honor
of Mrs. Cook. / am not quite clear
what particular group is included at
that, except that a number of New
Hampshire delegates are invited, and
Mrs. Henry Wilder Reyes, wife of the
senator from New Hampshire, herself
active in the work of the d. A. R., is
to be among the guests. / don't think.
that Mrs. Hight is from New Hamp-
shire-I have it in my mind that she's
from West Virginia, chiefly because /
know she is a connection of Mrs. Ell
kins-but the Nights have a summer
home in New Hampshire, which prob
ably accounts for her wanting to paw
the New Hampshire Daughters this at
tention.
On Tuesday also comes the annual
ball for the pages of the congress-
young girls who serve lovingly and
faithfully during the sessions, carrying
messages, guarding doors, helping dele
gates to find their appointed places.
and generally making themselves use
full as well as ornamental. And they
certainly are that / believe each state
regent has the privilege of appoint
ing two, and then there are the special
platform pages, and the very special
president generals personal page, who
is usually lowering around near her
chief, on the jump for chance to serve
her. I'm told that one of the Lejoune
girls is to have that post of honor
but realize wasn't told which one.
1t has been the custom to give the
girls dance-a gay little ball just for
them and their men friends--or a choice
collection of nice youngsters whom they
are likely to find congenial. For a good
+ many congresses the Abigail Hartman
Rice chapter of the District of Column
bia has charged itself with the pleas
ant privilege of giving this party, but
4 this year Mrs. Larz Anderson is to give
y it. shouldn't wonder if the Abigail
a Hartman Rice chapter was bit peeved
A about it-but Mrs Anderson seems to
4 have beaten them to it, in asking for
the privilege of entertaining the pages.
\ The ball will be given at Rauschers on
the night of Tuesday, April Is, and
4 will be, as it always is, one of the pref
test and gayest functions of the con-
e gress.
BOYS ENTERTAIN
FATHERS
The boys of the j. ]. ]. club enter
tanned their fathers at a special meet
ing at their club room on Seventy