Evening star., 1924-12-08

guests OF homo" ut dinner this
l. evening of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hays Hammond, who will en-
tcrtain company of - in their home
ON kalorama road.
Twenty-one of Nine. JuSserand's s inti-
mate friends met at the home of Mrs.
Robert Lansing yesterday afternoon and
presented her with diamond lorgnette
as a token of their effection and as a
farewell gift.
Don GclnsiO Caetani Guest
OF State Department Official.
The retiring Ambassador of Italy,
l'Un Gelasio Caetani, Will be the
guest in whose honor Mr.. Franklin
Mott Gunther of the State Depart
mcnt and Mrs. Gunther will enter
tain Il small company 1t dinner this
evening.
The Ambassador OF Great Britain
and Lady Isabella Howard were the
guests of honor at luncheon today OF
Mrs. Henry +. Dmock, who enter
taincd in her home on Scott circle
Others in the company were the Min
lister of Switzerland and Nine. Peter.
the United States Ambassador to
Chile and Mrs. William Miller Col
ler, the second counselor Of the
Italian embassy and Signora Cate
chesa di BerneZzo, ConteSsa Sommati
Iii Mombello. wife Of the naval at
tache of the Italian embassy. former
Secretary of State and Mrs. Robert
Lansing, former Secretary of the
Treasury Mr.. Franklin MacVeagh,
former United States Amba ssador to
Japan Mr.. Thomas ]. O'Brien and
Gen. and Mrs. William Crozier.
Mrs Dimock will entertain at din
ner SATURDAY. evening.
The Minister of Poland and Nine.
Wroblewska viii entertain at dinner
Monday evening, December %. in
honor of the Ambassador of France
and Nine. Jusserand. The dinner will
musical, when the program will be
entirely of Polish music.
The charge d'affaires OF Austria and
Nine. Prochnik will have guests din
ing with them this evening.
The military attache of the Italian
embassy and Marchesa di Bernezzo
entertained at luncheon Saturday in
their apartment at Stoneleigh Court,
having as their guests Lieut.. Col. and
Mrs. Nelson E Margetts, the air at
tache of the Italian embassy and Sig
nora Galderara, and the first secre-
tary and Countessa Eogeri Iii Villa
nova.
Mrs. Bloedorn, wife OF Lieut.. Comdr.
Walter A. Bloedorn, L. s. ", will en-
tertain at tea this afternoon in honor
of the Army and Navy Chapter, y. S.
d. A. r, from 4 to 6 o'clock, at the
Club of Colonial Danes. 1927 X street.
Assisting in receiving will be Mrs. Percy
T. Quinn, Mrs. William II. Carter, Mrs.
II Mrc n
Grimes, Mrs. Louis c. Scherer, Mrs.
Richard d. La Carde, Mrs. George R
Smith, Mrs. George r. Cecil. Mrs Roy
T. Morris, Mrs. John V. White, Miss
Alice Daingerfield Reynolds, Miss Ruth
Shaughnessy. Miss Mary Stitt, Miss
Isabella Howard and Miss Grace Shall
lenberger. Mrs. Edward Rhodes Stitt
and Mrs. Eli A. Helmick will preside at
the tea table, which has a basket OF
American Beauty roses for a center
piece. A tall cedar tree, aglow with
red, white and blue lights, is placed in
the drawing room. A short Christmas
program is to be given by Mrs. Roy T.
Morris, who will read a short paper on
Christmas at Mount Vernon; little
Helen May Bloedorn, tiny daughter of
the hostess, will recite "Grandma's
Minuet," by Mary MapeS Dodge, and
dance a solo minuet. Mrs. Bloedorn will
wear a gown of black lace and carry a
fan Of black ostrich feathers.
Representative and NJ. Charles I.
St1ngle of New York will be at home
from to 10 o'clock the evening of
December 13 at Congress Hall Hotel,
il being the occasion of their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary. Four hun
dred announcements have have been
issued.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Glover have post
poned the dance December 10 for
Miss Eleanor Wilson to January 8.
Col. and Mrs. S. NJ. de Loffre, after
Il long visit in Europe, have arrived
in Washington, and have taken an
apartment at 2400 Sixteenth street.
Col. and Mrs. George Cyrus Thorpe
viii entertain at dinner Friday eve
ming and take their guests later to
the dancing class at the New Willard
Mrs. Thorpe received yesterday
when she was assisted by Mrs. John