The Washington times., 1924-11-13
DRIVING = IS
FAYORITE
SPORT
Society Interests Itself
in Campaign for
Philanthropy
"a By JEAN ELLIOT.

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kkTN RIVING" would seem to be
even more popular than
riding to hounds ais an au.
tumn sport but its driving for phil
anthropic purposes rather than for
recreation.
The Annual Red Cross Roll Call
got OFF to a good start on Armistice
Day and Washington has blossonaed
out again In the varied Red Cross
uniforms to which we became so ac-
customed during the war. The In
structive Visiting Nurse Society,
which means much to the develop
ment of Washington as model cap
ital has launched its campaign to
raise $4,000 for q two-year budget.
The Girl Scouts are out after SIS, 600
as Washington's contribution to q
fund for the erection Of new ma
tiOnal headquarters for the Organi.
zation in New York. And every
body as is anybody in Washington
society is interesting himself or her
self-in one movement or another
or all three.
Mrs. Stanley Rinehart MARY Rob.
erts Rinehart who is national chair.
man OF the Girl Scout drive, in
augurated her program to interest
w dSAAAk1G LUZ I1lS UrIVC WIFI ~ TED
yesterday at which Mrs. Marlin e.
0lmsted was the special guest and
speaker and at which Willmott
Lewis, London Times correspondent,
Mrs. Rinehart and Mrs. Frederick
H. Brooke also spoke.
Mrs. Olmsted, who came from her
home In Harrisburg, Pa, for the
reception, and who is the guest of
Mrs. Brooke, outlined the work Of
the Girl Scouts, and pointed out the
troop Of scouts, rosy and smart in
their Wellzcut uniforms, as Exhibit
a, as to what the Girl Scouts can
do for your Girl and Mine.i The
girls, who were on duty as ushers,
s'dOormen," and general assistants
to the hostess, were under the leader
ship OF several Girl Scout captains,
among them pretty Miss Evalina
tAleaves, who was the American dele
gate to the international Girl Scout
conference held in England last sum-
mer.
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and Mrs.
Horace Westcott presided at the
flower decked tea table.
Reception Resolves Itself
Into "Get-TOgether Party"
The formal program over, Mrs.
Rinehart's reception resolved itself
into a get-together party for the
guests, many Of whom were but
recently "of return" from their
!, summer holidays. Major General
and Mrs. George Barnett blew in,
as did Mrs. William Eric Fowler,
just back from California and be-
ing given warm welcome. The
Barnetts are still Established" at
Wakefield Manor, their country
home in Virginia, but run up to
town every day or two
They are torn between desire
! to be in the country through the
waning Autumn days and q fear
OF missing something" here In
town. So far the country has won
out and Mrs. Barnett proved her
claim to hardihood by going
swimming in her outdoor pool no
longer ago than Tuesday. She told
about it most amusingly yesterday
afternoon and went on to say that
when she had tried to persuade her
daughter to join her, pretty Anne
Gordon had replied Never: it.
would take a large audience and
much admiration to get me in.'s
Countess Laszlo Szechenyt, wife
Of the Hungarian minister, who
has only recently returned from
Europe, was among Mrs. Rinehart's
guests and others in the company
were Nine. Ekengren, Mrs: John
Allan Dougherty, Miss Patten, Mrs.
Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Charles
Boughton Wood, Captain and Mrs.
Ridley Mclean, and. their daughter,
Miss Beatrice Mclean, Mrs. Loren