The Washington times., 1924-04-17

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The Children of the American
Revolution, of which Mrs. Frank
MOndel is national president, have
been holding their twenty-ninth an.
Mual coihcident with the annual
continental congress Of the d. A. r.
and in the Red Cross building next
door. The Danes of the Loyal
Legion have also been meeting
this week; and next week the
daughters of 1912 will hold their
annual conference, which is also
always arranged to follow the
Daughters congress in order that
the women who are members of
both organizations-and they are
legion-may kill two birds with one
stone.
There is also a convention of the
Daughters of American ColoniStS-
an unfamiliar organization to me,
next week. And the already NUM-.
erous ranks of ancestral societies
are being swelled by the organiza-
ton of still another, the Daughters
Of Crusaders. of which Mrs. M. de
Clare M. Berry, a Daughter, u
! Dame and all the rest, is the in
stigator. The Colonial Danes, by
the way, hold their national con-
ference bi-ennially and this is an
off year.
Daughters Cause Excitement
LIN Normally Quiet Time.
Hotels, florists, caterers, etc.,
must rise up and call the Daughters
blessed for the excitement that
they have caused in a normally
quiet time like Holy Week. Festivi-
ties, which began with the lunch
con which the official women Of
Pennsylvania gave for the presi.
dent general, Mrs. Anthony Wayne
Cook, will close with the "Presi-
dent Generals Banquet" on Sat
urday evening-which apparently
IL subscription dinner, with Mrs.
Cook as the bright particular star,
to which every delegate or Daugh-
ter who cares to may buy a ticket.
The. president generals reception
was, as always, rather bleak and
barren affair, simply because Me-
mortal Continental Hall is so ILL.,
suited to a function of this sort.
The banquet room upstairs, ad-
mirable for its own purpose, is OF
course far too small and the seats.
which fill up the floor of the big
auditorium. make the holding OF
the reception there something Ike
an acrobatic feat. The receiving
line forms across the stage, the
guests make a long line Wnlcn
enters through the library, cilmps
onto the stage rather perilously and
fiie across into the museum. After
that there is no place for them to
go, nowhere to foregather and: chat
and enjoy themselves. And many
of the Daughters, in spite OF their
pride in having their own building
and holding all functions under
their own roof, sigh for the days
when these receptions used to De
held in the big ballroom Of the
Willard. Altogether an excellent
argument in favor Of the movement
tO secure larger quarters which was
launched at this weeks congress.
Wonderful Gowns and Jewels
Displayed at Conference Opening
On the other hand, everybody IL
etill talking of the picture session"
on Monday night-perhaps the most
brilliant formal opening in the his
tory of the organization, with the
President speaking and MRS. Cool
idge looking down from the presi-
dent generals box. Holding this
delegates a chance for a real sar-
toriaI display and there were some
wonderful gowns and some still
more wonderful jewels on exhibition.
In Mrs. Cooks box besides Mrs.
Coolidge were the Presidents aunt,
Mrs. Pollard-an old lady Of eighty
three-and her daughter, delegates
to the Congress and guests for the
week of the White House. Mrs.
Coolidge carried a formal bouquet
edged with soft ostrich tips in blue
and yellow and orchid, tied with a
ribbon which by happy chance
matched her greeny blue gown adj
mirably. It was the gift of the
President General and strangely
enough-one of the local chapters
had sent Mrs. Cook herself just such
a bouquet and it was one Of half a
dozen, each lovelier than the other,
which lay on her table throughout
the session.
Several Of the boxes were filled,
with ''mere husbands" among them
Anthony Wayne Cook, Brig. Gen.
Amos Fries and Frank Briggs, of
the Department Of Justice. So fer
rs the Daughters are concerned, Mr..
Cook is simply MRS. Cooks hus-
U6IuS UuL III IllS OWu pCLSOA hO 10
O typical American-~a big, white
haired, genial gentleman, very de-
voted to his slender little wife, AMI
ready to help along any Of her I'M
dertakings.
Notable Speakers on
Evenings Gala Program.
The notables Of the evening, be-
side the President, who flung to the
Daughters a challenge to do their
duty by their citizenship in the mat
ter Of voting, were the French am
bassador, the British ambassador,
the Belgian ambassador, the new
ambassador Of Cube, Dr.. de la Tor
riente: the Chinese minister, DIR.
Sze--and General Pershing, pinch
hitting for Secretary Hughes
Through a misunderstanding the
name OF the Secretary Of State APP
pearins on the program, the
Daughters apparently not realizing
that they could not have both
Hughes and Coolidge-the Presi-
dent and the Secretary Of State
never speaking from the same plat
form on the same occasion.
The French ambassador is an old
e1me ard honored friend Of the
Daughters. He always speaks at
their gatherings and always drags
up some obscure and interesting de-
tails Of our history to back up
what he IL saying. He Ia a recOg-
nized authority on American history
las he IN oh English literature
and WAS for many years, possibly