The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-13
FIND
MR.. COOLIDGE
'SIMPATICO'
Daughters of President
of Guatemala Shop in
Washington

~ ENoRITA CoNCHA OREL.
LANA and Senorita Leonor
~ OrellanaS daughters of the
President of Guatemala and Sonora
Orellana, who have been in Wash
ington for a week, have gone to
New York to sail for Europe, ac-
companied by their uncle, Colonel
Victor Morales, who came to this
country with them and with our
Minister to Guatemala and Mrs.
Geissler.
The Orellana girls look very
much alike with their soft big
brown eyes and their black bobbed
hair. Concha, the older girl, wears
her hair rather straight while
Leonor prefers hers more tightly
MARCHED. Concha is nineteen years
old and, since her mothers health
does not permit much participation
In social activities, it falls to her
lot to play the hostess frequently
for her father on the most formal
occasions, Leonor Is the musician or
the family. Both of the girls are
keen about dancing and horseback
riding and do a great deal OF both
In their own country. Here, how
ever, they were occupied most OF
their time in sightseeing and shop
ping. And there wasn't much
their observant eyes didn't see.
Although they were going almost
direct to Paris from Washington
they did not wait to buy Partisan
frocks. In fact they seemed to
have little interest in Pairs from
O shopping angle, and much pre-
ferred to buy American clothes.
Sometimes here they would be pass
ing along a street after the shops
were closed and would notice a
dress that appealed, whereup one
Of them would exclaim, ooh, like
that!' And early the next morn
ing the two would go to the shop
and order the frock.
The high-note of their visit, per-
haps, was on Monday afternoon
when the Minister and Mrs. Geissler
took them to the White House,
where they were received in the
Blue Room by the President and
Mrs. Coolidge. Colonel Morales, of
course, was also a member of this
group. The girls, who have studied
English in their own country, but
who risk speaking it very seldom,
talked to the President and Mrs.
Coolidge in Spanish, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Geissler as their Interpreters.
'YOung Visitors Find President
Coolidge Most "SimpaticO."
1t seems that the President was
In an unusually convivial mood
which the young Guatemalans found
very "simpatico"-a word which
means genial, cordial, likable and
many synonyms rolled into one.
During the conversation Mrs.
Coolidge recalled to the girls the
fact that their mother had pre-
sented to her last year a Guatema-
Ian peacock, which was doing
beautifully in his foreign environ
ment and which added much to
the adornment of the White House
grounds. This peacock was one of
the few gifts kept at the White
House.
A little later one of the girls
mentioned, that the day was their
mothers birthday and Mrs. Coolidge
remarked:
Yesterday Sunday was the birth.
day of our only son."
The girls and their uncle will re-
turn to Washington in about five
weeks. and from here they will go
with Mr.. and Mrs. Geissler to their
home in Oklahoma, stopping en-
route at Niagara Falls, which the
girls are particularly eager to see,
and at Chicago. The whole party
plans to get back to Guatemala
by Thanksgiving.
Mr.. Geissier will leave today for
Oklahoma, but Mrs. Geissler will
remain in Washington a few weeks
longer. While here they have been
staying at the Raleigh Hotel.
X 4 X
The Duke Of Alba and Berwick
special representative of King
Alfonso of Spain, at the Interna-
tional polo games, was the guest Of