The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-24

tOr Cnelr sons, John Peter and
Marc Peter, .jr., VINO are home
from Harvard for the holidays.
One is a student at the university
and the other, If you please, an
instructor. The Peters will have
an informal tea for the legation
staff tomorrow.
The Minister of Sweden and
Nine. Wallenberg are entertaining
a little Christmas house party,
their guests including some
cousins from New York and Mr..
Thyberg, Swedish consul general in
New York. They will have a buff
fet supper Christmas night for the
members Of the legation staff, with
Christmas tree lighted with
scores of tapers.
At the Polish legation there will
he rather a smaller dinner party
than usual on Christmas day, for
Hipolit Gliwic, the counselor, is
the only member of the legation
staff in town. The Military Attache
and Nine. Mach have been at home
on vacation for several months and
are not due back until next month.
Leon Orlowski, the secretary, has
also been in Poland for a brief
holiday and will return about the
same time.
Mr.. Gliwic will dine with the
Minister and Nine. Wroblewska on
Christmas Day, but the most pic.
turesque feature Of the Polish
Christmas celebration will be the
lighting of the tree tonight, with
the Minister'S three children talk.
ing part, the whole family after
ward attending midnight mass.
Nine. Nano, wife Of the Charge
Affatres Of Rumania, will spend
Christmas on the water, being en-
loute home from France. HaV.
Ing been i'll at the time M. Nano
sailed for home in the. late autumn,
she remained on for a few weeks
visit with her sister who makes
her home in Paris. Her husband
will meet her in New York when
she lands on Tuesday.
The good looking young attache
OF the legation, Dimitri Dem Diman-
cesco and his brother, Lieutenant
laon Dimancesco, are rejoiced at hav.
ing their mother with them this
Christmas-and are finding satisfac-
ton, moreover, in the fact that for
the first time in history Christmas is
being celebrated on the same day in
! Bucharest and in Washington. The
reason for this is that the Greek Or
thodox Church, which is the national
church OF Rumania, has for the first
! time accepted the Julian calendar by
which the Western world reckons its
time and observes its feasts and
fasts.
Presence Of Small Boy at Greek
Legation Gives Interest to Celebration
The new Minister of Greece and
Nine. Simopoulos. too, are for the
first time observing Christmas in &C.
cordance with the Julian rather than
the old Gregorian calendar. And it
is an event of considerable import
ance to the staff since, for the first
time in many years, there is a
child-a sturdy small son--in the
legation for whom to make merry.
The Minister and Nine. Simopoulos
are still at Wardman Park Hotel, as
the legation in Connecticut avenue
is being done Overcome Of the major
alterations being the installation Of
a well equipped nursery. Nine. Simo-
poulos is an Englishwoman and has
correct English ideas about the bring
ing up Of children.
The Minister Of Rumania and
Princess Bibesco are having an
English Christmas, being guests
Of her parents, Mr., and Mrs.
Herbert Asquith, at their place on
the Thames, with little Priscilla
Bibesco as the star Of the Yuletide
festivities.
The Minister Of China and Nine.
SEE are also abroad. They had
expected to be home before Christ.
mas, but the opium conference Of
the League of Nations, to which
SEE is a delegate, has dragged out
beyond all expectation and has
now adjourned until after January
1. Consequently Doctor and Nine.
SEE, who win not be able to get
back to Washington before the end
Of January, are travelling a bit
during their brief holiday and
dividing their time between Venice
and Rome. The SEE boys, Dedie
and SEE Ming, are in school in
England, which leaves only the
three little girls, Mamie, Julia and
Betty, to celebrate Christmas at
the legation in Washington under
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