The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-27
Capital Fashions Smart Society
 What Is Worn
By MARGARET WADE


 Coolidge for the late ex President, while carefully observed in the White House and by the majority of the cabinet of ficers, has not received the recognition of society at large and the result is there is much confusion in high places. | While some few persons follow the example of the administra tion circle, the more experienced hosts and hos tesses have not, thus emphasizing the idea of nearly one hundred years that official mourning must be declared by the state department and accepted by all branches of the government to be effective.
 When Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. to whom all Washington is giving a silent personal tribute of sympathy, declined a public funeral for her distinguished husband she emphasized the fact that he was to be regarded as a private citi- zen, not a public official. Many close personal friends of the Wilson family, in view of this attitude, limited their retirement from society to one week The chief justice of the United States and Mrs. Taft, whose experience in of ficial life at home and abroad, exceeds that of any living American couple, and who are counted among the friends as we'll as the neighbors of the. late ex- President did not. for example, cancel invitations they had out for February 17, nor did that veteran hostess, Mrs Eugene Hale, widow of the late senator from Maine. disappoint the sixty guests invited to the luncheon, which she gave on Thursday.
 That the last of the state dinners al the White House due on Thursday February 21, with the speaker of the House as the guest of honor, was can. celled, naturally disappointed the fifty or sixty guests, who expected to meet the Speaker and Mrs. Gillette on this notable occasion for which it is said Mrs. Gillette has been reserving the smartest of evening gowns she had made to special order on her short visit to Paris in the early autumn. In the reserved gallery of the Senate where Mrs. Gillette and her friend Mrs. William Crozier, were among the followers of the debates of last week the speakers wife was very smart in deed in a brown coat suit of V shaped plastrOn of self-colored satin and par. ticularly chic turban of brown satin edged with fur matching the becoming sable neck-piece, which is usually a fea. ture of her outdoor toilet.
 Mrs. Crozier, who is always hand. somely gowned in a style distinctly her own, also wore brown, but semi toilet of satin with the we'll defined hour glass waistline, which she. has never abandoned, long sleeves of the moment, V neck line and round hat of the same brown satin. Her outer wrar h nG C., ] Mime Jusserand,, whose husband is dean of the diplomatic corps, Madame de Torriente, wife, of the new ambassa dor from Cuba; Mime. Peter, wife oi the Swiss minister, were all to be mel at the afternoon receptions in the past week, in smart visiting toilets. s-
 Mime. Jusserand in black velvet with close little hat, trimmed in clipped gourra; Madame Torriente in darE brown velvet and a long string of pearl. wound twice around her neck then fall ing to the waist to give the high light to the we'll chosen toilet
 Mrs. Peter Goelet Gary's necklace oi black pearls, part of the Russian crown jewels, and Mrs. Coolidge's col lection of quaint beads, each string suited to the toilet with which it is worn, are brinsing unique necklaces tc the fore.
 A genuine Coolie necklace of gold brought from Jamaica by a world ia nous traveller, is the proud possession of Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely, who wore it when pouring tea for Mrs Charles Boughton Wood on Monday aft ernoon. This ornament is composed oi four strands of small gold disks hung together by tiny gold rings and finished at each end by round disk the size of half dollar.
 The workmanship is typical of the na. tive west Indian workers and a splen did example of art old as the earliest civilization. Mrs. Ridgeley wore this with gown of dull gold embossed on black chiffon with long straight tunit and the modish straight sleeves fin ished in fur.
 Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of Repre- sentative Hill of Tennessee. in making round of afternoon receptions, wore long string of large, well-cut, highly polished amber beads as a charming de tail to one of the smartest of brown visiting toilets. Mrs. Hull wears witf this costume a particularly smart ant becoming hat also brown. and of con vcntional shape, but size or two larger than the ,arevarge hat of the season.
 Mrs. Royal s. Copeland, wife of tht senator from New York, and Mrs. Robert N. Stanfield, wife of the senator from Oregon, are wearing gray bead em broidered gowns on afternoon occasions which show a matter of taste is not { matter of geography. Mrs. Copeland wore her gray gown with very be coming velvet hat at the afternoon re ceptiona which Mrs. Theodore H. Tillel gave in her honor last week. while Mrs Stanfield wore hers on her day at hom' when she presided at her well appointed tea table.