The Washington times., 1924-11-11
OIL D FRIENDS
FETED ON
RETURN
Visitors Contribute to
Charm That Is Wash
ington's
By JEAN ELIOT.

00ONER or later everybody who
has ever lived in the Capital
~ comes back again If only avisit-
ing something which contributes in
no small measure to the much press
ACCENTED charm" which is Washing.
toms.
At the very moment of writing,
for example, former Congressman
and Mrs. Ira C. Copley are IN town
for short stay, being much feted
the while by old friends. Mrs. Mar.
lin Edgar Olmstead, who was a very
popular member Of official society
Tor number of years while heI
husband was in Congress, is visit
tor here, having come on for a
meeting Of the Girl Scouts. And
friends Of Mrs. Charles S. Brom
we'll are besiegfng the Hamilton
Hotel, where she has been staying
for a few days, in the hope OF
finding opportunity to see her be
fore she slips out of town again.
Mrs. Cromwell however, is leav.
ing tonight for New York and will
sail from New York on Saturday
on board the Leviathan for Europe.
Her son, Scott Cromwell, who came
with her to Washington, will go
with her to New York, where ne
will probably locate for the winter.
Mrs. Bromwell will go first to
London where her daughter, Mrs.
Sidney Bailey, wife of Captain
Bailey, r. N, will meet her and
then they will go to Edinboro,
where Mrs. Bailey has taken a
house for a month. Later Mrs.
Bromwell will occupy a villa, which
she has leased at Cannes.
Captain Bailey's commission as
commander Of a fleet Of destroyers
will be UP on January Is and then
he will probably have a period of
land duty.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Vrooman, the
later a sister of Mrs. Cromwell,
who are now in New York, plan to
go to Europe soon after Christmas
and will probably join Mrs. Brom.
well at Cannes for a while.
Mrs. OImsted Will Help Launch
Girl Scout Drive; Tea Tomorrow
Mrs. Olmsted has come from
her home in Harrisburg in the in.
terests of the national Girl Scout
drive and while here she is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
H. Brooke in their home on X
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Brooke are
entertaining informally at dinner
this evening for her and tomorrow
afternoon Mrs. Stanley Rinehart
MARY Roberts Rinehart) is giving
tea for Mrs. Olmsted I'd which
have been invited leaders in the
Girl Scouts and old friends of the
guest of honor. III
The tea will be the Inauguration
OF the Girl Scout drive to raise
funds for the, work of the organiza-
ton and to build in New York
national headquarters. Mrs. Ohm.
sted is a representative of the ma
ticnal committee and Mrs. Rinehart
is chairman OF the drive.
Mrs. Copley has been staying with
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary, but
now that Mr.. Copley has joined
her here they are moving over to
the Shoreham, where they expect
to remain through this week. On
Saturday they will go to Princeton
with Mr.. and Mrs. Gary, who have
son, Franklin Gary, at the uni
versity, for the Princeton-Yale
game.
This afternoon Commander and
Mrs. Robert Henderson, who are
occupying Miss Mary Gwynn's big
house in N street, will give a tea
dance in honor of Mr.. and Mrs.
Copley. Yesterday Mr.. and Mrs.
Gary had few OF their old friends
to meet them at tea and earlier
in the day Mrs. Copley was hostess
at an informal luncheon party at
the Shoreham.