The Washington times., 1924-02-21
JEAN ELIOTS NEWS AND GOSSIP OF CAPITAL SOCIETYH

VINO was Senator from Maine for
many years. Her son now fills
4 his fathers seat in the Senate.
"A MOST unique entertainment
"A is the Washington Tea" to
be given at the residence of Mrs,
Robert e. Lee on Washington's
Birthday, in the interest of the
memorial to his great contempt
rary, Thomas jefferson.
Among Mrs. Lees assistants
will be women whose historic
names carry authority, decend-
ants of old patriots. and wives of
present-day statesmen; these in
colonial garb, end many of them
adorned with family jewels and
laces, brought from Boston,
Mass, and from Charleston, S. c.,
as one indication Of the far
spread interest in the Monticello
purchase.
Mrs. Lees home contains some
rare relics. Over the mantel in
the drawing room hangs a por-
trait of her great-great-great-
great-grandmother as little
child, painted in the garden of the
ancestral home in Charleston,
Elizabeth Hopton Russell. Por-
traits of Gen. Robert e. Lee as a
young officer at West Point, i'll
the old uniform of blue and gold,
and one of his wife, Mary Ran
dolph Gusts, heiress of Arlington,
are in the same room, and an I'M
finished portrait of old Mr.. GUSTS,
George Washington Parke Custis,
builder of Arlington, hangs over
the piano. These portraits will
eventually become part of the his
toric collection at the Washington
and Lee University at Lexington,
Va.
In the dining room are por-
traits of Chief Justice Pinckney,
of South Carolina, first American
ambassador to the Court of st.
James, painted by Hogarth, and
one of the rarest portraits in
Washington, and also one of Ad-
miral Ralph lizard, of the Cont.
mental Navy, opposite to which,
in a modest corner, his commits
sion, signed by General Wash
ington.
The table will be set in Wash.
ington silver, a splendid silve:
coffee urn eighteen inches tall
or more, with the tray to match,
and a historic wine coolef Of
silver, now used by Mrs. Lee as
a punch bowl, with other heir
looms looms in china and glass equally
Senator and Mrs. COuzens
Guests at Rousseau Dinner
Senator and Mrs. James b. Cou-
zens will be the guests Of honor
At the dinner that Rear Admiral
and Mrs. HI. H. Rousseau Will
give this evening.
Mrs. Couzens and Miss Couzens
will ne the guest of honor at
the tea that Mrs. Parker West
will give tomorrow afternoon.
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Mrs. Thomas +. Bayard, wife of
Senator Bayard of Delaware, will
be at home this afternoon from 4
TO O'Clock and will be assisted
in receiving by Mrs. Thomas F.
Bayard. ST., and Mrs. William Ca
bell Bruce. At thu tea table will
be Mrs. Reginald Huidekoper and
Mrs. Walter Tuckerman.
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Mrs. Ira Bennett entertained a
of ten at luncheon 1T the
today.
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Mrs. M0rwick Dinner
Hostess for Hubrechts
The retiring Secretary of the
legation and Nine.
will be the honor guests
at the dinner that Mrs. James Mar
wick will give this evening at her
residence in X street.
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DR.. and Mrs. John Crayke Simp-
son will entertain at dinner this
evening at the Willard.
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Mrs. Royal s. Copeland will be at
home informally this afternoon
after 4 o'clock at her apartment in
Wardman Park Hotel.
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Mrs. John F. Waggaman will en-
terrain at dinner this evening in
to her guests Mrs. Will
lam Schuette, Mrs. Frank Kondols,
Mrs. Ferdinand Torriami and Mrs.
Charles E. Bentley, all of New York,
who arrived today from New York
to be with Mrs. Waggaman for two
weeks.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence McVey
Benedict are receiving congratula-
tons upon the birth of son on
Sunday, February II. The baby has
been named Lawrence McVey Bene-
dict, jr. %
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Russian Visitor Honor
Guest at Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Reid Yates will
informally at dinner this
evening in compliment to their
guest, Constantin Izrastzoff, first