Evening star., 1925-05-21
-HE President and Mrs. Cool
idge are devoting themselves
this afternoon from 4 o'clock
a. - yo+ar BOW IN tho Vat-

idge are devoting themselves
this afternoon from O'Clock
l. TO later hour to the Vet
Grams of the World War in
Washington Hospitals, men from
Mount Alto. Walter Reed. st. Eliz-
abeth's and the Naval Hospital will
come in ambulances, private con-
veyances and otherwise. and there
will be refreshments served to them
after they are received by the Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge. There will
be specially arranged program from
the Marine Band.
Added to the list of veterans who
are guests of honor there will be the
Secretary of Navy and Mrs. Wilbur
and such other members of the cabi-
net and their wives is are in the
city: the Assistant Secretary of War
and the Assistant Secretary of Navy.
officials from the Veterans Bureau
and officials and those attending the
patients from the hospitals, repre-
senta tiveS of such veterans orSani-
gations as are officially recognized by
the Veterans Bureau and few
others whose duties are in some way
connected to the care of the guests
of honor.
The Ambassador of Spain and
Sonora de Riano will entertain a COM
peny of 80 at dinner this evening.
Mime. Matsudaira Honor
Guest at Afternoon Tea.
Nine. Matsudaira, wife of the Am
bassador of Japan, will be the guest
of honor at tea this afternoon OF
Nine. KaZemi wife of the charge
affaires of Persia, who will enter
,ain from to o'clock in the lega-
ton on Sixteenth street. Presiding
at the tea table will be Nine. Kura-
zova. wife of the first secretary of
the Czechoslovak legation: Mrs. AL
bert Putney and Nine. EnteZam, wife
of the third secretary of the Persian
legation.
The Minister of Panama and Sonora
de Alfaro will entertain at dinner
Tuesday evening in compliment to
Senor DR.. Morales, special commits
sioner of Panama to this country.
Sonora de Alfaro will be hostess at
luncheon Wednesday, when her guests
are asked to meet Mrs. William Craw-
ford Gorgas and Mrs. David Du Bose
Gaillard. who have just returned from
q visit in Panama.
Sonora de Alfaro was the ranking
guest at the luncheon given today by
Mrs. William Bailey Lamar in honor
of her house guests, Mrs. Rogers B.
Toy and Mrs. Bockover Toy of At
lanta, Ga. The other guests included
Mrs Mason Gulick, Mrs. Arthur
OBrien. Mrs. William Eric Fowler,
Mrs. Henry W. Miller, Mrs. Corcoran
Hill, Mrs. John Knapp, Mrs. Lyman
Kendall. Mrs. Wilton j. Lambert, Mrs.
David S. kaime and Miss Mary
Morgan.
Mrs. William NJ. Butler. wife of
Senator Butler of Massachusetts. ar
rived today at the New willard from
her home in Massachusetts, and en-
poets to remain here for three or four
days Mrs Butler came to Washing
ION to attend the garden party for dis
abled veterans and expects to be Joined
tomorrow by the Senator, who Is now
IN Philadelphia.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth will re-
turn shortly from New York, where
she went with Representative Long
worth, who sailed yesterday aboard
the Aquitania for Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph Kaufman
will be hosts at a garden party sat
urday afternoon at Airlie. The most
direct route to their home Is via
Sixteenth street TO the reservoir.
there turn left and wind down the
hill, crossing the bridge over Rock
Creek and up the Military road to
Airlie.
Miss Joan Williams. daughter of
Mr. Norman Williams, Jr., and grand
daughter of Mrs. Norman Williams
of this city, is among the American
girls being presented at the hrst
drawing room of the season at Buck
ingham Palace today.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Hamilton
have issued invitations for the mar
riage of their daughter. Mamie Mer-
rick, to Mr.. Alfred Felix Benzlger
Thursday, June IS, at 1880 o'clock
in the morning at st. Matthews,
Church. A wedding breakfast will
follow Immediately after. at Stone
Ridge, Bethesda, Nd.
The commandant of Governors Is
land. Col f. II. Lawton. and Mrs.
Lawton will entertain a small com
pany at tea this afternoon in their
quarters on the island when the mar
riage of Mrs. Frances Hite Williams
to Mai John Charles SkuSe, Reserve
Corps, u. S. A, will be announced.
The wedding will take place at q
o'clock, just preceding the tea, in
Col. and Mrs. Lawton's house, in the
presence Of a small company of init
mate friends. Maj. Skuse and his
bride are well known here, the latter
having come here from her home in
Washington. Tex, as the bride of the
late Mr.. Arthur Williams of Houston,
and during the past Winter she has
had an apartment at Wardman Park
i Hotel.
The bride will wear ecru batiste of
cut work trimmed with medallions of
n1argot lace made over a slip of
orchid georgette crepe and she will