The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-10-05
Fan EIIOTs NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY

Lyon, at her home near Rockville
for some fifty Of the Interparlia-
mentary Union delegates. Mrs. Ed
ward Robbins, sister Of Mrs. Lyon,
received with her.
Press Club Breakfast
The Womans national Press
Club likewise entertained informally
at breakfast yesterday at the Ham
ilton Hotel, the guests Of honor
being the women delegates to the
conference.
Miss Cora Rigby, the president,
presided and introduced first Mrs.
Clara Mende, member or the Reich
stag. Mrs. Mende spoke Of the
part that women pay in molding
the thought of future generations.
Lady Bird, the wife of Sir Robert
Bird, spoke Immediately after Mrs.
Mende. Nine. La Fontaine, wife
of the Honorable Henri La Fontaine,
member of the Ihterparliamntary
Council from Belgium, assured
Americans through the Press Club
OF the warm feeling that her
country has for the United States.
Muna Lee, famous Latin Amerii
can poet and wife of one of the
Latin American delegates. also
spoke briefly and other guests of the
club were Mrs. Robert Spear Hud-
son, and Mrs. ID. NJ Gunsto, wives
of members of the British delegs-
ton and Nine Pierre Etienne Elan
din, of France, who is hereby
nominated as the handsomest Wo.
man here with the conference and
of whom one Press Club member
said ''she looks like the Marseil-
laise incarnate.
NINE. RIANO HOME FROM
SOJOURN IN NORTH
Nine. de Riano, wife of the Am
bassador of Spain, is expected at the
embassy today after an absence OF
two months spent at York Harbor
with her brother-in-laW and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler r. Anderson.
and in Connecticut with her aunts.
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The Ambassador of Great Britain.
Sir Esme Howard, will sail for New
York from England Friday, October
16. Lady Isabella Howard, who is
in Switzerland with their son, IS not
expected to join the Ambassador
until after Christmas.
James r. Sheffield: Ambassador
to Mexico, has arrived in wash.
ington, from his home in New York.
and is at the Willard where he
expects to remain until tomorrow.
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Rear Admiral and Mrs. Mark
Bristol will be the guests in whose
honor Nine. Chafoui. mother Of
Mime. Sany Pasha, wife OF the
Egyptian minister, is entertaining
at dinner this evening at Ward
man Park Hotel, where she Is stay
ing while in Washington.
Senator and Mrs. Walter Edge
have come to Washington from
their home at Ventour, N. J., and
are at the Mayflower for few
days. Their new residence, 1920
Eighteenth street, is being re-
modelled and redecorated and will
shortly be ready for their oc-
cupancy.
Mrs. Frederick Sterling has ar.
rived from Atlantic City to be the
guest of her mother, Mrs. John r..
Williams. Mr.. Sterling, who is in
the Foreign Service. is at present
at the American embassy in Peru.
The Secretary OF the Smfthson-
Walcott have returned to Washing
ton after spending the field sea
son in the Canadian Rocky Noun
tains.
Mrs. J. Butler Wright, wife OF
the Assistant Secretary of State,
with their children, returned Sat
urday from Buena Vista Springs,
where they have passed the sum-
rner, and has Joined Mr.. Wright
at their house in Q street. They ex-
pect, however, to move almost i'm
mediately to 1926 Eighteenth street
which they have recently leased
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Mr.. and Mrs. McClelland Barclay,
who have been at East Gloucester,
Mass, for the summer, are coming
to Washington to visit before re-
turning to their home in Chicago
Mrs. Barclay was formerly Miss
Mamie McClelland. of Washington