The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-01-07
SOLON'S W IFE
NOW PARTY
REGULAR
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry
Joins Democratic Club;
Fete There Yesterday

~HE new Mrs. Gerry, as she
is being generally called just
4 now. is evidently going to make
the most of her privileges and obli-
cations as the wife of the gentle
man from Rhode Island. She IS
attending regularly the weekly in.
formal luncheons held on Tuesdays
at the Capitol by the ladies OF the
Senate and yesterday afternoon she
was an outstanding guest at the
tea given by the Women's National
Democratic Club at $40 Connecticut
Ave-. to marke its renewal Of politi.
cal activity and in compliment to
Mrs, Emily Newell Blair OF Joplin,
No., secretary of the club and vice
chairman OF the Democratic Com
mittee.
The New Mrs. Gerry
Mrs. Gerry has become a member
of the club and is showing special
interest in its contemplated program
for the season. AS Mrs. George
Vanderbilt she was so little asso-
csated in the public mind here with
POLITICAL activity that there seems
to be no definite impression Of what
political party, ff any, had her ALE
glance before her marriage to Sen
ator Peter Goelet Gerry in October.
During Mrs. Gerry's residence at
the feudal estate at Biltmore, N. c..
she took an active part in the civic
affairs of that State-whose poll
tics, Of course, are conspicuously
Democratic. Fer many years she
served as president Of the North
Carolina State Fair Association and
es q North Carolinian she became
endeared to the people of the "Old
North State.
The First Mrs. Gerry
The first Mrs. Gerry. 'Mathilde
Townsend" now Mrs. B. Summef
WeIles, of New York and Washing
ton, found her position as a Sena-
torial hostess very irksome-s0 irk-
some in fact that for the most
part, she chose to ignore or, at
least, to treat with bored nom
chalance, the obligations inherent
to the position.
Senator and Mrs. Gerry have not
announced as yet any official en-
PERTAINING. They are living quietly
at 2I32 r ST., the house purchased
q year or so ago from Mr.. and
Gerry, after she put on the market
her former home on K Street. She
liked this house very much and
50 is continuing to live there.
Democratic Club Tea
To get back to the Democratic
tea yesterday-it brought forth
many prominent in the roster of
that party and throughout the re-
ception the drawing rooms of the
club were filled with enthusiastic
M nd e.&o -
Ing at the door with the card
tray had head covering to- simu-
late donkey--the emblem Of the
party. After having passed "the
donkey" the guests were received
by Mrs. A. A. Jones, wife of Sena-
tor Jones Of New Mexico, Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair and Mrs. Blail
Bannister, sister of Senator Carter
Glass.
Presiding at the tea table, laden
with homemade sandwiches, muf. 4
inns, cakes and so forth-were Mrs. |
Frank Hiram Smell and Mrs. Huston
Thompson, wife of the Federal
Trade Commissioner. Mr.. Thomp.
son is still out in his native Colo |
RADIO, where he went on a speaking
trip before the Christmas holidays. |
Staying at Club
MIs. blair plans TO be in Wash |
ington for at least a month and will |
stay at the club. One OF the
prettiest girls at the tea was Miss |
Harriet Blair, daughter of Mrs. |
Blair, who is returning to Goucher |
College in Baltimore, where she is
q student, after a vacation with |
her parents in Missouri. Miss |
Blair looked more lovely even than |
usual yesterday wearing an ex-
tremely becoming gown OF soft |
shade Of green crepe-de-chine en-
broidered in wool of Balkan colors. |
The tea yesterday was a sort of |
Democratic re-warming for the ex-
tension of the sphere Of influence |
Of the club. Under the direction Of
Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, |
prominent clubwoman OF Texas. |
plans have been made for making |
the club political center with |
reaching out into every |
State Of the Union. Mrs. Cunning |
ham has come to Washington and |
Is living at the clubs headquarters. |
Mrs. Borden Hartman, president |
and prime mover of the club, was
expected to arrive in Washington |
yesterday in time for the tea, but |
her ship was delayed In getting to |
New York.