The Washington times., 1928-11-29
Breakfast Parties Feature OF
Thanksgiving Day; The Navy BdLI
Chief Justice and Mrs.
Taft Hosts; Many No
tables at Friendship
Mrs. Rea's Tea

Mrs. Taft entertained today
at breakfast, when their
guests were the Associate
Justices of the Supreme
Court and their wives. Or,
perhaps, it would, be more
correct to describe this
pleasant party for the SUI
preme Court family" as
an old fashioned midday
dinner. At all events, it
had a special appropriate
ness to Thanksgiving Day, a
/ festival long sacred to fam
/ lily gatherings.
It was characteristic OF
Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft.
moreover, to entertain in the
middle Of the day, for they
give few evening parties,
dine out but seldom and
only attend night time func-
tions when their absence
might seem conspicuous.
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At Friendship
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Beale
McLean's breakfast at Friend
ship, their country home, was
another of the gala events of
Thanksgiving Day. Carrying
on q tradition of hospitality
established by the late Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Mclean, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ned" Mclean give this
breakfast each year when they
are ''in residence" at Friend
ship, and are also hosts in the
spring at series of Sunday
breakfasts, the one on Easter
Sunday being the most brilliant
and as much a feature of
Easter in Washington as the
services in the churches. On
this occasion, as always, these
genial hosts had brought to-
gether a company of guests
including most of the Cabinet
and many of the chiefs of
foreign missions, with generous
representation from resident
society.
Mr.. and Mrs. McLean-to
digress bit--have again taken
Ocean View, one of the cottages
in the Breakers group at Palm
Beach, which has been their
winter home for several years,
and will probably 60 South soon
after New Year.
Navy Relief Ball
We always have at least one
Thanksgiving debutante, and this
year there are two. Miss Charlotte
Childress and Miss Sydney Su1li.
van. Then. there's the Navy Re-
lief Ball at the Willard tonight,
ranged to precede it. Admiral
Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval
operations, and Mrs. Hughes will
give one, Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Charles McVay, another; and the
Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Jardine will be hosts at a
young peoples dinner in honor
of their debutante daughter, Miss
Marion Jardine. At the ball they
will occupy Secretary MELONS
box, which he has presented to
/ the pretty debutante. The ball
will be attended by most of the
Navy group in Washington and
q large delegation from its sister
service, the Army.
Out at the Red Cross House at
Walter Reed Hospital, Mrs. Henry
Rea, Of Pittsburgh, fairy god
mother to the Walter Reed boys,
will be hostess at reception this
afternoon. She will be assisted
by the Gray Ladies'" a devoted
/ little group who have never for
gotten in the press of other inter-
ests the boys who cannot forget
the war. A roll of honor theirs,
enshrining such names as Repre-
sentative Edith Nourse Rogers,
] Mrs. William e. Borah, Mrs. Ed
+ ridge Jordan and Mrs. Reeve
Lewis.
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Senator and Mrs. William J.
Harris have with them for the
/ Thanksgiving holiday their daugh-
! ter. Miss Julia Harris, who is
q student at Bryn Mawr. Today
Miss Harris is attending the foot
ball game at Charlottesville be-
tween the University of Virginia
and the University of North
Carolina.
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