The Washington times., 1929-11-20
PATRON ESSES
FOR CHINESE
FETE
Nine. WI Heads List of
Women Supporting
Charity Benefit
Continued from Page So

Mrs. Hurnmel will receive the
guests at the tea from A to g.
when Chinese tea and Chinese
orange cakes will be served.
The sale, from 10 in the morn
ing to 10 at night, is for the
benefit of the day nursery for
the working women in Peking
and for the vocational work in
helping Chinese women to be
self-supporting. ..t
The patronesses for the tea
and the sale include Nine. WI,
wife of the Chinese minister;
Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. Hugh
S. Cumming, Miss Grace Dun
ham Guest and Miss Genevieve
S. Wirnsatt. Mrs. Hummel,
chairman of the committee, is
one of the few Amerian women
who have learned the Chinese
language. She and her chill
dren speak fluently, and keep
I'D their practice in speaking 1t,
at home, as Mr.. Hummel is an
accomplished Chinese scholar.
In MemOrian
Because of the death of the
Secretary of War, James W.
Good, the Cuban Ambassador,
Senior Don Ferrara and Sonora
de Ferrara have Cancelled the
dinner planned for Friday eve
ming to honor the Secretary OF
State and Mrs. Stimson.
The Secretary of State and
Mrs. Stimson have postponed
their dinner planned for tomor-
row evening because OF the
death of the Secretary OF War,
Good.
The League of Republican
Women has Cancelled it's lunch
con, planned for tomorrow at
the Washington Club, because
of the death of Secretary Good.
James Francis Burke, OF
Pittsburgh, is again a guest at
the Willard, having come for
the funeral services OF the late
Secretary of War, who was MS
personal friend.
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Miss Bell Gurnee will enter
tain at dinner on Sunday eve
ming for her niece, Miss Cor
della Gurnee, of New York, VINO
will arrive on Friday to be the
guest of her aunt for some
time.
New Members
Representative Ruth Hanna
Mccormick is the newest mem
ber of the board of governors of
the National Woman's Country
Club, whose club house on Brad
ley Boulevard is rapidly being
made ready for occupancy. Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson and Mrs.
Henry F. Difnock are new
members. The initiation fees
have been increased. SO fast is
the membership growing, the
increase to begin next week.
The membership shows large
percentage of young women,
even debutantes to whom the
sports and other attractions of
the club have appealed, and
many of them have joined
while their parents remain in
the other clubs.
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The Assistant to the Attorney
General and Mrs. John Lord
O'Brian have been joined in
their apartment at the Ward,
man Park Hotel by their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Kellogg Mann, and
her children, Betsy and Kel.
1ogg, jr. Mr.. Mann accom-
panied his family to Washing
ton, but returned yesterday to
their home in Buffalo. Mrs.
Mann and their children will
remain with her parents until
the first week in December.
South Bound
Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett and
her sister, Mrs. Charles G.
Matthews. left today for Miami
Beach, Fla, where they will
pass a week or 10 days putting
their house, Casa di Hiverno,
In order for the season. Upon
their return, Mrs. Blodgett, and
her sister will take possession
of their new house at 1915 New
Hampshire Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee P. Warren
are at the Barclay in New York.
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A card party will be held at
the Mayflower on Friday even.
ing under the auspices of the
Sodality Of st. Matthews
Church.
Mrs. John Hauber heads the
prize and ticket committee; Miss
Mary Mangan is in charge Of
the patronesses: Miss Nellie
Creaven, the candy committee,
and Miss Catherine Griffin, the
floor committee.
Additional patronesses are
Mrs. e. A. Edwards, Mrs. Peter
A. Drury, Mrs. George Y
Worthington, Mrs. A. e. Murphy
and Mrs. Pere A. Wilmer.
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Railway Chiefs
Among the prominent Off.
cials of the American Railroad
Association at the Willard
while in Washington for the
conference of railroad execu-
4i,rnr ca1lad nv President HnnVe1.