Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-26
SOCIETY
Continued From Nineteenth Page.)

November %, at a tea given in honor of
Mrs. Frederick w. Perkins, wife of the
pastor of the Universalist Church on
Sixteenth street. for the officers and
members of the Twentieth Century
Club. Mrs. Donna Bonner, Mrs. Elwood
Way, Mrs Edward w. Washburn and
Miss Bessie Weston presided at the
tea table. Among the guests present
were Mrs George F. Bowerman, Mrs.
Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. Proctor
Dougherty. Mrs. Lyman B. SwormStedt,
Mrs. Phillip Sidney Smith, Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle Mrs Harvey Wiley, Miss
Sybll Baker, Mrs. Samuel Herrick, Miss
Jane Young, Mrs. Harry Hines, Mrs.
William Knowles Cooper, Mrs. Selden
NJ. Ely, Mrs. Caleb Miller, Mrs. Delos
Knsman, Mrs Otto Veerhoff, Mrs.
Truman Able, Mrs Sidney Thompson,
Mrs. William, Walter Husband. Mrs.
Godfrey Creyke Mrs. Ernest McComas,
Mrs. Robert o. Saunders, Mrs. Albert
Prentiss. Mrs. Leo D. Miner. Miss Myra
Henley, Miss Flora johnson, Mrs. Fran
els Goodwin, Mrs. Alfred Brooks and
Mrs. G. Willard Hayes.
Mrs. Ruggles recently called meet
ing of Is ladies of the Ordnance De-
partment, which has resulted In the
decision to hold during the present
Winter season a series of informal sup
per dances. These parties will be three
in number and will serve as an oppor-
tunity for the officers and ladies OF the
corps to become better acquainted and
preserve that esprit for which the Ord
nance long has been known.
The supper dances viii be held az tne
Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country
Club in Virginia Friday evenings, jan
uary 10, January 81 and February 70.
Mr.. George w. Wickersham, chair
man of the National Commission On
Law Observance and Enforcement, en-
tertained a company of five at the din
ner dance last evening at the Carton.
DR.. Atherton Seidell of the United
States Public Health Service and Mrs
Seidell have returned to their home,
1901 Connecticut avenue, after their
usual visit of six months in Europe.
Miss Mary Bennington Shinn will en-
terrain at tea dance today in the
Chinese room of the Mayf1ower in COM
plin1ent to the seasons debutantes.
Because of Thanksgiving day, Mrs
William Wolff Smith has postponed to
Friday morning of this week at 1880
O'Clock her discussion of Books Talked
About" which usually occurs weekly on
Thursday mornings. The Countess de
Chambrun, formerly Clara Longworth
of Cincinnati, sister of Mr.. Nicholas
Longworth, Speaker of the House, will
be represented on the program by her
book, His Wifes Romance" which will
be reviewed by Mrs. Smith, with refer
ence also to Shakespeare, Actor-Poet,'
by the same author, which has had the
honor of receiving the Bordin prize
and of being crowned by the French
Academy.
The non-fiction book of the mornings
review will be the race epic OF the
American Indian by Flora Warren Sey-
mour, entitled THE Story of the Red
Man" The author has the distinction
of being the first woman appointed as
a member of the Board of Indian Com
missioners.
Former Gov. Clifford Pinchot of
Pennsylvania is again in his Washing
ton home and will be joined by Mrs.
Pinchot Friday. who has gone to Con-
necticut to spend Thanksgiving with
her son. Clifford Pinchot, jr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Pinchot and their son have re-
Gently completed a several-months
trip through the Caribbean and South
Seas, made in the interest of science
and to indulge Mr.. Pinchot's love of
deep-sea fishing.