New Britain herald., 1929-05-25
QVFDRnuIlY TIE
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Social Events noft Indnlte Inn Usual
By sALLIE V. H. PICKETT

Washington, May :5 N-Wash- ingt0n's passing show is at its most interesting stage just now and thele thing social that goes on. Even .t the Waite House. where things are usually carried on with a great de- gree of ceremony. an informal touch ia noticed and it is no longer the thing for the president and the first lady of the land to rise. with some. what bored look as signal for guests te take their departure.
 The President and Mrs. Hoover foreg0 many Of the usual customs when entertaining Euests and carry on just aS they would do in their private home. Indeed one society woman of Washington professed 10 be greatly shocked as the president stepped back 10 permit Mrs. Hoover to preeede him in leaving q room.
 The president may have curtaiied handshakinE but Mrs. Hoover has not and while her more formal teas at which she received diplomats and officials are over, she still meets groups Of guests and many tarry on in Washington in hope of being asked in.
 Usually house guests of the PreAi- dent and Mrs. Hoover are Of rather formal or official character, but this week 1t wax matter of old friendships with Dr. and Mrs. F'raa- cis Odeli Of Topeka. Kansas. who motO To Washington from the west as the visitors. Mrs. Odcll . the presidents cousin and they hav.. been close friends for many years. When President Hoover was boy he spent year at Mrx. O'Delrs home at Oklahoma and later. whil., Mrs. Odell was | student at Leland stanford University, they were axai,, associated. Miss Eleanor O'Dell, who is a student at the Kansas University y will join her parents in Washington. MT. and Mrs. George Horace Lori mer Of Philadelphia were also guests during the week. Proving the fOndneas of both the Preside nt and Mrs Hoover for young society was the presence in the White House ax their gues,x for a time of tn. three dauxhterw of the former As sistant Sec of Commerce and Mrs C. H. Houston, MiM Mildred Hous- ton. Miss Alice Houston and Miss Katharine Houston of New York and Tennessee. Mrs. Hoover had sev- l eral young persons in 10 dine whil, the Misses Houston were there. and MT. and Mrs. I.orimer. the former editor in chief Of the Saturday Eve ming Post. were with them. The same evening. but in the state dining room, the President and Mrs. Hoov- CT were hosts at dinner to n group Of CalifornianA
 The suite of Vice Preside Charles Curtis at the Mayflower ho- tel was filled with guests and flow CTS the day Mrs. Edward Everett Gam. his sister and offlc'"l hostess, held her last at hoi.se O; eae season. This is garden time in Washington and many Of the viaitors came heer- ing great clusters of roses or otNe, flowets, and early in the m0rninr I Mrs. Gam. had visited her home aA | Cleveland park and brought in n 1 .hushei or more Of the ro~ea for which her Garden is famous.
 Mrs. Gann wore a georeette gown of . becoming shade Of lavender and more than q dozen women from the senate and house assisted her in en- tertaininx.
 1 Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper, wife ol Representative Cooper. of Racine. Wisconsin, who is soon returning to l her home. were gown Of drcp heiiotropr chiffon with hat D: straw ia exactly the game shade. l The anniversary of Cuban inde- pendence was another Of those rare occasions when society met en masse and though the embassy is . most formal residence. one of the most beautiful in the capital. there was .